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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Reception Medbh McGuckian
During the same festival, MMG said she found Yeats intimidating because of the perfection of his poems, but that his influence has made Seamus Heaney 's poetry and hers possible: I feel that there is...
Publishing Kate Clanchy
KC wrote on Yeats for the London City Lit publication Magma in August 2003.
Clanchy, Kate et al. “The Lyrics”. Magma, Vol.
13
, poetrymagazines.org.uk, pp. 11-18.
11-18
She often reviews for The Guardian.
Publishing James Joyce
This followed its rejection by managements in England, Ireland and America, the first pronounced by George Bernard Shaw and the second by W. B. Yeats .
O’Brien, Edna. “The ogre of betrayal”. The Guardian, pp. Review 10 - 11.
11
The first English-language production took place in New...
Publishing Michael Field
The second of these was the play which had not only appeared alone in print but had also been staged, in October 1893. A decade after that, in 1903, William Butler Yeats had turned down...
Publishing Hannah Lynch
The Dublin Evening Telegraph carried HL 's amusingly deflating
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
account of the young W. B. Yeats 's cult following. She depicted him in satirical and pugnacious style
Binckes, Faith, and Kathryn Laing. “Irish Autobiographical Fiction and Hannah Lynch’s Autobiography of a Child”. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol.
55
, No. 2, pp. 195-18.
195
in the guise of Augustus Fitzgibbon, a...
Publishing Anna Letitia Barbauld
In these books for the very young (first of all for her nephew and adoptive son), Barbauld tried to hit their level of comprehension and interest.
McCarthy, William. “The Celebrated Academy at Palgrave: A Documentary History of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s School”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
8
, pp. 279-92.
305
The series became phenomenally popular, with eleven editions...
Publishing Ezra Pound
He paid a Venetian printer to produce 150 copies, and sent one to Yeats , who replied with a polite charming.
Ford, Mark. “I want to boom”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 10, pp. 9-12.
10
Author summary James Joyce
Irish exile JJ , hailed by Yeats as a new kind of novelist even before his first novel was published, became one of the leading practitioners of modernism. As well as poems, a play, and...
Author summary Eva Gore-Booth
In addition to her intense suffrage and labour activism, EGB wrote poetry, periodical essays, political pamphlets, religious criticism, plays, and an autobiograpical sketch. Her work was admired by her contemporaries Katharine Tynan , Æ (...
Author summary Florence Farr
FF has received less attention for her own writing than for the role she played in men's: Shaw and Yeats created dramatic roles for her; Pound wrote poetry about her; and she put into practice...
Author summary Seamus Heaney
SH was the pre-eminent Irish poet of his generation, writing in a lucid style which is often dazzling and never obscure. A highly visible international figure in the later twentieth century and beyond, he was...
Author summary Dorothy Wellesley
DW , writing in the earlier twentieth century, published a dozen volumes of poetry. She was also an editor of contemporary poetry, a letter-writer, critic, biographer and autobiographer. Her association first with the Hogarth Press
politics Maud Gonne
Concern over her health enabled her to transfer to a nursing home in London; she eluded surveillance dressed in the uniform of a Red Cross nurse, and slipped home to Dublin, where Yeats and his...
politics Dora Carrington
The club met for discussion and entertainments every Thursday night in Fitzroy Square, where guests and performers included Winifred Gill , Shaw , Yeats , and Arnold Bennett . The subscription fee was 5s...
politics Augusta Gregory
AG supported the Irish cause more overtly later in life, though her ambivalence toward constitutional politics did not disappear entirely. During the time of The Terror (1920-21), AG published some politically charged accounts of atrocities...

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