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The Countess Kathleen: An Irish Drama, and Various Legends and Lyrics by YEATS, William Butler (1865-1939)
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Book desription: London, T.Fisher Unwin 1892 FIRST EDITION, Arthur Symons' copy. Small octavo, with frontispiece illustration (Cuchullain Fighting the Waves) by J.T.Nettleship. Original white paper-backed green boards with yapp edges. Shows some handling and wear, but generally a very good copy (for such a delicate binding). Later bookplate to pastedown. Inscription of author Arthur Symons to flyleaf; 'The visionary ecstasy in this Drama is finely embodied in persons whose actions is indeed largely a spiritual action, but which has the lyrical movement of great drama. Here is poetry which is not only heard, but seen; forming a picture not less moving than music. Arthur Symons'. Yeats met Symons in the 1890s and the freindship was highly important to both. Yeats wrote to Augusta, Lady Gregory; 'He was the only man I think with whom I have had an entirely intimate and understanding friendship... Wade. BBA sale 634 [Literature].
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