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.
FF
retired temporarily from the stage in 1897, disappointed at not having received the same recognition as other New Woman actresses (Elizabeth Robins
, for instance).
Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe.
67
She returned a few years later to...
Occupation
Florence Farr
The lecture proved quite popular, and Clifford's Inn had to turn people away. Over the following years, FF
put on many such readings, performing works by Homer
, Shelley
, Yeats
, Lady Gregory
...
Anne Bradby (later AR
) put in several years of voluntary work at the Time and Talents Settlement
at Bermondsey, doing little plays and dances and hymns with children from poor homes. She was...
Occupation
Maud Gonne
MG
played the heroine in Augusta Gregory
's and Yeats
's Cathleen ni Houlihan in the Irish National Theatre
's production, opening on 2 April 1902. This role made her a symbol of the nation.
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.
McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/.
Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth.
283-4
Occupation
Q. D. Leavis
QDL
spoke on A Fresh Approach to Wuthering Heights (later published as an essay), while her husband's topics included Eliot
and Yeats
.
Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth.
127
Occupation
Florence Farr
W. B. Yeats
invited FF
to act as stage manager for the Irish Literary Theatre
in Dublin for its production of The Countess Cathleen the following year.
Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe.
102
Occupation
Florence Farr
W. B. Yeats
and FF
gave a lecture on Poetry and the Living Voice at Clifford's Inn in Fleet Street: Yeats presented his theory of musical recitation, and then Farr illustrated by chanting a...
Literary responses
James Joyce
Yeats
said, I have read in a paper called The Egoist certain chapters of a new novel, a disguised autobiography, which increases my conviction that he is the most remarkable new talent in Ireland today...
Literary responses
Dorothy Wellesley
Yeats
admired this volume for its explorations of the picturesque, for its love . . . for undisturbed Nature, a hatred for the abstract, the mechanical, the invented, and for an intensity which he saw...
Literary responses
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
The Academy gave a favourable review but found the preface unclear. William Butler Yeats
admired the book,
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray.
209-10
and wrote that it revealed the innermost heart of the Celt.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray.
209
Literary responses
Wendy Cope
Reviewer Andrew O'Hagan
, however, applies a withering pen to WC
in a tirade about a general style of anthology which is, he says, frivolous or aimed at the lifestyle or selfhelp markets. His complaint...
Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head.
vii-viii
Her diction is pure, he...
Literary responses
Eva Gore-Booth
The volume was well-received by EGB
's contemporaries. W. B. Yeats
wrote to her: I think it is full of poetic feeling and has great promise. . . . Weariness is really most imaginative and...
