Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913.
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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | Curiously, DR
's move to Woburn Walk also brought her into (limited) contact with the poet W. B. Yeats
. Richardson lived at 2 Woburn Buildings, while Yeats lived at number 18; they sometimes... |
| Friends, Associates | John Millington Synge | JMS
's major supporters in his dramatic career were William Butler Yeats
and Augusta, Lady Gregory
, who ran the Irish National Theatre
. Other famous literary supporters included G. K. Chesterton
, John Masefield |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
equally admired A. R. Orage
and Holbrook Jackson
, founders of the Leeds Arts Club
. At the Club she also met Edward Carpenter
, W. B. Yeats
, G. K. Chesterton
, George Bernard Shaw |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wellesley | 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 | Elizabeth Daryush | Through her mother's cousin Roger Fry
, ED
as a girl met many distinguished people as the friends and guests of her parents: W. B. Yeats
, Ezra Pound
, Henry Newbolt
, Mary Coleridge |
| 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). |
| Friends, Associates | Emily Lawless | Lawless made a number of other friends, acquaintances, and admirers through her writing, including Margaret Oliphant
, an early friend and critic, Rhoda Broughton
, George Meredith
, Aubrey de Vere
, Mary Augusta Ward |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eva Mary Bell | Mary finds her life's work in India. Arriving in Delhi is a landmark in her life, as arriving in Baghdad was before. She works with an older woman named Alice Norman, widow of a British... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Raine | For KR
, poetic tradition was that of the major romantic poets, headed by Blake
and followed by Coleridge
, Yeats
, and Edwin Muir
. She was at Girton
when a generation of Cambridge... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jennings | As a teenager, EJ
read T. S. Eliot
and (as she put it) wrote long poems of sort of vers libre which I imagined were influenced by Eliot, and which were very personal, in fact... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Lawless | Routinely mentioned, albeit in passing, in accounts of Irish literature such as Ernest Augustus Boyd
's Ireland's Literary Renaissance, 1916, EL
has also been anthologized in collections of Irish verse, such as Padraic Collum's... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | JFLW
gave two different accounts of what had made her a poet. In one, it was reading The Nation's Valentine, To the Ladies of Ireland, in which Richard D'Alton Williams
urged Irishwomen to sing... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Medbh McGuckian | This collection is much concerned with women's experience. MMG
both follows and diverges from W. B. Yeats
in writing prayers for her daughter. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Gregory | AG
chose to focus on Grania—a controversial figure in Irish legend who leaves her intended husband for a lover but then returns to him—because of her strength of character. As she explains,I think I... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jennifer Johnston | JJ
says, I don't plan my writing; I just sit down and listen to the voices. This makes it sound easy. It is not. Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press, 2003. 67 |
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