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MCMVIII

CONTENTS

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DISCOVERIES:
PROPHET, PRIEST AND KING[3]
PERSONALITY AND THE INTELLECTUAL ESSENCES[8]
THE MUSICIAN AND THE ORATOR[12]
A GUITAR PLAYER[13]
THE LOOKING-GLASS[14]
THE TREE OF LIFE[15]
THE PRAISE OF OLD WIVES’ TALES[18]
THE PLAY OF MODERN MANNERS[20]
HAS THE DRAMA OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE A ROOT OF ITS OWN?[22]
WHY THE BLIND MAN IN ANCIENT TIMES WAS MADE A POET[24]
CONCERNING SAINTS AND ARTISTS[29]
THE SUBJECT MATTER OF DRAMA[32]
THE TWO KINDS OF ASCETICISM[36]
IN THE SERPENT’S MOUTH[38]
THE BLACK AND THE WHITE ARROWS[39]
HIS MISTRESS’S EYEBROWS[39]
THE TRESSES OF THE HAIR[41]
A TOWER ON THE APENNINE[42]
THE THINKING OF THE BODY[43]
RELIGIOUS BELIEF NECESSARY TO SYMBOLIC ART[45]
THE HOLY PLACES[48]
EDMUND SPENSER[51]
POETRY AND TRADITION[91]
MODERN IRISH POETRY[113]
LADY GREGORY’S CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE[131]
LADY GREGORY’S GODS AND FIGHTING MEN[147]
MR. SYNGE AND HIS PLAYS[171]
LIONEL JOHNSON[183]
THE PATHWAY[189]
BIBLIOGRAPHY[197]

DISCOVERIES