Early essays
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Early essays
(The collected works of W.B. Yeats / general editors, Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper, v. 4)
Scribner, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- What is 'popular poetry'?
- Speaking to the psaltery
- Magic
- The happiest of the poets
- The philosophy of Shelley's poetry
- At Stratford-on-Avon
- William Blake and the imagination
- William Blake and this illustrations to The Divine Comedy
- Symbolism in painting
- The symbolism of poetry
- The theatre
- The celtic element in literature
- The autumn of the body
- The moods
- The body of the Father Christina Rosencrux
- The Return of Ulysses
- Ireland and the arts
- The Galway Plains
- Emotion of multitude
- Certain noble plays of Japan
- The tragic theatre
- Poetry and tradition
- Prophet, priest and king
- Personality and the intellectual essences
- The musician nd 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
- Preface to the first edition of The Well of the Saints
- Preface to the first edition of John M. Synge's Poems and Translations
- J.M. Synge and the Ireland of his time
- John Shawe-Taylor
- Art and ideas
- Edmund Spenser
- Preface to The Cutting of an Agate (1912)
- Preface to The Cutting of an Agate (1919, 1924)
- Dedication of Essays (1924)