Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
DW
first met W. B. Yeats
, to her great excitement, when he invited himself to stay for a night at Penns in the Rocks; they became intimate friends.
Yeats, W. B. Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley. Editor Wellesley, Dorothy, Oxford University Press.
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Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie.
162-3
Friends, Associates
Edith Somerville
Other friends of Somerville's later years included W. B. Yeats
and Augusta, Lady Gregory
. In the 1940s Somerville exchanged letters with Maurice Baring
.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
In London, AG
first met W. B. Yeats
, with whom she soon developed an important friendship and collaboration as part of the Irish Literary Revival.
Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum.
96, 308
Friends, Associates
Constance, Countess Markievicz
CCM
then joined a social circle unlike those she had been part of as a younger woman. She and Casimir lived nearby their close associate Æ
(George Russell
), with whom they sometimes exhibited...
Friends, Associates
Dorothy Richardson
Curiously, DR
's move to Woburn Walk also brought her into (limited) contact with the poet W. B. Yeats
. Richardson lived at 2 Woburn Buildings, while Yeats lived at number 18; they sometimes...
Friends, Associates
Freya Stark
Through her association with Jeyes, FS
met such literary figures as H. G. Wells
and W. B. Yeats
. She also campaigned for the Anti-Suffrage League
and met key figures in the group, including its...
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson.
71
Through the...
Friends, Associates
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
As in Dublin, she became known for her salons, which were held on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. until their popularity demanded bi-weekly gatherings. The cream of London's literati and intelligentsia attended, including George Bernard Shaw
Her first visit to Ireland proved crucial for the literary contacts it enabled her to make: Æ
(George Russell) and W. B. Yeats
. Æ, the editor of The Irish Statesman, became an important...
