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.

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence Fleur Adcock
She writes here about family and forebears, and about chance encounters and daily events in her own life, further developing her style for the quotidian. Feverish records being out of my mind; / enough to...
Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
As translator of Maeterlinck , LAT signed (with Yeats , Meredith , Swinburne , Hardy , Arthur Symons , Lucas Malet , John Oliver Hobbes, and others) a letter to the Times protesting against...
Textual Production W. H. Auden
WHA published Another Time, a volume which contained many of his best-known poems, including On the Death of W. B. Yeats, Musée des Beaux Arts, and Lullaby.
Bloomfield, Barry Cambray, and Edward Mendelson. W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924-1969. University Press of Virginia.
44
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Reception W. H. Auden
Auden later rejected September 1, 1939 in this collection as Yeats ian and inflated: The unmentionable odour of death/ Offends the September night).
Auden, W. H. “September 1, 1939”. Poets.org: from the Academy of American Poets: Auden.
under Auden: September 1, 1939
It is not present in his...
Education Enid Bagnold
At the age of fifteen EB won a school poetry competition and was rewarded with a visit with W. B. Yeats . Years later, she recalled that he advised her never to interest herself in...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB published her longest poem, a controversial and important analysis of the current state of the nation, of recent history, politics, and war: Eighteen Hundred and Eleven.
As precedent for titling a poem about...
Publishing Anna Letitia Barbauld
In these books for the very young (first of all for her nephew and adoptive son), Barbauld tried to hit their level of comprehension and interest.
McCarthy, William. “The Celebrated Academy at Palgrave: A Documentary History of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s School”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
8
, pp. 279-92.
305
The series became phenomenally popular, with eleven editions...
Textual Production Nina Bawden
In her novel Walking Naked (whose title comes from Yeats ), NB gave her heroine, Laura, the events of an actual day in her own life.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(23 April 1981): 10
Bawden, Nina. In My Own Time: Almost An Autobiography. Virago.
159
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.
Intertextuality and Influence Eva Mary Bell
Mary finds her life's work in India. Arriving in Delhi is a landmark in her life, as arriving in Baghdad was before. She works with an older woman named Alice Norman, widow of a British...
Cultural formation Annie Besant
AB 's fascination with Theosophy and its tenets of reincarnation and karma developed quickly in the year after her first meeting with Blavatsky. Another who shared her interest was W. B. Yeats .
Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
242, 253
Textual Production Eavan Boland
Together Micheál Mac Liammóir and EB published W. B. Yeats and His World, a biography of W. B. Yeats , with Thames and Hudson .
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1976
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Travel Muriel Box
During a hectic working life MB had few holidays. She and her husband took a cruise in the Mediterranean in summer 1948, and were at Nice to see the body of W. B. Yeats shipped...
Literary responses Charlotte Brooke
CB was warmly appreciated in Ireland. She influenced there a parallel effort to preserve traditional music as she had preserved traditional words: that of Edward Bunting , who edited in 1796 the first volume...
Textual Features Christine Brooke-Rose
A study of the ways in which metaphor functions grammatically, this text analyses a range of works by writers including Chaucer , Donne , Yeats , and Eliot : all but Chaucer were added since...
Textual Production Catherine Byron
CB issued her second volume of poetry, entitled Samhain—which was originally the title of a journal published by W. B. Yeats from October 1901 to November 1908 to publicize productions at the Abbey Theatre .
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Byron, Catherine. Settlements; &, Samhain. Loxwood Stoneleigh.
prelims
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 2, pp. 33-5.
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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Timeline

1890: The year following Irish nationalist Ellen...

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1890

The year following Irish nationalist Ellen O'Leary 's death from breast cancer on 15 October 1889, her Lays of Country, Home and Friends (many of them political) were collected and published.

December 1891: William Butler Yeats established (in London)...

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December 1891

William Butler Yeats established (in London) the Irish Literary Society ; the National Literary Society at Dublin followed the next year.

By April 1894: English theatre patron Annie Horniman funded...

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By April 1894

English theatre patron Annie Horniman funded a repertory season at the Avenue Theatre (later the Avenue Playhouse), London which concentrated on the new drama.

By earlier 1903: Elizabeth and Lily (or Susan Mary) Yeats...

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By earlier 1903

Elizabeth and Lily (or Susan Mary) Yeats established the Dun Emer Press in association with Evelyn Gleeson , manager of Dun Emer Industries in Dundrum, near Dublin.
Some sources suggest that the press...

By earlier 1903: Elizabeth and Lily (or Susan Mary) Yeats...

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By earlier 1903

Elizabeth and Lily (or Susan Mary) Yeats established the Dun Emer Press in association with Evelyn Gleeson , manager of Dun Emer Industries in Dundrum, near Dublin.
Some sources suggest that the press...

1908: The Cuala Press of Dublin published its first...

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1908

The Cuala Press of Dublin published its first two titles; it was the successor to the Dun Emer Press , founded by Elizabeth and Lily Yeats , sisters of the poet .

3 August 1916: In the aftermath of the Easter Rising, Irish...

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3 August 1916

In the aftermath of the Easter Rising, Irish nationalist Roger Casement , formerly Sir Roger, was executed for treason at Pentonville Prison in London for attempting to smuggle a shipment of German arms to Ireland.

8 February 1932: Count Geoffrey Wladislas Vaile Potocki of...

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8 February 1932

Count Geoffrey Wladislas Vaile Potocki of Montalk went to trial (and was later convicted) for obscene libel for having tried to get printed for private circulation five short poems.

1937: Margot Ruddock published The Lemon Tree,...

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1937

Margot Ruddock published The Lemon Tree, a collection of her poetry edited by W. B. Yeats .

By June 1958: The Nigerian Chinua Achebe published his...

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By June 1958

The Nigerian Chinua Achebe published his first and still most famous novel, Things Fall Apart (titled from W. B. Yeats ).

By July 1964: Canadian writer Jane Rule issued in Canada...

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By July 1964

Canadian writer Jane Rule issued in Canada and England her best-known novel, Desert of the Heart, whose title alludes to W. H. Auden 's poem on the death of Yeats .

1970: Roger McHugh edited a collection of letters...

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1970

Roger McHugh edited a collection of letters between W. B. Yeats and Margot Ruddock entitled Ah, Sweet Dancer.

Texts

Yeats, W. B. A Vision. Privately printed for subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie, 1925.
Yeats, W. B. A Vision. Macmillan, 1962.
Yeats, W. B. “Foreword”. Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley, edited by Dorothy Wellesley, Oxford University Press, 1964, p. v.
Yeats, W. B. Four Plays for Dancers. Macmillan Co., 1921.
Yeats, W. B. In the Seven Woods. Dun Emer Press, 1903.
Yeats, W. B., and Dorothy Wellesley. “Introduction”. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, Macmillan, 1936, p. vii - xv.
Raine, Kathleen, and W. B. Yeats. “Introduction”. Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley, edited by Dorothy Wellesley and Dorothy Wellesley, Oxford University Press, 1964, p. ix - xiii.
Yeats, W. B. Last Poems and Two Plays. Cuala Press, 1939.
Yeats, W. B. Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley. Editor Wellesley, Dorothy, Oxford University Press, 1940.
Yeats, W. B. Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley. Editor Wellesley, Dorothy, Oxford University Press, 1964.
Yeats, W. B. Letters to Katharine Tynan. Editor McHugh, Roger, Clonmore and Reynolds, 1953.
Yeats, W. B. Michael Robartes and the Dancer. Cuala Press, 1920.
Yeats, W. B. On Baile’s Strand. Maunsel and Co., 1905.
Tynan, Katharine et al., editors. Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland. M. H. Gill and Son, 1888.
Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan, 1936.
Yeats, W. B. The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. Shakespeare Head Press; Chapman and Hall, 1908.
Yeats, W. B. The Countess Cathleen. T. F. Unwin, 1899.
Yeats, W. B. The Countess Kathleen. T. Fisher Unwin, 1892.
Gonne, Maud, and W. B. Yeats. The Gonne–Yeats Letters 1893–1938. Editors White, Anna MacBride and A. Norman Jeffares, Hutchinson, 1992.
Yeats, W. B. The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892-1935. Oxford University Press, 1936.
Yeats, W. B. The Tower. Macmillan, 1928.
Yeats, W. B., and Augusta Gregory. The Unicorn from the Stars, and Other Plays. Macmillan, 1908.
Yeats, W. B. The Wanderings of Oisin, and Other Poems. Paul Trench, 1889.
Yeats, W. B. The Wild Swans at Coole. Cuala Press, 1917.
Yeats, W. B. The Winding Stair and Other Poems. Macmillan and Co Ltd., 1933.