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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 87: 1888.
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.

1888.

Poems and Ballads | of | Young Ireland | 1888 | “We’re one at heart if you be Ireland’s friend, | Though leagues asunder our opinions tend; | There are but two great parties in the end.”| Allingham. | Dublin | M. H. Gill and Son | O’Connell Street | 1888

Fcap. 8vo, pp. viii and 80. White buckram.

Mr. Yeats’s contributions are:—

The Stolen Child, pp. 12-14.

King Goll (Third Century), pp. 43-46. Originally appeared in The Leisure Hour, September, 1887.

The Meditation of the Old Fisherman, p. 59. Originally appeared in The Irish Monthly, October, 1886.

Love Song. From the Gaelic, p. 80.

Fairy and Folk Tales | of the Irish Peasantry: | Edited and Selected by | W. B. Yeats. London: | Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane. | New York: Thomas Whittaker | Toronto: W. J. Gage and Co. | 1888

Sm. cr. 8vo, pp. xx and 326. Cloth. A volume of The Camelot Series (afterwards The Scott Library).

Mr. Yeats’s contributions are:—

Introduction, pp. ix-xviii.

The Trooping Fairies, pp. 1-3.

Notes on pp. 16, 33, 38.

Changelings, p. 47.

The Stolen Child, pp. 59-60. Reprinted from Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, 1888.

The Merrow, p. 61.

The Solitary Fairies, pp. 80-81.

The Pooka, p. 94.

The Banshee, p. 108.

Ghosts, pp. 128-129.

Witches, Fairy Doctors, pp. 146-149.

Note on p. 150.

Tir-na-n-Og, p. 200.

Saints, Priests, p. 214.

The Priest of Coloony, pp. 220-221.

Giants, p. 260.

Notes, pp. 319-326.

1893. Illustrated Edition.

Irish | Fairy and Folk Tales | Selected and Edited | with introduction | by W. B. Yeats. | Twelve Illustrations by James Torrance. | London: Walter Scott, Ltd. | 24 Warwick Lane.

Cr. 8vo, pp. xx and 326. Cloth.