The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV by William Butler Yeats -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Colophon The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Editors’ Preface and Acknowledgments Epigraph Abbreviations Illustrations Editors’ Introduction Early Essays

1. What Is ‘Popular Poetry’? 2. Speaking to the Psaltery 3. Magic 4. The Happiest of the Poets 5. The Philosophy of Shelley’s Poetry 6. At Stratford-on-Avon 7. William Blake and the Imagination 8. William Blake and His Illustrations to The Divine Comedy 9. Symbolism in Painting 10. The Symbolism of Poetry 11. The Theatre 12. The Celtic Element in Literature 13. The Autumn of the Body 14. The Moods 15. The Body of the Father Christian Rosencrux 16. The Return of Ulysses 17. Ireland and the Arts 18. The Galway Plains 19. Emotion of Multitude

The Cutting of an Agate

20. Certain Noble Plays of Japan 21. The Tragic Theatre 22. 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

44. Preface to the First Edition of The Well of the Saints 45. Preface to the First Edition of John M. Synge’s Poems and Translations 46. J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time 47. John Shawe-Taylor 48. Art and Ideas 49. 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)

Appendices

A. A Chronological List of Essays by Date of First Publication B. “The Pathway” (1900, 1908) C. Omitted Section from “At Stratford-on-Avon” D. Illustrations to Dante included in Periodical Version of “William Blake and His Illustrations to The Divine Comedy” E. Omitted Passage from “Symbolism in Painting” F. Omitted Passages from “The Return of Ulysses” G. Conclusion to “The Tragic Theatre” in Plays for an Irish Theatre (1911) H. Omitted Passage from “Preface to the First Edition of John M. Synge’s Poems and Translations” (1909) I. Preface to J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time (1911)

Textual Matters and Notes

A Note on the Text Textual Emendations and Corrections Background Notes on Frequently Cited Writers Notes Index

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