1939 Dublin In the Age of William Butler Yeats and James Joyce, by Richard M. Kain.
This book says the best contemporary account of Easter Week is The Insurrection in Dublin by James Stephens, which was published in London in 1916. Among other things, this book talks of Tom Kettle, who has a bust at St. Stephen's Green in Dublin. Some good descriptions and great accounts of Dear Old Dublin.
'Yeats was one of the few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them.' - T.S. Eliot 'You were silly like us; your gift survived it all; The parish of rich women, physical decay, yourself; Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.' - W.H Auden, In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Product Description This selection of Blake's work was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats. Yeats, one of the few poets comparable to Blake, prepared a unique selection of his poetic and prose writings.
