BUHR/GRAD 42081531 HART 9/19/2005
LENNOX ROBINSON
I DEDICATE this book to you because I have
seen your admirable little play Crabbed
Youth and Age, and would greet the
future. My friends and I loved symbols,
popular beliefs, and old scraps of verse that
made Ireland romantic to herself, but the
new Ireland, overwhelmed by responsibility,
begins to long for psychological truth.
You have been set free from your work at
our Abbey Theatre, which you have managed
so skilfully for many years, that you may
create another satirical masterpiece.
W. B. YEATS.
DUBLIN,
November 26, 1923.