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
Cultural formation Florence Farr
W. B. Yeats introduced FF to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn , a secret occult society based on Rosicrucian beliefs and practices.
Gilbert, R. A., and Florence Farr. “Preface to the Collectanea Hermetica Series”. Egyptian Magic, Aquarian Press, p. vi.
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Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe.
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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.
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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...
Intertextuality and Influence Florence Farr
Late in her career FF published a second novel, The Solemnization of Jacklin: Some Adventures on the Search for Reality, whose heroine gives birth to a mystical child derived from the writing of Yeats .
Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe.
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D’Arch Smith, Timothy, and Florence Farr. “Introduction”. Egyptian Magic, Aquarian Press, p. ix - xvii.
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Litz, A. Walton. “Florence Farr: A ’Transitional’ Woman”. High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939, edited by Maria DiBattista and Lucy McDiarmid, Oxford University Press, pp. 85-106.
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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.
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
376 (25 March 1909): 119
Author summary Florence Farr
FF has received less attention for her own writing than for the role she played in men's: Shaw and Yeats created dramatic roles for her; Pound wrote poetry about her; and she put into practice...
Family and Intimate relationships Florence Farr
They separated after four years, when Emery left for America. He became a successful actor there, and eventually remarried. Their reasons for separating are not clear, and FF rarely mentioned him after he left. Years...
Friends, Associates Michael Field
Katharine and Edith Cooper shared a great many distinguished friends in the worlds of literature and aesthetics: Walter Pater , Oscar Wilde , Arthur Symons , Charles Shannon , Sarianna Browning , Thomas Sturge Moore
Literary responses Michael Field
Writing in 1892, William Butler Yeats said that Callirrhoë possessed imagination and fancy in plenty
Yeats, W. B. Uncollected Prose by W.B. Yeats. Editors Frayne, John P. and Colton Johnson, Columbia University Press.
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—setting itself apart from some of MF 's later publications, which he considered to be much less successful.
Literary responses Michael Field
Writing in The Bookman, William Butler Yeats called this collection suggestive and thoroughly unsatisfactory.
Yeats, W. B. Uncollected Prose by W.B. Yeats. Editors Frayne, John P. and Colton Johnson, Columbia University Press.
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He questioned Field's poetic approach. They have poetic feeling and imagination in abundance, he wrote, and yet they have...
Publishing Michael Field
The second of these was the play which had not only appeared alone in print but had also been staged, in October 1893. A decade after that, in 1903, William Butler Yeats had turned down...
Anthologization Michael Field
The Poetry Bookshop issued A Selection From the Poems of Michael Field in 1923, bringing together pieces from their published poetry collections and plays, such as Underneath the Bough, Callirrhoë; Fair Rosamund, Wild...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Gardam
Most of these stories inhabit JG 's familiar territory among suburban women of a certain age, but other protagonists are very different: a dirty old tramp, a reluctant male homosexual, and, in the title story...
Friends, Associates Mary Gawthorpe
MG equally admired A. R. Orage and Holbrook Jackson , founders of the Leeds Arts Club . At the Club she also met Edward Carpenter , W. B. Yeats , G. K. Chesterton , George Bernard Shaw
Textual Production Elinor Glyn
In October 1915 EG published a collection of articles on truth, common sense, and happiness under the title Three Things (which was used for a very different text by W. B. Yeats in 1929). She...

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