Title
Autograph letter signed by Lady Gregory to W. B. Yeats
Coverage
Coole Park
Date
May 13, 1916
Description
Once she began to find out more about what had happened during the conflict, Gregory’s viewpoint shifted, with her recoil from the “terror” of disorder and violence outweighed by her recognition of the transformative effects of the Rising. She was quick to appreciate the extent to which the direct action of its leaders indicted her own and Yeats’s literary and cultural incrementalism: “Beside them we seem a little insincere, we have all given in to compromise.” Here she tells Yeats, “my mind is filled with sorrow at the Dublin tragedy” and that she has begun to write “some words of sympathy with—or sorrow for—those who [have] been executed.”
Source
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
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