Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. 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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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
. 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press. 126 |
| 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 | Anne Stevenson | As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan
, her models included the suave, disciplined, informal, very accessible Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press. 122 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | G. B. Stern | While in her teens GBS
composed two one-act Waiferage plays. The heroine of one, a lonely understudy in a fifth-rate touring company, worships the leading man from afar and feels ecstatic when the leading lady... |
| Friends, Associates | Freya Stark | Through her association with Jeyes, FS
met such literary figures as H. G. Wells
and W. B. Yeats
. She also campaigned for the Anti-Suffrage League
and met key figures in the group, including its... |
| Friends, Associates | Christopher St John | Their home became a centre of cultural life. Their friend Harcourt Williams
recorded a Twelfth Night party they held when W. B. Yeats
was among their guests, sharing ghost stories. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 61-2 |
| Friends, Associates | Edith Somerville | Other friends of Somerville's later years included W. B. Yeats
and Augusta, Lady Gregory
. In the 1940s Somerville exchanged letters with Maurice Baring
. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 162, 252, 265 |
| Reception | Edith Somerville | She had been a founding member of the Academy at its inception by Yeats
in 1932. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 252-3 |
| Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | By 1919 ES
was also friendly with Arnold Bennett
and his wife Marguerite
. Wyndham Lewis
became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which... |
| Literary responses | Edith Sitwell |
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