Letters to the New Island: A New Edition (The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats) - Hardcover

Yeats, W.B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333438787 ISBN 13: 9780333438787

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1989

Synopsis

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. Newly edited, annotated, and introduced by George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer, Letters to the New Island offers a fresh glimpse of Yeats as an active polemicist, critic and all-round man of letters.

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Synopsis

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 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. Newly edited, annotated and introduced, this collection offers a glimplse of Yeats as an active polemicist, critic and all-round man of letters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333438787
• ISBN 13: 9780333438787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 221
• Editor: Bornstein George, Witemeyer Hugh