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DISCOVERIES; A VOLUME OF ESSAYS
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS.

DUN EMER PRESS
DUNDRUM
MCMVII

CONTENTS

Prophet, Priest and KingPage [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