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.
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"Yeats Father and Son: Some Buried Parallels", Undated
Typed and carbon copy typed drafts in several versions; typed notes and bibliographic notes. Originally titled, "J.B. Yeats and W.B. Yeats: Some Buried Parallels".
Yeats, John Butler, 1868 - 1872
Transcriptions of John B. Yeats's letter to Ellis; transcriptions of Yeats's letter his father; photostats of Yeats's original letters to his father.
Yeats: lecture notes
Handwritten notes on lined paper from a ring binder.
Yeats, Lily, 1930 - 1946
Includes Lily Yeats's letter to O'Faolain regarding a variety of topics relating to family members. Postcards to Ellmann offer information regarding Cuala Press, death of her sister Elizabeth; arrangement for she and Ellmann to meet.
Yeats Programme
Draft begins: "Yeats seems to have been haunted from childhood by the idea of being two or three selves...."
"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.
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