YEATS, W. B.

£750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Four Plays for Dancers. First edition, first impression. Each play, "At The Hawks' Well", "The Only Jealousy Of Emer", "The Dreaming Of The Bones", and "Calvary", utilizes dance to create a spiritual experience. The illustrator Edmund Dulac, a lifelong friend of Yeats, designed the scenery and costumes for "At The Hawk's Well", composed the incidental music, and took part in its premier in 1916.Provenance: Walter A. Donnelly (1900-1981), the husband to the poet and essayist Dorothy Marie Donnelly (1903-1994),with his large decorative bookplate. Walter was editor at the University of Michigan Press and the couple's home was a literary salon, often visited by those lecturing at the university, including Dylan Thomas, Robert Hayden, and John Heath-Stubbs. The majority of the Donnelly's wide-ranging rare book collection was donated to the University of Central Florida Library.

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