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 Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Constance Holme
The title-page quotes W. B. Yeats : Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
Holme, Constance. Crump Folk Going Home. Cedric Chivers.
title-page
The country community where the story is set centres closely on Crump, the great house of the ancient Lyndesay...
Intertextuality and Influence Ruth Padel
Having loved and immersed herself in poetry all her life, RP took a gamble and changed her self-definition from university lecturer in classics to professional writer and poet. Fifteen years later, writing of her own...
Intertextuality and Influence Katharine Tynan
Yeats felt that no one could do it [the volume] so well as you,
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable.
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but made his own recommendations: George Sigerson , Thomas Davis , Sir Samuel Ferguson , and William Allingham , among others.
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable.
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Intertextuality and Influence Anne Ridler
AR wrote that the two great influences on her as a poet (because they helped her to find her own voice) were Sir Thomas Wyatt and W. H. Auden . Eliot , too, was inescapable...
Intertextuality and Influence Maureen Duffy
The book has three sections. The poems in Missa Humana correspond to different items in the Mass: from Kyrie (Lord, have mercy, a three-stanza poem which invokes the manmade suffering of children around the...
Intertextuality and Influence Florence Farr
Its full title is The Music of Speech, Containing the Words of Some Poets, Thinkers and Music-makers Regarding the Practice of the Bardic Art Together with Fragments of Verse Set to Its Own Melody.
Farr, Florence. The Music of Speech. Elkin Mathews.
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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Jennings
As a teenager, EJ read T. S. Eliot and (as she put it) wrote long poems of sort of vers libre which I imagined were influenced by Eliot, and which were very personal, in fact...
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Lawless
Routinely mentioned, albeit in passing, in accounts of Irish literature such as Ernest Augustus Boyd 's Ireland's Literary Renaissance, 1916, EL has also been anthologized in collections of Irish verse, such as Padraic Collum's...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Byron
As an Irish poet, CB takes inspiration from traditional tales and myths, and from such Irish writers as W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney (though she does not consider either of them as role models...
Intertextuality and Influence Augusta Gregory
AG chose to focus on Grania—a controversial figure in Irish legend who leaves her intended husband for a lover but then returns to him—because of her strength of character. As she explains,I think I...
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 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 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...

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