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Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (Classic Reprint)
Reveries Over Childhood and Youth - Classic Reprint Author:W. B. Yeats PREFACE — Sometimes when I remember a relative that I have — been fond of, or a strange incident of the past, I wander — here and there till I have somebody to talk to. — Presently I notice that my listener is bored; but now — that I have written it out, I may even begin to forget — it all. In any case, because one can always close — a book, my friend ... more »need not be bored.
I have changed nothing to my knowledge; and yet
it must be that I have changed many things without
my knowledge; for I am writing after many
years and have consulted neither friend nor letter
nor old news pa per and descri be what comes oftenest
into my memory.
I say this fearing that some surviving friend of my
youth may remember something in a differentshape
and be offended with my book.
Christmas Day, 1914.
Four hundred and twenty five
copies of this book have been
printed. This copy is No
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