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politics | Augusta Gregory | |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | As well as urging Yeats
to meet and take care of the young man, she sent him five pounds and arranged a job for him reviewing books in Paris for the Dublin Daily Express... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Gregory | AG
never found out that her son was killed by friendly fire. His death inspired Yeats
's elegy In Memory of Major Robert Gregory, a reply to her request that he should write something... |
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 |
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.... |
Textual Features | Augusta Gregory | The book, which includes two essays and notes by Yeats
, consists of stories (grouped into chapters according to their subject-matter) collected between 1890 and 1910 in Galway, Clare, and the Aran Islands... |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | In London, AG
first met W. B. Yeats
, with whom she soon developed an important friendship and collaboration as part of the Irish Literary Revival. Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum. 96, 308 |
Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | |
Occupation | Augusta Gregory | The first idea for the Irish Literary Theatre developed as AG
, W. B. Yeats
, and Edward Martyn
were discussing the latter's play Maeve, and asked themselves why it could not be staged... |
Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, AG
's translation and arrangement of a medieval romance cycle, was published with a preface by W. B. Yeats
. Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston. 22 McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525. 531 |
Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | The part of Cathleen was written for Maud Gonne
, who played it magnificently and with weird power, as Yeats
put it. Murphy, James H. “Broken Glass and Batoned Crowds: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Cathleen Ni Houlihan</span> and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day, Routledge, pp. 113-27. 124 |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | Cathleen Ni Houlihan, a one-act play co-authored by AG
and W. B. Yeats
, was first performed by the Irish National Dramatic Company
at St Teresa's Hall, Dublin, with Maud Gonne
in the title role. McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xxxi, 534 Murphy, James H. “Broken Glass and Batoned Crowds: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Cathleen Ni Houlihan</span> and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day, Routledge, pp. 113-27. 113 |
Literary responses | Augusta Gregory | The play was very well received, drawing large and enthusiastic audiences. From the beginning, critics recognized its hypnotic effect and its potential to stir audiences to violence. One reviewer, Stephen Gwynn
, questioned whether such... |
Friends, Associates | H. D. | After her move to England, Ezra Pound
introduced HD to his circle of friends, many of whom were important figures in the modernist movement. They included W. B. Yeats
, T. S. Eliot
,... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nina Hamnett | This book opens in 1926, with the author considerably bewildered by [her] somewhat disordered life since [her] return to England, Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate. 38 |
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