Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan.
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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wellesley | She and Yeats
then spent Christmas Day and many evenings together. She records in her autobiography her visits on the days before his death on 28 January 1939, and some of his last sayings. She... |
| Friends, Associates | John Millington Synge | JMS
, in Paris, met for the first time both William Butler Yeats
and Maud Gonne
(an Irish nationalist then hiding in France to avoid being jailed at home). Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xxvi. xxi |
| Friends, Associates | Maud Gonne | |
| Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | That same summer Yeats
made an extended stay at AG
's estate. Their friendship flourished, and for twenty years he spent the summers there under her motherly care. Theirs was an extremely close, productive, and... |
| Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | Following her early conquest of Tennyson
, AM
went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan
, Aubrey Beardsley
(while he... |
| Friends, Associates | Eva Gore-Booth | EGB
was acquainted with W. B. Yeats
, who claimed a formative influence on her writing. Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora. 37 |
| Friends, Associates | Amy Levy | She saw a good deal of Olive Schreiner
, who called her the most interesting girl she had met in England, Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press. 179 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Naomi Mitchison | The action takes place among Celtic tribes between 58 and 51 BC (with a coda set five years later). It opens in what is now the Auvergne, newly invaded and occupied by the Roman... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Farr | Late in her career FF
published a second novel, The Solemnization of Jacklin: Some Adventures on the Search for Reality, whose heroine gives birth to a mystical child derived from the writing of Yeats
. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 177 D’Arch Smith, Timothy, and Florence Farr. “Introduction”. Egyptian Magic, Aquarian Press, p. ix - xvii. xvi Litz, A. Walton. “Florence Farr: A ’Transitional’ Woman”. High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939, edited by Maria DiBattista and Lucy McDiarmid, Oxford University Press, pp. 85-106. 86 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eudora Welty | This is one of her best-known volumes of stories, in part perhaps because of its involvement with gender issues, with such topics as early sexual development, rigidly demarcated gender roles, misogyny, sexual violence, defiance of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Tynan | KT
later felt this was a very-much derived little volume. Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards. 103 Fallon, Ann Connerton. Katharine Tynan. Twayne. 37 Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards. 103 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Gardam | Most of these stories inhabit JG
's familiar territory among suburban women of a certain age, but other protagonists are very different: a dirty old tramp, a reluctant male homosexual, and, in the title story... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sylvia Kantaris | Other poems are self-referential examinations of poetry and writing. The Recluse describes the inability of the contemporary poet to present in verse (like the unnamed William Wordsworth
) the rustic tale of a chance-met old... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Lyttelton | Its chapters include Symbols and their Use, Mind Pictures, Dreams, and Knowledge of Future Events. The latter contains a discussion of foreknowledge in automatic writing and utterance, using the example of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | JFLW
gave two different accounts of what had made her a poet. In one, it was reading The Nation's Valentine, To the Ladies of Ireland, in which Richard D'Alton Williams
urged Irishwomen to sing... |
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