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 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.
1976
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
22
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
531
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.
Murphy, James H. “Broken Glass and Batoned Crowds: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Cathleen Ni Houlihan</span> and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day, Routledge, pp. 113-27.
124
Textual Production Julia O'Faolain
JOF 's No Country for Young Men adapted from one of Yeats 's best-known poems the title for a historical novel about generations of Irish nationalism and its impact on personal relationships.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Textual Production Laura Riding
In the same year she and Graves jointly issued A Pamphlet Against Anthologies, which attacks the anthology culture, and several specific much-anthologized poems by such respected or popular names as W. B. Yeats ,...
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
DW began collaborative work with Yeats : what started out as a ballad by herself, and became his ballad The Three Bushes and the songs (by lady, serving-maid, and lover) which went with it.
Jeffares, A. Norman. A New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats. Macmillan.
367
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 Florence Marryat
FM published another novel, entitled Fighting the Air, dedicated in memory of an Irish welcome
Marryat, Florence. Fighting the Air. B. Tauchnitz.
prelims
to Lady Olive Guinness .
Lady Olive, 1850 - 1925, was the wife of Sir Arthur Guinness, later...
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 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.
277ff
until he assured her that poets...
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
DW edited Yeats 's letters to herself under the title of Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley.
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 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.
49, 453
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan , her models included the suave, disciplined, informal, very accessible
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
122
early poems of her near-contemporary Adrienne Rich . She wrote two stage works that were performed...
Textual Production Florence Farr
The title-page quotes from W. B. Yeats 's Shadowy Waters.
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.
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