Letters to the New Island by William Butler Yeats
$150.00
Letters to the New Island by William Butler Yeats, edited with an Introduction by Horace Reynolds, published in 1934 by the Harvard University Press. Inscribed by Horace Reynolds to S.F. Pattison the Dept of English at the University of Arizona Tucson in the 1930’s. The inscription is dated 1934. From 1888 to 1892, W.B. Yeats contributed a series of essays on literature and Irish folklore to two American newspapers, the Boston Pilot and Providence Sunday Journal. These important but little-known pieces show his intense engagement with current books, plays, personalities and controversies. They also make major statements about the issues of cultural nationalism and theatrical reform that preoccupied the poet. Hardcover with light shelfwear to corners and ends.
