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奥利维亚·莎士比亚

奥利维亚·莎士比亚

奥利维亚·莎士比亚(英語:Olivia Shakespear,1863年3月17日—1938年10月3日),原名奥利维亚·塔克,英国小说家、剧作家、艺术赞助者。她的六部长篇小说与同时代的女作家风格相似,被称为“婚配问题”小说,最后几部作品则涉及轻微的乱伦。其作品销量很低,有时只卖出几百份。她最后的小说《希拉里舅舅》被认为是她最好的作品。她还与弗洛伦斯·法尔合作写了两部剧本。

1885年她嫁给了伦敦的一位律师亨利·霍普·莎士比亚,1886年生下他们唯一的子女多萝西·莎士比亚。1894年成为威廉·巴特勒·叶芝的好友,两年后发展出恋情。叶芝声称他们“快活了许多天”,但这韵事在1897年便告结束。不过他们的友情保持终身,并一直通信往来。奥利维亚死后这些信件还给了叶芝,叶芝将它们销毁。

1909年莎士比亚夫人创办了一个沙龙,每周办一次,艾兹拉·庞德和其他现代主义作家和艺术家经常光顾,这个沙龙在伦敦文学界颇有影响。1914年多萝西·莎士比亚在父母鼓动下与庞德结了婚。1926年他们的孩子奥马尔·庞德出世后,奥利维亚在最后的岁月中一直担任他的监护人。

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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats ( YAYTS; 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and literary critic who was one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.

A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland. His father practised law and was a successful portrait painter. He was educated in Dublin and London and spent his childhood holidays in County Sligo. He studied poetry from an early age, when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. While in London he became part of the Irish literary revival. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats, William Wordsworth, William Blake and many more. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, lasting roughly from his student days at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin until the turn of the century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart's Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940).

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