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
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, AG 's translation and arrangement of a medieval romance cycle, was published with a preface by W. B. Yeats .
Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston.
22
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
531
Textual Production Ella Hepworth Dixon
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...
Textual Production Laura Riding
W. B. Yeats tried, rather late in the day, to get some of Riding's poems for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse. Their correspondence was fairly amicable
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
277ff
until he assured her that poets...
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
DW edited Yeats 's letters to herself under the title of Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Maud Gonne
This is the date of the earliest remaining letter of the correspondence between MG and W. B. Yeats , which they maintained until his death on 28 January 1939.
Gonne, Maud, and W. B. Yeats. The Gonne–Yeats Letters 1893–1938. Editors White, Anna MacBride and A. Norman Jeffares, Hutchinson.
49, 453
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan , her models included the suave, disciplined, informal, very accessible
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
122
early poems of her near-contemporary Adrienne Rich . She wrote two stage works that were performed...
Textual Production Florence Marryat
FM published another novel, entitled Fighting the Air, dedicated in memory of an Irish welcome
Marryat, Florence. Fighting the Air. B. Tauchnitz.
prelims
to Lady Olive Guinness .
Lady Olive, 1850 - 1925, was the wife of Sir Arthur Guinness, later...
Textual Production Martin Ross
MR resisted a pressing invitation from W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory to write a play with them for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. She needed her writings to earn money, but a probably stronger...
Textual Production Florence Farr
The title-page quotes from W. B. Yeats 's Shadowy Waters.
Textual Production Maud Gonne
Gonne kept safe the letter that Yeats wrote her on this date, noting it as the last letter from W. B. Y..
Gonne, Maud, and W. B. Yeats. The Gonne–Yeats Letters 1893–1938. Editors White, Anna MacBride and A. Norman Jeffares, Hutchinson.
x
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
Lady Gregory found this play very difficult to write, and turned to both Yeats and Synge for help. Her own later diagnosis was, I think I kept too closely to history.
Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii.
vii
The play was...
Textual Production Storm Jameson
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.
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Mary McCarthy
The year after The Oasis, MMC published a volume of short stories, Cast a Cold Eye. Her choice of title (from the close of Yeats 's Under Ben Bulben: Cast a cold...
Textual Production 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.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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