... up in rural Ireland in some detail. It also covers his education, both at home and at St. Columba’s College, the influence of the Celtic Revival and William Butler Yeats on his youth, and the impact on Ingram of his mother’s death. Catholicism Dublin birthplace of William Desmond Gregory Lady...

... of social life and for securing the most fundamental object of moral regard. The book considers Language poetry as well as the work of William Butler Yeats, George Oppen, and Frank O'Hara—poets who seek ways to make their poetic thinking yield accounts of personhood that are at once minimal and universal...

... A’ Plarr ‘In a Norman Church’ Plarr Fenian movement William Butler Yeats Victorianism Pre-Raphaelites Irish Literary Revival aesthetics Rhymers’ Club ‘No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.’ ¹ Imagine that this poem was read aloud in 1889, just after...

...This chapter considers a range of specimen passages, written in the early and mid-twentieth century, from memoirs by poet and playwright William Butler Yeats and by novelists Vladimir Nabokov and Mary McCarthy. All three were gifted writers who became fascinated with memoir writing, not only...

... William Butler Yeats Rabindranath Tagore Modernism Transnationalism World Literature Postcolonialism Asiansim Orientalism Writing the introduction to Rabindranath Tagore’s first translations into English, William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) revealed that he had “carried the manuscript...

... tradition Indian Theosophical Society Prasad Rama William Butler Yeats South Asia Caste Eugenics Theatre Rabindranath Tagore Robert Gregory Lady Augusta Gregory Anglo-Irish Big House Cultural nationalism Yeats’s interest in Eastern art and spirituality spanned the course of his life, and his...

... Rang De Theatreworms Productions Poem of an Ending Warsaw Ghetto Cuni Amelia Tagore Award Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia Yeats Society of New York Yeats Society of Victoria William Butler Yeats Rabindranath Tagore Adaptations Literary Anniversaries Commemorations Literary Awards Nobel...

...This book examines the work of the first three directors of the Abbey Theatre — William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, and John Millington Synge — and in each case suggests the nature of their personal primitivism and the extent to which it was influenced by comparative science. It discusses how...

...It is in his dramatic work that there is most evidence of William Butler Yeats's reading of comparative science. Given both Yeats's literary primitivism and his supernaturalism, it was inevitable that he should look to the religio-mythic origins of theatre when creating a drama in reaction against...

...The primitivism of the Irish Revival has been misunderstood for too long because its complex and varied politics have been seen as depending on a particularly uncomplicated attitude towards the past. This book has shown that William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, and John Millington Synge all looked...

... that would admit him to the Inner, or Second Order. Following his initiation into this Order in France in January 1900, Crowley returned to England, where he challenged the authority of William Butler Yeats, hoping to displace him as head of the Golden Dawn in England. Crowley was unsuccessful in his bid...

... of Cuala Press, described as ‘the most important private press in the history of printing in Ireland’. More specifically, it examines the problems and difficulties experienced by the company, especially under its director Elizabeth Yeats, sister of the poet William Butler Yeats. Cuala Press, for example...

...William Butler Yeats operates often by manipulating parallels between the notion of memory — of historical and personal versions of the past, and of posterities and perpetuities — and the workings in poetic structure in readers' memory in the returns and anticipations of rhyme, in the suspensions...

...Young Ireland rhetoric dominated Irish cultural institutions from the 1840s through to the Revival period. In the early 1890s, a young William Butler Yeats was embarking on his project to instil aesthetic revivalism in Ireland, a project that was, in part, a response to the rationalizing ideologies...

... Patrick Gregory Augusta War of Independence 1919–21 ecology Wordsworth William Valéry Paul Archipelago journal Childers Erskine spiritualism William Butler Yeats poetry prose John Sherman water ‘All my dreams were of ships’, ¹ wrote William Butler Yeats of his Sligo childhood...

...The rubric ‘literature and society’, which seems irrelevant to much of the literary work produced in the period 1891–1921, comes into its own from 1922 onwards. Whereas the plays of William Butler Yeats, J. M. Synge, Lady Gregory, and George Fitzmaurice — compounded of myth, folklore, and fantasy...

... the level of support given by British publishers to Irish authors, particularly William Butler Yeats and Douglas Hyde. It also analyses the revival of Irish publishing in Dublin which coincided with the cultural revival of the period. As the foregoing account has suggested, co-publication was a key...

... Woolf, and their Bloomsbury friends. After serving for two winters as a secretary to William Butler Yeats and gaining sufficient status to be able to “correct” his poetry, Pound became an adjunct of Yeats, marshaling aspirants to evenings with the great man and holding forth in various restaurants...