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.
Decades later she remembered praising Chekhov
, Hoffmansthal
, Ibsen
, and Strindberg
, while admitting that I mocked, censured, rebuked, tore down, with reckless delight, Shaw
, Yeats
, Masefield
,
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
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and other British dramatists.
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Maud Gonne
MG
published her ironically-titled autobiography, A Servant of the Queen. The queen here is not the British monarch, but Cathleen Ni Houlihan the mythological queen and personification of Ireland, whom MG
played in...
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Catherine Byron
CB
issued her second volume of poetry, entitled Samhain—which was originally the title of a journal published by W. B. Yeats
from October 1901 to November 1908 to publicize productions at the Abbey Theatre
.
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 2, pp. 33-5.
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Medbh McGuckian
MMG
published with Cranagh Press
a book of criticism cheekily titled with a misquotation of Yeats
: Horsepower Pass By: A Study of the Car in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney.
AG
was very pleased with herself for being able to write a full-length play with only three characters. When she told Yeats
this, he replied: They must have a great deal to talk about.
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
544
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Anne Ridler
This was designed as an introduction for readers unfamiliar with the poetry of the modern period, and ran from W. B. Yeats
to Ruthven Todd
. AR
followed it with an extended volume of The...
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Anne Stevenson
AS
retains her belief in poetry's need and capacity to reach out to elusive reality, to the ahuman, wordless world.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
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Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
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She keeps an Ongoing Anthology, a loose-leaf folder with copies of...
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Katharine Tynan
KT
issued her poetry volume The Wind in the Trees: A Book of Country Verse (which would have been The Wind Among the Trees if W. B. Yeats
had not had a book due in...
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Augusta Gregory
AG
edited a collection of essays protesting against British imperialism: Ideals in Ireland with contributions from W. B. Yeats
, Douglas Hyde
, Standish O'Grady
, and Æ
.
Murphy, Maureen. “Lady Gregory and the Gaelic League”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, pp. 143-62.
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Mattar, Sinéad Garrigan. “’Wage for Each People Her Hand Has Destoyed’: Lady Gregory’s Colonial Nationalism”. Irish University Review, Vol.
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty One Poems. Editor Yeats, W. B., Dun Emer Press.
title-page, 33
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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, p. v - xiii.
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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.
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She attributes the stranger's song and...
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Kathleen Raine
KR
published Yeats the Initiate, a collection of her critical studies on William Butler Yeats
written over the course of twenty years.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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...