Yeats, W. B. Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley. Editor Wellesley, Dorothy, Oxford University Press, 1964.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
first met W. B. Yeats
, to her great excitement, when he invited himself to stay for a night at Penns in the Rocks; they became intimate friends. Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie, 1952. 162-3 |
| Friends, Associates | Ezra Pound | During his time in London, EP
met his future wife Dorothy Shakespear
, as well as Henry James
, Ford Madox Ford
, Wyndham Lewis
, and W. B. Yeats
. He also met... |
| Friends, Associates | P. L. Travers | Her first visit to Ireland proved crucial for the literary contacts it enabled her to make: Æ
(George Russell) and W. B. Yeats
. Æ, the editor of The Irish Statesman, became an important... |
| Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | As well as urging Yeats
to meet and take care of the young man, she sent him five pounds and arranged a job for him reviewing books in Paris for the Dublin Daily Express... |
| Friends, Associates | H. D. | After her move to England, Ezra Pound
introduced HD to his circle of friends, many of whom were important figures in the modernist movement. They included W. B. Yeats
, T. S. Eliot
,... |
| Friends, Associates | John Millington Synge | JMS
, in Paris, met for the first time both William Butler Yeats
and Maud Gonne
(an Irish nationalist then hiding in France to avoid being jailed at home). Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan, 1982. 9 Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, 1983, p. ix - xxvi. xxi |
| Friends, Associates | George Egerton | After the success of her Keynotes, GE
became acquainted with the literary and intellectual world. Among her new acquaintances she expressed admiration for Havelock Ellis
but called W. B. Yeats
a poseur. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958. 34 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Fleur Adcock | She writes here about family and forebears, and about chance encounters and daily events in her own life, further developing her style for the quotidian. Feverish records being out of my mind; / enough to... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mildred Cable | The first three chapters are devoted to each individual woman, while the fourth describes their coming together into a three-fold cord, which could not easily be broken. Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Something Happened. Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. 110 This image refers to a passage in... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Farr | Late in her career FF
published a second novel, The Solemnization of Jacklin: Some Adventures on the Search for Reality, whose heroine gives birth to a mystical child derived from the writing of Yeats
. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975. 177 D’Arch Smith, Timothy, and Florence Farr. “Introduction”. Egyptian Magic, Aquarian Press, 1982, p. ix - xvii. xvi Litz, A. Walton. “Florence Farr: A ’Transitional’ Woman”. High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939, edited by Maria DiBattista and Lucy McDiarmid, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 85-106. 86 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Gardam | Most of these stories inhabit JG
's familiar territory among suburban women of a certain age, but other protagonists are very different: a dirty old tramp, a reluctant male homosexual, and, in the title story... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Medbh McGuckian | This collection is much concerned with women's experience. MMG
both follows and diverges from W. B. Yeats
in writing prayers for her daughter. |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Holme | The title-page quotes W. B. Yeats
: Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. Holme, Constance. Crump Folk Going Home. Cedric Chivers, 1974. title-page |
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