Prodigal Father


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This work is a portrait of the life of the elder Yeats and his family, showing that J.B. Yeats was as worthy of his sons as they were of their father.







Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922


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The folder may include clippings, announcements, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral items.







John Butler Yeats Letter with Sketch to John Quinn


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John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) was an Irish portrait painter and the father of the poet William Butler Yeats and the painter Jack Butler Yeats. John Quinn (1870-1924) was a corporation lawyer in New York City, and a noted private collector and patron of the arts. Yeats visited New York City in December 1907, remaining there, with Quinn's assistance, until his death in 1922. The item, written and drawn in pen and ink, is a brief autograph letter signed J.B. Yeats to “My dear Quinn,” describing the large sketch drawn above as “my reminiscence of last night’s dinner - you are not very like, but the other two are not bad.” From left to right, the dinner circle consists of Yeats, Quinn and a woman, showing the back of a man in the foreground, with a man's profile to the side crossed out. An additional small self-portrait is drawn below his signature and the date. What appear to be four lines of verse on the other side are also crossed out.




Yeats Annual No 5


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Essays, Irish and American


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Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats. Selected by Ezra Pound


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Mosada: A dramatic poem


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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. VI: Prefaces and Introductions


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Prefaces and Introductions, Volume VI of The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, brings together for the first time thirty-two introductions by Yeats to the works of such literary greats as William Blake, J.M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Lionel Johnson, and Rabindranath Tagore. The introductions, which span the Nobel laureate’s entire career, reflect the broad reach of Yeats’s literary and cultural interests. Always insightful and often charming, Prefaces and Introductions reveals the breadth of Yeats’s talent as essayist, critic, folklorist, and raconteur.