Between the Covers

Hardcover. Printed papercovered boards. Corners a little bumped, very slight erosion to the paper on the spine, a nice, very good copy. A single volume of this short lived *fin de siècle* arts magazine, which contains the first appearance of William Butler Yeats's poem "He Mourns for the Change that Has come upon Him and His Beloved, and Longs for the End of the World" (here entitled more simply "The Desire of Man and of Woman"). A poem inspired by Celtic folklore and by Yeats's relationships with Maud Gonne and Olivia Shakespear, it was reprinted, with some minor textual changes and a fuller explanatory note by the author, in Yeats's 1899 collection *The Wind Among the Reeds*. In his later note Yeats explains the poem in part by quoting Coleridge: "The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man." Also contains illustrations by D.G. Rossetti and Gleeson White; music by Edward Elgar; a contribution by Laurence Housman.

Item #317112