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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | W. B. Yeats
, to whom KT
had sent a copy of this volume, wrote, you are at your best when you write as a mother and when you remember your old home and the... |
| Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | They show increasing awareness of time and time's passing: in this volume KT
expresses regret for having missed, by her absence in England, the last moments of some of her Irish friends' lives. Nearly all... |
| 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). |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Tynan | Yeats
felt that no one could do it [the volume] so well as you, Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable. 68 Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable. 68-9 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Tynan | W. B. Yeats
, encouraged by his father
, proposed to KT
, but she was already secretly engaged to Henry Hinkson
, who became her husband in 1893. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | She limited her selection to Irish lyrical poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, excluding political poems and poems either derived from English or already well-known to English audiences. Her wide range of poets included... |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | Yeats
noted that by including Joyce here KT
had helped launch his career: It has led to the publication of some of Joyce's fiction in a little London paper called the Egotist [sic] over which... |
| Textual Production | Katharine Tynan | KT
issued her poetry volume The Wind in the Trees: A Book of Country Verse (which would have been The Wind Among the Trees if W. B. Yeats
had not had a book due in... |
| Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | KT
found that her staunch support for Parnell
after the divorce case was now punished with some damaging criticism of this biography. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 382 Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable. 66 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
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