THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS DISCOVERIES. EDMUND SPENSER. POETRY AND TRADITION; & OTHER ESSAYS:: BEING THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE COLLECTED WORKS IN VERSE & PROSE OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS :: IMPRINTED AT THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS STRATFORD-ON-AVON MCMVIII 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 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 DISCOVERIES PROPHET, PRIEST AND KING