Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan, 1982.
12-13, 113, 115
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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | John Millington Synge | The first audiences hated what they perceived as the scandalously negative portrayal of Irish character. Actresses on stage in their shifts or undergarments were felt to be indelicate and damaging to national pride. |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Yeats
later called this a long meditation, perhaps the most moving philosophic poem of our time. He found it moving precisely because its wisdom, like that of the sphinx, was animal below the waist.Its... |
| Literary responses | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | The Academy gave a favourable review but found the preface unclear. William Butler Yeats
admired the book, Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999. 209-10 qtd. in Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999. 209 |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 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 | 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... |
| Occupation | Florence Farr | W. B. Yeats
invited FF
to act as stage manager for the Irish Literary Theatre
in Dublin for its production of The Countess Cathleen the following year. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975. 102 |
| 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... |
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