Yeats, W. B. Uncollected Prose by W.B. Yeats. Editors Frayne, John P. and Colton Johnson, Columbia University Press.
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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Michael Field | Writing in 1892, William Butler Yeats
said that Callirrhoë possessed imagination and fancy in plenty |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Mew | Marianne Moore
was quoted on the dust-jacket: This collection is to me extraordinary—unforced, and masterly in a technical way, almost without exception. There are in the style traces of W. B. Yeats
and Thomas Hardy |
| Literary responses | Michael Field | Writing in The Bookman, William Butler Yeats
called this collection suggestive and thoroughly unsatisfactory. Yeats, W. B. Uncollected Prose by W.B. Yeats. Editors Frayne, John P. and Colton Johnson, Columbia University Press. 225 |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Horses did a great deal to ensure DW
's continuing reputation. Yeats
particularly praised the lines on the wild grey asses fleet / With stripe from head to tail, and moderate ears. Yeats, W. B., and Dorothy Wellesley. “Introduction”. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, Macmillan, p. vii - xv. ix |
| Literary responses | James Joyce | Though Joyce often railed against hisnative city, he felt that depicting it made him a pioneer. Dublin, he wrote, was second only to London among British cities and was three times the size of Venice:... |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Yeats
later called this a long meditation, perhaps the most moving philosophic poem of our time. He found it moving precisely because its wisdom, like that of the sphinx, was animal below the waist.Its... |
| Literary responses | Martin Ross | Most of the reviews were excellent, but the Westminster Gazette gave the book a furious tearing. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 103 Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 129 |
| Literary responses | Alice Meynell | This collection moved the Times Literary Supplement to declare that its delicacy—of scrupulousness, balance, fineness, skill—is as rare in life and in art as ever it was. Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 222-3 |
| Literary responses | James Joyce | Yeats
said, I have read in a paper called The Egoist certain chapters of a new novel, a disguised autobiography, which increases my conviction that he is the most remarkable new talent in Ireland today... |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Yeats
admired this volume for its explorations of the picturesque, for its love . . . for undisturbed Nature, a hatred for the abstract, the mechanical, the invented, and for an intensity which he saw... |
| Literary responses | Wendy Cope | Reviewer Andrew O'Hagan
, however, applies a withering pen to WC
in a tirade about a general style of anthology which is, he says, frivolous or aimed at the lifestyle or selfhelp markets. His complaint... |
| Literary responses | Rosamund Marriott Watson | William Archer
included RMW
alongside A. E. Housman
, Rudyard Kipling
, Alice Meynell
, E. Nesbit
, and William Butler Yeats
in Poets of the Younger Generation (1902). Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head. vii-viii |
| Literary responses | Eva Gore-Booth | The volume was well-received by EGB
's contemporaries. W. B. Yeats
wrote to her: I think it is full of poetic feeling and has great promise. . . . Weariness is really most imaginative and... |
| Literary responses | Edith Sitwell | |
| Literary responses | Augusta Gregory | The collection was widely admired when it first appeared in print. Yeats
praised it in his preface as the best book that has come out of Ireland in my time McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xxviii |
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