IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL

Being The Sixth Volume Of The Collected Works
In Verse & Prose Of William Butler Yeats



CONTENTS

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WHAT IS 'POPULAR POETRY'? 1
SPEAKING TO THE PSALTERY 13
MAGIC 23
THE HAPPIEST OF THE POETS 55
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHELLEY'S POETRY 71
AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON 111
WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE IMAGINATION 131
WILLIAM BLAKE AND HIS ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE 'DIVINE COMEDY' 138
SYMBOLISM IN PAINTING 176
THE SYMBOLISM OF POETRY 185
THE THEATRE 200
THE CELTIC ELEMENT IN LITERATURE 210
THE AUTUMN OF THE BODY 230
THE MOODS 238
THE BODY OF THE FATHER CHRISTIAN ROSENCRUX 240
THE RETURN OF ULYSSES 243
IRELAND AND THE ARTS 249
THE GALWAY PLAINS 259
EMOTION OF MULTITUDE 264





THE SECRET ROSE.
ROSA ALCHEMICA.
THE TABLES OF THE LAW.
THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI.
JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA

Being The Seventh Volume Of The Collected Works
In Verse & Prose Of William Butler Yeats



CONTENTS

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THE SECRET ROSE:
DEDICATION 3
TO THE SECRET ROSE 5
THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE OUTCAST 7
OUT OF THE ROSE 20
THE WISDOM OF THE KING 31
THE HEART OF THE SPRING 42
THE CURSE OF THE FIRES AND OF THE SHADOWS 51
THE OLD MEN OF THE TWILIGHT 61
WHERE THERE IS NOTHING, THERE IS GOD 69
OF COSTELLO THE PROUD, OF OONA THE DAUGHTER OF DERMOTT AND OF THE BITTER TONGUE
78
ROSA ALCHEMICA 103
THE TABLES OF THE LAW 141
THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI 165
 
EARLY STORIES.
JOHN SHERMAN 183
DHOYA 283





DISCOVERIES.
EDMUND SPENSER.
POETRY AND TRADITION;
& OTHER ESSAYS

Being The Eighth Volume Of The Collected Works
In Verse & Prose Of William Butler Yeats



CONTENTS

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DISCOVERIES:
PROPHET, PRIEST AND KING 3
PERSONALITY AND THE INTELLECTUAL ESSENCES 8
THE MUSICIAN AND THE ORATOR 12
A GUITAR PLAYER 13
THE LOOKING-GLASS 14
THE TREE OF LIFE 15
THE PRAISE OF OLD WIVES' TALES 18
THE PLAY OF MODERN MANNERS 20
HAS THE DRAMA OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE A ROOT OF ITS OWN? 22
WHY THE BLIND MAN IN ANCIENT TIMES WAS MADE A POET 24
CONCERNING SAINTS AND ARTISTS 29
THE SUBJECT MATTER OF DRAMA 32
THE TWO KINDS OF ASCETICISM 36
IN THE SERPENT'S MOUTH 38
THE BLACK AND THE WHITE ARROWS 39
HIS MISTRESS'S EYEBROWS 39
THE TRESSES OF THE HAIR 41
A TOWER ON THE APENNINE 42
THE THINKING OF THE BODY 43
RELIGIOUS BELIEF NECESSARY TO SYMBOLIC ART 45
THE HOLY PLACES 48
EDMUND SPENSER 51
POETRY AND TRADITION 91
MODERN IRISH POETRY 113
LADY GREGORY'S CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE 131
LADY GREGORY'S GODS AND FIGHTING MEN 147
MR. SYNGE AND HIS PLAYS 171
LIONEL JOHNSON 183
THE PATHWAY 189
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 197





STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN

By W.B. Yeats



CONTENTS

RED HANRAHAN.
THE TWISTING OF THE ROPE.
HANRAHAN AND CATHLEEN THE DAUGHTER OF HOOLIHAN.
RED HANRAHAN'S CURSE.
HANRAHAN'S VISION.
THE DEATH OF HANRAHAN.





THE SECRET ROSE

By W.B. Yeats



CONTENTS

TO THE SECRET ROSE
THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE OUTCAST.
OUT OF THE ROSE.
THE WISDOM OF THE KING.
THE HEART OF THE SPRING.
THE CURSE OF THE FIRES AND OF THE SHADOWS.
THE OLD MEN OF THE TWILIGHT.
WHERE THERE IS NOTHING, THERE IS GOD.
OF COSTELLO THE PROUD, OF OONA THE DAUGHTER OF DERMOTT, AND OF THE BITTER TONGUE.





IRISH FAIRY TALES

Edited With An Introduction

By W. B. Yeats

Illustrated By Jack B. Yeats

CONTENTS

PAGE
Introduction 1
LAND AND WATER FAIRIES
The Fairies' Dancing-Place 13
The Rival Kempers 17
The Young Piper 32
A Fairy Enchantment 49
Teigue of the Lee 53
The Fairy Greyhound 69
The Lady of Gollerus 77
EVIL SPIRITS
The Devil's Mill 95
Fergus O'Mara and the Air-Demons 112
The Man who never knew Fear 123
CATS
Seanchan the Bard and the King of the Cats 141
Owney and Owney-na-Peak 151
KINGS AND WARRIORS
The Knighting of Cuculain 185
The Little Weaver of Duleek Gate 195
APPENDIX
Classification of Irish Fairies 223
Authorities on Irish Folklore 234





FAIRY AND FOLK TALES
OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY

Edited And Selected By W. B. Yeats

CONTENTS

THE TROOPING FAIRIES— PAGE
      The Fairies 3
      Frank Martin and the Fairies 5
      The Priest's Supper 9
      The Fairy Well of Lagnanay 13
      Teig O'Kane and the Corpse 16
      Paddy Corcoran's Wife 31
      Cusheen Loo 33
      The White Trout; A Legend of Cong 35
      The Fairy Thorn 38
      The Legend of Knockgrafton 40
      A Donegal Fairy 46
   Changelings—  
      The Brewery of Egg-shells 48
      The Fairy Nurse 51
      Jamie Freel and the Young Lady 52
      The Stolen Child 59
   The Merrow—  
      The Soul Cages 61
      Flory Cantillon's Funeral 75
THE SOLITARY FAIRIES—  
      The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker 81
      Master and Man 84
      Far Darrig in Donegal 90
      The Piper and the Puca 95
      Daniel O'Rourke 97
      The Kildare Pooka 105
      How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee 108
      A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald 112
      The Banshee of the MacCarthys 113
GHOSTS—  
      A Dream 129
      Grace Connor 130
      A Legend of Tyrone 132
      The Black Lamb 134
      The Radiant Boy 136
      The Fate of Frank M'Kenna 139
WITCHES, FAIRY DOCTORS—  
      Bewitched Butter (Donegal) 149
      A Queen's County Witch 151
      The Witch Hare 154
      Bewitched Butter (Queen's County) 155
      The Horned Women 165
      The Witches' Excursion 168
      The Confessions of Tom Bourke 170
      The Pudding Bewitched 185
T'YEER-NA-N-OGE—  
      The Legend of O'Donoghue 201
      Rent-Day 203
      Loughleagh (Lake of Healing) 206
      Hy-Brasail.—The Isle of the Blest 212
      The Phantom Isle 213
SAINTS, PRIESTS—  
      The Priest's Soul 215
      The Priest of Coloony 220
      The Story of the Little Bird 222
      Conversion of King Laoghaire's Daughters 224
      King O'Toole and his Goose 224
THE DEVIL—  
      The Demon Cat 229
      The Long Spoon 231
      The Countess Kathleen O'Shea 232
      The Three Wishes 235
GIANTS—  
      The Giant's Stairs 260
      A Legend of Knockmany 266
KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCESSES, EARLS, ROBBERS—  
      The Twelve Wild Geese 280
      The Lazy Beauty and her Aunts 286
      The Haughty Princess 290
      The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla 294
      Munachar and Manachar 296
      Donald and his Neighbours 299
      The Jackdaw 303
      The Story of Conn-eda 306
NOTES 319





SEVEN POEMS AND A FRAGMENT

By William Butler Yeats



CONTENTS

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All Souls’ Night 1
Suggested by a Picture of a Black Centaur 6
Thoughts upon the Present State of the World 7
The New Faces 14
A Prayer for My Son 14
Cuchulain the Girl and the Fool 16
The Wheel 18
A New End for ‘The King’s Threshold’ 18
NOTES
Note on ‘Thoughts Upon the Present State of the World’ Section Six 23
Note on The New End to ‘The King’s Threshold’ 24