Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder.
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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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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). |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Tynan | W. B. Yeats
, encouraged by his father
, proposed to KT
, but she was already secretly engaged to Henry Hinkson
, who became her husband in 1893. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | Yeats
noted that by including Joyce here KT
had helped launch his career: It has led to the publication of some of Joyce's fiction in a little London paper called the Egotist [sic] over which... |
| Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | KT
met the Irish Republican activist Maude Gonne
(also known for her poetic inspiration of W. B. Yeats
) at a Protestant Home Rule Association
meeting, which Tynan attended despite being Catholic. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 363 |
| Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | KT
found that her staunch support for Parnell
after the divorce case was now punished with some damaging criticism of this biography. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 382 Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable. 66 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | P. L. Travers | Her first visit to Ireland proved crucial for the literary contacts it enabled her to make: Æ
(George Russell) and W. B. Yeats
. Æ, the editor of The Irish Statesman, became an important... |
| Friends, Associates | John Millington Synge | JMS
, in Paris, met for the first time both William Butler Yeats
and Maud Gonne
(an Irish nationalist then hiding in France to avoid being jailed at home). Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan. 9 Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xxvi. xxi |
| Travel | John Millington Synge | JMS
arrived to spend six weeks on the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland, a destination recommended to him by William Butler Yeats
. It was the first of five visits. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xxvi. xxii |
| Performance of text | John Millington Synge | JMS
's work had its first professional performance when his one-act play In the Shadow of the Glen opened at Molesworth Hall in Dublin, put on by the Irish National Theatre Society
together with... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | John Millington Synge | His mother, Kathleen Synge
(born Traill), was a rigid Protestant, daughter and niece of clergymen, who cast a religious gloom Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Cultural formation | John Millington Synge | He first met William Butler Yeats
, one of two major Irish literary contemporaries who also rejected religion in their youth, in 1896. (The other scoffer at religion, James Joyce
, he met only once... |
| Travel | John Millington Synge | After January 1895, Paris became Synge's most frequent destination and then his part-time home, though he also spent time studying in Rome and Florence. It was in Paris that he first met William Butler Yeats |
| 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 |
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