A Book of Irish Verse

Edited by W. B. Yeats.

A Book of Irish Verse

Revised edition. London

Methuen and Co.

1900

Inscribed: “Rev. Stopford Brooke from W.B. Yeats March 25th ’00.”

This anthology is a revised edition of the 1895 first edition, which controversially reset the canon of Irish poetry as part of Yeats’s effort to create an Irish cultural nationalism. At the time of the publication of this edition, one journalist described Yeats as “the first Irishman of the day.” Stoppard Brooke was the editor of an Irish poetry anthology that appeared later in 1900.