Discoveries : A Volume of Essays [electronic resource] /
W. B. Yeats
- Project Gutenberg, 2010
- Project Gutenberg 33087 .
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.