Showing both the political fervour and the poetic sensibility, this collection of letters represent Yeats' as friend, adversary, critic, and man passionately involved in the state of Ireland, culturally and politically. It is suitable to those interested in the development of modern poetry, drama, and cultural history. From reviews of Volume I: `magnificent ... The detail is immense and spot on, so that the footnotes read as a continuous, densely peopled, unfailingly informative documentary on the life and times of the sedulous correspondent ... the start of an edition that is going to be one of the great publishing events of the decade.' Seamus Heaney, Observer