Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
This collection moved the Times Literary Supplement to declare that its delicacy—of scrupulousness, balance, fineness, skill—is as rare in life and in art as ever it was.
Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House.
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...
During the last twenty years of her life, she became increasingly passionate about Irish politics and about her own Irish heritage. She closely followed news of the Easter Rising in Dublin, in 1916 and...
Textual Production
Edna O'Brien
In 2010 EOB
edited a selection of the poems of W. B. Yeats
.
Jonathan Yardley
, reviewing for the Washington Post, stressed O'Brien's brilliance and her nationality. If what you're looking for is a map of Ireland, the fiction of Edna O'Brien will do just fine. She...
Textual Production
Julia O'Faolain
JOF
's No Country for Young Men adapted from one of Yeats
's best-known poems the title for a historical novel about generations of Irish nationalism and its impact on personal relationships.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Education
Julia O'Faolain
At junior school JOF
's talent for mimicry won her two medals for poetry reading: an Elizabethan poem in an English accent and from W. B. Yeats
in an Irish one.
O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber.
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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...
Residence
Sylvia Plath
SP
found that William Butler Yeats
's former flat in Fitzroy Road, London, was available for rent, and she moved into it with her children.
Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann.
KR
longed vainly to be published by Eliot at Faber; by the time that she heard from Yeats
's daughter, years later, that he had first read her at the recommendation of Eliot
, she...
