POEMS [With] POEMS: Second Series

Together two volumes. Third edition, revised and with additions, reprinted of POEMS and second edition of POEMS: Second Series. Each with an etched portrait frontispiece after drawings by Jack B. Yeats, title to POEMS printed in red and black. 8vos, in handsome matching contemporary bindings of three-quarter white vellum over green cloth covered boards, gilt trim to the backs and corner-pieces, spines gilt ruled and with gilt trimmed green morocco labels gilt lettered, green marbled endpapers and silk markers, t.e.g. xv, 314; vii, 162 pp. A very bright and handsome collection, the paper fresh and clean but for some minor age spotting at the prelims and untrimmed edges only, the bindings very attractive and in an excellent state of preservation.

Edizione: a handsome collection of yeat's poetry, pillars of modern irish literature. yeats was awarded the nobel prize in literature, "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." yeats is also generally considered one of the twentieth century's key poets of the english language and one of the greatest masters of the traditional poetic form. at the same time, yeats' is credited with creating poetry that became a major stepping stone into the modernist forms.