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

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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.

1901.

Cantilation. (A letter.) ‘The Saturday Review,’ March 16.

At Stratford-on-Avon. ‘The Speaker,’ May 11 and 18. Reprinted, with one chapter omitted, in Ideas of Good and Evil, 1903. Also in the Collected Works, Vol. VI.

The Fool of Faery. ‘The Kensington,’ June. Reprinted, under the title The Queen and the Fool, in The Celtic Twilight, 1902. Also in the Collected Works, Vol. V.

Under the Moon. ‘The Speaker,’ June 15. Reprinted in In the Seven Woods, 1903. Also in Poems, 1899-1905; and in the Collected Works, Vol. I.

Ireland and the Arts. ‘The United Irishman,’ Aug. 31. Reprinted in Ideas of Good and Evil, 1903. Also in the Collected Works, Vol. VI.

Magic. ‘The Monthly Review,’ September. Reprinted in Ideas of Good and Evil, 1903. Also in the Collected Works, Vol. VI.

Windlestraws. ‘Samhain,’ October. Reprinted in The Irish Dramatic Movement, Collected Works, Vol. IV.