Discoveries
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- A Volume of Essays
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1. Front matter2. DISCOVERIES; A VOLUME OF ESSAYS BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS.3. PROPHET, PRIEST AND KING4. PERSONALITY AND THE INTELLECTUAL ESSENCES5. THE MUSICIAN AND THE ORATOR6. A BANJO PLAYER7. THE LOOKING-GLASS8. THE TREE OF LIFE9. THE PRAISE OF OLD WIVES’ TALES10. THE PLAY OF MODERN MANNERS11. HAS THE DRAMA OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE A ROOT OF ITS OWN12. WHY THE BLIND MAN IN ANCIENT TIMES WAS MADE A POET13. CONCERNING SAINTS AND ARTISTS14. THE SUBJECT MATTER OF DRAMA15. THE TWO KINDS OF ASCETICISM16. IN THE SERPENT’S MOUTH17. THE BLACK AND THE WHITE ARROWS18. HIS MISTRESS’S EYEBROWS19. THE TRESSES OF THE HAIR20. A TOWER ON THE APENNINE21. THE THINKING OF THE BODY22. RELIGIOUS BELIEF NECESSARY TO SYMBOLIC ART23. THE HOLY PLACES