Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Robert Browning (1812-1889)
W. B. Yeats
's father...
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.
4: 156
While not...
Literary responses
Wendy Cope
Reviewer Andrew O'Hagan
, however, applies a withering pen to WC
in a tirade about a general style of anthology which is, he says, frivolous or aimed at the lifestyle or selfhelp markets. His complaint...
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
Dorothy Wellesley
Yeats
admired this volume for its explorations of the picturesque, for its love . . . for undisturbed Nature, a hatred for the abstract, the mechanical, the invented, and for an intensity which he saw...
Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head.
vii-viii
Her diction is pure, he...
Literary responses
Dorothy Wellesley
During this correspondence Yeats
wrote to her expressing the highest opinion of her work, even when he was most earnestly bent on changing it.
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...
Literary responses
Augusta Gregory
The collection was widely admired when it first appeared in print. Yeats
praised it in his preface as the best book that has come out of Ireland in my time
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
xxviii
and used it as...
Literary responses
Edith Sitwell
This book made Yeats
liken ES
to Swift
for her passion ennobled by intensity, by endurance, by wisdom.
Sitwell, Edith. Taken Care Of: An Autobiography. Hutchinson.
106
Her Times obituary called these poems Sitwell's The Waste Land, suggesting that despite her still...
Literary responses
Teresa Deevy
The Belfast News-Letter reviewed this volume in February next year along with work by O'Casey
, Yeats
, and Lennox Robinson
. The reviewer was impressed by different qualities in all of these, but judged...
Literary responses
Augusta Gregory
W. B. Yeats
's introduction, 1904, said the stories were so full of power, and set in a world so fluctuating and dreamlike, that nothing can hold them from being all that the heart desires....
