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 Production Dorothy Wellesley
W. B. Yeats chose and edited for the publisher Macmillan a volume of Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, in which he sought to establish her reputation.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan, 1936.
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Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
On this date he received by post a ballad by her, a reverie upon the grave of a trio of lovers, possibly dating from or inspired by his stay at Penns the previous month. This...
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
DW began collaborative work with Yeats : what started out as a ballad by herself, and became his ballad The Three Bushes and the songs (by lady, serving-maid, and lover) which went with it.
Jeffares, A. Norman. A New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats. Revised and expanded edition, Macmillan, 1984.
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Textual Production Anne Ridler
This was designed as an introduction for readers unfamiliar with the poetry of the modern period, and ran from W. B. Yeats to Ruthven Todd . AR followed it with an extended volume of The...
Textual Production Katharine Tynan
KT 's father felt that as a successful, published author, she needed a bigger and more pleasant space in which to write.
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913.
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He set about rebuilding her writing room, and it was in this...
Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
As translator of Maeterlinck , LAT signed (with Yeats , Meredith , Swinburne , Hardy , Arthur Symons , Lucas Malet , John Oliver Hobbes , and others) a letter to the Times protesting against...
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
DW edited Yeats 's letters to herself under the title of Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Laura Riding
In the same year she and Graves jointly issued A Pamphlet Against Anthologies, which attacks the anthology culture, and several specific much-anthologized poems by such respected or popular names as W. B. Yeats ,...
Textual Production W. H. Auden
WHA published Another Time, a volume which contained many of his best-known poems, including On the Death of W. B. Yeats, Musée des Beaux Arts, and Lullaby.
Bloomfield, Barry Cambray, and Edward Mendelson. W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924-1969. 2nd ed., University Press of Virginia, 1972.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Laura Riding
W. B. Yeats tried, rather late in the day, to get some of Riding's poems for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse. Their correspondence was fairly amicable
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005.
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until he assured her that poets...
Textual Production Elinor Glyn
In October 1915EG published a collection of articles on truth, common sense, and happiness under the title Three Things (which was used for a very different text by W. B. Yeats in 1929). She...
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
By AG 's own account, she learned to write plays by contributing bits of dialogue, when wanted
Gregory, Augusta. Our Irish Theatre. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913.
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for various Abbey playwrights, especially Yeats . Through these collaborations with Yeats—on the structures and plots of...
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, 1982.
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McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
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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.
qtd. in
Murphy, James H. “Broken Glass and Batoned Crowds: Cathleen Ni Houlihan and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan ODay, Routledge, 2004, pp. 113-27.
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Textual Production Maud Gonne
The United Irishman published the text of MG 's own play, Dawn, A Play in One Act and Three Tableaux, about the Great Famine of the 1840s, two years after she appeared in the...

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