The Project Gutenberg EBook of Discoveries, by William Butler Yeats

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: Discoveries
A Volume of Essays

Author: William Butler Yeats

Release Date: July 5, 2010 [EBook #33087]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DISCOVERIES ***

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

Two hundred copies of this book have been printed.

DISCOVERIES; A VOLUME OF ESSAYS
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS.

DUN EMER PRESS
DUNDRUM
MCMVII

CONTENTS

Prophet, Priest and King Page 1

Personality and the Intellectual Essences 5

The Musician and the Orator 9

A Banjo Player 10

The Looking-glass 11

The Tree of Life 12

The Praise of Old Wives' Tales 15

The Play of Modern Manners 16

Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own 18

Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times was made a Poet 20

Concerning Saints and Artists 24

The Subject Matter of Drama 27

The Two Kinds of Asceticism 30

In the Serpent's Mouth 32

The Black and the White Arrows 33

His Mistress's Eyebrows 33

The Tresses of the Hair 35

A Tower on the Apennine 36

The Thinking of the Body 37

Religious Belief necessary to symbolic Art 39

The Holy Places 41

DISCOVERIES

PROPHET, PRIEST AND KING

The little theatrical company I write my plays for had come to a west of
Ireland town and was to give a performanc