Twenty One Poems ... Selected by William Butler Yeats
- xvi, 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Dundrun: The Dun Emer Press, 1904
Dundrun: The Dun Emer Press, 1904. First edition, one of two hundred twenty copies. xvi, 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue paper boards, linen spine, printed paper spine label. Very good, with an unusual color-printed bookplate of "AF" on the front pastedown. Free endpapers a bit discolored. First edition, one of two hundred twenty copies. xvi, 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902), educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, affiliated with the Rhymers' Club, is also remembered as having introduced Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas.
"Yeats, who remembered Johnson in the early 1890s as 'always at my side' (312), thought of him as 'our critic, and above all our theologian' (221) and, impressed and influenced by Johnson's erudition, encouraged his attempts to transform himself into an Irishman (ODNB, citing Yeats, Autobiographies, 1955).
Handsome copy of this selection, which includes Johnson's "The Dark Angel". Wade 231
"Yeats, who remembered Johnson in the early 1890s as 'always at my side' (312), thought of him as 'our critic, and above all our theologian' (221) and, impressed and influenced by Johnson's erudition, encouraged his attempts to transform himself into an Irishman (ODNB, citing Yeats, Autobiographies, 1955).
Handsome copy of this selection, which includes Johnson's "The Dark Angel". Wade 231
Details
Title
Twenty One Poems ... Selected by William Butler Yeats
Author
(Yeats, William Butler) Johnson, Lionel
Binding
xvi, 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Condition
Very Good
Publisher
The Dun Emer Press: Dundrun
Date
1904
Edition
First edition, one of two hundred twenty copies