Object details
Accession number
9.b.1.14
Creators
Full title
Poems Written in Discouragement
Creation Date
1913
Language
English
Publication Place
Churchtown, Dundrum, Ireland
Binding Description
Brown paper binding
Description
[8] pages ; 17cm.
Provenance
Gift from Isabella Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) playwright, folklorist, and literary patron, to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 18 January 1904.
Marks
Signed in ink (front cover, top): WB YeatsInscribed in ink (front cover, lower left): I.S.G. 1914.Enclosed: Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Lady Gregory, Co. Galway, 18 Jan. (ARC.001965)
Dimensions
17 x 14 cm (6 11/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Display Media
Printed ink on paper
Web Commentary
William Butler Yeats is among the most important poets of the twentieth century. Isabella Stewart Gardner held many Irish authors in high regard and counted Yeats’s collaborator, Lady Augusta Gregory, among her personal friends. She placed this book—which was written in the wake of a rejected proposal to build a museum of modern art in Dublin—alongside other works by Gregory in the Macknight Room.
Permanent Gallery Location
Macknight Room
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