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 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...
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 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 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...
Textual Production Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW began writing poetry as a member of a group called the New Elizabethans, centred in Oxford and including Richard Hughes , Roy Campbell , and Ivor Gurney . Yeats was also a sympathiser.
Rattenbury, Arnold. “How the sanity of poets can be edited away”. London Review of Books, pp. 15-19.
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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...
Textual Production Florence Farr
FF published The Music of Speech, a detailed account of the technique she developed in collaboration with W. B. Yeats for reading poetry set to music.
Farr, Florence. The Music of Speech. Elkin Mathews.
title-page
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
376 (25 March 1909): 119
Textual Production Kathleen Raine
In 1972 KR published Yeats , the Tarot, and the Golden Dawn, an essay discussing the work of Yeats and Blake , as New Yeats Papers volume 2. She followed this in 1974 with...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB published her longest poem, a controversial and important analysis of the current state of the nation, of recent history, politics, and war: Eighteen Hundred and Eleven.
As precedent for titling a poem about...
Textual Production Katharine Tynan
KT 's father felt that as a successful, published author, she needed a bigger and more pleasant space in which to write.
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder.
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He set about rebuilding her writing room, and it was in this...
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.
20: 291
This publication was volume 17...
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.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(23 April 1981): 10
Bawden, Nina. In My Own Time: Almost An Autobiography. Virago.
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 Edna O'Brien
In 2010 EOB edited a selection of the poems of W. B. Yeats .
Textual Production Elinor Glyn
In October 1915 EG published a collection of articles on truth, common sense, and happiness under the title Three Things (which was used for a very different text by W. B. Yeats in 1929). She...
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...

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