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
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 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, 1988.
37
Friends, Associates Amy Levy
She saw a good deal of Olive Schreiner , who called her the most interesting girl she had met in England,
qtd. in
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
179
and also took her on two trips outside London at the very end...
Friends, Associates Dorothy Wellesley
DW first met W. B. Yeats , to her great excitement, when he invited himself to stay for a night at Penns in the Rocks; they became intimate friends.
Yeats, W. B. Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley. Editor Wellesley, Dorothy, Oxford University Press, 1964.
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Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie, 1952.
162-3
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 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 ,...
Intertextuality and Influence Katharine Tynan
KT later felt this was a very-much derived little volume.
qtd. in
Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards, 1922.
103
Her critics have observed the influence on it of the Pre-Raphaelite poets, especially Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti .
Fallon, Ann Connerton. Katharine Tynan. Twayne, 1979.
37
qtd. in
Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards, 1922.
103
William Rossetti ...
Intertextuality and Influence Sylvia Kantaris
Other poems are self-referential examinations of poetry and writing. The Recluse describes the inability of the contemporary poet to present in verse (like the unnamed William Wordsworth ) the rustic tale of a chance-met old...
Intertextuality and Influence Edith Lyttelton
Its chapters include Symbols and their Use, Mind Pictures, Dreams, and Knowledge of Future Events. The latter contains a discussion of foreknowledge in automatic writing and utterance, using the example of...
Intertextuality and Influence G. B. Stern
While in her teens GBS composed two one-act Waiferage plays. The heroine of one, a lonely understudy in a fifth-rate touring company, worships the leading man from afar and feels ecstatic when the leading lady...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Byron
As an Irish poet, CB takes inspiration from traditional tales and myths, and from such Irish writers as W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney (though she does not consider either of them as role models...
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Ridler
AR wrote that the two great influences on her as a poet (because they helped her to find her own voice) were Sir Thomas Wyatt and W. H. Auden . Eliot , too, was inescapable...
Intertextuality and Influence Ruth Padel
Having loved and immersed herself in poetry all her life, RP took a gamble and changed her self-definition from university lecturer in classics to professional writer and poet. Fifteen years later, writing of her own...
Intertextuality and Influence Fleur Adcock
She writes here about family and forebears, and about chance encounters and daily events in her own life, further developing her style for the quotidian. Feverish records being out of my mind; / enough to...

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