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.
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...
Textual Production
Kathleen Raine
Early in her career KR
was known as a commentator on contemporary or near-contemporary, modernist poetry: a volume of her reviews written between January 1941 and March 1951 was published in 2002 as Defining the...
Textual Features
Kathleen Raine
The essay demonstrates connections between Jungian psychology (reaffirming the existence of an archetypal world) and the traditional symbolic language used by poets such as Milton
, Shelley
, Blake
, and Yeats
.
Textual Production
Kathleen Raine
In 1972 KR
published Yeats
, the Tarot, and the Golden Dawn, an essay discussing the work of Yeats
and Blake
, as New Yeats Papers volume 2. She followed this in 1974 with...
Textual Production
Kathleen Raine
In 1979 she published From Blake to A Vision, an essay arguing that both Yeats
and Blake
fall within the central and primary tradition of British Poetry.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research.
Yorke, Liz. Adrienne Rich: Passion, Politics, and the Body. Sage.
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Rich enjoyed her time at Radcliffe, though...
Intertextuality and Influence
Adrienne Rich
While revolutionising her life and poetic practice, making them woman-centred, Rich continued in dialogue with the words and ideas of male writers. In learning how poetry can root itself in politics she was learning from...
Friends, Associates
Dorothy Richardson
Curiously, DR
's move to Woburn Walk also brought her into (limited) contact with the poet W. B. Yeats
. Richardson lived at 2 Woburn Buildings, while Yeats lived at number 18; they sometimes...
Textual Production
Laura Riding
In the same year she and Graves jointly issued A Pamphlet Against Anthologies, which attacks the anthology culture, and several specific much-anthologized poems by such respected or popular names as W. B. Yeats
,...
Textual Production
Laura Riding
W. B. Yeats
tried, rather late in the day, to get some of Riding's poems for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse. Their correspondence was fairly amicable
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
277ff
until he assured her that poets...
Occupation
Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby (later AR
) put in several years of voluntary work at the Time and Talents Settlement
at Bermondsey, doing little plays and dances and hymns with children from poor homes. She was...
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...
Textual Production
Anne Ridler
This was designed as an introduction for readers unfamiliar with the poetry of the modern period, and ran from W. B. Yeats
to Ruthven Todd
. AR
followed it with an extended volume of The...
Textual Production
Martin Ross
MR
resisted a pressing invitation from W. B. Yeats
and Lady Gregory
to write a play with them for the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. She needed her writings to earn money, but a probably stronger...
Friends, Associates
Martin Ross
MR
visited Lady Gregory
's estate of Coole Park in Galway, where she first met W. B. Yeats
.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
