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.
Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth.
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Occupation
Q. D. Leavis
QDL
spoke on A Fresh Approach to Wuthering Heights (later published as an essay), while her husband's topics included Eliot
and Yeats
.
Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth.
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Textual Production
Q. D. Leavis
This volume contains four lectures given by the Leavises at Harvard
and Cornell
, three of which are by F. R. Leavis: Luddites? or, There is Only One Culture, Eliot
's Classical Standing...
Friends, Associates
Amy Levy
She saw a good deal of Olive Schreiner
, who called her the most interesting girl she had met in England,
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
179
and also took her on two trips outside London at the very end...
Publishing
Hannah Lynch
The Dublin Evening Telegraph carried HL
's amusingly deflating
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
account of the young W. B. Yeats
's cult following. She depicted him in satirical and pugnacious style
Binckes, Faith, and Kathryn Laing. “Irish Autobiographical Fiction and Hannah Lynch’s Autobiography of a Child”. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol.
55
, No. 2, pp. 195-18.
195
in the guise of Augustus Fitzgibbon, a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Edith Lyttelton
Its chapters include Symbols and their Use, Mind Pictures, Dreams, and Knowledge of Future Events. The latter contains a discussion of foreknowledge in automatic writing and utterance, using the example of...
Lady Olive, 1850 - 1925, was the wife of Sir Arthur Guinness, later...
Textual Features
Dora Marsden
Marsden was neither unaware nor entirely appreciative of Pound's intellectual programme or his professional ethics. She told Weaver
in a letter of November 1913 (after the journal had again been relaunched with a new name)...
Textual Production
Mary McCarthy
The year after The Oasis, MMC
published a volume of short stories, Cast a Cold Eye. Her choice of title (from the close of Yeats
's Under Ben Bulben: Cast a cold...
Textual Production
Medbh McGuckian
MMG
published with Cranagh Press
a book of criticism cheekily titled with a misquotation of Yeats
: Horsepower Pass By: A Study of the Car in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney.
During the same festival, MMG
said she found Yeats
intimidating because of the perfection of his poems, but that his influence has made Seamus Heaney
's poetry and hers possible: I feel that there is...
Intertextuality and Influence
Medbh McGuckian
This collection is much concerned with women's experience. MMG
both follows and diverges from W. B. Yeats
in writing prayers for her daughter.
Literary responses
Charlotte Mew
Marianne Moore
was quoted on the dust-jacket: This collection is to me extraordinary—unforced, and masterly in a technical way, almost without exception. There are in the style traces of W. B. Yeats
and Thomas Hardy
Friends, Associates
Alice Meynell
Following her early conquest of Tennyson
, AM
went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan
, Aubrey Beardsley
(while he...
