BIB_ID
393717
Accession number
MA 8716
Creator
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
Display Date
[1903] Oct. 21.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2015.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 16.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks to "P.D. Ellis, esq / Kirkwhelpington / Northumberland."
Year of writing from postmark.
The letter is in the hand of Yeats's patron and collaborator, Lady Augusta Gregory, to whom Yeats dictated it.
Yeats wrote "The King's Threshold" in 1903, a play ostensibly about the image making power of poets.
It is likely that this inquiry concerned Yeats's use of the word "imagination" in a book of essays titled "Ideas of Good and Evil" published earlier in 1903.
Year of writing from postmark.
The letter is in the hand of Yeats's patron and collaborator, Lady Augusta Gregory, to whom Yeats dictated it.
Yeats wrote "The King's Threshold" in 1903, a play ostensibly about the image making power of poets.
It is likely that this inquiry concerned Yeats's use of the word "imagination" in a book of essays titled "Ideas of Good and Evil" published earlier in 1903.
Provenance
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2015.
Summary
Replying to an inquiry about the use of the word "imagination;" saying "I use words rather with a literary than with a philosophical precision. It would be difficult without collating the passages to give you a definition of 'imagination' - I probably use it in its oldest meaning of the image making power or image perceiving power."
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