Creator
W. B. Yeats
Title
Responsibilities: Poems and a Play
Coverage
Churchtown, Dundrum
Publisher
Cuala Press
Date
1914
Subject
Lily Yeats’s copy with her bookplate and signature, one of four hundred copies.
Description
This collection marked a stylistic shift by Yeats as he approached the age of fifty. Following the first of three winters spent at Stone Cottage in England with his secretary, Ezra Pound, Yeats adopted the more spare style of his later years, leading to an unparalleled creative resurgence. The publication of this book came shortly before the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, but it already reflects a certain bleakness of outlook regarding contemporary life.
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