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Katharine Tynan was the most prolific and widely read Irish woman writer of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. From 1885 to her death in 1931, Tynan's poetry appeared in the major Irish, English, and American periodicals and was published in seventeen individual volumes and several collected editions. A friend and colleague of the young William Butler Yeats, Tynan played a prominent part in the formation of the Irish Literary Revival, which she described in her colorful and controversial memoirs. While her nature and devotional poetry reflect a close study of English writers--Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, early William Blake, and the Rossettis--she was one of the first Revival poets to popularize Celtic legends (translated from the Irish by Samuel Ferguson and Clarence Mangan) and to position herself in an Anglo-Catholic tradition of poetry. After her marriage and the birth of her children in the 1890s, Tynan developed a poetics of motherhood distinct from the cloistered reserve of her esteemed rival Christina Rossetti and crucial to her popularity as an elegist during World War I.
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