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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Intertextuality and Influence Florence Farr
Its full title is The Music of Speech, Containing the Words of Some Poets, Thinkers and Music-makers Regarding the Practice of the Bardic Art Together with Fragments of Verse Set to Its Own Melody.
Farr, Florence. The Music of Speech. Elkin Mathews.
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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 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 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.
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Irish politics is the background to her work, as to...
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 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 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.
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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 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 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 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.
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D’Arch Smith, Timothy, and Florence Farr. “Introduction”. Egyptian Magic, Aquarian Press, p. ix - xvii.
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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.
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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...

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