Letters To His Son, W. B. Yeats, And Others
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, foxed with some loss. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Intact.
Few literary correspondences reveal the inner life of a family dynasty as candidly as the letters of John Butler Yeats — painter, intellectual, and father of one of the greatest poets in the English language. This remarkable collection chronicles decades of correspondence between J.B. Yeats and his celebrated son W.B. Yeats, alongside letters to other notable figures of the era, offering an intimate window into the artistic, philosophical, and personal world of the Yeats family. Edited with precision and care by Joseph Hone, the collection presents J.B. Yeats as a formidable mind in his own right — opinionated, warm, and possessed of a dazzling literary intelligence that clearly shaped his son's genius. The letters illuminate the rich cultural landscape of late 19th- and early 20th-century Ireland and New York, where J.B. Yeats spent his final years in a kind of willing exile. Hone's editorial hand is assured, situating each letter within its biographical and historical context without diminishing the raw vitality of J.B. Yeats's voice. For readers who know W.B. Yeats only through his verse, these letters offer something rarer still — the man behind the myth, seen through the eyes of the father who first taught him to see.
Author: J.B. Yeats
Format: Hardback
Published: 1944, Faber and Faber
Genre: Biography
Edition: 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, foxed with some loss. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Intact.
Few literary correspondences reveal the inner life of a family dynasty as candidly as the letters of John Butler Yeats — painter, intellectual, and father of one of the greatest poets in the English language. This remarkable collection chronicles decades of correspondence between J.B. Yeats and his celebrated son W.B. Yeats, alongside letters to other notable figures of the era, offering an intimate window into the artistic, philosophical, and personal world of the Yeats family. Edited with precision and care by Joseph Hone, the collection presents J.B. Yeats as a formidable mind in his own right — opinionated, warm, and possessed of a dazzling literary intelligence that clearly shaped his son's genius. The letters illuminate the rich cultural landscape of late 19th- and early 20th-century Ireland and New York, where J.B. Yeats spent his final years in a kind of willing exile. Hone's editorial hand is assured, situating each letter within its biographical and historical context without diminishing the raw vitality of J.B. Yeats's voice. For readers who know W.B. Yeats only through his verse, these letters offer something rarer still — the man behind the myth, seen through the eyes of the father who first taught him to see.