BROADSIDES, A COLLECTION OF NEW AND OLD SONGS, 1935

by William Butler Yeats, James Stephens, F. R. Higgins

$3,900 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

Frederick Meyers suggested once that a poet may hear musical notes, not through the ear, but through the nerves of the tongue. One of the writers of this essay is accustomed to write his poetry, when it has a marked stanzaic movement, to Irish tunes; he is a musician and knows what he is doing. The other cannot recognize a tune when he hears it, yet wrote in early life poems to simple tunes, sometimes of his own composition... Higgins and Yeats, from the introduction

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