Something that I read in a book: W. B. Yeats's Annotations at the National Library of Ireland: vol. 2: Yeats's Writings [Hardcover]

This book is about books and libraries: about a poet's library- now held at the National Library of Ireland- about Yeats's reading, and about his writings viewed through his use of the resources of his library.This book is itself a resource to enable scholars and students in Yeats studies to explore the materials in his library, which, together with most of his unpublished papers and manuscripts, forms part of the writer's archive in the National Library, and all are available for consultation.

This book could not have been written without the generous participation of the Yeats family over many years. Their legacy, now entrusted to the National Library, is robust and endless in potential.

This book is about individual cases but also the building of an oeuvre. In short, this book enriches our understanding of Yeats's accomplishment as a writer in over fifty years of creative effort and nearly seventy-four years of abundant life. This volume is for any serious scholar of Yeats who is interested in doing genealogical
scholarship or just interested in a deeper insight into Yeats's relationship to his own work... Chapman's mechanism for transcribing the annotations is clear and concise and easy to follow up on should one be so inclined. Indeed, I have never enjoyed reading Yeats's annotations so much - not least of all because I can actually read them.
Julian Breand?n Dean, Irish Studies Review

This book is about books and libraries: about a poet's library- now held at the National Library of Ireland- about Yeats's reading, and about his writings viewed through his use of the resources of his library.Wayne K. Chapman is Professor in Modern British, Anglo-Irish, & American Literature at Clemson University.