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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 119: 1897.
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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.

1897.

[Sir Charles Gavan Duffy’s] Young Ireland. (A review.) ‘The Bookman,’ January.

The Valley of Lovers. ‘The Saturday Review,’ Jan. 9. Reprinted, under the title Aedh tells of a Valley full of Lovers, in The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899. Also in the Collected Works, Vol. I.

John O’Leary. (Review of John O’Leary’s Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism.) ‘The Bookman,’ Feb.

Mr. Arthur Symons’s New Book. (Review of Amoris Victima.) ‘The Bookman,’ April.

The Blessed. ‘The Yellow Book,’ April. Reprinted in The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899. Also in the Collected Works, Vol. I.

Miss Fiona Macleod. (Review of Spiritual Tales, Tragic Romances and Barbaric Tales.) ‘The Sketch,’ April 28.

Robert Bridges. ‘The Bookman,’ June. Reprinted, under the title The Return of Ulysses, in Ideas of Good and Evil, 1903. Also in the Collected Works, Vol. VI.

The Desire of Man and of Woman. ‘The Dome,’ June. Reprinted, under the title Mongan Laments the Change that has come upon him and his Beloved, in The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899. Also in the Collected Works, Vol. I.

William Blake. ‘The Academy,’ June 19. Reprinted, under the title William Blake and the Imagination, in Ideas of Good and Evil, 1903. Also in the Collected Works, Vol. VI.

[Maurice Maeterlinck’s] The Treasure of the Humble. (A review.) ‘The Bookman,’ July.

Song. ‘The Saturday Review,’ July 24. Reprinted, under the title The Poet pleads with his Friend for old Friends, in The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899. Also in the Collected Works, Vol. I.

Mr. Standish O’Grady’s ‘Flight of the Eagle.’ (A review.) ‘The Bookman,’ August.

O’Sullivan the Red upon his Wanderings. ‘The New Review,’ August. Reprinted, under the title Hanrahan Laments because of his Wanderings, in The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899. Also, under the title Maid Quiet, in the Collected Works, Vol. I.

[Maurice Maeterlinck’s] Aglavaine and Selysette. (A review.) ‘The Bookman,’ September.

The Tribes of Danu. ‘The New Review,’ November. Reprinted in part, under the title The Friends of the People of Faery, in The Celtic Twilight, 1902. Also in the Collected Works, Vol. V.

Three Irish Poets. (A.E., Nora Hopper and Lionel Johnson.) ‘A Celtic Christmas,’ December. (Christmas number of The Irish Homestead.)