Beschreibung:

George William Russell, "A.E.". A collection of books and poems by Irish writer, painter, mystic and nationalist George William Russell (1867-1935), including Collected Poems, 1915, Imaginations and Reveries, 1915, The Candle of Vision, 1918, The Avatars, 1933 (in dust jacket), 1st editions, each inscribed by the author to Lota Law, The Avatars inscribed "Dear Lota, this may please you for an hour. The atmosphere is all from your country, you will all know how I love it", A E, plus The Divine Vision and other poems, 1904, The National Being. Some thoughts on an Irish Polity, circa 1920, and Selected Poems, 1935, plus others including John Eglinton's A Memoir of AE, George William Russell, 1937, Hugh Alexander Law's Anglo-Irish Literature, 1928, Irish Bogs. Sport and Country Life in the Irish Free State, by J.W. Seigne, 1928, Report of the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Commons, 1799 bound with Report from the Secret Committee of the House of Lords, Dublin, 1798, Thomas Moore's Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, 1825, D.J.L Fitzgerald's History of the Irish Guards in the Second World War, 1949, and W.B. Yeats's Poems, 2nd edition, 1899 Provenance: Lota Law, for whom the books were inscribed by George William Russell. She was the wife of Hugh Alexander Law, nationalist MP for West Donegal from 1902-1918. Their family home at Marble Hill House, Sheephaven Bay, Donegal was frequented by George Russell and he stayed in the children's house in the grounds, known as the 'Fairy House', and where he received his strongest pyschic insights. Other visitors included W.B. Yeats, Jack Yeats, P.H. Pearse, William Orpen G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc. George William Russell was a leading figure in the Irish literary renaissance of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and much influenced W. B. Yeats after they met at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin, both sharing a belief in ancient Ireland's spiritual qualities, Russell joining the Theosophical Society to pursue the path of mysticism, and his interest in Hindu and Buddhist philosophy. He left Ireland in 1933 after becoming disillusioned with the political situation following independence and literary censorship and died in Bournemouth in 1935.