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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Textual Features 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...
Textual Features John Millington Synge
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...
Textual Features Kate O'Brien
KOB refers to women writers here and there in her text—casually to Daisy Ashford and Nancy Mitford , admiringly to Maria Edgeworth and Lady Gregory (the latter admittedly for her life rather than her writings)—and...
Textual Features 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 .
Textual Production Florence Farr
The title-page quotes from W. B. Yeats 's Shadowy Waters.
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Katharine Tynan
KT selected and edited (with advice from W. B. Yeats ) Irish Love-Songs.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable, 1916.
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Textual Production 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, 1983.
20: 291
This publication was volume 17...
Textual Production Katharine Tynan
KT 's papers are held at the Southern Illinois University Library ; her letters from W. B. Yeats are at the Huntington Library ; and other papers are held at the University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library
Textual Production Martin Ross
MR resisted a pressing invitation from W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory to write a play with them for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. She needed her writings to earn money, but a probably stronger...
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
AS retains her belief in poetry's need and capacity to reach out to elusive reality, to the ahuman, wordless world.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
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Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
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She keeps an Ongoing Anthology, a loose-leaf folder with copies of...
Textual Production Catherine Byron
CB issued her second volume of poetry, entitled Samhain—which was originally the title of a journal published by W. B. Yeats from October 1901 to November 1908 to publicize productions at the Abbey Theatre .
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
Byron, Catherine. Settlements; &, Samhain. Loxwood Stoneleigh, 1993.
prelims
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 2, 23 Jan. 2014, pp. 33-5.
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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
W. B. Yeats chose and edited for the publisher Macmillan a volume of Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, in which he sought to establish her reputation.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan, 1936.
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Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
On this date he received by post a ballad by her, a reverie upon the grave of a trio of lovers, possibly dating from or inspired by his stay at Penns the previous month. This...

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