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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About This Book

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.

1908.

Cr. 8vo, pp. xiv and 210. Cloth.

CONTENTS.

The Unicorn from the Stars. By Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats.

Cathleen ni Hoolihan.

The Hour-Glass: A Morality.

Fcp. 8vo, pp. viii and 34. Grey boards with label.

Fifty copies only printed.

Note.

Of the first separate edition of The Hour-Glass, described in Part I. under date 1903, only twelve copies were printed. Of these, six went for English copyright, two were lost in the post, the printer kept one, one belongs to Mr. W. B. Yeats, one to Lady Gregory and one to Mr. John Quinn.

The essay Modern Irish Poetry, which appeared as an Introduction to A Book of Irish Verse, London, 1895 (see Part II.), was reissued with additions in Irish Literature, Vol. III., Philadelphia, 1904.

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