Words Spoken at the Music Room Boar's Hill in the afternoon of Novembe

YEATS (W.B.). & MASEFIELD (John).

Words Spoken at the Music Room Boar's Hill in the afternoon of November 5th, 1939 at a Festival designed in the honour of Wiliam Butler Yeats, Poet.

First edition. 8vo., original blue wrappers, printed in black. [San Francisco]. Grabhorn-Hoyem Press, 1970.

£100.00

YEATS (W.B.). & MASEFIELD (John).

Words Spoken at the Music Room Boar's Hill in the afternoon of November 5th, 1939 at a Festival designed in the honour of Wiliam Butler Yeats, Poet.

In 1930, Masefield organised a festival to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of his first meeting with Yeats and Yeats later described the evening thus: “He made a long eulogy of my work and myself, very embarrassing, and then five girls with beautiful voices recited my lyrics for three quarters of an hour. I do not think that the whole audience could hear, but to me it was strangely moving and overwhelming’”. The text was privately printed at the time. One of 250 copies printed. A fine copy.

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Words Spoken at the Music Room Boar's Hill in the afternoon of November 5th, 1939 at a Festival designed in the honour of Wiliam Butler Yeats, Poet.

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