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The Wild Swans At Coole
''The Wild Swans at Coole'' is the name of two collections of poetry by W. B. Yeats, published in 1917 and 1919. Publication history ''The Wild Swans at Coole'', a collection of twenty-nine poems and the play ''At the Hawk's Well'', was first published by the Cuala Press in November 1917. The title poem of the collection had first appeared in the ''Little Review'' in June of that year. Macmillan (London and New York) republished the poems in March 1919 without the play but with an additional seventeen poems. The completed volume, also called ''The Wild Swans at Coole'', represents the "middle stage" of Yeats' writing and is concerned, amongst other themes, with Irish nationalism and the creation of an Irish aesthetic. Poems in ''The Wild Swans at Coole'' (1917) *" The Wild Swans at Coole" *"Men Improve with the Years" *"The Collar-Bone of a Hare" *"Lines Written in Dejection" *"The Dawn" *"On Woman" *"The Fisherman" *"The Hawk" *"Memory" *"Her Praise" *"The People" *"His Pho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuala Press
The Cuala Press was an Irish private press set up in 1908 by Elizabeth Yeats with support from her brother William Butler Yeats that played an important role in the Celtic Revival of the early 20th century. Originally Dun Emer Press, from 1908 until the late 1940s it functioned as Cuala Press, publicising the works of such writers as Yeats, Lady Gregory, Colum, Synge, and Gogarty. Origins At the suggestion of Emery Walker, Elizabeth Yeats trained as a printer at the Women's Printing Society in London. In 1902, Elizabeth Yeats and her sister Lily joined their friend Evelyn Gleeson in the establishment of a craft studio near Dublin which they named Dun Emer. Dun Emer became a focus of the burgeoning Irish Arts and Crafts Movement, specialising in printing, embroidery, and rug and tapestry-making. Elizabeth ran the printing operation, and Lily managed the needlework department. In 1904, the operation was reorganised into two parts, the Dun Emer Guild run by Gleeson and Dun Emer Indu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January — Philosopher Hu Shih, the primary advocate for the revolution in Chinese literature at this time to replace scholarly language with the vernacular, publishes an article in the magazine ''New Youth (Xin Qingnian)'' titled "A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", in which he originally emphasizes eight guidelines that all Chinese writers should take to heart (next year he will compress the list to four points). * February — ''The Little Review'' moves from Chicago to New York City with the help of Ezra Pound (its foreign editor from May). * May — W. B. Yeats acquires Thoor Ballylee in Ireland. * May 2 — English poet Marian Allen completes the poem "To A. T. G." a few days after hearing of the death in action of her fiancé Arthur Greg, the first of several to his memory. * May–June — T. S. Eliot take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild Swans At Coole (poem)
"The Wild Swans at Coole" is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Written between 1916 and early 1917, the poem was first published in the June 1917 issue of the '' Little Review'', and became the title poem in the Yeats's 1917 and 1919 collections ''The Wild Swans at Coole''. It was written during a period when Yeats was staying with his friend Lady Gregory at her home at Coole Park, and the assembled collection was dedicated to her son, Major Robert Gregory (1881–1918), a British airman killed during a friendly fire incident in the First World War. Literary scholar Daniel Tobin writes that Yeats was melancholy and unhappy, reflecting on his advancing age, romantic rejections by both Maud Gonne and her daughter Iseult Gonne, and the ongoing Irish rebellion against the British. Tobin reflects that the poem is about the poet's search for a lasting beauty in a changing world where beauty is mortal and temporary. Style and structure The po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Review
''The Little Review'', an American literary magazine founded by Margaret Anderson in Chicago's historic Fine Arts Building, published literary and art work from 1914 to May 1929. With the help of Jane Heap and Ezra Pound, Anderson created a magazine that featured a wide variety of transatlantic modernists and cultivated many early examples of experimental writing and art. Many contributors were American, British, Irish, and French. In addition to publishing a variety of international literature, ''The Little Review'' printed early examples of surrealist artwork and Dadaism. The magazine's most well known work was the serialization of James Joyce's ''Ulysses''. History Margaret Anderson conceived ''The Little Review'' in 1914 during the Chicago Literary Renaissance, naming it in honor of the Chicago Little Theatre, a leader in championing new drama and prime mover in the nascent Little Theatre Movement. In ''The Little Review’s'' opening editorial, Anderson called for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers. Founded in London in 1843 by Scottish brothers Daniel and Alexander MacMillan, the firm would soon establish itself as a leading publisher in Britain. It published two of the best-known works of Victorian era children’s literature, Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and Rudyard Kipling's ''The Jungle Book'' (1894). Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Harold Macmillan, grandson of co-founder Daniel, was chairman of the company from 1964 until his death in December 1986. Since 1999, Macmillan has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group with offices in 41 countries worldwide and operations in more than thirty others. History Macmillan was founded in London in 1843 by Daniel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Nationalism
Irish nationalism is a nationalist political movement which, in its broadest sense, asserts that the people of Ireland should govern Ireland as a sovereign state. Since the mid-19th century, Irish nationalism has largely taken the form of cultural nationalism based on the principles of national self-determination and popular sovereignty.Sa'adah 2003, 17–20.Smith 1999, 30. Irish nationalists during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries such as the United Irishmen in the 1790s, Young Irelanders in the 1840s, the Fenian Brotherhood during the 1880s, Fianna Fáil in the 1920s, and Sinn Féin styled themselves in various ways after French left-wing radicalism and republicanism. Irish nationalism celebrates the culture of Ireland, especially the Irish language, literature, music, and sports. It grew more potent during the period in which all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, which led to most of the island gaining independence from the UK in 1922. Irish nationalists believ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aesthetics
Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed through judgments of taste. Aesthetics covers both natural and artificial sources of experiences and how we form a judgment about those sources. It considers what happens in our minds when we engage with objects or environments such as viewing visual art, listening to music, reading poetry, experiencing a play, watching a fashion show, movie, sports or even exploring various aspects of nature. The philosophy of art specifically studies how artists imagine, create, and perform works of art, as well as how people use, enjoy, and criticize art. Aesthetics considers why people like some works of art and not others, as well as how art can affect moods or even our beliefs. Both aesthetics and the philosophy of art try to find answers for what exact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Being Asked For A War Poem
Photograph of William Butler Yeats taken by Charles Beresford in 1911 "On being asked for a War Poem" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written on 6 February 1915 in response to a request by Henry James that Yeats compose a political poem about World War I. Yeats changed the poem's title from "To a friend who has asked me to sign his manifesto to the neutral nations" to "A Reason for Keeping Silent" before sending it in a letter to James, which Yeats wrote at Coole Park on 20 August 1915. The poem was prefaced with a note stating: "It is the only thing I have written of the war or will write, so I hope it may not seem unfitting."Yeats, William Butler. qtd. in ''A Commentary on the Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats''by Norman Alexandere Jeffares. Stanford University Press (1968)p.189 The poem was first published in Edith Wharton's '' The Book of the Homeless'' in 1916 as "A Reason for Keeping Silent".Jeffares,Alexander Norman.''A Commentary on the Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats''.Stanfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ego Dominus Tuus
''Ego Dominus Tuus'', Latin for "I am your lord," sometimes translated as "I am your master" is a poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. It was published in the 1918 book ''Per Amica Silentia Lunae'', where it introduced some of Yeats's essays, and collected with other poems in ''The Wild Swans at Coole'' (1919). The title is taken from Dante's '' La Vita Nuova'': the words "ego dominus tuus" are spoken to Dante in a dream by the personification of Love. The two characters of the poem, ''Hic'' and ''Ille'', are Latin words meaning ''this man'' and ''that man'', respectively. Ezra Pound identified ''Ille'' with 'Willie', or Yeats: the poem covers many characteristic themes of Yeats, in particular the image of the mask and the concept of the double or "anti-self". The dialogue of ''Hic'' and ''Ille'' treats the poetry of Dante, John Keats, and Yeats himself, contrasting the words of each poet with the experience of their lives. Susan J. Wolfson Susan J. Wolfson is Profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scholars (poem)
"The Scholars" is a poem written by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. It was written between 1914 and April 1915,W.B. Yeats. W.B. Yeats The Poems. Edited by Daniel Albright (London: Everyman, 1995) 190 and is included in the 1919 collection ''The Wild Swans at Coole''. BALD heads forgetful of their sins, Old, learned, respectable bald heads Edit and annotate the lines That young men, tossing on their beds, Rhymed out in love’s despair To flatter beauty’s ignorant ear. They’ll cough in the ink to the world’s end; Wear out the carpet with their shoes Earning respect; have no strange friend; If they have sinned nobody knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus (; 84 - 54 BCE), often referred to simply as Catullus (, ), was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, focusing on personal life rather than classical heroes. His s ... walk that way? ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 In Poetry
—From ''A Prayer for My Daughter'' by W. B. Yeats, written on the birth of his daughter Anne on February 26 Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April 2 — Vladimir Nabokov, novelist and poet, leaves Russia with his family. * October — W. B. Yeats travels to the United States and begins a lecture tour lasting until May, 1920. * December — ''The Egoist'', a London literary magazine founded by Dora Marsden which published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce, goes defunct. * Two paintings by E. E. Cummings appear in a show of the New York Society of Independent Artists. * The journal ''Littérature'' founded in France by André Breton, Philippe Soupault and Louis Aragon.Auster, Paul, editor, ''The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets'', New York: Random House, 1982 * Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) writes ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
