HOMEWARD SONGS BY THE WAY.
- Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, (1895).
- 12mo.
- limp paper boards with yapped edges, printing in brown, title page in black and vermilion
- 86, (2) pages
- ISBN: none
Price: $20.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 140699
Second edition of the authors first book of poetry limited to 925 copies, with designs and headbands by Bruce Rogers (Warde 3). Soiled and rubbed, lacking the spine. The first edition was printed by C. Whaley in Dublin, 1894.
Bruce Rogers designed 2 vignettes for the covers, and three headpieces, of which two bear his initials.
Russell was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. His family moved to Dublin when he was ten, where he went to school and, in 1886, began his friendship with William Butler Yeats who introduced him to Theosophy which had a strong influence in his life. Persuaded by friends, he published his first book of poems in 1894, signed "AE," which he continued to use on his writings thereafter. The poems were very well received and helped to establish his place in Irish literature. Fifty-one songs in all, including The Unknown God, The Singing Silences, Echoes, The Hermit, Childhood, The Place of Rest, and more.