Twenty One Poems Written by Lionel Johnson: Selected by William B. Yeats

Twenty One Poems Written by Lionel Johnson: Selected by William B. Yeats

Dundrum

The Dun Emer Press

1904

Inscribed: “‘I am one of those who fell’ W. B. Yeats.”

This posthumous collection of poems was written by Yeats’s contemporary and friend Lionel Johnson, who died of a stroke in 1902, aged thirty-five. He introduced his cousin Olivia Shakespear to Yeats in 1894, and they became friends and intermittent lovers for the next forty years. Her daughter Dorothy married Ezra Pound, and Dorothy’s friend George married Yeats.