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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | |
| 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. title-page, 33 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | This volume runs from her youth up to Charles Stewart Parnell
's death in 1891, the closing of an important historical and personal chapter. She spends considerable time on her relationship with her father
... |
| 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. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable. 35 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
| Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | W. B. Yeats
wrote to her of this book: You have the gift to describe many people with sympathy and even with admiration and yet to leave them their distinct characters. Hinkson, Pamela. “The Friendship of Yeats and Katharine Tynan, II: Later Days of the Irish Literary Movement”. The Fortnightly, No. 1043 n.s., pp. 323-36. 331 |
| Textual Production | Katharine Tynan | KT
selected and edited (with advice from W. B. Yeats
) Irish Love-Songs. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable. 68-9 |
| Reception | Katharine Tynan | At the start of her writing career, in 1885, KT
was revered as the next Catholic
woman poet to succeed Christina Rossetti
. She herself held firmly to this image even while her Parnellism and... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Katharine Tynan | KT
's papers are held at the Southern Illinois University Library
; her letters from W. B. Yeats
are at the Huntington Library
; and other papers are held at the University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library |
| 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. 17-18 |
| Literary responses | Rosamund Marriott Watson | William Archer
included RMW
alongside A. E. Housman
, Rudyard Kipling
, Alice Meynell
, E. Nesbit
, and William Butler Yeats
in Poets of the Younger Generation (1902). Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head. vii-viii |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor
characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism, Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol. 24 , No. 1, pp. 51-71. 61 |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Yeats
admired this volume for its explorations of the picturesque, for its love . . . for undisturbed Nature, a hatred for the abstract, the mechanical, the invented, and for an intensity which he saw... |
| Reception | Dorothy Wellesley | W. B. Yeats
, then aged seventy, discovered DW
's writing in 1935 when he was ill in bed and was at work on The Oxford Book of Modern Verse. He was feeling disillusioned... |
| Dedications | Dorothy Wellesley | This selection of poems (sometimes of excerpts) comes entirely from Poems of Ten Years, except for the opening piece, Fire: An Incantation, which was written in May 1935 Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan. v, 11 |
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