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.
As an Irish poet, CB
takes inspiration from traditional tales and myths, and from such Irish writers as W. B. Yeats
and Seamus Heaney
(though she does not consider either of them as role models...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mildred Cable
The first three chapters are devoted to each individual woman, while the fourth describes their coming together into a three-fold cord, which could not easily be broken.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Something Happened. Hodder and Stoughton.
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politics
Dora Carrington
The club met for discussion and entertainments every Thursday night in Fitzroy Square, where guests and performers included Winifred Gill
, Shaw
, Yeats
, and Arnold Bennett
. The subscription fee was 5s...
Publishing
Kate Clanchy
KC
wrote on Yeats
for the London City Lit
publication Magma in August 2003.
Clanchy, Kate et al. “The Lyrics”. Magma, Vol.
13
, poetrymagazines.org.uk, pp. 11-18.
11-18
She often reviews for The Guardian.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The volume includes literary criticism on works by Richard Watson Dixon
and William Butler Yeats
. The memoir The Drawing-Room recalls Robert Browning
's visit to MEC
's childhood home. Recollections of Mrs. Fanny Kemble
Fictionalization
Constance, Countess Markievicz
W. B. Yeats
wrote his famous poem In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth
and Con Markievicz, about the two Irish sisters, activists, and writers.
Smith, D. J. “The Countess and the Poets: Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz in the Work of Irish Writers”. Journal of Irish Literature, Vol.
12
, No. 1, pp. 3-63.
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Friends, Associates
Constance, Countess Markievicz
CCM
then joined a social circle unlike those she had been part of as a younger woman. She and Casimir lived nearby their close associate Æ
(George Russell
), with whom they sometimes exhibited...
CCM
had met W. B. Yeats
by 1894, and they remained associates until her death in 1927.
Marreco, Anne. The Rebel Countess: The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz. Chilton Books.
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Yeats's reactionary attitude toward the activism of both the Gore-Booth sisters resembled his views on the work...
Literary responses
Wendy Cope
Reviewer Andrew O'Hagan
, however, applies a withering pen to WC
in a tirade about a general style of anthology which is, he says, frivolous or aimed at the lifestyle or selfhelp markets. His complaint...
Occupation
Edith Craig
The costumes were judged to be a success, and the performance marked a turning point in her theatrical career. She branched into costume design (having formed a company, Edith Craig and Co.
, which was...
The Belfast News-Letter reviewed this volume in February next year along with work by O'Casey
, Yeats
, and Lennox Robinson
. The reviewer was impressed by different qualities in all of these, but judged...
Literary responses
Teresa Deevy
Lennox Robinson
and Frank O'Connor
remained strong supporters of TD
's stage writing, but W. B. Yeats
felt she was wrong not to accept more help with revision. A study of her plays by John Jordan
