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.
Yorke, Liz. Adrienne Rich: Passion, Politics, and the Body. Sage.
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Rich enjoyed her time at Radcliffe, though...
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...
Textual Production
Kathleen Raine
KR
published Yeats the Initiate, a collection of her critical studies on William Butler Yeats
written over the course of twenty years.
KR
longed vainly to be published by Eliot at Faber; by the time that she heard from Yeats
's daughter, years later, that he had first read her at the recommendation of Eliot
, she...
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...
Textual Production
Kathleen Raine
Early in her career KR
was known as a commentator on contemporary or near-contemporary, modernist poetry: a volume of her reviews written between January 1941 and March 1951 was published in 2002 as Defining the...
Textual Features
Kathleen Raine
The essay demonstrates connections between Jungian psychology (reaffirming the existence of an archetypal world) and the traditional symbolic language used by poets such as Milton
, Shelley
, Blake
, and Yeats
.
Textual Production
Kathleen Raine
In 1972 KR
published Yeats
, the Tarot, and the Golden Dawn, an essay discussing the work of Yeats
and Blake
, as New Yeats Papers volume 2. She followed this in 1974 with...
Textual Production
Kathleen Raine
In 1979 she published From Blake to A Vision, an essay arguing that both Yeats
and Blake
fall within the central and primary tradition of British Poetry.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research.
He paid a Venetian printer to produce 150 copies, and sent one to Yeats
, who replied with a polite charming.
Ford, Mark. “I want to boom”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 10, pp. 9-12.
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Residence
Sylvia Plath
SP
found that William Butler Yeats
's former flat in Fitzroy Road, London, was available for rent, and she moved into it with her children.
Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann.
171-3
Intertextuality and Influence
Ruth Padel
Having loved and immersed herself in poetry all her life, RP
took a gamble and changed her self-definition from university lecturer in classics to professional writer and poet. Fifteen years later, writing of her own...
Textual Production
Julia O'Faolain
JOF
's No Country for Young Men adapted from one of Yeats
's best-known poems the title for a historical novel about generations of Irish nationalism and its impact on personal relationships.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Education
Julia O'Faolain
At junior school JOF
's talent for mimicry won her two medals for poetry reading: an Elizabethan poem in an English accent and from W. B. Yeats
in an Irish one.
O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber.
