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 Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Laura Riding
W. B. Yeats tried, rather late in the day, to get some of Riding's poems for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse. Their correspondence was fairly amicable
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005.
277ff
until he assured her that poets...
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
By AG 's own account, she learned to write plays by contributing bits of dialogue, when wanted
Gregory, Augusta. Our Irish Theatre. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913.
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for various Abbey playwrights, especially Yeats . Through these collaborations with Yeats—on the structures and plots of...
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 Augusta Gregory
Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, AG 's translation and arrangement of a medieval romance cycle, was published with a preface by W. B. Yeats .
Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston, 1982.
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McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
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Textual Production Augusta Gregory
The part of Cathleen was written for Maud Gonne , who played it magnificently and with weird power, as Yeats put it.
qtd. in
Murphy, James H. “Broken Glass and Batoned Crowds: Cathleen Ni Houlihan and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan ODay, Routledge, 2004, pp. 113-27.
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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, 14 Oct. 1999, pp. 15-19.
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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, 1909.
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 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 Florence Marryat
FM published another novel, entitled Fighting the Air, dedicated in memory of an Irish welcome
Marryat, Florence. Fighting the Air. B. Tauchnitz, 1875, 2 vols.
prelims
to Lady Olive Guinness .
Lady Olive, 1850 - 1925, was the wife of Sir Arthur Guinness, later...
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 Kathleen Raine
KR published Yeats the Initiate, a collection of her critical studies on William Butler Yeats written over the course of twenty years.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Raine, Kathleen. Yeats the Initiate. Dolmen, 1984.
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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.
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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.
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and other British dramatists.
Textual Production Maud Gonne
MG published her ironically-titled autobiography, A Servant of the Queen. The queen here is not the British monarch, but Cathleen Ni Houlihan the mythological queen and personification of Ireland, whom MG played in...
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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