Chapter VIII: Part I: originally appeared in The Dome, October,
1899.
_A Knight of the Sheep._
_An Enduring Heart._ Originally appeared in _The
Speaker_, April 26, 1902.
_The Sorcerers._ (With a new footnote.)
_The Devil._ Originally appeared in _The Speaker_,
April 19, 1902.
_Happy and Unhappy Theologians._ Originally appeared in
_The Speaker_, February 15, 1902.
_The Last Gleeman._
_Regina, Regina Pigmeorum Veni._ (With a new footnote.)
‘_And Fair, Fierce Women._’ Originally appeared in _The
Speaker_, April 19, 1902.
_Enchanted Woods._ Originally appeared in _The
Speaker_, January 18, 1902.
_Miraculous Creatures._ Originally appeared in _The
Speaker_, April 26, 1902.
_Aristotle of the Books._ Originally appeared in _The
Speaker_, April 19, 1902.
_The Swine of the Gods._ Originally appeared in _The
Speaker_, April 19, 1902.
_A Voice._ Originally appeared in _The Speaker_, April
19, 1902.
_Kidnappers._ (With a new footnote.)
_The Untiring Ones._ (With a new footnote.)
_Earth, Fire and Water._ Originally appeared in _The
Speaker_, March 15, 1902.
_The Old Town._ Originally appeared in _The Speaker_,
March 15, 1902.
_The Man and his Boots._
_A Coward._
_The Three O’Byrnes and the Evil Faeries._
_Drumcliffe and Rosses._
_The Thick Skull of the Fortunate._ I. 1893. II. 1902.
_The Religion of a Sailor._
_Concerning the nearness together of Heaven, Earth and
Purgatory._ 1892 and 1902.
_The Eaters of Precious Stones._
_Our Lady of the Hills._
_The Golden Age._
_A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the
disposition of their Ghosts and Faeries._
_War._ Originally appeared in _The Speaker_, March 15,
1902.
_The Queen and the Fool._ Originally appeared, under
the title _The Fool of Faery_, in _The Kensington_,
June, 1901.
_The Friends of the People of Faery._ Originally
appeared as part of an essay, _The Tribes of Danu_,
in _The New Review_, November, 1897.
_Dreams that have no moral._
_By the Roadside._ Originally appeared in _An Claideamh
Soluis_, July 13, 1901.
_Into the Twilight._
Cathleen ni Hoolihan | A Play in One Act and | in Prose by W. B. Yeats | (ornament) [in red] | Printed at the Caradoc | Press Chiswick for A. H. | Bullen 18 Cecil Court Lon | don MDCCCCII
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_Cathleen ni Hoolihan_ originally appeared in _Samhain_, 1902.
1903.
Ideas of Good and [in red] | Evil. [in red] By W. B. Yeats | A. H. Bullen [in red] 47 Great Russell | Street, London, W.C. MCMIII
Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 342. Paper boards with cloth back.
CONTENTS.
_What is ‘Popular Poetry?’_ Originally appeared in _The
Cornhill Magazine_, March, 1902.
_Speaking to the Psaltery._ Originally appeared in _The
Monthly Review_, May, 1902.
_Magic._ Originally appeared in _The Monthly Review_,
September, 1901.
_The Happiest of the Poets._ Originally appeared in
_The Fortnightly Review_, March, 1903.
_The Philosophy of Shelley’s Poetry:_
I. _His Ruling Ideas._ Originally appeared in _The
Dome_, July, 1900.
II. _His Ruling Symbols._
_At Stratford-on-Avon._ Originally appeared in _The Speaker_, May 11 and 18, 1901.
_William Blake and the Imagination._ Originally appeared under the title _William Blake_, in _The Academy_, June 19, 1897.
_William Blake and his Illustrations to the Divine Comedy:_
I. _His Opinions upon Art._ Originally appeared in
_The Savoy_, July, 1896.
II. _His Opinions upon Dante._ Originally appeared in
_The Savoy_, August, 1896.
III. _The Illustrations of Dante._ Originally
appeared in _The Savoy_, September, 1896.
_Symbolism in Painting._ Originally appeared as part of the introduction to _A Book of Images_, 1898.
_The Symbolism of Poetry._ Originally appeared in _The Dome_, April, 1900.
_The Theatre._ The first section of this essay originally appeared in _The Dome_, April, 1899. The second originally appeared as part of an essay, _The Irish Literary Theatre_, 1900, in _The Dome_, Jan., 1900.
_The Celtic Element in Literature._ The first section of this essay originally appeared in _Cosmopolis_, June, 1898.
_The Autumn of the Body._ For original appearance see _The Autumn of the Flesh_ in _Literary Ideals in Ireland_.
_The Moods._ Originally appeared as part of one of a series of articles on _Irish National Literature_, in _The Bookman_, August, 1895.
_The Body of the Father Christian Rosencrux._ Originally appeared as part of one of a series of articles on _Irish National Literature_, in _The Bookman_, September, 1895.
_The Return of Ulysses._ Originally appeared, under the title _Mr. Robert Bridges_, in _The Bookman_, June, 1897.
_Ireland and the Arts._ Originally appeared in _The United Irishman_, August 31, 1901.
_The Galway Plains._ Originally appeared, under the title _Poets and Dreamers_, in _The New Liberal Review_, March, 1903.
_Emotion of Multitude._
Where There is Nothing: | being Volume One of Plays | for an Irish Theatre: by | W. B. Yeats | London: A. H. Bullen, 47, Great | Russell Street, W.C. 1903.
Cr. 8vo, pp. xii and 132. Paper boards with cloth back.
CONTENTS.
_Dedication of Volumes One and Two of Plays for an
Irish Theatre._
_Where There is Nothing._ Originally appeared as
a supplement to _The United Irishman_, Samhain,
(Autumn) 1902.
In the Seven Woods: being poems | chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age | By William Butler Yeats | The Dun Emer Press | Dundrum | MCMIII
8vo, pp. viii [unnumbered, i-iv blank] and 68 [the last four blank]. Linen with paper label. The book printed in red and black.
CONTENTS.
_In the Seven Woods._
_The Old Age of Queen Maeve._ Originally appeared in
_The Fortnightly Review_, April, 1903.
_Baile and Aillinn._ Originally appeared in _The
Monthly Review_, July, 1902.
_The Arrow._
_The Folly of Being Comforted._ Originally appeared in
_The Speaker_, January 11, 1902.
_The Withering of the Boughs._ Originally appeared,
under the title _Echtge of Streams_, in _The
Speaker_, August 25, 1900.
_Adam’s Curse._ Originally appeared in _The Monthly
Review_, December, 1902.
_The Song of Red Hanrahan._ Originally appeared, under
the title _Cathleen, Daughter of Hoolihan_, in _A
Broadsheet_, April, 1903.
_The Old Men admiring themselves in the Water._
Originally appeared in _The Pall Mall Magazine_,
January, 1903.
_Under the Moon._ Originally appeared in _The Speaker_,
June 15, 1901.
_The Players ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and
themselves._
_The Rider from the North._ Originally appeared, under
the title _The Happy Townland_, in _The Weekly
Critical Review_, June, 1903.
_On Baile’s Strand, a Play._
Edition limited to 325 copies.
The Hour-Glass | a Morality | By | W. B. Yeats | London | Wm. Heinemann, 21 Bedford St., W.C. | 1903
Demy 8vo, pp. 16 [the last two blank].
_The Hour-Glass_ originally appeared in _The North
American Review_, September, 1903.
A few copies only of this edition were printed, for purposes of copyright.
1904.
The Hour-Glass, Cathleen | ni Hoolihan, The Pot of | Broth: Being Volume Two of | Plays for an Irish Theatre: | By W. B. Yeats | London: A. H. Bullen, 47, Great | Russell Street, W.C. 1904.
Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 84. Paper boards with cloth back.
CONTENTS.
_The Hour-Glass: A Morality._ For original appearance
see above, under date 1903.
_Cathleen ni Hoolihan._ For original appearance see
above, under date 1902.
_The Pot of Broth._
_Note on the Music._
The King’s Threshold: and | On Baile’s Strand: Being | Volume Three of Plays | for an Irish Theatre: By | W. B. Yeats | London: A. H. Bullen, 47, Great | Russell Street, W.C. 1904.
Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 120. Paper boards with cloth back.
CONTENTS.
_Note._
_A Prologue._ Originally appeared in _The United
Irishman_, September 9, 1903.
[The Prologue, which was accidentally dropped from later editions, ran thus:—
A PROLOGUE.[H]
_An _Old Man_ with a red dressing-gown, red slippers
and red night-cap, holding a brass candlestick with a
guttering candle in it, comes on from side of stage
and goes in front of the dull green curtain._
_Old Man._ I’ve got to speak the prologue. [_He shuffles on a few steps._] My nephew, who is one of the play actors, came to me, and I in my bed, and my prayers said, and the candle put out, and he told me there were so many characters in this new play, that all the company were in it, whether they had been long or short at the business, and that there wasn’t one left to speak the prologue. Wait a bit, there’s a draught here. [_He pulls the curtain closer together._] That’s better. And that’s why I am here, and maybe I’m a fool for my pains.
And my nephew said, there are a good many plays to be played for you, some to-night and some on other nights through the winter, and the most of them are simple enough, and tell out their story to the end. But as to the big play you are to see to-night, my nephew taught me to say what the poet had taught him to say about it. [_Puts down candlestick and puts right finger on left thumb._] First, he who told the story of Seanchan on King Guaire’s threshold long ago in the old books told it wrongly, for he was a friend of the king, or maybe afraid of the king, and so he put the king in the right. But he that tells the story now, being a poet, has put the poet in the right.
And then [_touches other finger_] I am to say: Some think it would be a finer tale if Seanchan had died at the end of it, and the king had the guilt at his door, for that might have served the poet’s cause better in the end. But that is not true, for if he that is in the story but a shadow and an image of poetry had not risen up from the death that threatened him, the ending would not have been true and joyful enough to be put into the voices of players and proclaimed in the mouths of trumpets, and poetry would have been badly served. [_He takes up the candlestick again._
And as to what happened Seanchan after, my nephew told me he didn’t know, and the poet didn’t know, and it’s likely there’s nobody that knows. But my nephew thinks he never sat down at the king’s table again, after the way he had been treated, but that he went to some quiet green place in the hills with Fedelm, his sweetheart, where the poor people made much of him because he was wise, and where he made songs and poems, and it’s likely enough he made some of the old songs and the old poems the poor people on the hillsides are saying and singing to-day. [_A trumpet-blast._
Well, it’s time for me to be going. That trumpet means that the curtain is going to rise, and after a while the stage there will be filled up with great ladies and great gentlemen, and poets, and a king with a crown on him, and all of them as high up in themselves with the pride of their youth and their strength and their fine clothes as if there was no such thing in the world as cold in the shoulders, and speckled shins, and the pains in the bones and the stiffness in the joints that make an old man that has the whole load of the world on him ready for his bed.
[_He begins to shuffle away, and then stops._
And it would be better for me, that nephew of mine to be thinking less of his play-acting, and to have remembered to boil down the knap-weed with a bit of threepenny sugar, for me to be wetting my throat with now and again through the night, and drinking a sup to ease the pains in my bones.
[_He goes out at side of stage._]
_The King’s Threshold._
_On Baile’s Strand._ Originally appeared in _In the
Seven Woods_, 1903.
Stories of Red Hanrahan by | William Butler Yeats | The Dun Emer Press | Dundrum MCMIV
8vo, pp. viii [unnumbered, i-ii blank] and 64 [last seven blank]. Paper boards with linen back, paper labels on front and side. The book printed in red and black; woodcut under Table of Contents on p. viii.
CONTENTS.
_Red Hanrahan._ Originally appeared in _The Independent
Review_, December, 1903.
_The Twisting of the Rope._
_Hanrahan and Cathleen the daughter of Hoolihan._
_Red Hanrahan’s Curse._
_Hanrahan’s Vision._ Originally appeared, under
the title _Red Hanrahan’s Vision_, in _McClure’s
Magazine_, March, 1905.
_The Death of Hanrahan._
Edition limited to 500 copies.
These stories are a re-telling in simpler language of some of the stories in _The Secret Rose_.
1906.
Poems, 1899-1905 [in red] | By W. B. Yeats | London: A. H. Bullen | Dublin: Maunsel & Co., | Ltd. | 1906.
Cr. 8vo, pp. xvi and 280. Cloth.
CONTENTS.
_Preface._ [Dated _In the Seven Woods_, 18 May, 1906.]
_I walked among the seven woods of Coole._[I]
_The Harp of Aengus._[I]
_The Shadowy Waters._ [A new version.]
_On Baile’s Strand._ [A new version.] _The Song of the
Women_ (pp. 102-104) originally appeared, under the
title _Against Witchcraft_, in _The Shanachie_ [No.
I., Spring, 1906].
_In the Seven Woods_:
_In the Seven Woods._[J]
_The Old Age of Queen Maeve._[J]
_Baile and Aillinn._[J]
_The Arrow._[J]
_The Folly of being Comforted._[J]
_Old Memory._ Originally appeared in _Wayfarer’s
Love_, 1904.
_Never Give all the Heart._ Originally appeared in
_McClure’s Magazine_, December, 1905.
_The Withering of the Boughs._[I]
_Adam’s Curse._[I]
_The Song of Red Hanrahan._[I]
_The Old Men admiring themselves in the Water._[I]
_Under the Moon._[I]
_The Players ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and
themselves._[I]
_The Happy Townland._[I]
_The Entrance of Deirdre._ Two verses of this poem
originally appeared, under the title _Queen
Edaine_, in _McClure’s Magazine_, September, 1905,
and the whole poem under the title _The Praise of
Deirdre_, in _The Shanachie_ [No. I., Spring, 1906].
_The King’s Threshold._ [A new version.]
_Notes._
1907.
The Shadowy Waters, | By W. B. Yeats. | Acting Version, | As first played at the Abbey Theatre, December 8th, 1906. | A. H. Bullen, | 47 Great Russell Street, London, W.C. | 1907.
Cr. 8vo, pp. 28. Green paper cover.
This is a slightly different version from that printed in _Poems_, 1899-1905.
Deirdre By W. B. Yeats | Being Volume Five of Plays | for an Irish Theatre | London: A. H. Bullen | Dublin: Maunsel & Co., Ltd. | 1907.
Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 48. Paper boards with cloth back.
CONTENTS.
_Deirdre._ For original appearance of the song _Why is
it, Queen Edain said_, see _The Entrance of Deirdre_,
in _Poems_, 1899-1905.
_Note._
Discoveries; A Volume of Essays | By William Butler Yeats. | (Woodcut) | Dun Emer Press | Dundrum | MCMVII
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CONTENTS.
_Prophet, Priest and King._
_Personality and the Intellectual Essences._
_The Musician and the Orator._
_A Banjo Player._
_The Looking-glass._
These five chapters appeared, under the general title
_My Thoughts and my Second Thoughts_, in _The
Gentleman’s Magazine_, September, 1906.
_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._
These five chapters appeared, under the general
title _My Thoughts and my Second Thoughts_, in The
Gentleman’s Magazine, October, 1906.
_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._
These seven chapters appeared, under the general
title _My Thoughts and my Second Thoughts_, in _The
Gentleman’s Magazine,_ November, 1906.
_A Tower on the Apennine._
_The Thinking of the Body._
_Religious Belief necessary to symbolic Art._
_The Holy Places._
These four chapters appeared, under the general title
_Discoveries_, in The _Shanachie_, Autumn, 1907.
Edition limited to 200 copies.
1908.
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. Imprinted at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-on-Avon, MCMVIII.
Eight volumes. Demy 8vo. Quarter vellum back with grey linen sides. With portraits by John S. Sargent, R.A., Signor Mancini, Charles Shannon and J. B. Yeats.
VOLUME I.
CONTENTS.
_The Wind Among the Reeds._
_The Old Age of Queen Maeve._
_Baile and Aillinn._
_In the Seven Woods._
_Ballads and Lyrics._
_The Rose._
_The Wanderings of Oisin._
_Notes._
A few poems have been moved from _The Wind Among the Reeds_ to _Ballads and Lyrics_ and _The Rose_. Two poems are added to _In the Seven Woods_. These are:—
_The Hollow Wood._ Originally appeared in _The Twisting
of the Rope_ in _Stories of Red Hanrahan_, 1904.
_O do not love too long._ Originally appeared in _The
Acorn_, October, 1905.
VOLUME II.
_The King’s Threshold._
_On Baile’s Strand._
_Deirdre._
_The Shadowy Waters._
_Appendix I: Acting Version of ‘The Shadowy Waters.’_
_Appendix II: A different version of Deirdre’s
entrance._
_Appendix III: The Legendary and Mythological
Foundation of the Plays._
_Appendix IV_: The Dates and Places of Performance of
Plays.
VOLUME III.
_The Countess Cathleen._
_The Land of Heart’s Desire._
_The Unicorn from the Stars._ By Lady Gregory and W. B.
Yeats.
_Appendix: The Countess Cathleen._
_Notes._
_Music_ by Florence Farr and others.
VOLUME IV.
_The Hour-Glass._
_Cathleen ni Houlihan._
_The Golden Helmet._
_The Irish Dramatic Movement._ Under this title are
printed the greater part of Mr. Yeats’s contributions
to _Samhain_, 1901-1906, and to _The Arrow_,
1906-1907, and two essays, _An Irish National
Theatre_ and _The Theatre, the Pulpit, and the
Newspapers_, which originally appeared in _The United
Irishman_, October 10 and 17, 1903.
_Appendix I: ‘The Hour-Glass.’_
_Appendix II: ‘Cathleen ni Hoolihan.’_
_Appendix III: ‘The Golden Helmet.’_
_Appendix IV_: Dates and Places of the First
Performance of New Plays produced by the National
Theatre Society and its predecessors.
VOLUME V.
_The Celtic Twilight._
_Stories of Red Hanrahan._
VOLUME VI.
_Ideas of Good and Evil._
VOLUME VII.
_The Secret Rose._
[The _Red Hanrahan_ stories are here omitted from _The Secret Rose_ as the later versions of them appear in Volume V. Two other stories which appeared in the volume of 1897 are also omitted.]
_Rosa Alchemica._
_The Tables of the Law._
_The Adoration of the Magi._
_John Sherman._ With a new Preface.
_Dhoya._
VOLUME VIII.
_Discoveries._
_Edmund Spenser._ Originally appeared as the
introduction to _Poems of Spenser_, 1906.
_Poetry and Tradition._
_Modern Irish Poetry._ Originally appeared as the
introduction to _A Book of Irish Verse_, 1895.
_Lady Gregory’s Cuchulain of Muirthemne._ Originally
appeared as the preface to _Cuchulain of Muirthemne_,
1902.
_Lady Gregory’s Gods and Fighting Men._ Originally
appeared as the preface to _Gods and Fighting Men_,
1904.
_Mr. Synge and his Plays._ Originally appeared as the
introduction to _The Well of the Saints_, 1905.
_Lionel Johnson._ For original appearance see _A
Treasury of Irish Poetry_, 1900.
_The Pathway._ Originally appeared, under the title
_The Way of Wisdom_, in _The Speaker_, April 14, 1900.
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