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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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. |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mildred Cable | The first three chapters are devoted to each individual woman, while the fourth describes their coming together into a three-fold cord, which could not easily be broken. Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Something Happened. Hodder and Stoughton. 110 This image refers to a passage in... |
| 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 | 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 | Florence Farr | Late in her career FF
published a second novel, The Solemnization of Jacklin: Some Adventures on the Search for Reality, whose heroine gives birth to a mystical child derived from the writing of Yeats
. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 177 D’Arch Smith, Timothy, and Florence Farr. “Introduction”. Egyptian Magic, Aquarian Press, p. ix - xvii. xvi Litz, A. Walton. “Florence Farr: A ’Transitional’ Woman”. High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939, edited by Maria DiBattista and Lucy McDiarmid, Oxford University Press, pp. 85-106. 86 |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Naomi Mitchison | The action takes place among Celtic tribes between 58 and 51 BC (with a coda set five years later). It opens in what is now the Auvergne, newly invaded and occupied by the Roman... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Tynan | KT
later felt this was a very-much derived little volume. Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards. 103 Fallon, Ann Connerton. Katharine Tynan. Twayne. 37 Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards. 103 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Gardam | Most of these stories inhabit JG
's familiar territory among suburban women of a certain age, but other protagonists are very different: a dirty old tramp, a reluctant male homosexual, and, in the title story... |
| 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 | 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 | Adrienne Rich | While revolutionising her life and poetic practice, making them woman-centred, Rich continued in dialogue with the words and ideas of male writers. In learning how poetry can root itself in politics she was learning from... |
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