ASSOCIATION COPY Collected Poems of W B Yeats - annotated throughout by Yeats scholar Roger C Poole

With notes and annotations throughout by previous owner, Roger C Poole, philosopher, literary critic and academic of English Literature at Nottingham University. Roger Poole notably wrote about W. H. Auden, often in the context of 20th-century literature and philosophy. He is listed as a reviewer in the PN Review on the subject of ‘Auden and Spender’ in 1988.

First edition in original dust jacket in very good condition. Spine is sunned and a 2 small nicks are visible to jacket hinges. Binding square and firm. Front free endpaper contains handwritten ownership inscription ‘ Roger C Poole. Cambridge 1956. University of Nottingham 1969’. Annotated throughout in Poole’s hand and laid in are numerous paper notes relating to specific sections. p. 219 reads ‘ it seems that Sailing to B presents Y’s final symbol of continuity- he sails out of nature and of time’.565 pp.