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.
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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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.
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is a poem in the same style as Matrix. Like...
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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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Elinor Glyn
In October 1915 EG
published a collection of articles on truth, common sense, and happiness under the title Three Things (which was used for a very different text by W. B. Yeats
in 1929). She...
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Dorothy Wellesley
On this date he received by post a ballad by her, a reverie upon the grave of a trio of lovers, possibly dating from or inspired by his stay at Penns the previous month. This...
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John Millington Synge
He had begun writing this play in the summer of 1902, staying with his mother and relatives at a farmhouse in Tomriland, Wicklow, and by October had shown a version to the Theatre Society...
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Edna O'Brien
In 2010 EOB
edited a selection of the poems of W. B. Yeats
.
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Dorothy Wellesley
W. B. Yeats
chose and edited for the publisher Macmillan
a volume of Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, in which he sought to establish her reputation.
Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan.
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Augusta Gregory
By AG
's own account, she learned to write plays by contributing bits of dialogue, when wanted
Gregory, Augusta. Our Irish Theatre. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
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for various Abbey
playwrights, especially Yeats
. Through these collaborations with Yeats—on the structures and plots of...
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Laura Riding
In the same year she and Graves jointly issued A Pamphlet Against Anthologies, which attacks the anthology culture, and several specific much-anthologized poems by such respected or popular names as W. B. Yeats
,...
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Dorothy Wellesley
DW
began collaborative work with Yeats
: what started out as a ballad by herself, and became his ballad The Three Bushes and the songs (by lady, serving-maid, and lover) which went with it.
Jeffares, A. Norman. A New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats. Macmillan.
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Maud Gonne
The United Irishman published the text of MG
's own play, Dawn, A Play in One Act and Three Tableaux, about the Great Famine of the 1840s, two years after she appeared in the...
Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, AG
's translation and arrangement of a medieval romance cycle, was published with a preface by W. B. Yeats
.
Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston.
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McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
