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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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...
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
Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan.
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and which later...
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.
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Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie.
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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.
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is a poem in the same style as Matrix. Like...
Intertextuality and Influence Eudora Welty
This is one of her best-known volumes of stories, in part perhaps because of its involvement with gender issues, with such topics as early sexual development, rigidly demarcated gender roles, misogyny, sexual violence, defiance of...
Reception Anna Wickham
Thanks to Untermeyer and to British poet and anthologist John Gawsworth , by the 1930s AW 's poetry was widely anthologised, making her often as well represented as respected male poets such as Lawrence ,...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
After this VW saw Ottoline Morrell many times at Garsington and at Ottoline's other salons, where guests included W. B. Yeats , Aldous Huxley , Mark Gertler , and Dorothy Brett , among many others...

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