The Cutting of an Agate

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CONTENTS
Thoughts on Lady Gregory’s Translations
I. Cuchulain and his Cycle
II. Fion and his Cycle

Preface to the First Edition of the Well of the Saints

Discoveries
Prophet, Priest and King
Personality and the Intellectual Essences
The Musician and the Orator
A Guitar Player
The Looking-glass
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
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
A Tower on the Apennines
The Thinking of the Body
Religious Belief Necessary to Religious Art
The Holy Places

Poetry and Tradition

Preface to the First Edition of John M. Synge’s Poems and Translations

J. M. Synge and the Ireland of his Time

The Tragic Theatre

John Shawe-Taylor

Edmund Spenser