Sign-In
Cart
Responsibilities and other poems
Paperback
Publisher: Bibliotech Press
Published: Feb 19 2025
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Responsibilities and a Play was printed and published by Yeats's sister, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, at the Cuala Press in 1914. 400 copies were published.
The work contained thirty one poems and a new version of the play The Hour Glass, which was originally written in collaboration with Lady Gregory, but now presented in a new version.
Responsibilities and Other Poems was published by Macmillan in 1916. This trade edition contained one new poem The Well and the Tree, which was subsequently removed from the sequence to become part of the play, At the Hawk's Well. This work also included some poems from the Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) and the 1913 poems from Poems Written in Discouragement.
Beginning in 1895 with Poems and in 1899 with The Wind among the Reeds, Yeats published poems typically with a dreamlike atmosphere and replete with reference to Irish folklore and legends. The Green Helmet (1910) contained little of the Celtic influence of his earlier poems. The other world had all but disappeared with his publication of Responsibilities and a Play.
The Responsibilities poems signify a transition turning point for Yeats from the dreamworld of the Celtic Twilight to the harsh realities of the modern day. He sums it up in September 1913, written about the worker's strike in Dublin: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone. Those realities included the attacks on Maude Gonne and himself by George Moore; the Hugh Lane controversy; the workers' strike of 1913 and his support of the working man and James Connolly; Parnell; and the fuss over The Playboy of the Western World. The poems are political and personal. Responsibilities begins with Yeats' obscure and anonymous epigraph attributed to an old play In dreams begins responsibility. His next epigraph is from Confucius and refers to the Prince of Chang, the founder of the Second Dynasty, perhaps signifying a new dynasty for Yeats himself. These are announcements of a new direction for Yeats. His introductory matter continues with a poems referring to the Butler family, a veiled response to the criticisms of George Moore. The collection ends with a poem referring to with George Moore as a post passing dogs defile. (wikipedia.org)
Also from
Yeats, W. B.
A Very Irish Christmas: The Greatest Irish Holiday Stories of All Time
Yeats, W. B.
Tóibín, Colm
Joyce, James
Hardcover
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Yeats, W. B.
Paperback
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (1920). By: Lady Gregory, and By: W. B. Yeats: With two esays and notes By: William Butler Yeats ( 13 June
Yeats, W. B.
Gregory, Lady
Paperback
The Irish Folk and Fairy Tales Collection: 5-Book Paperback Boxed Set
Wilde, Jane
Curtin, Jeremiah
Yeats, W. B.
Paperback
Gods and fighting men: the story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland(1904). By: Lady Gregory, with a preface By: W. B. Yeats
Yeats, W. B.
Gregory, Lady
Paperback
Responsibilities: Family Strategies in the Principality of Salerno During the Norman Period, 1077-1194
Yeats, W. B.
Hardcover
Collaborative One-Act Plays, 1901-1903 (Cathleen Ni Houlihan, the Pot of Broth, the Country of the Young, Heads or Harps): Manuscript Materials
Yeats, W. B.
Gregory, Lady
Hardcover
"parnell's Funeral and Other Poems" from "a Full Moon in March": Manuscript Materials
Yeats, W. B.
Hardcover
The Rhymers' Club: ''Set fools unto their folly!''
Dowson, Ernest
Yeats, W. B.
Gallienne, Richard Le
Paperback
Gitanjali Song Offerings: A Collection of Prose Translations
Yeats, W. B.
Tagore, Rabindranath
Paperback
Gitanjali Song Offerings: A Collection of Prose Translations
Yeats, W. B.
Tagore, Rabindranath
Hardcover
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: the story of the men of the Red Branch of Ulster. By: Lady (Augusta) Gregory, with preface By: W. B. Yeats: William Bu
Gregory, Lady (Augusta)
Yeats, W. B.
Paperback
The Irish Writers: Literature And Nationalism, 1880-1940
Howarth, Herbert
Yeats, W. B.
Joyce, James
Paperback
The Art Of Yeats, Affirmative Capability: The Kenyon Review, V15, No. 3, Summer, 1953
Ellmann, Richard
Yeats, W. B.
Paperback
Four Years by W.B.Yeats, Fiction, Fantasy, Literary, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Yeats, W. B.
Paperback
William Blake And His Illustrations To The Divine Comedy: The Savoy No. 3 July 1896
Yeats, W. B.
Paperback
Some Essays And Passages By John Eglinton: Selected By William Butler Yeats (1905)
Eglinton, John
Paperback
William Blake And His Illustrations To The Divine Comedy: The Savoy No. 3 July 1896
Yeats, W. B.
Hardcover
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland: First Series: Irish Classics
Yeats, W. B.
Gregory, Lady
Paperback
The Irish Writers: Literature And Nationalism, 1880-1940
Howarth, Herbert
Yeats, W. B.
Joyce, James
Hardcover
Also in
Classic Fiction
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 1 (Loa #26): The Pioneers / The Last of the Mohicans / The Prairie
Cooper, James Fenimore
Hardcover
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream, the Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Baughman, Judith
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paperback
The Princess Bride Deluxe Limited Edition: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
Goldman, William
Paperback
The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Paperback
The Lord of the Rings Illustrated by the Author: Illustrated by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Hardcover
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
Goldman, William
Hardcover
The Pilgrim's Progress: A Readable Modern-Day Version of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (Revised and easy-to-read)
Bunyan, John
Vermilye, Alan
Paperback
Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
Shelley, Mary
Paperback