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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Leisure and Society | Katharine Tynan | This same year KT
attended a meeting of the Browning Society
(founded in the summer of 1881) at which she met George Bernard Shaw
. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913. 357 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
| Leisure and Society | Dorothy Wellesley | She had the dining room at Penns decorated by Vanessa Bell
and Duncan Grant
. They did three big wall panels each, plus designing furniture. The work was finished in 1931. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 4: 156 |
| 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. qtd. in Hinkson, Pamela. “The Friendship of Yeats and Katharine Tynan, II: Later Days of the Irish Literary Movement”. The Fortnightly, No. 1043 n.s., Nov. 1953, pp. 323-36. 331 |
| Literary responses | Martin Ross | Most of the reviews were excellent, but the Westminster Gazette gave the book a furious tearing. qtd. in Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968. 103 qtd. in Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968. 129 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Brooke | CB
was warmly appreciated in Ireland. She influenced there a parallel effort to preserve traditional music as she had preserved traditional words: that of Edward Bunting
, who edited in 1796 the first volume... |
| Literary responses | James Joyce | Though Joyce often railed against hisnative city, he felt that depicting it made him a pioneer. Dublin, he wrote, was second only to London among British cities and was three times the size of Venice:... |
| Literary responses | Florence Farr | Reviews were mixed: some found the plays bizarre, and others (including Yeats
) admired their religious fervour. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975. 91 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Mew | Marianne Moore
was quoted on the dust-jacket: This collection is to me extraordinary—unforced, and masterly in a technical way, almost without exception. There are in the style traces of W. B. Yeats
and Thomas Hardy |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Yeats
's introduction praised her for uniting a modern subject and vocabulary with traditional richness. Yeats, W. B., and Dorothy Wellesley. “Introduction”. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, Macmillan, 1936, p. vii - xv. x |
| Literary responses | James Joyce | Yeats
said, I have read in a paper called The Egoist certain chapters of a new novel, a disguised autobiography, which increases my conviction that he is the most remarkable new talent in Ireland today... |
| Literary responses | Florence Farr | FF
's performances won the acclaim of several critics, including Yeats
himself, and her recitation technique was for a short time heralded as a new art form: according to William Archer
, in this system... |
| Literary responses | Eva Gore-Booth | The volume was well-received by EGB
's contemporaries. W. B. Yeats
wrote to her: I think it is full of poetic feeling and has great promise. . . . Weariness is really most imaginative and... |
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