Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
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: Responsibility and Evasion"
Typescript; handwritten notes.
"Yeats, That 'Familiar Compound Ghost'", Undated
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...."
Yeats, W. B.
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.
Yeats, W.B.
Includes Ellmann's notes and draft fragments.
Yeats, W.B.
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.
Yeats Without Panoply, Undated
Ellmann's review of Allan Wades's The Letters of W.B. Yeats. Includes a note on Allan Wade to follow Ellmann's review.
"Yeats's Philosophy", Undated
Ellmann's essay which begins: "We have seen how in Yeats's poems there are a series of conflicint pulls...."
Young, Ella, 1949
Exchange regarding any information about Yeats that Young may have for Ellmann's book.
Youngblood, Miss, 1959
Ellmann's overview and commentary on Youngblood's book, [The Structure of Yeats's Long Poems] for University of Minnesota Press.
Zach, Wolfgang, 1984-01-04
Requests Ellmann to supply documentation for quotates used in Ellmann's paper, "The Uses of Decadence: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce".