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 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.
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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 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.
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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 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...
Textual Production 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 .
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Byron, Catherine. Settlements; &, Samhain. Loxwood Stoneleigh.
prelims
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 33-5.
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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.
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
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.
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Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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...
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 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.
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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...

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