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.
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...
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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...
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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...
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Kathleen Raine
The essay demonstrates connections between Jungian psychology (reaffirming the existence of an archetypal world) and the traditional symbolic language used by poets such as Milton
, Shelley
, Blake
, and Yeats
.
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Eva Gore-Booth
W. B. Yeats
claimed a central influence on EGB
's understanding of Celtic legend, though she was already thinking about it to a degree during her adolescence. In a letter to novelist Olivia Shakespear
...
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Seamus Heaney
Setting out to enable his readers to witness the spectacle of a gifted writer becoming a definitive one, he begins by considering poetic theories of sound and meaning held by Frost
, Eliot
, and...
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Margaret Kennedy
It was Kennedy's win in the poetry category of the competition, however, that singled out her seriousness about writing. She won on the judgment of W. B. Yeats
, who adjudicated the poetry competition.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann.
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Dorothy Wellesley
Fire, addressed to Yeats
and headed with a quotation from Shakespeare
(Does not our life consist of the four elements?),
Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan.
1
is a poem in the same style as Matrix. Like...
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Augusta Gregory
The book, which includes two essays and notes by Yeats
, consists of stories (grouped into chapters according to their subject-matter) collected between 1890 and 1910 in Galway, Clare, and the Aran Islands...
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John Millington Synge
It was his first three-act play. Like Riders to the Sea, it drew its inspiration from the folklore of the Aran Islands. It was published at the end of the same year, in...
The collection contains, among other pieces, three narrative poems, one of which, The Ballad of Lady Ellen, shows the influence of William Butler Yeats
. Several sonnets here employ the Italian form. Sources note...
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Philip Larkin
As an undergraduate Larkin was naturally still finding his voice. One poem dating from probably 1943 has its title and its lesbian topic from Charles Baudelaire
: Femmes Damnées. Larkin's poem of this title...
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Katharine Tynan
They show increasing awareness of time and time's passing: in this volume KT
expresses regret for having missed, by her absence in England, the last moments of some of her Irish friends' lives. Nearly all...
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Philip Larkin
The title poem is a composite, comprising a Legend in the form of a ballad, and four songs positioned further and further northwards. The ballad opens: I saw three ships go sailing by. One sails...
