Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
She and Yeats
then spent Christmas Day and many evenings together. She records in her autobiography her visits on the days before his death on 28 January 1939, and some of his last sayings. She...
Friends, Associates
John Millington Synge
JMS
, in Paris, met for the first time both William Butler Yeats
and Maud Gonne
(an Irish nationalist then hiding in France to avoid being jailed at home).
Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan.
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Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xxvi.
xxi
Friends, Associates
Maud Gonne
Yeats
refused to let MG
into her own house, where his young and pregnant wife
had succumbed to the dreaded flu epidemic. This caused a serious quarrel between him and Gonne, and she denounced him...
Friends, Associates
Augusta Gregory
That same summer Yeats
made an extended stay at AG
's estate. Their friendship flourished, and for twenty years he spent the summers there under her motherly care. Theirs was an extremely close, productive, and...
Friends, Associates
Alice Meynell
Following her early conquest of Tennyson
, AM
went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan
, Aubrey Beardsley
(while he...
Friends, Associates
Eva Gore-Booth
EGB
was acquainted with W. B. Yeats
, who claimed a formative influence on her writing.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora.
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Amy Levy
She saw a good deal of Olive Schreiner
, who called her the most interesting girl she had met in England,
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
179
and also took her on two trips outside London at the very end...
Friends, Associates
Augusta Gregory
As well as urging Yeats
to meet and take care of the young man, she sent him five pounds and arranged a job for him reviewing books in Paris for the Dublin Daily Express...
Friends, Associates
H. D.
After her move to England, Ezra Pound
introduced HD to his circle of friends, many of whom were important figures in the modernist movement. They included W. B. Yeats
, T. S. Eliot
,...
By 1919 ES
was also friendly with Arnold Bennett
and his wife Marguerite
. Wyndham Lewis
became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which...
