Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
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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 Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS
later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Stevenson | Here ASargues that change is time's one permanent condition, that it continually transforms the present into the past at the very moment it opens the future to further change. Quoting from her own The... |
| Textual Production | Anne Stevenson | AS
retains her belief in poetry's need and capacity to reach out to elusive reality, to the ahuman, wordless world. Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press. 173 Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press. 170-1 |
| Textual Production | John Millington Synge | He had begun writing this play in the summer of 1902, staying with his mother and relatives at a farmhouse in Tomriland, Wicklow, and by October had shown a version to the Theatre Society... |
| Textual Features | John Millington Synge | It was his first three-act play. Like Riders to the Sea, it drew its inspiration from the folklore of the Aran Islands. It was published at the end of the same year, in... |
| Literary responses | John Millington Synge | The first audiences hated what they perceived as the scandalously negative portrayal of Irish character. Actresses on stage in their shifts or undergarments were felt to be indelicate and damaging to national pride. Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan. 12-13, 113, 115 |
| Friends, Associates | John Millington Synge | JMS
, in Paris, met for the first time both William Butler Yeats
and Maud Gonne
(an Irish nationalist then hiding in France to avoid being jailed at home). Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan. 9 Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xxvi. xxi |
| Travel | John Millington Synge | JMS
arrived to spend six weeks on the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland, a destination recommended to him by William Butler Yeats
. It was the first of five visits. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xxvi. xxii |
| Performance of text | John Millington Synge | JMS
's work had its first professional performance when his one-act play In the Shadow of the Glen opened at Molesworth Hall in Dublin, put on by the Irish National Theatre Society
together with... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | John Millington Synge | His mother, Kathleen Synge
(born Traill), was a rigid Protestant, daughter and niece of clergymen, who cast a religious gloom Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Cultural formation | John Millington Synge | He first met William Butler Yeats
, one of two major Irish literary contemporaries who also rejected religion in their youth, in 1896. (The other scoffer at religion, James Joyce
, he met only once... |
| Travel | John Millington Synge | After January 1895, Paris became Synge's most frequent destination and then his part-time home, though he also spent time studying in Rome and Florence. It was in Paris that he first met William Butler Yeats |
| Friends, Associates | John Millington Synge | JMS
's major supporters in his dramatic career were William Butler Yeats
and Augusta, Lady Gregory
, who ran the Irish National Theatre
. Other famous literary supporters included G. K. Chesterton
, John Masefield |
| Occupation | John Millington Synge | In September 1905, JMS
, along with Yeats
and Lady Gregory
, became directors of the company. George Russell
and Fred Ryan
were also administrators for the Irish National Theatre Society
. Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan. 11-12 Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xxvi. xxiv Kiely, David M. John Millington Synge: A Biography. Gill and Macmillan. 156 |
| Friends, Associates | P. L. Travers | Her first visit to Ireland proved crucial for the literary contacts it enabled her to make: Æ
(George Russell) and W. B. Yeats
. Æ, the editor of The Irish Statesman, became an important... |
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