Discoveries: A Volume of Essays
By W B Yeats
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Content includes:
Prophet, Priest and King
Personality and the Intellectual Essences
The Musician and the Orator
A Banjo Player
The Looking-glass
The Tree of Life
The Praise of Old Wives' Tales
The Play of Modern Manners
Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own
Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times was made a Poet
Concerning Saints and Artists
The Subject Matter of Drama
The Two Kinds of Asceticism
In the Serpent's Mouth
The Black and the White Arrows
His Mistress's Eyebrows
The Tresses of the Hair
A Tower on the Apennine
The Thinking of the Body
Religious Belief necessary to symbolic Art
The Holy Places
W B Yeats
William Butler Yeats was born in 1865 in County Dublin. With his much-loved early poems such as 'The Stolen Child', and 'He Remembers Forgotten Beauty', he defined the Celtic Twilight mood of the late-Victorian period and led the Irish Literary Renaissance. Yet his style evolved constantly, and he is acknowledged as a major figure in literary modernism and twentieth-century European letters. T. S. Eliot described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. W. B. Yeats died in 1939.
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Discoveries - W B Yeats
W. B. Yeats
Discoveries
A Volume of Essays
Published by Good Press, 2022
EAN 4057664580528
Table of Contents
PROPHET, PRIEST AND KING
PERSONALITY AND THE INTELLECTUAL ESSENCES
THE MUSICIAN AND THE ORATOR
A BANJO PLAYER
THE LOOKING-GLASS
THE TREE OF LIFE
THE PRAISE OF OLD WIVES’ TALES
THE PLAY OF MODERN MANNERS
HAS THE DRAMA OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE A ROOT OF ITS OWN
WHY THE BLIND MAN IN ANCIENT TIMES WAS MADE A POET
CONCERNING SAINTS AND ARTISTS
THE SUBJECT MATTER OF DRAMA
THE TWO KINDS OF ASCETICISM
IN THE SERPENT’S MOUTH
THE BLACK AND THE WHITE ARROWS
HIS MISTRESS’S EYEBROWS
THE TRESSES OF THE HAIR
A TOWER ON THE APENNINE
THE THINKING OF THE BODY
RELIGIOUS BELIEF NECESSARY TO SYMBOLIC ART
THE HOLY PLACES
PROPHET, PRIEST AND KING
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The little theatrical company I write my plays for had come to a west of Ireland town and was to give a performance in an old ball-room, for there was no other room big enough. I went there from a neighbouring country house and arriving a little before the players, tried to open a window. My hands were black with dirt in a moment and presently a pane of glass and a part of the window frame came out in my hands. Everything in this room was half in ruins, the rotten boards cracked under my feet, and our new proscenium and the new boards of the platform looked out of place, and yet the room was not really old, in spite of the musicians’ gallery over the stage. It had been built by some romantic or philanthropic landlord some three or four generations ago, and was a memory of we knew not what unfinished scheme.
From there I went to look for the players and called for information on a young priest, who had invited them, and taken upon himself the finding of an audience. He lived in a high house with other priests, and as I went in I noticed with a whimsical pleasure a broken pane of glass in the fan-light over the door, for he had once told me the story of an old woman who a good many years ago quarrelled with the bishop, got drunk, and hurled a stone through the painted glass. He was a clever man, who read Meredith and Ibsen, but some of his books had been packed in the fire-grate by his house-keeper, instead of the customary view of an Italian lake or the coloured tissue-paper. The players, who had been giving a performance in a neighbouring town, had not yet come, or were unpacking their costumes and properties at the hotel he had recommended them. We should have time, he said, to go through the half-ruined town and to visit the convent schools and the cathedral, where, owing to his influence, two of our young Irish sculptors had been set to carve an altar and the heads of pillars. I had only heard of this work, and I found its strangeness and simplicity—one