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.

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Textual Features Katharine Tynan
They show increasing awareness of time and time's passing: in this volume KT expresses regret for having missed, by her absence in England, the last moments of some of her Irish friends' lives. Nearly all...
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...
Textual Features Dora Marsden
Marsden was neither unaware nor entirely appreciative of Pound's intellectual programme or his professional ethics. She told Weaver in a letter of November 1913 (after the journal had again been relaunched with a new name)...
Textual Features Katharine Tynan
She limited her selection to Irish lyrical poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, excluding political poems and poems either derived from English or already well-known to English audiences. Her wide range of poets included...
Textual Production Medbh McGuckian
MMG published with Cranagh Press a book of criticism cheekily titled with a misquotation of Yeats : Horsepower Pass By: A Study of the Car in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
AG was very pleased with herself for being able to write a full-length play with only three characters. When she told Yeats this, he replied: They must have a great deal to talk about.
qtd. in
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
544
Textual Production Katharine Tynan
KT issued her poetry volume The Wind in the Trees: A Book of Country Verse (which would have been The Wind Among the Trees if W. B. Yeats had not had a book due in...
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 Production Katharine Tynan
Yeats selected his favourites among Tynan's poems for printing by the Dun Emer Press set up by his sisters Elizabeth and Lily , as Twenty One Poems by Katharine Tynan.
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty One Poems. Editor Yeats, W. B., Dun Emer Press, 1907.
title-page, 33
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
AG edited a collection of essays protesting against British imperialism: Ideals in Ireland with contributions from W. B. Yeats , Douglas Hyde , Standish O'Grady , and Æ .
Murphy, Maureen. “Lady Gregory and the Gaelic League”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, 1987, pp. 143-62.
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Mattar, Sinéad Garrigan. “’Wage for Each People Her Hand Has Destoyed’: Lady Gregory’s Colonial Nationalism”. Irish University Review, Vol.
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Textual Production Eavan Boland
Together Micheál Mac Liammóir and EB published W. B. Yeats and His World, a biography of W. B. Yeats , with Thames and Hudson .
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1976
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
It had already been published in Seven Short Plays.
Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, 1970, p. v - xiii.
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Critic Ann Saddlemyer has argued that this play unmistakably belong[s] to Lady Gregory's vision of the world.
Saddlemyer, Ann. In Defence of Lady Gregory, Playwright. Dufour Editions, 1966.
75
She attributes the stranger's song and...
Textual Production Ella Hepworth Dixon
It was titled after Alexander Pope (the moving toyshop of the heart, when a toyshop stocked fashionable stuff for adults) in a line later near-echoed by W. B. Yeats . This performance, at a...
Textual Production Katharine Tynan
KT , W. B. Yeats , and John O'Leary compiled and edited a volume of Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable, 1916.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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...

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