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