(c) 2016 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Poems Written in Discouragement

author William Butler Yeats (Dublin, Ireland, 1865 - 1939, Roquebrune, France)

publisher Cuala Press (Irish, 1902 - 1946)

Date1913

Place MadeIreland, Europe

MediumPrinted ink on paper

Dimensions17 x 14 cm (6 11/16 x 5 1/2 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number9.b.1.14

eMuseum ID729551

EmbARK ObjectID19283

TMS Source ID6737

Last Updated8/9/24

Description[8] pages ; 17cm.

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryWilliam Butler Yeats is among the most important poets of the twentieth century. Isabella Stewart Gardner held many Irish authors in high regard and counted Yeats’s collaborator, Lady Augusta Gregory, among her personal friends. She placed this book—which was written in the wake of a rejected proposal to build a museum of modern art in Dublin—alongside other works by Gregory in the Macknight Room.

MarksNotesSigned in ink (front cover, top): WB Yeats
Inscribed in ink (front cover, lower left): I.S.G. 1914.
Enclosed: Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Lady Gregory, Co. Galway, 18 Jan. (ARC.001965)

ProvenanceNotesGift from Isabella Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) playwright, folklorist, and literary patron, to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 18 January 1904.