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.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Augusta Gregory
The volume opened with Yeats
's poem Coole Park, dated 7 September 1929. Many years after AG
's death, a longer version of this historical work, including previously unpublished chapters, was completed from the...
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.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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Maud Gonne
MG
's correspondence with Yeats
was collected and edited by A. Norman Jeffares
and Anna MacBride White
, 1992, and that with New York lawyer John Quinn
in a volume entitled Too Long a Sacrifice...
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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...
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Kathleen Raine
Early in her career KR
was known as a commentator on contemporary or near-contemporary, modernist poetry: a volume of her reviews written between January 1941 and March 1951 was published in 2002 as Defining the...
STW
began writing poetry as a member of a group called the New Elizabethans, centred in Oxford and including Richard Hughes
, Roy Campbell
, and Ivor Gurney
. Yeats
was also a sympathiser.
Rattenbury, Arnold. “How the sanity of poets can be edited away”. London Review of Books, pp. 15-19.
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Florence Farr
FF
published The Music of Speech, a detailed account of the technique she developed in collaboration with W. B. Yeats
for reading poetry set to music.
Farr, Florence. The Music of Speech. Elkin Mathews.
In 1972 KR
published Yeats
, the Tarot, and the Golden Dawn, an essay discussing the work of Yeats
and Blake
, as New Yeats Papers volume 2. She followed this in 1974 with...
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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...
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Katharine Tynan
KT
's father
felt that as a successful, published author, she needed a bigger and more pleasant space in which to write.
He set about rebuilding her writing room, and it was in this...
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Kathleen Raine
In 1979 she published From Blake to A Vision, an essay arguing that both Yeats
and Blake
fall within the central and primary tradition of British Poetry.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research.
20: 291
This publication was volume 17...
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Texts
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty One Poems. Editor Yeats, W. B., Dun Emer Press, 1907.
Yeats, W. B. Uncollected Prose by W.B. Yeats. Editors Frayne, John P. and Colton Johnson, Columbia University Press, 1976.
Gregory, Augusta, and W. B. Yeats. Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1920.
Yeats, W. B. Where There Is Nothing. A. H. Bullen, 1903.
Yeats, W. B. Words for Music perhaps. Cuala Press, 1932.
