DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Letters to the New Island

A New Edition

WB Yeats author Hugh Witemeyer editor George Bornstein editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:23rd Oct '89

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Letters to the New Island cover

Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923

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.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.

ISBN: 9780333438787

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 440g

200 pages

2nd Revised edition