Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Yeats
later called this a long meditation, perhaps the most moving philosophic poem of our time. He found it moving precisely because its wisdom, like that of the sphinx, was animal below the waist.Its... |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Yeats
admired this volume for its explorations of the picturesque, for its love . . . for undisturbed Nature, a hatred for the abstract, the mechanical, the invented, and for an intensity which he saw... |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | On this date he received by post a ballad by her, a reverie upon the grave of a trio of lovers, possibly dating from or inspired by his stay at Penns the previous month. This... |
| Reception | Dorothy Wellesley | W. B. Yeats
, then aged seventy, discovered DW
's writing in 1935 when he was ill in bed and was at work on The Oxford Book of Modern Verse. He was feeling disillusioned... |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | During this correspondence Yeats
wrote to her expressing the highest opinion of her work, even when he was most earnestly bent on changing it. |
| Dedications | Dorothy Wellesley | This selection of poems (sometimes of excerpts) comes entirely from Poems of Ten Years, except for the opening piece, Fire: An Incantation, which was written in May 1935 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Wellesley | The basic organization of Deserted House: Poem Sequence goes forward unaltered from its form as a separate volume, but Horses strangely becomes the last item in Trilogy II: Wine, and both Fire and Matrix... |
| Textual Features | Dorothy Wellesley | Fire, addressed to Yeats
and headed with a quotation from Shakespeare
(Does not our life consist of the four elements?), Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan. 1 |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Yeats
found and valued in DW
's work both descriptive genius Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
first met W. B. Yeats
, to her great excitement, when he invited himself to stay for a night at Penns in the Rocks; they became intimate friends. Yeats, W. B. Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley. Editor Wellesley, Dorothy, Oxford University Press. 2 Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie. 162-3 |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Yeats
's introduction praised her for uniting a modern subject and vocabulary with traditional richness. Yeats, W. B., and Dorothy Wellesley. “Introduction”. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, Macmillan, p. vii - xv. x |
| Travel | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
rented the villa La Bastide near Beaulieu sur Mer in the south of France; Yeats
was staying nearby with his wife, apparently restored to health after serious illness. Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie. 165 |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | W. B. Yeats
chose and edited for the publisher Macmillan
a volume of Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, in which he sought to establish her reputation. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan. vii |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
began collaborative work with Yeats
: what started out as a ballad by herself, and became his ballad The Three Bushes and the songs (by lady, serving-maid, and lover) which went with it. Jeffares, A. Norman. A New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats. Macmillan. 367 |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
edited Yeats
's letters to herself under the title of Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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