Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
As in Dublin, she became known for her salons, which were held on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. until their popularity demanded bi-weekly gatherings. The cream of London's literati and intelligentsia attended, including George Bernard Shaw
Friends, Associates
Dorothy Wellesley
DW
first met W. B. Yeats
, to her great excitement, when he invited himself to stay for a night at Penns in the Rocks; they became intimate friends.
Yeats, W. B. Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley. Editor Wellesley, Dorothy, Oxford University Press.
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Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie.
162-3
Friends, Associates
Edith Somerville
Other friends of Somerville's later years included W. B. Yeats
and Augusta, Lady Gregory
. In the 1940s Somerville exchanged letters with Maurice Baring
.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
162, 252, 265
Intertextuality and Influence
Adrienne Rich
While revolutionising her life and poetic practice, making them woman-centred, Rich continued in dialogue with the words and ideas of male writers. In learning how poetry can root itself in politics she was learning from...
Intertextuality and Influence
Eva Mary Bell
Mary finds her life's work in India. Arriving in Delhi is a landmark in her life, as arriving in Baghdad was before. She works with an older woman named Alice Norman, widow of a British...
Intertextuality and Influence
G. B. Stern
While in her teens GBS
composed two one-act Waiferage plays. The heroine of one, a lonely understudy in a fifth-rate touring company, worships the leading man from afar and feels ecstatic when the leading lady...
Intertextuality and Influence
Constance Holme
The title-page quotes W. B. Yeats
: Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
Holme, Constance. Crump Folk Going Home. Cedric Chivers.
title-page
The country community where the story is set centres closely on Crump, the great house of the ancient Lyndesay...
Intertextuality and Influence
Katharine Tynan
Yeats
felt that no one could do it [the volume] so well as you,
Having loved and immersed herself in poetry all her life, RP
took a gamble and changed her self-definition from university lecturer in classics to professional writer and poet. Fifteen years later, writing of her own...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Ridler
AR
wrote that the two great influences on her as a poet (because they helped her to find her own voice) were Sir Thomas Wyatt
and W. H. Auden
. Eliot
, too, was inescapable...
Intertextuality and Influence
Maureen Duffy
The book has three sections. The poems in Missa Humana correspond to different items in the Mass: from Kyrie (Lord, have mercy, a three-stanza poem which invokes the manmade suffering of children around the...
