denis donohue (1 risultati)

brown full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean, bit of sunfading along top and bottom. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. 1" tear on rear, clear acetate peeling a little, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (FPu1972 & NAP). 318p. 6 b&w illustrations. index. biography. autobiography. poetry. irish literature. irish history. theosophy. theatre. dramatics. ~ In March 1921 Yeats sealed up the original draft of his memoirs which he had written some five years earlier and noted on the envelope: 'Private . containing much that is not for publication now, if ever.' This manuscript has now been released for publication in its entirety for the first time. Although Yeats was to draw heavily on this early autobiography in the memoirs which were published in Autobiographies, he excluded much for reasons of tact and privacy: intimate conversations with Maud Gonne, a memoir of his relationship with 'Diana Vernon', an account of his sexual development in youth and early manhood, and meditations on his own character. Many details which are now of interest concerning Ireland's political and literary history were also omitted. Yeats's autobiography is a work of great significance, made doubly interesting because of this new material. Also included is the full text of a Journal he began in 1908, and kept intermittently until 1930, noting down drafts of poems and reminiscences of which he remarked, 'They are quite frank and the part that cannot be printed while I am alive is the amusing part.' Yeats published a good deal of the material (notably in Estrangement and The Death of Synge) but here too there is much that is new. The text has been edited by Denis Donoghue, professor of Modern English and American literature at University College Dublin, who is at present writing the definitive life of Yeats. These two works should make a lively companionship. The book is an important document for scholars, and the general reader will find it a fascinating self revelation of a remarkable man and a major poet.