Creator
W. B. Yeats
Title
The Wanderings of Oisin
Coverage
London
Publisher
Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.
Date
1889
Subject
Inscribed by Yeats to Maud Gonne
Description
The first commercial publication in book form by Yeats of his poems, put out only four months after the publication of Fairy and Folktales of the Irish Peasantry, Wanderings of Oisin contains some of his earliest verses on themes borrowed from ancient Irish myth. This copy was presented by Yeats to Maude Gonne, his foremost muse and a leading activist for Irish independence.
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