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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Katharine Tynan
KT selected and edited (with advice from W. B. Yeats ) Irish Love-Songs.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable.
68-9
Textual Production W. H. Auden
WHA published Another Time, a volume which contained many of his best-known poems, including On the Death of W. B. Yeats, Musée des Beaux Arts, and Lullaby.
Bloomfield, Barry Cambray, and Edward Mendelson. W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924-1969. University Press of Virginia.
44
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Maud Gonne
MG 's correspondence with Yeats was collected and edited by A. Norman Jeffares and Anna MacBride White , 1992, and that with New York lawyer John Quinn in a volume entitled Too Long a Sacrifice...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
This volume contains four lectures given by the Leavises at Harvard and Cornell , three of which are by F. R. Leavis: Luddites? or, There is Only One Culture, Eliot 's Classical Standing...
Textual Production Kathleen Raine
Early in her career KR was known as a commentator on contemporary or near-contemporary, modernist poetry: a volume of her reviews written between January 1941 and March 1951 was published in 2002 as Defining the...
Textual Production Katharine Tynan
KT 's papers are held at the Southern Illinois University Library ; her letters from W. B. Yeats are at the Huntington Library ; and other papers are held at the University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library
Textual Production Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW began writing poetry as a member of a group called the New Elizabethans, centred in Oxford and including Richard Hughes , Roy Campbell , and Ivor Gurney . Yeats was also a sympathiser.
Rattenbury, Arnold. “How the sanity of poets can be edited away”. London Review of Books, pp. 15-19.
17-18
Textual Production Martin Ross
MR resisted a pressing invitation from W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory to write a play with them for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. She needed her writings to earn money, but a probably stronger...
Textual Production Florence Farr
FF published The Music of Speech, a detailed account of the technique she developed in collaboration with W. B. Yeats for reading poetry set to music.
Farr, Florence. The Music of Speech. Elkin Mathews.
title-page
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
376 (25 March 1909): 119
Textual Production Kathleen Raine
In 1972 KR published Yeats , the Tarot, and the Golden Dawn, an essay discussing the work of Yeats and Blake , as New Yeats Papers volume 2. She followed this in 1974 with...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB published her longest poem, a controversial and important analysis of the current state of the nation, of recent history, politics, and war: Eighteen Hundred and Eleven.
As precedent for titling a poem about...
Textual Production Katharine Tynan
KT 's father felt that as a successful, published author, she needed a bigger and more pleasant space in which to write.
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder.
204
He set about rebuilding her writing room, and it was in this...
Textual Production Kathleen Raine
In 1979 she published From Blake to A Vision, an essay arguing that both Yeats and Blake fall within the central and primary tradition of British Poetry.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research.
20: 291
This publication was volume 17...
Textual Production Nina Bawden
In her novel Walking Naked (whose title comes from Yeats ), NB gave her heroine, Laura, the events of an actual day in her own life.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(23 April 1981): 10
Bawden, Nina. In My Own Time: Almost An Autobiography. Virago.
159
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Edna O'Brien
In 2010 EOB edited a selection of the poems of W. B. Yeats .

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