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 CUTTING OF AN AGATE THE CUTTING OF AN AGATE THOUGHTS ON LADY GREGORY'S TRANSLATIONS I CUCHULAIN AND HIS CYCLE