BY

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

AUTHOR OF “IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL,” ETC.

PREFACE

CONTENTS

THOUGHTS ON LADY GREGORY’S TRANSLATIONS

I

CUCHULAIN AND HIS CYCLE

II

FION AND HIS CYCLE

III

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE WELL OF THE SAINTS

DISCOVERIES

PROPHET, PRIEST AND KING

PERSONALITY AND THE INTELLECTUAL ESSENCES

THE MUSICIAN AND THE ORATOR

A GUITAR PLAYER

THE LOOKING-GLASS

THE TREE OF LIFE

THE PRAISE OF OLD WIVES’ TALES

THE PLAY OF MODERN MANNERS

HAS THE DRAMA OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE A ROOT OF ITS OWN?

WHY THE BLIND MAN IN ANCIENT TIMES WAS MADE A POET

CONCERNING SAINTS AND ARTISTS

THE SUBJECT MATTER OF DRAMA

THE TWO KINDS OF ASCETICISM

IN THE SERPENT’S MOUTH

THE BLACK AND THE WHITE ARROWS

HIS MISTRESS’S EYEBROWS

THE TRESSES OF THE HAIR

A TOWER ON THE APENNINES

THE THINKING OF THE BODY

RELIGIOUS BELIEF NECESSARY TO RELIGIOUS ART

THE HOLY PLACES

POETRY AND TRADITION

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II

III

IV

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF JOHN M. SYNGE’S POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS

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III

IV

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J. M. SYNGE AND THE IRELAND OF HIS TIME

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THE TRAGIC THEATRE

JOHN SHAWE-TAYLOR

EDMUND SPENSER

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