Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards.
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W. B. Yeats
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Standard Name: Yeats, W. B.
Used Form: William Butler Yeats
Used Form: Willie Yeats
WBY
, who began publishing well before the end of the nineteenth century, is regarded as one of the most important twentieth-century poets in English, and one of the most international of Irish writers. He was early involved in the Irish Literary Revival, and wrote early, highly romantic lyrics on Celtic and fairy themes. Later he made poetry out of the search for a poetic language. Some of his later work is affected by his interest in the occult.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sylvia Kantaris | Other poems are self-referential examinations of poetry and writing. The Recluse describes the inability of the contemporary poet to present in verse (like the unnamed William Wordsworth
) the rustic tale of a chance-met old... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Lyttelton | Its chapters include Symbols and their Use, Mind Pictures, Dreams, and Knowledge of Future Events. The latter contains a discussion of foreknowledge in automatic writing and utterance, using the example of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Tynan | KT
later felt this was a very-much derived little volume. Fallon, Ann Connerton. Katharine Tynan. Twayne. 37 Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards. 103 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | While revolutionising her life and poetic practice, making them woman-centred, Rich continued in dialogue with the words and ideas of male writers. In learning how poetry can root itself in politics she was learning from... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eva Mary Bell | Mary finds her life's work in India. Arriving in Delhi is a landmark in her life, as arriving in Baghdad was before. She works with an older woman named Alice Norman, widow of a British... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | G. B. Stern | While in her teens GBS
composed two one-act Waiferage plays. The heroine of one, a lonely understudy in a fifth-rate touring company, worships the leading man from afar and feels ecstatic when the leading lady... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Holme | The title-page quotes W. B. Yeats
: Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. Holme, Constance. Crump Folk Going Home. Cedric Chivers. title-page |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eudora Welty | This is one of her best-known volumes of stories, in part perhaps because of its involvement with gender issues, with such topics as early sexual development, rigidly demarcated gender roles, misogyny, sexual violence, defiance of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Padel | Having loved and immersed herself in poetry all her life, RP
took a gamble and changed her self-definition from university lecturer in classics to professional writer and poet. Fifteen years later, writing of her own... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Tynan | Yeats
felt that no one could do it [the volume] so well as you, Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable. 68 Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable. 68-9 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Ridler | AR
wrote that the two great influences on her as a poet (because they helped her to find her own voice) were Sir Thomas Wyatt
and W. H. Auden
. Eliot
, too, was inescapable... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maureen Duffy | The book has three sections. The poems in Missa Humana correspond to different items in the Mass: from Kyrie (Lord, have mercy, a three-stanza poem which invokes the manmade suffering of children around the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Farr | Its full title is The Music of Speech, Containing the Words of Some Poets, Thinkers and Music-makers Regarding the Practice of the Bardic Art Together with Fragments of Verse Set to Its Own Melody. Farr, Florence. The Music of Speech. Elkin Mathews. title-page |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jennings | As a teenager, EJ
read T. S. Eliot
and (as she put it) wrote long poems of sort of vers libre which I imagined were influenced by Eliot, and which were very personal, in fact... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Lawless | Routinely mentioned, albeit in passing, in accounts of Irish literature such as Ernest Augustus Boyd
's Ireland's Literary Renaissance, 1916, EL
has also been anthologized in collections of Irish verse, such as Padraic Collum's... |
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