Patronage and Creative Exchange
Yeats, Lady Gregory and the Economy of Indebtedness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20085263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Pethica (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Pages | 168-204 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Yeats and Women (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-25822-2_5 |
| OpenAlex | W4247687381 |
| ISBN | 9781349258222 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
The importance of the material support that Lady Gregory provided for Yeats in the early years of their friendship was common knowledge amongst their contemporaries. John Quinn, a model patron himself, would take it as an accepted verity in 1911 that “the world of letters owes it chiefly to her that in the last ten years Yeats has done so much creative work”.1 George Moore, recalling in Ave how “life at Coole was arranged primarily to give [Yeats] an opportunity of writing poems”, likewise acknowledged that her patronage had “released the poet from the quern of daily journalism”.2 These approving commentaries, like many others since, focus exclusively on the fruitful results of Lady Gregory’s support, and, whether from a sense that questions of money were trivial in comparison to matters of art, or from a notion that such topics should simply be overlooked in good taste, the cold cash actualities of her patronage have remained decorously unmentioned. The gifts and loans which cemented the partnership in its early years invite attention on several grounds. Most obviously they are crucial to an understanding of the personal transactions which sustained and defined the friendship; but, more importantly, they were to affect in complex ways the course of the creative collaboration between the writers
Art · Art history · Cash · Economics · Friendship · General partnership · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Taste · History · Irish and British Studies · Joseph Conrad and Literature · Law · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |