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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Philip Larkin | As an undergraduate Larkin was naturally still finding his voice. One poem dating from probably 1943 has its title and its lesbian topic from Charles Baudelaire
: Femmes Damnées. Larkin's poem of this title... |
| Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | They show increasing awareness of time and time's passing: in this volume KT
expresses regret for having missed, by her absence in England, the last moments of some of her Irish friends' lives. Nearly all... |
| Textual Features | Philip Larkin | The title poem is a composite, comprising a Legend in the form of a ballad, and four songs positioned further and further northwards. The ballad opens: I saw three ships go sailing by. One sails... |
| Textual Features | 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)... |
| Textual Production | John Millington Synge | He had begun writing this play in the summer of 1902, staying with his mother and relatives at a farmhouse in Tomriland, Wicklow, and by October had shown a version to the Theatre Society... |
| Textual Production | Mary McCarthy | The year after The Oasis, MMC
published a volume of short stories, Cast a Cold Eye. Her choice of title (from the close of Yeats
's Under Ben Bulben: Cast a cold... |
| Textual Production | Nina Bawden | In her novel Walking Naked (whose title comes from Yeats
), NB
gave her heroine, Laura, the events of an actual day in her own life. Bawden, Nina. In My Own Time: Almost An Autobiography. Virago, 1995. 159 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | Lady Gregory found this play very difficult to write, and turned to both Yeats
and Synge
for help. Her own later diagnosis was, I think I kept too closely to history. qtd. in Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, 1970, p. v - xiii. vii |
| Textual Production | Storm Jameson | Decades later she remembered praising Chekhov
, Hoffmansthal
, Ibsen
, and Strindberg
, while admitting that I mocked, censured, rebuked, tore down, with reckless delight, Shaw
, Yeats
, Masefield
, Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970. 69 |
| Textual Production | Maud Gonne | |
| Textual Production | Medbh McGuckian | MMG
published with Cranagh Press
a book of criticism cheekily titled with a misquotation of Yeats
: Horsepower Pass By: A Study of the Car in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | AG
was very pleased with herself for being able to write a full-length play with only three characters. When she told Yeats
this, he replied: They must have a great deal to talk about. qtd. in McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525. 544 |
| Textual Production | Katharine Tynan | KT
issued her poetry volume The Wind in the Trees: A Book of Country Verse (which would have been The Wind Among the Trees if W. B. Yeats
had not had a book due in... |
| Textual Production | Kathleen Raine | Early in her career KR
was known as a commentator on contemporary or near-contemporary, modernist poetry: a volume of her reviews written between January 1941 and March 1951 was published in 2002 as Defining the... |
| Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | AG
edited a collection of essays protesting against British imperialism: Ideals in Ireland with contributions from W. B. Yeats
, Douglas Hyde
, Standish O'Grady
, and Æ
. Murphy, Maureen. “Lady Gregory and the Gaelic League”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, 1987, pp. 143-62. 150 Mattar, Sinéad Garrigan. “’Wage for Each People Her Hand Has Destoyed’: Lady Gregory’s Colonial Nationalism”. Irish University Review, Vol. 34 , No. 1, 1 Mar. 2004–2026, pp. 49-66. 63 |
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