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Discoveries: A Volume of Essays
The book explores a variety of topics including art, poetry, drama, and the nature of human experience, reflecting Yeats's deep engagement with both cultural and personal themes.
"Discoveries: A Volume of Essays" by William Butler Yeats is a collection of essays. The book explores a variety of topics including art, poetry, drama, and the nature of human experience, reflecting Yeats's deep engagement with both cultural and personal themes.
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The little theatrical company I write my plays for had come to a west of Ireland town and was to give a performance in an old ball-room, for there was no other room big enough. I went there from a neighbouring country house and arriving a little before the players, tried to open a window. My hands were black with dirt in a moment and presently a pane of glass and a part of the window frame came out in my hands. Everything in this room was half in ruins, the rotten boards cracked under my feet, and our new proscenium and the new boards of the platform looked out of place, and yet the room was not really old, in spite of the musicians’ gallery over the stage. It had been built by some romantic or philanthropic landlord some three or four generations ago, and was a memory of we knew not what unfinished scheme.
Contents
- 01Discoveries
- 02Prophet, Priest and King
- 03Personality and the Intellectual Essences
- 04The Musician and the Orator
- 05A Banjo Player
- 06The Looking-Glass
- 07The Tree of Life
- 08The Praise of Old Wives’ Tales
- 09The Play of Modern Manners
- 10Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of Its Own
- 11Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times Was Made a Poet
- 12Concerning Saints and Artists
- 13The Subject Matter of Drama
- 14The Two Kinds of Asceticism
- 15In the Serpent’s Mouth
- 16The Black and the White Arrows
- 17His Mistress’s Eyebrows
- 18The Tresses of the Hair
- 19A Tower on the Apennine
- 20The Thinking of the Body
- 21Religious Belief Necessary to Symbolic Art
- 22The Holy Places
About this edition
- Author
- W. B. Yeats
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Advanced: for close, demanding reading
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 42 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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