Holme, Constance. Crump Folk Going Home. Cedric Chivers.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | G. B. Stern | While in her teens GBS
composed two one-act Waiferage plays. The heroine of one, a lonely understudy in a fifth-rate touring company, worships the leading man from afar and feels ecstatic when the leading lady... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Holme | The title-page quotes W. B. Yeats
: Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. |
| 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... |
| Leisure and Society | Dorothy Wellesley | She had the dining room at Penns decorated by Vanessa Bell
and Duncan Grant
. They did three big wall panels each, plus designing furniture. The work was finished in 1931. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 4: 156 |
| Leisure and Society | Katharine Tynan | This same year KT
attended a meeting of the Browning Society
(founded in the summer of 1881) at which she met George Bernard Shaw
. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 357 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
| Literary responses | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | The Academy gave a favourable review but found the preface unclear. William Butler Yeats
admired the book, Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 209-10 Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 209 |
| Literary responses | Augusta Gregory | W. B. Yeats
felt that she alone of the Abbey playwrights wrote out of a spirit of pure comedy, and laugh[ed] without bitterness and with no thought but to laugh. Saddlemyer, Ann. In Defence of Lady Gregory, Playwright. Dufour Editions. 31 |
| Literary responses | Florence Farr | Reviews were mixed: some found the plays bizarre, and others (including Yeats
) admired their religious fervour. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 91 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Literary responses | Emily Lawless | Though it was never entirely forgotten, Lawless's writing did not fit the assumptions about what Irish literature should be Hansson, Heidi. Emily Lawless 1845-1913: Writing the Interspace. Cork University Press. 4 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Brooke | CB
was warmly appreciated in Ireland. She influenced there a parallel effort to preserve traditional music as she had preserved traditional words: that of Edward Bunting
, who edited in 1796 the first volume... |
| Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | Yeats
noted that by including Joyce here KT
had helped launch his career: It has led to the publication of some of Joyce's fiction in a little London paper called the Egotist [sic] over which... |
| 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 | Katharine Tynan | KT
found that her staunch support for Parnell
after the divorce case was now punished with some damaging criticism of this biography. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 382 Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable. 66 |
| Literary responses | Florence Farr | FF
's performances won the acclaim of several critics, including Yeats
himself, and her recitation technique was for a short time heralded as a new art form: according to William Archer
, in this system... |
| 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 |
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