Letters to the New Island: A New Edition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333438787)

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.

Author: W. B. Yeats
ISBN-10: 0333438787
ISBN-13: 9780333438787
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/23/1989
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d