W. B. Yeats.

Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
Contributors: Wolfe, Humbert, 1885-1940.
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In collection: W. B. Yeats Library
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: London : Ernest Benn Ltd., [1927]
Series:Augustan books of English poetry.
Subjects:
Notes:List of titles in the Augustan books of poetry (first series) on page 32.

Cover title.

Second series edited by Humbert Wolfe.

YL 2315: Numbers "5, 6, 11, 12, 20, 22, 24, 27, 28" entered in pencil before the first nine poems on contents page; manuscript note also on contents page; "203" written in pencil on pages 8 and 10; the lines of 'Dedication to the Shadowy Water' are numbered [all above most likely by George Yeats]

YL 2315a: Decorative boards with handwritten label on front "Poems / by / W. B. Yeats"; many poems have been dated in left margin of contents page in pencil or ink, some also dated in text; some changes in text [all above most likely by George Yeats]

Introduction by Humbert Wolfe.

YL 2315b: Third impression, February, 1931; "G. Yeats" inscribed in pencil on front cover; titles in Augustan Books series (page ii) checked in pencil in margin.

YL 2315c: Decorative boards with handwritten label on front "Poems / by / W. B. Yeats"; many poem titles are numbered from 5 to 204 on contents page (see YL 2315 for similar numbering) possibly to indicate placement in collected edition.

Physical description: 31, [1] pages ; 22 cm.

Citations/References: Wade, Allan. A bibliography of the writings of W. B. Yeats. 1968, 155

Citations/References: A descriptive catalog of W. B. Yeats's library, Edward O'Shea. - New York ; London : Garland, 1985, page 310.

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Contained in: Pamphlet volume A3761
Table of Contents:
The Indian upon God
The Indian to his love
To an isle in the water
Down by the Salley Gardens
The rose of the world
The rose of battle
The lake isle of Innisfree
The sorrow of love
When you are old
The hostings of the Sidhe
The everlasting voices
The moods
The lover tells of the rose in his heart
The fisherman
The heart of the woman
The lover mourns for the loss of love
He mourns for the change that has come upon him and his beloved and longs for the end of the world
He reproves the curlew
He remembers forgotten beauty
A poet to his beloved
He gives his beloved certain rhymes
To his heart, bidding it have no fear
He tells of the perfect beauty
He hears the cry of the sedge
He wishes for the cloths of heaven
The fiddler of Dooney
In the seven woods
The arrow
The old men admiring themselves in the water
Dedication to "the shadowy waters"
A woman Homer sung
No second Troy
All things can tempt me
When Helen lived
Fallen majesty
The cold heaven
That the night come
The wild swans at Coole
Men improve with the years
THe collar-bone of a hare
A song
To a young girl
Lines written in dejection
Memory
Her praise
The saint and the hunchback
To be carved on a stone at Thoor Ballylee.