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.
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.
57-8
Yeats's reactionary attitude toward the activism of both the Gore-Booth sisters resembled his views on the work...
Residence
Sylvia Plath
SP
found that William Butler Yeats
's former flat in Fitzroy Road, London, was available for rent, and she moved into it with her children.
Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann.
171-3
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Dora Marsden
Marsden was neither unaware nor entirely appreciative of Pound's intellectual programme or his professional ethics. She told Weaver
in a letter of November 1913 (after the journal had again been relaunched with a new name)...
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Anne Stevenson
Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS
later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
126
The final poem, A Legacy, On my Fiftieth Birthday, is written...
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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...
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Katharine Tynan
She limited her selection to Irish lyrical poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, excluding political poems and poems either derived from English or already well-known to English audiences. Her wide range of poets included...
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Ketaki Kushari Dyson
KKD
provides almost equally detailed discussion of Tagore
: the way he became a cultural icon for the Bengali people,
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. In Your Blossoming Flower-Garden. Sahitya Akademi, p. xxiv; 477 pp.
7, 12, 19
his extensive writings in many genres, his own translations of them into...
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Kathleen Raine
The essay demonstrates connections between Jungian psychology (reaffirming the existence of an archetypal world) and the traditional symbolic language used by poets such as Milton
, Shelley
, Blake
, and Yeats
.
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Eva Gore-Booth
W. B. Yeats
claimed a central influence on EGB
's understanding of Celtic legend, though she was already thinking about it to a degree during her adolescence. In a letter to novelist Olivia Shakespear
...
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Seamus Heaney
Setting out to enable his readers to witness the spectacle of a gifted writer becoming a definitive one, he begins by considering poetic theories of sound and meaning held by Frost
, Eliot
, and...
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Margaret Kennedy
It was Kennedy's win in the poetry category of the competition, however, that singled out her seriousness about writing. She won on the judgment of W. B. Yeats
, who adjudicated the poetry competition.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann.
30
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Dorothy Wellesley
Fire, addressed to Yeats
and headed with a quotation from Shakespeare
(Does not our life consist of the four elements?),
Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan.
1
is a poem in the same style as Matrix. Like...
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Augusta Gregory
The book, which includes two essays and notes by Yeats
, consists of stories (grouped into chapters according to their subject-matter) collected between 1890 and 1910 in Galway, Clare, and the Aran Islands...
It was his first three-act play. Like Riders to the Sea, it drew its inspiration from the folklore of the Aran Islands. It was published at the end of the same year, in...
