Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder.
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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | P. L. Travers | Her first visit to Ireland proved crucial for the literary contacts it enabled her to make: Æ
(George Russell) and W. B. Yeats
. Æ, the editor of The Irish Statesman, became an important... |
| Friends, Associates | Emily Lawless | Lawless made a number of other friends, acquaintances, and admirers through her writing, including Margaret Oliphant
, an early friend and critic, Rhoda Broughton
, George Meredith
, Aubrey de Vere
, Mary Augusta Ward |
| Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | KT
met W. B. Yeats
for the first time when he was introduced to her by Charles Hubert Oldham
(who in February that year established a new publication called the Dublin University Review). |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
was about eleven when the great influence of the African imperialist George Goldie
(whose biography she was later to write) came into her life. When he answered yes to the question whether he had... |
| Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | KT
met the Irish Republican activist Maude Gonne
(also known for her poetic inspiration of W. B. Yeats
) at a Protestant Home Rule Association
meeting, which Tynan attended despite being Catholic. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 363 |
| Friends, Associates | Ezra Pound | During his time in London, EP
met his future wife Dorothy Shakespear
, as well as Henry James
, Ford Madox Ford
, Wyndham Lewis
, and W. B. Yeats
. He also met... |
| Friends, Associates | Christopher St John | Their home became a centre of cultural life. Their friend Harcourt Williams
recorded a Twelfth Night party they held when W. B. Yeats
was among their guests, sharing ghost stories. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 61-2 |
| Friends, Associates | George Egerton | After the success of her Keynotes, GE
became acquainted with the literary and intellectual world. Among her new acquaintances she expressed admiration for Havelock Ellis
but called W. B. Yeats
a poseur. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press. 34 |
| Friends, Associates | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
was a close friend of Rose Macaulay
, with whom in the immediate postwar period she shared entertaining duties at her flat, in something similar to a salon. They apparently met through Macaulay contributing... |
| Fictionalization | Eva Gore-Booth | W. B. Yeats
(who first met the Gore-Booth family in about 1894, and associated with Eva and her sister Constance Markievicz
for the rest of their lives) Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora. 37 |
| Fictionalization | Constance, Countess Markievicz | W. B. Yeats
wrote his famous poem In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth
and Con Markievicz, about the two Irish sisters, activists, and writers. Smith, D. J. “The Countess and the Poets: Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz in the Work of Irish Writers”. Journal of Irish Literature, Vol. 12 , No. 1, pp. 3-63. 52 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Farr | W. B. Yeats
became interested in FF
when he saw her play the role of a shepherdess in John Todhunter
's play A Sicilian Idyll, and was transfixed by her voice. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 39-40 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Gregory | Robert married Margaret Graham Parry
, a fellow art student, in 1907. They had three children, one of whom, Anne with her golden hair, was the subject of a poem by Yeats
. Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum. 195, 198, 206, 223, 239, 297 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | John Millington Synge | His mother, Kathleen Synge
(born Traill), was a rigid Protestant, daughter and niece of clergymen, who cast a religious gloom Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Tynan | KT
's father, Andrew Cullen Tynan
, came from a long line of Irish farmers from Cheeverstown in Dublin and from County Wicklow. He was born from a mixed marriage: his mother was Catholic... |
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