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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 Production | Maud Gonne | |
| 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 | 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 | Katharine Tynan | Yeats
selected his favourites among Tynan's poems for printing by the Dun Emer Press
set up by his sisters Elizabeth
and Lily
, as Twenty One Poems by Katharine Tynan. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty One Poems. Editor Yeats, W. B., Dun Emer Press, 1907. title-page, 33 |
| 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– 2024, pp. 49-66. 63 |
| Textual Production | Eavan Boland | Together Micheál Mac Liammóir
and EB
published W. B. Yeats and His World, a biography of W. B. Yeats
, with Thames and Hudson
. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987. 1976 Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | It had already been published in Seven Short Plays. 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. xi Saddlemyer, Ann. In Defence of Lady Gregory, Playwright. Dufour Editions, 1966. 75 |
| Textual Production | Ella Hepworth Dixon | It was titled after Alexander Pope
(the moving toyshop of the heart, when a toyshop stocked fashionable stuff for adults) in a line later near-echoed by W. B. Yeats
. This performance, at a... |
| Textual Production | Katharine Tynan | KT
, W. B. Yeats
, and John O'Leary
compiled and edited a volume of Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable, 1916. 35 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
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