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 Features Dora Marsden
Marsden was neither unaware nor entirely appreciative of Pound's intellectual programme or his professional ethics. She told Weaver in a letter of November 1913 (after the journal had again been relaunched with a new name)...
Textual Features Anne Stevenson
Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
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The final poem, A Legacy, On my Fiftieth Birthday, is written...
Textual Features Katharine Tynan
She limited her selection to Irish lyrical poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, excluding political poems and poems either derived from English or already well-known to English audiences. Her wide range of poets included...
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.
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his extensive writings in many genres, his own translations of them into...
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
On this date he received by post a ballad by her, a reverie upon the grave of a trio of lovers, possibly dating from or inspired by his stay at Penns the previous month. This...
Textual Production 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.
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, No. 1, pp. 49-66.
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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.
title-page, 33
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, 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...
Textual Production Kathleen Raine
KR published Yeats the Initiate, a collection of her critical studies on William Butler Yeats written over the course of twenty years.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Raine, Kathleen. Yeats the Initiate. Dolmen.
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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. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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 Laurence Alma-Tadema
As translator of Maeterlinck , LAT signed (with Yeats , Meredith , Swinburne , Hardy , Arthur Symons , Lucas Malet , John Oliver Hobbes, and others) a letter to the Times protesting against...
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 Katharine Tynan
KT selected and edited (with advice from W. B. Yeats ) Irish Love-Songs.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable.
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