Yeats's Late Style
First Edition, Signed by Yeats
First edition, first issue. The Winding Stair has been hailed by Cyril Connelly as "the greatest poetry of Yeats in his difficult later manner ... [representing] a peak in English poetry."
This volume contains the true first appearance of The Winding Stair, companion to The Tower (1928), and later published in Britain in 1933, with additional poems. These two titles, The Winding Stair and The Tower, reference Thoor Ballylee, the Norman tower acquired by Yeats and dedicated to his wife Georgie Hyde-Lees. It was at Thoor Ballylee where Yeats wrote many of his later works.
This volume includes the following:
- In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz
- Death
- A Dialogue of Self and Soul
- Blood and the Moon
- Oil and Blood
- A Woman Young and Old
"Yeats, however complicated his thought, remained a consummate musician in his expression of it as can be seen from 'In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth, and Con Markiewicz' which opens The Winding Stair" - Connelly.
A beautifully printed work, issued at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge on Kalmar Paper, for the Fountain Press. Designed by Frederic Warde.