| Author | Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 |
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| LoC No. | 45027993 |
| Title | Discoveries: A Volume of Essays |
| Contents | Prophet, priest and king -- Personality and the intellectual essences -- The musician and the orator -- A banjo 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 Apennine -- The thinking of the body -- Religious belief necessary to symbolic art -- The holy places. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Essays |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 33087 |
| Release Date | Jul 5, 2010 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 58 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Price | $0.00 |
