Contents: Early essays -- Ideas of good and evil -- 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 his 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 -- The cutting of an agate -- Certain noble plays of Japan -- The tragic theatre -- Poetry and tradition -- 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 -- 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 -- Yeats's prefaces and dedication -- Preface to The Cutting of an Agate (1912) -- Preface to The Cutting of an Agate (1919, 1924) -- Dedication of Essays (1924)

Control code: 85783741

Dimensions: 23 cm

Extent: lvii, 499 pages

Isbn: 9780684807294

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Label: Early essays, W.B. Yeats ; edited by Richard J. Finneran and George Bornstein

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New York, Scribner, 2007

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-480) and index

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Contents: Early essays -- Ideas of good and evil -- 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 his 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 -- The cutting of an agate -- Certain noble plays of Japan -- The tragic theatre -- Poetry and tradition -- 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 -- 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 -- Yeats's prefaces and dedication -- Preface to The Cutting of an Agate (1912) -- Preface to The Cutting of an Agate (1919, 1924) -- Dedication of Essays (1924)

Control code: 85783741

Dimensions: 23 cm

Extent: lvii, 499 pages

Isbn: 9780684807294

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

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Note: Colby: Original gray boards with black shelfback, spine printed in gold; dust jacket preserved

Other physical details: illustrations, music

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