The Book of Irish Poetry. [Every Irishman's Library.]

Bookseller Notes

A scarce volume, combining traditional and contemporary verse - and notable for the inclusion of James Joyce's 'Strings in the Earth and Air', an appearance not mentioned in Slocum & Cahoon. It also collects four poems by W.B. Yeats (these not mentioned in Wade).Dating of the volume, with no orientation provided in the useful places on the book itself, is a bit uncertain - the 'late A.H. Leahy' in the Acknowledgements suggests it may be as late as 1928, but Francis Ledwidge, who died in 1917, is not referred to as 'late', and Katharine Tynan's 'Wild Harp' (published in 1913) is counted as 'recent'. The earliest mention of the anthology that we have found is in an issue of The Bookman from 1915; the dustjacket advertises a book published in 1923.