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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 125: 1903.
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.

1903.

The Old Men admiring themselves in the Water. ‘The Pall Mall Magazine,’ January. Reprinted in In the Seven Woods, 1903. Also in Poems, 1899-1905; and in the Collected Works, Vol. I.

The Happiest of the Poets. ‘The Fortnightly Review,’ March. Reprinted in Ideas of Good and Evil, 1903. Also in the Collected Works, Vol. VI.

Poets and Dreamers. ‘The New Liberal Review,’ March. Reprinted, under the title The Galway Plains, in Ideas of Good and Evil, 1903. Also in the Collected Works, Vol. VI.

The Old Age of Queen Maeve. ‘The Fortnightly Review,’ April. Reprinted in In the Seven Woods, 1903. Also in Poems, 1899-1905; and in the Collected Works, Vol. I.

Cathleen, the Daughter of Hoolihan. ‘A Broad Sheet,’ April. Reprinted, under the title The Song of Red Hanrahan, in In the Seven Woods, 1903. Also in Poems, 1899-1905; and in the Collected Works, Vol. I.

The Reform of the Theatre. ‘The United Irishman,’ April 4. Reprinted, with additions, in ‘Samhain,’ September, 1903. Also in The Irish Dramatic Movement, Collected Works, Vol. IV.

Irish Plays and Players. (A letter.) ‘The Academy,’ May 16.

The Happy Townland. ‘The Weekly Critical Review,’ June. Reprinted, under the title The Rider from the North, in In the Seven Woods, 1903. Also, under original title, in Poems, 1899-1905; and in the Collected Works, Vol. I.

The Hour-Glass. A Morality. ‘The North American Review,’ September. Reprinted separately, for copyright purposes, in 1903. Also in Plays for an Irish Theatre, Vol. III., 1904; and in the Collected Works, Vol. IV.

Notes. ‘Samhain,’ September. Reprinted in The Irish Dramatic Movement, Collected Works, Vol. IV.

A Prologue. ‘The United Irishman,’ September 9. Reprinted in Plays for an Irish Theatre, Vol. III., 1904. Also in the Collected Works, Vol. VIII.

Flaubert and the National Library. (A letter.) The Irish Times, October 8.

An Irish National Theatre. ‘The United Irishman,’ October 10. Reprinted in The Irish Dramatic Movement, Collected Works, Vol. IV.

The Theatre, the Pulpit and the Newspapers. ‘The United Irishman,’ October 17. Reprinted in The Irish Dramatic Movement, Collected Works, Vol. IV.

The Irish National Theatre and Three Sorts of Ignorance. ‘The United Irishman,’ October 24.

Dream of the World’s End. ‘The Green Sheaf,’ No. II.[K]

Red Hanrahan. ‘The Independent Review,’ Dec. Reprinted in Stories of Red Hanrahan, 1904. Also in the Collected Works, Vol. V.