index Whitehead, Winifred 116
Whitman,Walt 618
Whyte, Christopher 320, 326
Wiesel, Elie 593, 594, 598
Wilbur, Richard 439, 657
Williams, Charles 414
on poetry 404–5, 413
Williams, Ifor 350, 354
Williams, Oscar 366, 371, 424, 434–5
Williams, Waldo 341, 343, 348
Williams, William Carlos 617, 627
Wills, Clair 713
Wilson, Harold 628
Wilson, Jean Moorcroft 543
Winter, Jay 138
Wintringham, Tom 251–2
‘Barcelona Nerves’ 252
‘British Medical Unit - Granien’ 252
‘The Splint’ 251–2
women:
and First World War poetry 105–11
anthologies 104, 425–6, 428, 437–8
growth of interest in 103–5
literary exclusion of 102, 103
mourning 112–13
quality of 112
traditional forms of 111–12
and the Holocaust 605–6
and Second World War poetry 433, 440
and war poetry 445–7
Women’s Movement 605–6
Woodley, F. S. 438
Woods, Gregory 308
Woolf, Virginia 83, 146, 385, 445, 558
Wordsworth, William 88, 130
and focusing words 403, 405
and MacNiece on 473
and Yeats on 473
‘Lines written a few miles above Tintern
Abbey’ 280
The Prelude 405
Wright, David 402
Wright, Judith 443
Wyn, Hedd 349, 350
Yamaguchi, Ei 443
Yeats, William Butler 205–7, 365
and Easter Rising:
critical of British government 230
reaction to 228, 229–30
and elegy 239
and epic 672–3
and First World War 288, 473
disengagement from 205–6
indifference towards 227–8
and the heroic 505
and Irish commitments 205, 206
and London-based Irish activism of 228–9
as mythographer 231
and O’Casey’sThe Silver Tassie239–40
on Owen 544
andOxford Book of Modern Verse239, 287
and pastoral poetry 473–5
and politics and poetry 287
and protest poetry 505–6
on Rosenberg 544
on Synge 407
and tragedy and joy 239, 287, 505–6
and war poetry 115, 288
dismissal of 239, 287, 504
meaning 506
on warfare 2–3
on Wordsworth 473
‘A Prayer for my Daughter’ 473, 474–5, 482,
720, 721
‘A Reason for Keeping Silent’ 288
‘An Irish Airman Foresees His Death’ 206,
288, 372, 496–7, 509
‘Easter, 1916’ 2, 230, 474
ambivalence 237–8, 241, 287
challenges in writing 231
climax of 237–8
colloquial nature of 232–3
concept of change 236–7
context of composition 230–1
delay in naming 233
dramatic nature of 231–2
Gonne’s criticism of 238
nature imagery 235–7
numerology 232
poetic structure of 232
roll-call of ‘heroes’ 233–5
stone image 236–7
ulterior motives 241
The Green Helmet 672
At the Hawk’s Well 228
‘In Memory of Major Robert Gregory’ 206
‘Lapis Lazuli’ 239, 285, 289–93, 364,
504–5
‘Man and Echo’ 287
‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’ 231
Michael Robartes and the Daucer 241
‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’ 231, 240,
505–6
‘On Being Asked for a War Poem’ 227–8,
288
‘Reprisals’ 509
Reveries over Childhood and Youth 228