William Butler YEATS.

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William Butler YEATS.
Responsibilities: Poems and a Play. Churchtown, Dundrum, the Cuala Press, 1914. In-8: grey half cloth Bradel, grey paper boards with title printed on first, untrimmed (publisher's binding). First edition. "In these poems Yeats, influenced by his young secretary Ezra Pound, breaks with his earlier manner: he begins to rid his imagery of its abstract aspects, and to write more simply and directly" (Cyril Connolly, 100 Key Books of Modern Literature, no. 24). Very amusing autograph note at the top: Swinburne once said to a friend, my father, 'I think I am a human man, I know I am a Republican but I could skin a composer. I have just corrected all the misprints I could find in this book, WB Yeats In fact, the copy includes three autograph corrections in the text on pages 25, 39 and 76. The painter John Butler Yeats, father of the poet, was indeed related to Swinburne: they both gravitated in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. A fine copy in the publisher's binding, with stains on the spine and boards. It is preserved in a green half-maroon case. From the library of the poet Coman Leavenworth, with bookplate.
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