Katharine Tynan

Katharine Tynan

Katharine Tynan Hinkson (born January 21, 1861 in Clondalkin , County Dublin , † April 2, 1931 ) was an Irish writer who lived temporarily in London and was an important representative of the Irish Renaissance . Her memoirs and poetry influenced by the Catholic faith were of great importance .

Life

Katharine Tynan, one of twelve children of a dairy farmer, attended the Dominican Convent of St Catherine of Siena in Drogheda between 1869 and 1875 and then intended to start a novitiate . She suffered from myopia after developing an eye ulcer in her childhood . Her first poem appeared in the newspaper The Graphic in 1878 and in the following period regularly published poem for newspapers such as Irish Monthly , Hibernia and from 1880 to 1885 in the Dublin University Review . In addition, she herself also worked as a journalist for literary magazines and helped shape the Irish renaissance.

In June 1885 she met William Butler Yeats through mutual acquaintance with the editor of the Dublin University Review , CH Oldham . Thereupon began a lifelong correspondence with Yeats, who described it as “very plain”. In early correspondence, Yeats advised her to make something special out of her Irish Catholicism . Her first book, Louise de la Valliere and Other Poems (1885), was heavily influenced by the British poet Christina Rossetti , and was therefore considered by Yeats to be “too full of English influence to be entirely Irish” to be quite Irish '). In addition to relationships with Yeats and Christina Rossetti, she also maintained friendships with Charles Stewart Parnell , Alice Meynell and their husband Wilfrid Meynell, and with Christina Rossetti's brothers, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Michael Rossetti .

Her second volume of poetry, Shamrocks (1887), contained only subjects related to Irish. Her own suggestion to Yeats that he should try an Irish theme resulted in his The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889). Katharine Tynan lived in Ireland until she married Henry Albert Hinkson in 1893. Hinkson was a barrister and author of novels and also a contemporary of Yeats. After the marriage, the couple moved to Ealing and Notting Hill before they both returned to Ireland in 1914, where Henry Albert Hinkson became a judge in County Mayo and died in 1919.

Katherine Tynan, in a today in the Municipal Gallery Dublin contained paintings by John Butler Yeats was portrayed in 1887, wrote in addition to poetry collections further 100 novels, twelve collections of short stories , three stage works and anthologies , as well as numerous articles on social issues such as child poverty and working conditions by women. She achieved widespread fame with The Wind that Shakes the Barley , a well-known song that contains her lyrics. Her first major novels include Oh! What a Plague is Love (1896) and She Walks in Beauty (1899)

In 1913 her autobiographical literary review, Twenty-Five Years , was published, which was reprinted with several dozen of Yeats' early letters without his consent or his opportunity to make corrections. In 1920 she sold Yeats's letters to art collector John Quinn . Her five autobiographical works included the last book, Memoires , published in 1924 . After the equally important novel The House in the Forest (1928), her collected lyric works were published in 1930 under the title Collected Poems .

From the marriage with Henry Albert Hinkson the daughter Pamela Hinkson emerged, who was also a writer.

Publications

1885 to 1899 Louise de la Vallière and other poems , 1885 Shamrocks , 1887 Ballads and lyrics , 1891 A nun, her friends & her order , 1891 Irish Love Songs , 1892 The middle years , 1893 A Cluster Of Nuts , 1894 Cuckoo songs , 1894 Miracle plays , 1895 An isle in the water , 1895 The land of mist and mountain , 1895 The way of a maid , 1895 A lover's breast-knot , 1896 The wind in the trees , 1898 The Dear Irish Girl , 1899 The handsome Brandons , 1899 She walks in beauty , 1899 1900 to 1919 Oh, what a plague is love! , 1900 The queen's page , 1900 Poems , 1901 A union of hearts , 1901 Three fair maids, or, The Burkes of Derrymore , 1901 That sweet enemy , 1901 The great captain , 1902 A girl of Galway , 1902 A red, red rose , 1903 Innocencies , 1905 For the white rose , 1905 Dick Pentreath , 1906 The adventures of Alicia , 1906 A little book of courtesies , 1906 A book of memory , 1906 The Story of Bawn , 1907 A little book of XXIV carols , 1907 Twenty one poems , 1907 The rhymed life of St. Patrick , 1907 Twenty-one poems by Katharine Tynan , 1907 Irish poems , 1908 The lost angel , 1908 Father Mathew , 1908 Experiences , 1908 Adveniat regnum tuum , 1908 Father Matthew , 1908 Ireland , 1909 Lauds , 1909 A little book for John O'Mahony's friends , 1909 Freda , 1910 Princess Katharine , 1911 New poems , 1911 The story of Cecilia , 1911 Paradise farm , 1911 The story of Clarice , 1911

Rose of the garden , 1912 The wild harp , 1913 Twenty-five years: reminiscences , 1913 A mésalliance , 1913 A midsummer rose , 1913 The flower of peace , 1914 A shameful inheritance , 1914 Flower of youth , 1915 The squire's sweetheart , 1915 Countrymen all , 1915 A little radiant girl , 1915 Countrymen all , 1915 The middle years , 1916 Lord Edward , 1916 The holy war , 1916 The west wind , 1916 Late songs , 1917 Miss Mary , 1917 Herb o'grace , 1918 My love's but a lassie , 1918 Love of brothers , 1919 The years of the shadow , 1919 The man from Australia , 1919 1920 to 1931 and posthumous publications The wild adventure , 1920 Denys the dreamer , 1921 Bitha's wonderful year , 1921 The wandering years , 1922 Evensong , 1922 The golden rose , 1924 The house of doom , 1924 Life in the occupied area , 1925 The moated grange , 1925 Miss Phipps , 1925 Twilight songs , 1927 Haroun of London , 1927 The respectable lady , 1928 Pat the adventurer , 1928 The House in the Forest , 1928 Collected poems , 1930 The admirable Simmons , 1930 Grayson's girl , 1930 Denise the daughter , 1930 The playground , 1930 Delia's orchard , 1931 The pitiful lady , 1932 The rich man , 1932 An international marriage , 1933 The house of dreams , 1934 in German language Julia: Irish novel , Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1925

Background literature

• William Butler Yeats : The letters of WB Yeats , 1953
• Marilyn Gaddis Rose: Katharine Tynan , 1974
• Meyers Großes Personenlexikon , Mannheim 1968, p. 1341
• Chambers Biographical Dictionary . Chambers, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 1524

Web links

• Literature by and about Katharine Tynan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications ( Open Library )
• Background literature (Open Library)
• Entry in Irish Culture and Customs
• Entry in All Poetry
• Entry in Poem Hunter