Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Yeats
found and valued in DW
's work both descriptive genius Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Literary responses | Augusta Gregory | The play was very well received, drawing large and enthusiastic audiences. From the beginning, critics recognized its hypnotic effect and its potential to stir audiences to violence. One reviewer, Stephen Gwynn
, questioned whether such... |
| Leisure and Society | Dorothy Wellesley | She had the dining room at Penns decorated by Vanessa Bell
and Duncan Grant
. They did three big wall panels each, plus designing furniture. The work was finished in 1931. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 4: 156 |
| Leisure and Society | Katharine Tynan | This same year KT
attended a meeting of the Browning Society
(founded in the summer of 1881) at which she met George Bernard Shaw
. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 357 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
| 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 | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | JFLW
gave two different accounts of what had made her a poet. In one, it was reading The Nation's Valentine, To the Ladies of Ireland, in which Richard D'Alton Williams
urged Irishwomen to sing... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Byron | As an Irish poet, CB
takes inspiration from traditional tales and myths, and from such Irish writers as W. B. Yeats
and Seamus Heaney
(though she does not consider either of them as role models... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Gregory | AG
chose to focus on Grania—a controversial figure in Irish legend who leaves her intended husband for a lover but then returns to him—because of her strength of character. As she explains,I think I... |
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