George William Russell

In September 1905, JMS , along with Yeats and Lady Gregory , became directors of the company. George Russell and Fred Ryan were also administrators for the Irish National Theatre Society .

Thanks to help from Æ (George Russell ), PLT published her first piece in The Irish Statesman, of which he was editor. Her poems and essays continued to appear there for five years.

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...

Her friend Æ introduced her to the editor of this journal, A. R. Orage . She also served as a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee, of which T. S. Eliot too was a member.

For sixteen years from 1933, PLT wrote for The New English Weekly, edited by A. R. Orage (to whom her friend Æ introduced her). Her work for this journal consisted primarily of drama criticism...

Among those who frequented KT 's salon were George Russell (Æ), Irish Nationalist and Fenian leader John O'Leary , Gaelic scholar and revivalist Douglas Hyde (founder of the Gaelic League , 1893), and George Sigerson

KT later felt this was a very-much derived little volume. Her critics have observed the influence on it of the Pre-Raphaelite poets, especially Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti .William Rossetti ...

George Russell wrote KT a complimentary letter in response to this volume: I don't know how you manage to keep so sunny all through . . . I would love to write cheerful poetry more...

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...

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...

At the start of her writing career, in 1885, KT was revered as the next Catholic woman poet to succeed Christina Rossetti . She herself held firmly to this image even while her Parnellism and...

Friends from HW 's time at Somerville included Maude Clarke , whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer

This book too brought many letters of praise: from Rose Macaulay , Æ , Walter de la Mare , and Stanley Baldwin .

Abelard figured in her imagination as her ideal man, and on at least one occasion she dreamed that she herself was Heloise (as an abbess and an elderly woman after Abelard's death).Æ

HW treasured a letter in which Michael Sadleir responded to her novel, telling her he found it hard to write without hyperbole. Of course I expected great things, but nothing—nothing approaching what I found. It...