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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939

 Person

Biography

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.

Found in 500 Collections and/or Records:

"Yeats, That 'Familiar Compound Ghost'", Undated

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Identifier: 1988.012.1.42
Scope and Contents

Ellmann's draft essay, with handwritten revisions, which begins: "The two names most prominent in twentieth-century poetry in English, W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot, join coincidentally this years...."

Dates: Undated

Yeats, W. B.

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Identifier: 2000.006.1.59
Content Description From the Item:

Letters written primarily to Siegfried Sassoon in response to Sassoon's call for monetary donations for a gift of a clavichord (to be constructed by Arnold Dometsch) in honor of the Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

Dates: 1924 - 1929

Yeats, W.B.

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Identifier: 1988.012.1.231
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contents generally include: biographical information and drafts (often in multiple versions) of Ellmann's bio-commentary on each poet; selected poems by each author, photocopied from published sources; press cuttings of articles; rights and permissions to reprint poems; lists of corrections; and fragments of page proofs.

Dates: 1837 - 1990

Yeats Without Panoply, Undated

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Identifier: 1988.012.1.46
Scope and Contents

Ellmann's review of Allan Wades's The Letters of W.B. Yeats. Includes a note on Allan Wade to follow Ellmann's review.

Dates: Publication: Undated

"Yeats's Philosophy", Undated

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Identifier: 1988.012.1.42
Scope and Contents

Ellmann's essay which begins: "We have seen how in Yeats's poems there are a series of conflicint pulls...."

Dates: Undated

Young, Ella, 1949

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Identifier: 1988.012.1.341
Scope and Contents

Exchange regarding any information about Yeats that Young may have for Ellmann's book.

Dates: 1949

Youngblood, Miss, 1959

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Identifier: 1988.012.1.341
Scope and Contents

Ellmann's overview and commentary on Youngblood's book, [The Structure of Yeats's Long Poems] for University of Minnesota Press.

Dates: 1959

Zach, Wolfgang, 1984-01-04

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Identifier: 1988.012.1.341
Scope and Contents

Requests Ellmann to supply documentation for quotates used in Ellmann's paper, "The Uses of Decadence: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce".

Dates: 1984-01-04

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Archival Object 495
Collection 3
Unprocessed Material 2
 
Subject
Biography -- 20th century 3
Poets -- British -- 19th century. 2
Poets, British -- 20th century. 2
Biographers -- United States -- Biography 1
English poetry -- Irish authors. 1