Rolleston

During a period of rebuilding at "Rolleston," our new home,

The end of an era, 1899

In 1900, WBY chose her poem ‘Sympathy’ for A Treasury of Irish Poetry, edited by T. W. Rolleston and Stopford Brooke.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

WBY had written to Rolleston to express his regrets: ‘Iam going to Dublin to do my best to found there a society of like purpose and nature’ dated 10 May 1892, CL1 294.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Yet he would say, ‘I have only three followers, Taylor, Yeats, and Rolleston’, and presently he cast out Rolleston—‘Davitt wants to convert thousands, but I want two or three’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I had just received two letters, one from T. W. Rolleston protesting with all the conventional moral earnestness of an article in the Spectator newspaper, against my writing for such a magazine; and one from A.E., denouncing with the intensity of a personal conviction that magazine, which he called the ‘Organ of the Incubi and the Succubi’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

The man that he had told about the plan was T. W. Rolleston, and he thought that Rolleston ‘betrayed me’ Mem 81-82.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

WBY had written to Rolleston to express his regrets: ‘Iam going to Dublin to do my best to found there a society of like purpose and nature’ dated 10 May 1892, CL1 294.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Among these men, of whom so many of the greatest talents were to live such passionate lives and die such tragic deaths, one serene man, T. W. Rolleston, seemed always out of place; it was I who brought him there, intending to set him to some work in Ireland later on.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Yet he would say, ‘I have only three followers, Taylor, Yeats, and Rolleston’, and presently he cast out Rolleston—‘Davitt wants to convert thousands, but I want two or three’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

T. W. Rolleston acted as organiser to the Department of Agriculture, 1900-5.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965