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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 8 (of 8) / Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and Tradition; and Other Essays. Bibliography cover

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 8 (of 8) / Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and Tradition; and Other Essays. Bibliography

Chapter 109: 1886.
By W. B. Yeats
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A compact collection of essays blending literary criticism, theatrical memoir, and cultural reflection. The author examines poetic tradition and symbolism, offers close readings of earlier poets such as Edmund Spenser, critiques contemporary drama and playwrights including Lady Gregory and J. M. Synge, and reflects on the artist’s social role as prophet, priest, and king. Short pieces probe saints, asceticism, the religious foundations of symbolic art, and the bodily energies that give drama its force. Personal anecdotes about performances, convents, and provincial audiences illuminate broader arguments about reconnecting imaginative life with ordinary people, and the volume closes with brief critical notes and a bibliography.

1886.

In a Drawing Room. (Unsigned.) ‘The Dublin University Review,’ January. Reprinted, as the sixth and second of Quatrains and Aphorisms in The Wanderings of Oisin, 1889.

Life. ‘The Dublin University Review,’ February. Five quatrains of which the first is reprinted as the first of Quatrains and Aphorisms in The Wanderings of Oisin, 1889.

The Two Titans. A Political Poem. ‘The Dublin University Review,’ March.

On Mr. Nettleship’s Picture at the Royal Hibernian Academy. ‘The Dublin University Review,’ April. Reprinted in The Wanderings of Oisin, 1889.

Mosada. ‘The Dublin University Review,’ June. Reprinted in pamphlet form, 1886. Also in The Wanderings of Oisin, 1889.

Remembrance. ‘The Irish Monthly,’ July.

Miserrimus. ‘The Dublin University Review,’ October. Reprinted in The Wanderings of Oisin, 1889. Also, under the title The Sad Shepherd in Poems, 1895; and in the Collected Works, Vol. I.

From the Book of Kauri the Indian—Section V. On the Nature of God. (Unsigned.) ‘The Dublin University Review,’ October. Reprinted, under the title Kanva, the Indian, on God in The Wanderings of Oisin, 1889. Also, under the title The Indian upon God in Poems, 1895; and in the Collected Works, Vol. I.

Meditation of an Old Fisherman. ‘The Irish Monthly,’ October. Reprinted in Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, 1888. Also in The Wanderings of Oisin, 1889; Poems, 1895; and in the Collected Works, Vol. I.

The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson. ‘The Irish Fireside,’ October 9.

The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson. ‘The Dublin University Review,’ November.

The Poetry of R. D. Joyce. ‘The Irish Fireside,’ November 27 and December 4.

The Stolen Child. ‘The Irish Monthly,’ December. Reprinted in Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, 1888. Also in Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, 1888; The Wanderings of Oisin, 1889; Poems, 1895; and in the Collected Works, Vol. I.

An Indian Song. ‘The Dublin University Review,’ December. Reprinted in The Wanderings of Oisin, 1889. Also, under the title The Indian to his Love in Poems, 1895; and in the Collected Works, Vol. I.