Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.
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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
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| politics | Augusta Gregory | |
| Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | As well as urging Yeats
to meet and take care of the young man, she sent him five pounds and arranged a job for him reviewing books in Paris for the Dublin Daily Express... |
| Literary responses | Eva Gore-Booth | The volume was well-received by EGB
's contemporaries. W. B. Yeats
wrote to her: I think it is full of poetic feeling and has great promise. . . . Weariness is really most imaginative and... |
| Textual Features | 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
... |
| Fictionalization | Eva Gore-Booth | W. B. Yeats
(who first met the Gore-Booth family in about 1894, and associated with Eva and her sister Constance Markievicz
for the rest of their lives) |
| Friends, Associates | Eva Gore-Booth | EGB
was acquainted with W. B. Yeats
, who claimed a formative influence on her writing. Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988. 37 |
| Author summary | Eva Gore-Booth | In addition to her intense suffrage and labour activism, EGB
wrote poetry, periodical essays, political pamphlets, religious criticism, plays, and an autobiograpical sketch. Her work was admired by her contemporaries Katharine Tynan
, Æ (... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Maud Gonne | MG
first met the poet William Butler Yeats
, and he fell in love with her at first sight. Her continuing role in his imaginative life remains for many people the single fact known about... |
| Textual Production | Maud Gonne | The United Irishman published the text of MG
's own play, Dawn, A Play in One Act and Three Tableaux, about the Great Famine of the 1840s, two years after she appeared in the... |
| Textual Production | Maud Gonne | This is the date of the earliest remaining letter of the correspondence between MG
and W. B. Yeats
, which they maintained until his death on 28 January 1939. Gonne, Maud, and W. B. Yeats. The Gonne–Yeats Letters 1893–1938. Editors White, Anna MacBride and A. Norman Jeffares, Hutchinson, 1992. 49, 453 |
| Textual Production | Maud Gonne | Gonne
kept safe the letter that Yeats
wrote her on this date, noting it as the last letter from W. B. Y.. Gonne, Maud, and W. B. Yeats. The Gonne–Yeats Letters 1893–1938. Editors White, Anna MacBride and A. Norman Jeffares, Hutchinson, 1992. x |
| Textual Production | Maud Gonne | |
| politics | Maud Gonne | Since [n]one of the parties in Ireland want women, MG
said, I have to work all by my lone, till I can form a woman's organization. First, with help from W. B. Yeats |
| Occupation | Maud Gonne | MG
played the heroine in Augusta Gregory
's and Yeats
's Cathleen ni Houlihan in the Irish National Theatre
's production, opening on 2 April 1902. This role made her a symbol of the nation. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
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