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
Literary responses Dorothy Wellesley
Yeats 's introduction praised her for uniting a modern subject and vocabulary with traditional richness.
Yeats, W. B., and Dorothy Wellesley. “Introduction”. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, Macmillan, p. vii - xv.
x
As well as Horses, he particularly praised Matrix.
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
W. B. Yeats chose and edited for the publisher Macmillan a volume of Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, in which he sought to establish her reputation.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan.
vii
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 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.
Intertextuality and Influence Eudora Welty
This is one of her best-known volumes of stories, in part perhaps because of its involvement with gender issues, with such topics as early sexual development, rigidly demarcated gender roles, misogyny, sexual violence, defiance of...
Reception Anna Wickham
Thanks to Untermeyer and to British poet and anthologist John Gawsworth , by the 1930s AW 's poetry was widely anthologised, making her often as well represented as respected male poets such as Lawrence ,...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
After this VW saw Ottoline Morrell many times at Garsington and at Ottoline's other salons, where guests included W. B. Yeats , Aldous Huxley , Mark Gertler , and Dorothy Brett , among many others...

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