Chapter I: Appendix: IV

DATES AND PLACES OF THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF NEW PLAYS PRODUCED BY THE NATIONAL THEATRE SOCIETY AND ITS PREDECESSORS 244

THE CELTIC TWILIGHT and STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN Being The Fifth Volume Of The Collected Works In Verse & Prose Of William Butler Yeats

CONTENTS THE CELTIC TWILIGHT PAGE THIS BOOK 1 A TELLER OF TALES 3 BELIEF AND UNBELIEF 6 MORTAL HELP 9 A VISIONARY 11 VILLAGE GHOSTS 17 'DUST HATH CLOSED HELEN'S EYE' 27 A KNIGHT OF THE SHEEP 39 AN ENDURING HEART 44 THE SORCERERS 48 THE DEVIL 54 HAPPY AND UNHAPPY THEOLOGIANS 56 THE LAST GLEEMAN 63 REGINA, REGINA PIGMEORUM VENI 73 'AND FAIR, FIERCE WOMEN' 78 ENCHANTED WOODS 82 MIRACULOUS CREATURES 89 ARISTOTLE OF THE BOOKS 91 THE SWINE OF THE GODS 92 A VOICE 94 KIDNAPPERS 96 THE UNTIRING ONES 106 EARTH, FIRE AND WATER 110 THE OLD TOWN 112 THE MAN AND HIS BOOTS 115 A COWARD 117 THE THREE O'BYRNES AND THE EVIL FAERIES 119 DRUMCLIFF AND ROSSES 121 THE THICK SKULL OF THE FORTUNATE 131 THE RELIGION OF A SAILOR 134 CONCERNING THE NEARNESS TOGETHER OF HEAVEN, EARTH, AND PURGATORY 136 THE EATERS OF PRECIOUS STONES 138 OUR LADY OF THE HILLS 140 THE GOLDEN AGE 144 A REMONSTRANCE WITH SCOTSMEN FOR HAVING SOURED THE DISPOSITION OF THEIR GHOSTS AND FAERIES 146 WAR 152 THE QUEEN AND THE FOOL 155 THE FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE OF FAERY 162 DREAMS THAT HAVE NO MORAL 172 BY THE ROADSIDE 190 'INTO THE TWILIGHT' 193

STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN: RED HANRAHAN 197 THE TWISTING OF THE ROPE 213 HANRAHAN AND CATHLEEN THE DAUGHTER OF HOOLIHAN 225 RED HANRAHAN'S CURSE 231 HANRAHAN'S VISION 242 THE DEATH OF HANRAHAN 250

IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL Being The Sixth Volume Of The Collected Works In Verse & Prose Of William Butler Yeats

CONTENTS PAGE 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 PAGE 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 PAGE 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[vi] 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— [Pg viii]
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 PAGE 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

THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS By William Butler Yeats

CONTENTS page The Hosting of the Sidhe 1 The Everlasting Voices 3 The Moods 4 Aedh tells of the Rose in his Heart 5 The Host of the Air 7 Breasal the Fisherman 10 A Cradle Song 11 Into the Twilight 13 The Song of Wandering Aengus 15 The Song of the old Mother 17 The Fiddler of Dooney 18 The Heart of the Woman 20 Aedh Laments the Loss of Love 21 Mongan laments the Change that has come upon him and his Beloved 22 Michael Robartes bids his Beloved be at Peace 24[vi] Hanrahan reproves the Curlew 26 Michael Robartes remembers forgotten Beauty 27 A Poet to his Beloved 29 Aedh gives his Beloved certain Rhymes 30 To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear 31 The Cap and Bells 32 The Valley of the Black Pig 35 Michael Robartes asks Forgiveness because of his many Moods 37 Aedh tells of a Valley full of Lovers 40 Aedh tells of the perfect Beauty 42 Aedh hears the Cry of the Sedge 43 Aedh thinks of those who have spoken Evil of his Beloved 44 The Blessed 45 The Secret Rose 47 Hanrahan laments because of his Wanderings 51 The Travail of Passion 52 The Poet pleads with his Friend for old Friends 54[vii] Hanrahan speaks to the Lovers of his Songs in coming Days 55 Aedh pleads with the Elemental Powers 57 Aedh wishes his Beloved were Dead 59 Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 60 Mongan thinks of his past Greatness 61 Notes 65

THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE By W. B. Yeats CONTENTS page The Wild Swans at Coole 1 In Memory of Major Robert Gregory 4 An Irish Airman foresees his Death 13 Men improve with the Years 14 The Collar-Bone of a Hare 15 Under the Round Tower 17 Solomon to Sheba 19 The Living Beauty 21 A Song 22 To a Young Beauty 23 To a Young Girl 24 The Scholars 25 Tom O'Roughley 26 The Sad Shepherd 27 Lines written in Dejection 39 The Dawn 40[viii] On Woman 41 The Fisherman 44 The Hawk 46 Memory 47 Her Praise 48 The People 50 His Phoenix 54 A Thought from Propertius 58 Broken Dreams 59 A Deep-Sworn Vow 63 Presences 64 The Balloon of the Mind 66 To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-Gno 67 On being asked for a War Poem 68 In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen 69 Upon a Dying Lady 72 Ego Dominus Tuus 79 A Prayer on going into my House 86 The Phases of the Moon 88 The Cat and the Moon 102 The Saint and the Hunchback 104[ix] Two Songs of a Fool 106 Another Song of a Fool 108 The Double Vision of Michael Robartes 109 Note 115

IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL By W. B. Yeats

Contents. WHAT IS ‘POPULAR POETRY’? 1 SPEAKING TO THE PSALTERY 16 MAGIC 29 THE HAPPIEST OF THE POETS 70 THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHELLEY’S POETRY 90 AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON 142 WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE IMAGINATION 168 WILLIAM BLAKE AND HIS ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE DIVINE COMEDY 176 SYMBOLISM IN PAINTING 226 THE SYMBOLISM OF POETRY 237 THE THEATRE 257 THE CELTIC ELEMENT IN LITERATURE 270 THE AUTUMN OF THE BODY 296 THE MOODS 306 THE BODY OF THE FATHER CHRISTIAN ROSENCRUX 308 THE RETURN OF ULYSSES 312 IRELAND AND THE ARTS 320 THE GALWAY PLAINS 333 EMOTION OF MULTITUDE 339

DISCOVERIES; A VOLUME OF ESSAYS By William Butler Yeats CONTENTS Prophet, Priest and King Page 1 Personality and the Intellectual Essences 5 The Musician and the Orator 9 A Banjo Player 10 The Looking-glass 11 The Tree of Life 12 The Praise of Old Wives’ Tales 15 The Play of Modern Manners 16 Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own 18 Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times was made a Poet 20 Concerning Saints and Artists 24 The Subject Matter of Drama 27 The Two Kinds of Asceticism 30 In the Serpent’s Mouth 32 The Black and the White Arrows 33 His Mistress’s Eyebrows 33 The Tresses of the Hair 35 A Tower on the Apennine 36 The Thinking of the Body 37 Religious Belief necessary to symbolic Art 39 The Holy Places 41

THE CUTTING OF AN AGATE By William Butler Yeats

CONTENTS PAGE Thoughts on Lady Gregory’s Translations I. Cuchulain and his Cycle 1 II. Fion and his Cycle 12

Preface to the First Edition of the Well of the Saints 36

Discoveries Prophet, Priest and King 49 Personality and the Intellectual Essences 56 The Musician and the Orator 61 A Guitar Player 63 The Looking-glass 65 The Tree of Life 67 The Praise of Old Wives’ Tales 71 The Play of Modern Manners 73 Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own? 76 Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times was made a Poet 79 Concerning Saints and Artists 85 The Subject Matter of Drama 89 The Two Kinds of Asceticism 94 In the Serpent’s Mouth 97 The Black and the White Arrows 99 His Mistress’s Eyebrows 100 The Tresses of the Hair 103 A Tower on the Apennines 104 The Thinking of the Body 106 Religious Belief Necessary to Religious Art 109 The Holy Places 113

Poetry and Tradition 116

Preface to the First Edition of John M. Synge’s Poems and Translations 139

J. M. Synge and the Ireland of his Time 146

The Tragic Theatre 196

John Shawe-Taylor 208

Edmund Spenser 213

THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL By W. B. YEATS

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