Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
W. B. Yeats
-
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.
Its chapters include Symbols and their Use, Mind Pictures, Dreams, and Knowledge of Future Events. The latter contains a discussion of foreknowledge in automatic writing and utterance, using the example of...
Publishing
Hannah Lynch
The Dublin Evening Telegraph carried HL
's amusingly deflating
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
account of the young W. B. Yeats
's cult following. She depicted him in satirical and pugnacious style
Binckes, Faith, and Kathryn Laing. “Irish Autobiographical Fiction and Hannah Lynch’s Autobiography of a Child”. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol.
55
, No. 2, pp. 195-18.
195
in the guise of Augustus Fitzgibbon, a...
Friends, Associates
Amy Levy
She saw a good deal of Olive Schreiner
, who called her the most interesting girl she had met in England,
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
179
and also took her on two trips outside London at the very end...
Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth.
283-4
Occupation
Q. D. Leavis
QDL
spoke on A Fresh Approach to Wuthering Heights (later published as an essay), while her husband's topics included Eliot
and Yeats
.
Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth.
127
Textual Production
Q. D. Leavis
This volume contains four lectures given by the Leavises at Harvard
and Cornell
, three of which are by F. R. Leavis: Luddites? or, There is Only One Culture, Eliot
's Classical Standing...
Though it was never entirely forgotten, Lawless's writing did not fit the assumptions about what Irish literature should be
Hansson, Heidi. Emily Lawless 1845-1913: Writing the Interspace. Cork University Press.
4
in the first half of the twentieth century, and she was largely excluded from the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Emily Lawless
Routinely mentioned, albeit in passing, in accounts of Irish literature such as Ernest Augustus Boyd
's Ireland's Literary Renaissance, 1916, EL
has also been anthologized in collections of Irish verse, such as Padraic Collum's...
Textual Features
Philip Larkin
As an undergraduate Larkin was naturally still finding his voice. One poem dating from probably 1943 has its title and its lesbian topic from Charles Baudelaire
: Femmes Damnées. Larkin's poem of this title...
Textual Features
Philip Larkin
The title poem is a composite, comprising a Legend in the form of a ballad, and four songs positioned further and further northwards. The ballad opens: I saw three ships go sailing by. One sails...
Reception
May Laffan
For such a short piece this has been reviewed extensively; its popularity endured until the end of the nineteenth century. The Spectator said that [n]o work of fiction that we have seen for a long...
