The Cutting of an Agate

About this eBook

Author

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939

Credits

Produced by Brian Foley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Literature -- History and criticism

Category

Text

eBook-No.

33094

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33094

Release Date

July 6, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE CUTTING OF AN AGATE — THE CUTTING OF AN AGATE — BY — WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS — AUTHOR OF “IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL,” ETC.
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS — THE CUTTING OF AN AGATE
4. 4.THOUGHTS ON LADY GREGORY’S TRANSLATIONS — I — CUCHULAIN AND HIS CYCLE — II — FION AND HIS CYCLE — III
5. 5.PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE WELL OF THE SAINTS
6. 6.DISCOVERIES — PROPHET, PRIEST AND KING — PERSONALITY AND THE INTELLECTUAL ESSENCES — THE MUSICIAN AND THE ORATOR — A GUITAR 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 APENNINES — THE THINKING OF THE BODY — RELIGIOUS BELIEF NECESSARY TO RELIGIOUS ART — THE HOLY PLACES
7. 7.POETRY AND TRADITION — I — II — III — IV
8. 8.PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF JOHN M. SYNGE’S POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS — I — II — III — IV — V
9. 9.J. M. SYNGE AND THE IRELAND OF HIS TIME — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — VIII — IX — X — XI — XII — XIII — XIV
10. 10.THE TRAGIC THEATRE
11. 11.JOHN SHAWE-TAYLOR
12. 12.EDMUND SPENSER — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — VIII — IX

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