1898-09-08 to William Butler Yeats

Menu of Letters 1898

Aet. 46, to an Irish poet and dramatist to whom the first and second editions of Evelyn Innes was dedicated.

Around this time Yeats cofounded the Irish Literary Theatre, which staged his play The Countess Cathleen, with Edward Martyn’s The Heather Field, in Dublin’s Antient Concert Room (8 May 1899).

George Moore described the production, with his involvement, in Chapters 2-3 of Hail and Farewell! Ave (1911).

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