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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Textual Production Eavan Boland
Together Micheál Mac Liammóir and EB published W. B. Yeats and His World, a biography of W. B. Yeats , with Thames and Hudson .
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1976
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
It had already been published in Seven Short Plays.
Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, 1970, p. v - xiii.
xi
Critic Ann Saddlemyer has argued that this play unmistakably belong[s] to Lady Gregory's vision of the world.
Saddlemyer, Ann. In Defence of Lady Gregory, Playwright. Dufour Editions, 1966.
75
She attributes the stranger's song and...
Textual Production Katharine Tynan
Yeats selected his favourites among Tynan's poems for printing by the Dun Emer Press set up by his sisters Elizabeth and Lily , as Twenty One Poems by Katharine Tynan.
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty One Poems. Editor Yeats, W. B., Dun Emer Press, 1907.
title-page, 33
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan , her models included the suave, disciplined, informal, very accessible
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
122
early poems of her near-contemporary Adrienne Rich . She wrote two stage works that were performed...
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
The volume opened with Yeats 's poem Coole Park, dated 7 September 1929. Many years after AG 's death, a longer version of this historical work, including previously unpublished chapters, was completed from the...
Textual Production Ella Hepworth Dixon
It was titled after Alexander Pope (the moving toyshop of the heart, when a toyshop stocked fashionable stuff for adults) in a line later near-echoed by W. B. Yeats . This performance, at a...
Textual Production Katharine Tynan
KT , W. B. Yeats , and John O'Leary compiled and edited a volume of Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable, 1916.
35
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240
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 Katharine Tynan
KT selected and edited (with advice from W. B. Yeats ) Irish Love-Songs.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable, 1916.
68-9
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, 1983.
20: 291
This publication was volume 17...
Textual Production Florence Farr
The title-page quotes from W. B. Yeats 's Shadowy Waters.
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 Edna O'Brien
In 2010 EOB edited a selection of the poems of W. B. Yeats .
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...

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