The Appleman and the Poet 2026 Desmond Leslie (1921-2001)

Desmond Leslie (1921-2001)

coming quicker and quicker

and to this book

Yeats felt ‘an overmastering desire not to grow unhappy or embittered

‘Family Matters’ addresses the Butler clan at home and abroad

The Appleman and the Poet 2026 Desmond Leslie (1921-2001)The Appleman and the Poet, the fifth volume of Hubert Butlers essays, completes a thirty year odyssey embarked upon by The Lilliput Press in 1984. Our flagship author has finally come home, welcomed by Fintan OToole in his foreword: One of the great joys of these essays is the discovery of sentences as sharp and lithe as a Toledo rapier. Beginning with Russian Dispatches 19321946, Butler gives an evocative description from the viewpoint of a bourgeois