Responsibilities: Poems and a Play

Churchtown, Dundrum, [Dublin]: Cuala Press, 1914. First Edition. [4] ff. (blank), [8], 74, [7], [1, blank], [1, colophon (verso blank)] pp., [4] ff. (blank). 1 vols. 8vo. Linen spine and printed boards, with label on front pastedown Bound by Galwey & Co. Eustace St., Dublin. Bookplate of Pete Laney. First Edition. [4] ff. (blank), [8], 74, [7], [1, blank], [1, colophon (verso blank)] pp., [4] ff. (blank). 1 vols. 8vo. "In these poems Yeats, influenced by his young secretary Pound, breaks away from his early manner and begins to purge his imagery of abstraction and to write more simply and directly." (Connolly). Wade 110. Connolly 100, 24. Includes "September, 1913", "To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing" and "The Cold Heaven", among other poems