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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Publishing Hannah Lynch
The Dublin Evening Telegraph carried HL 's amusingly deflating
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
account of the young W. B. Yeats 's cult following. She depicted him in satirical and pugnacious style
Binckes, Faith, and Kathryn Laing. “Irish Autobiographical Fiction and Hannah Lynch’s Autobiography of a Child”. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol.
55
, No. 2, pp. 195-18.
195
in the guise of Augustus Fitzgibbon, a...
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...
Publishing Ezra Pound
He paid a Venetian printer to produce 150 copies, and sent one to Yeats , who replied with a polite charming.
Ford, Mark. “I want to boom”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 10, pp. 9-12.
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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.
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She often reviews for The Guardian.
Publishing James Joyce
This followed its rejection by managements in England, Ireland and America, the first pronounced by George Bernard Shaw and the second by W. B. Yeats .
O’Brien, Edna. “The ogre of betrayal”. The Guardian, pp. Review 10 - 11.
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The first English-language production took place in New...
Publishing Michael Field
The second of these was the play which had not only appeared alone in print but had also been staged, in October 1893. A decade after that, in 1903, William Butler Yeats had turned down...
Reception Dorothy Wellesley
W. B. Yeats , then aged seventy, discovered DW 's writing in 1935 when he was ill in bed and was at work on The Oxford Book of Modern Verse. He was feeling disillusioned...
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.
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Reception Anna Wickham
Thanks to Untermeyer and to British poet and anthologist John Gawsworth , by the 1930s AW 's poetry was widely anthologised, making her often as well represented as respected male poets such as Lawrence ,...
Reception May Laffan
For such a short piece this has been reviewed extensively; its popularity endured until the end of the nineteenth century. The Spectator said that [n]o work of fiction that we have seen for a long...
Reception Constance, Countess Markievicz
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...
Reception Margery Lawrence
In his Foreword to the volume, Sir Shane Leslie finds the influences of Shelley , Yeats , Tennyson , Kipling , Housman , Chesterton , and Fiona MacLeod (pen-name of William Sharp). Yet according to...
Reception Medbh McGuckian
During the same festival, MMG said she found Yeats intimidating because of the perfection of his poems, but that his influence has made Seamus Heaney 's poetry and hers possible: I feel that there is...
Reception Augusta Gregory
Bernard Shaw saw Lady Gregory as a born playwright . . . . doomed from the cradle to write for the stage, to break through every social obstacle to get to the stage, to refuse...
Reception Katharine Tynan
At the start of her writing career, in 1885, KT was revered as the next Catholic woman poet to succeed Christina Rossetti . She herself held firmly to this image even while her Parnellism and...

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