Dreadful Sentiments
Tom Paulin, 3 April 1986
The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats. Vol. I: 1865-1895
edited by John Kelly and Eric Domville.
Oxford, 548 pp., £22.50, January 1986,0 19 812679 4 Show More
edited by John Kelly and Eric Domville.
Oxford, 548 pp., £22.50, January 1986,
“... new writing, new politics, unblemished by Irishness, but securely Irish.’ Opening John Kelly and Eric Domville’s scrupulous and magnificent edition of Yeats’s letters, I readied myself to take a sling-shot at the great Cuchulain – the impulse dissolved in helpless love, chortles, delight. The old boy, I realised, has managed here his last and ... ”
