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.
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...
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...
Textual Features
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
KKD
provides almost equally detailed discussion of Tagore
: the way he became a cultural icon for the Bengali people,
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. In Your Blossoming Flower-Garden. Sahitya Akademi, p. xxiv; 477 pp.
7, 12, 19
his extensive writings in many genres, his own translations of them into...
Friends, Associates
George Egerton
After the success of her Keynotes, GE
became acquainted with the literary and intellectual world. Among her new acquaintances she expressed admiration for Havelock Ellis
but called W. B. Yeats
a poseur.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press.
34
Family and Intimate relationships
Florence Farr
FF
is now probably best remembered for her personal and professional relationships with two literary men, Bernard Shaw
and W. B. Yeats
. It seems that she met Shaw at William Morris
's house in...
Occupation
Florence Farr
Annie Horniman
, whom FF
met through the Order of the Golden Dawn
, agreed to back the season financially. Farr succeeded in persuading Yeats
to write a one-act play for her season, and enlisted...
Occupation
Florence Farr
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
...
Textual Production
Florence Farr
The title-page quotes from W. B. Yeats
's Shadowy Waters.
Literary responses
Florence Farr
Reviews were mixed: some found the plays bizarre, and others (including Yeats
) admired their religious fervour.
Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe.
91
They were revived for a charity performance in London in August 1993.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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
Literary responses
Florence Farr
FF
's performances won the acclaim of several critics, including Yeats
himself, and her recitation technique was for a short time heralded as a new art form: according to William Archer
, in this system...
Family and Intimate relationships
Florence Farr
W. B. Yeats
became interested in FF
when he saw her play the role of a shepherdess in John Todhunter
's play A Sicilian Idyll, and was transfixed by her voice.
Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe.
