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.
Yeats
, who had been a close friend of DS
's parents, deeply influenced her ideas about Celtic literature and culture and about Irish nationalism. Like him she supported and worked for Irish independence, both...
Family and Intimate relationships
Dora Sigerson
George Sigerson
, DS
's father, was a doctor specialising in nervous disorders (a new area of research), a poet, and a Gaelic scholar. He lectured on biology at the National University of Ireland
...
Performance of text
George Bernard Shaw
John Bull's Other Island, a play about Ireland written by GBS
at the request of W. B. Yeats
, opened at the Court Theatre
in London.
Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press.
xxiv
Performance of text
George Bernard Shaw
Lady Gregory
and W. B. Yeats
produced GBS
's The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin.
Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press.
NRS
was a close friend of Rose Macaulay
, with whom in the immediate postwar period she shared entertaining duties at her flat, in something similar to a salon. They apparently met through Macaulay contributing...
Friends, Associates
Martin Ross
MR
visited Lady Gregory
's estate of Coole Park in Galway, where she first met W. B. Yeats
.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
128
Literary responses
Martin Ross
Most of the reviews were excellent, but the Westminster Gazette gave the book a furious tearing.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
103
Just from excerpts quoted in reviews, W. B. Yeats
judged the book to be very big.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
129
Textual Production
Martin Ross
MR
resisted a pressing invitation from W. B. Yeats
and Lady Gregory
to write a play with them for the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. She needed her writings to earn money, but a probably stronger...
Occupation
Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby (later AR
) put in several years of voluntary work at the Time and Talents Settlement
at Bermondsey, doing little plays and dances and hymns with children from poor homes. She was...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Ridler
AR
wrote that the two great influences on her as a poet (because they helped her to find her own voice) were Sir Thomas Wyatt
and W. H. Auden
. Eliot
, too, was inescapable...
Textual Production
Anne Ridler
This was designed as an introduction for readers unfamiliar with the poetry of the modern period, and ran from W. B. Yeats
to Ruthven Todd
. AR
followed it with an extended volume of The...
Textual Production
Laura Riding
In the same year she and Graves jointly issued A Pamphlet Against Anthologies, which attacks the anthology culture, and several specific much-anthologized poems by such respected or popular names as W. B. Yeats
,...
Textual Production
Laura Riding
W. B. Yeats
tried, rather late in the day, to get some of Riding's poems for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse. Their correspondence was fairly amicable
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
277ff
until he assured her that poets...
Friends, Associates
Dorothy Richardson
Curiously, DR
's move to Woburn Walk also brought her into (limited) contact with the poet W. B. Yeats
. Richardson lived at 2 Woburn Buildings, while Yeats lived at number 18; they sometimes...
