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 Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Eva Mary Bell
Mary finds her life's work in India. Arriving in Delhi is a landmark in her life, as arriving in Baghdad was before. She works with an older woman named Alice Norman, widow of a British...
Cultural formation Annie Besant
AB 's fascination with Theosophy and its tenets of reincarnation and karma developed quickly in the year after her first meeting with Blavatsky. Another who shared her interest was W. B. Yeats .
Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.
242, 253
Textual Production Eavan Boland
Together Micheál Mac Liammóir and EB published W. B. Yeats and His World, a biography of W. B. Yeats , with Thames and Hudson .
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1976
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Travel Muriel Box
During a hectic working life MB had few holidays. She and her husband took a cruise in the Mediterranean in summer 1948, and were at Nice to see the body of W. B. Yeats shipped...
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...
Textual Features Christine Brooke-Rose
A study of the ways in which metaphor functions grammatically, this text analyses a range of works by writers including Chaucer , Donne , Yeats , and Eliot : all but Chaucer were added since...
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...
Textual Production Catherine Byron
CB issued her second volume of poetry, entitled Samhain—which was originally the title of a journal published by W. B. Yeats from October 1901 to November 1908 to publicize productions at the Abbey Theatre .
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
Byron, Catherine. Settlements; &, Samhain. Loxwood Stoneleigh, 1993.
prelims
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 2, 23 Jan. 2014, pp. 33-5.
33
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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, 1933.
110
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politics Dora Carrington
The club met for discussion and entertainments every Thursday night in Fitzroy Square, where guests and performers included Winifred Gill , Shaw , Yeats , and Arnold Bennett . The subscription fee was 5s...
Publishing Kate Clanchy
KC wrote on Yeats for the London City Lit publication Magma in August 2003.
Clanchy, Kate et al. “The Lyrics”. Magma, Vol.
13
, poetrymagazines.org.uk, Aug. 2003, pp. 11-18.
11-18
She often reviews for The Guardian.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The volume includes literary criticism on works by Richard Watson Dixon and William Butler Yeats . The memoir The Drawing-Room recalls Robert Browning 's visit to MEC 's childhood home. Recollections of Mrs. Fanny Kemble
Literary responses Wendy Cope
Reviewer Andrew O'Hagan , however, applies a withering pen to WC in a tirade about a general style of anthology which is, he says, frivolous or aimed at the lifestyle or selfhelp markets. His complaint...
Occupation Edith Craig
The costumes were judged to be a success, and the performance marked a turning point in her theatrical career. She branched into costume design (having formed a company, Edith Craig and Co. , which was...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Daryush
Through her mother's cousin Roger Fry , ED as a girl met many distinguished people as the friends and guests of her parents: W. B. Yeats , Ezra Pound , Henry Newbolt , Mary Coleridge

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Texts

Yeats, W. B. The Wanderings of Oisin, and Other Poems. Paul Trench, 1889.
Yeats, W. B. The Wild Swans at Coole. Cuala Press, 1917.
Yeats, W. B. The Winding Stair and Other Poems. Macmillan and Co Ltd., 1933.
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty One Poems. Editor Yeats, W. B., Dun Emer Press, 1907.
Yeats, W. B. Uncollected Prose by W.B. Yeats. Editors Frayne, John P. and Colton Johnson, Columbia University Press, 1976, 2 vols.
Gregory, Augusta, and W. B. Yeats. Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1920, 2 vols.
Yeats, W. B. Where There Is Nothing. A. H. Bullen, 1903.
Yeats, W. B. Words for Music perhaps. Cuala Press, 1932.