Volume 33, Number 13 · August 14, 1986
The Young Yeats
By Denis Donoghue
The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats Vol. I, 1865–1895
edited by John Kelly
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 548 pp., $29.95
This is the first volume of a projected complete edition of Yeats's letters. Hitherto we have had only Allan Wade's selection, The Letters of W.B. Yeats (1954), and a few scattered volumes such as Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley (1940), Roger McHugh's edition of Letters to Katharine Tynan (1953), and Ursula Bridge's W.B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore: Their Correspondence 1901–1937 (1953). It is estimated that the complete edition will run to at least twelve volumes. John Kelly has found thousands of letters which were not available to Wade. He has transcribed the letters afresh, corrected many of Wade's readings, dated several letters more accurately, and given in full many letters which Wade gave only in part.
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