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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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.
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Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable.
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The review in the anti-Parnellite National Press presented abuse of me...
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...
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.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Robert Browning (1812-1889)
W. B. Yeats 's father...
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.
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While not...
Intertextuality and Influence Mildred Cable
The first three chapters are devoted to each individual woman, while the fourth describes their coming together into a three-fold cord, which could not easily be broken.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Something Happened. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Intertextuality and Influence Medbh McGuckian
This collection is much concerned with women's experience. MMG both follows and diverges from W. B. Yeats in writing prayers for her daughter.
Intertextuality and Influence Jennifer Johnston
JJ says, I don't plan my writing; I just sit down and listen to the voices. This makes it sound easy. It is not.
Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press.
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Irish politics is the background to her work, as to...
Intertextuality and Influence Fleur Adcock
She writes here about family and forebears, and about chance encounters and daily events in her own life, further developing her style for the quotidian. Feverish records being out of my mind; / enough to...
Intertextuality and Influence Kathleen Raine
For KR , poetic tradition was that of the major romantic poets, headed by Blake and followed by Coleridge , Yeats , and Edwin Muir . She was at Girton when a generation of Cambridge...
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.
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D’Arch Smith, Timothy, and Florence Farr. “Introduction”. Egyptian Magic, Aquarian Press, p. ix - xvii.
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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.
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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.
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Her critics have observed the influence on it of the Pre-Raphaelite poets, especially Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti .
Fallon, Ann Connerton. Katharine Tynan. Twayne.
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Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards.
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William Rossetti ...
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...

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