Responsibilites and Other Poems

E-187. Very Good. 1916. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Macmillan and Co. , New York. 1916. 188 pgs. Signed by William Butler Yeats on the title page with notes from the previous owner describing how they acquired the signature. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in linen backed light gray boards with decoration by Sturge Moore present to the front board with paper spine label present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Various newsclippings about yeats present to the front pastedown and the FFEP. Previous owner's notes present to the table of contents and to the title page. Discoloration present to the reverse of the news clippings. Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929). Yeats was a very good friend of American expatriate poet and Bollingen Prize laureate Ezra Pound. Yeats wrote the introduction for Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali, which was published by the India Society. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 188 pages; Signed by Author .