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| Editors' Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Illustrations | |
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| Editors' Introduction | |
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| Early Essays | |
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| Ideas of Good and Evil | |
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| What Is 'Popular Poetry'? | |
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| Speaking to the Psaltery | |
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| Magie | |
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| The Happiest of the Poets | |
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| The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry | |
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| At Stratford-on-Avon | |
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| William Blake and the Imagination | |
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| William Blake and His Illustrations to The Divine Comedy | |
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| Symbolism in Painting | |
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| The Symbolism of Poetry | |
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| The Theatre | |
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| The Celtic Element in Literature | |
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| The Autumn of the Body | |
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| The Moods | |
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| The Body of the Father Christian Rosencrux | |
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| The Return of Ulysses | |
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| Ireland and the Arts | |
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| The Galway Plains | |
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| Emotion of Multitude | |
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| The Cutting of an Agate | |
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| Certain Noble Plays of Japan | |
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| The Tragic Theatre | |
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| Poetry and Tradition | |
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| Discoveries | |
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| Prophet, Priest and King | |
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| Personality and the Intellectual Essences | |
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| The Musician and the Orator | |
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| A Guitar Player | |
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| The Looking-Glass | |
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| The Tree of Life | |
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| The Praise of Old Wives' Tales | |
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| The Play of Modern Manners | |
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| Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own? | |
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| Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times Was Made a Poet | |
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| Concerning Saints and Artists | |
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| The Subject Matter of Drama | |
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| The Two Kinds of Asceticism | |
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| In the Serpent's Mouth | |
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| The Black and the White Arrows | |
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| His Mistress's Eyebrows | |
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| The Tresses of the Hair | |
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| A Tower on the Apennines | |
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| The Thinking of the Body | |
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| Religious Belief Necessary to Religious Art | |
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| The Holy Places | |
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| Preface to the First Edition of The Well of the Saints | |
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| Preface to the First Edition of John M. Synge's Poems and Translations | |
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| J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time | |
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| John Shawe-Taylor | |
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| Art and Ideas | |
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| Edmund Spenser | |
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| Yeats's Prefaces and Dedication | |
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| Preface to The Cutting of an Agate (1912) | |
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| Preface to The Cutting of an Agate (1919, 1924) | |
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| Dedication of Essays (1924) | |
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| Appendices | |
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| A Chronological List of Essays by Date of First Publication | |
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| "The Pathway" (1900, 1908) | |
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| Omitted Section from "At Stratford-on-Avon" | |
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| Illustrations to Dante included in Periodical Version of "William Blake and His Illustrations to The Divine Comedy" | |
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| Omitted Passage from "Symbolism in Painting" | |
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| Omitted Passages from "The Return of Ulysses" | |
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| Conclusion to "The Tragic Theatre" in Plays for an Irish Theatre (1911) | |
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| Omitted Passage from "Preface to the First Edition of John M. Synge's Poems and Translations" (1909) | |
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| Preface to J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time (1911) | |
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| Textual Matters and Notes | |
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| A Note on the Text | |
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| Textual Emendations and Corrections | |
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| Background Notes on Frequently Cited Writers | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |