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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | In London, AG
first met W. B. Yeats
, with whom she soon developed an important friendship and collaboration as part of the Irish Literary Revival. |
| Friends, Associates | Constance Countess Markievicz | CCM
then joined a social circle unlike those she had been part of as a younger woman. She and Casimir lived nearby their close associate Æ
(George Russell
), with whom they sometimes exhibited... |
| Friends, Associates | Constance Countess Markievicz | These members included Æ
(George Russell
), W. B.
and Jack Yeats
, J. M. Synge
, and William Orpen
. |
| Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | Following her early conquest of Tennyson
, AM
went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan
, Aubrey Beardsley
(while he... |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
was about eleven when the great influence of the African imperialist George Goldie
(whose biography she was later to write) came into her life. When he answered yes to the question whether he had... |
| Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | By 1919 ES
was also friendly with Arnold Bennett
and his wife Marguerite
. Wyndham Lewis
became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which... |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | Curiously, DR
's move to Woburn Walk also brought her into (limited) contact with the poet W. B. Yeats
. Richardson lived at 2 Woburn Buildings, while Yeats lived at number 18; they sometimes... |
| Friends, Associates | John Millington Synge | JMS
's major supporters in his dramatic career were William Butler Yeats
and Augusta, Lady Gregory
, who ran the Irish National Theatre
. Other famous literary supporters included G. K. Chesterton
, John Masefield |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Along with its owners, the manor was frequently full of guests: writers and artists among them included Katherine Mansfield
, D. H. Lawrence
, Aldous Huxley
, Siegfried Sassoon
, W. B. Yeats
, and... |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wellesley | She and Yeats
then spent Christmas Day and many evenings together. She records in her autobiography her visits on the days before his death on 28 January 1939, and some of his last sayings. She... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Daryush | Through her mother's cousin Roger Fry
, ED
as a girl met many distinguished people as the friends and guests of her parents: W. B. Yeats
, Ezra Pound
, Henry Newbolt
, Mary Coleridge |
| Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | KT
met W. B. Yeats
for the first time when he was introduced to her by Charles Hubert Oldham
(who in February that year established a new publication called the Dublin University Review). Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913. 162 |
| Friends, Associates | Emily Lawless | Lawless made a number of other friends, acquaintances, and admirers through her writing, including Margaret Oliphant
, an early friend and critic, Rhoda Broughton
, George Meredith
, Aubrey de Vere
, Mary Augusta Ward |
| Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | After this VW
saw Ottoline Morrell many times at Garsington and at Ottoline's other salons, where guests included W. B. Yeats
, Aldous Huxley
, Mark Gertler
, and Dorothy Brett
, among many others... |
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