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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 63: 1889.
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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.

1889.

The Wanderings of Oisin | and other Poems | by | W. B. Yeats | London | Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1, Paternoster Square | 1889

Fcap. 8vo, pp. vi and 156. Cloth.

CONTENTS.

The Wanderings of Oisin.

Time and the Witch Vivien.

The Stolen Child. Originally appeared in The Irish Monthly, December, 1886.

Girl’s Song.

Ephemera. An Autumn Idyll.

An Indian Song. Originally appeared in The Dublin University Review, December, 1886.

Kanva, the Indian, on God. Originally appeared, under the title From the Book of Kauri the Indian. Section V., On the Nature of God, in The Dublin University Review, October, 1886.

Kanva on Himself.

Jealousy.

Song of the Last Arcadian. Originally appeared, under the title An Epilogue. To ‘The Island of Statues’ and ‘The Seeker,’ in The Dublin University Review, October, 1885.

King Goll. (Third Century.) Originally appeared, under the title King Goll. An Irish Legend, in The Leisure Hour, September, 1887.

The Meditation of the Old Fisherman. Originally appeared in The Irish Monthly, October, 1886.

The Ballad of Moll Magee.

The Phantom Ship.

A Lover’s Quarrel among the Fairies.

Mosada. Originally appeared in The Dublin University Review, June, 1886.

How Ferencz Renyi kept Silent. Originally appeared in The Boston Pilot.

The Fairy Doctor. Originally appeared in The Irish Fireside, September 10, 1887.

Falling of the Leaves.

Miserrimus. Originally appeared in The Dublin University Review, October, 1886.

The Priest and the Fairy.

The Fairy Pedant. Originally appeared in The Irish Monthly, March, 1887.

She who dwelt among the Sycamores. A Fancy. Originally appeared in The Irish Monthly, September, 1887.

On Mr. Nettleship’s Picture at the Royal Hibernian Academy, 1885. Originally appeared in The Dublin University Review, April, 1886.

A Legend.

An Old Song re-sung.

Street Dancers. This poem appeared in The Leisure Hour, March, 1890.

To an Isle in the Water.

Quatrains and Aphorisms. The first quatrain originally appeared in The Dublin University Review, February, 1886, under the title Life, and the second and sixth in January, 1886, under the title In a Drawing Room.

The Seeker. Originally appeared, under the title The Seeker. A Dramatic Poem. In Two Scenes, in The Dublin University Review, September, 1885.

Island of Statues. Originally appeared, under the title The Island of Statues. An Arcadian Faery Tale. In Two Acts, in The Dublin University Review, April, May, June and July, 1885.