DiscoveriesFront matterReading editionChapter navigation23 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterDISCOVERIES; A VOLUME OF ESSAYS BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS.PROPHET, PRIEST AND KINGPERSONALITY AND THE INTELLECTUAL ESSENCESTHE MUSICIAN AND THE ORATORA BANJO PLAYERTHE LOOKING-GLASSTHE TREE OF LIFETHE PRAISE OF OLD WIVES’ TALESTHE PLAY OF MODERN MANNERSHAS THE DRAMA OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE A ROOT OF ITS OWNWHY THE BLIND MAN IN ANCIENT TIMES WAS MADE A POETCONCERNING SAINTS AND ARTISTSTHE SUBJECT MATTER OF DRAMATHE TWO KINDS OF ASCETICISMIN THE SERPENT’S MOUTHTHE BLACK AND THE WHITE ARROWSHIS MISTRESS’S EYEBROWSTHE TRESSES OF THE HAIRA TOWER ON THE APENNINETHE THINKING OF THE BODYRELIGIOUS BELIEF NECESSARY TO SYMBOLIC ARTTHE HOLY PLACESBeginning of this editionNext chapter →DISCOVERIES; A VOLUME OF ESSAYS BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS.All chapters and sections (23)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsDISCOVERIES; A VOLUME OF ESSAYS BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS.PROPHET, PRIEST AND KINGPERSONALITY AND THE INTELLECTUAL ESSENCESTHE MUSICIAN AND THE ORATORA BANJO PLAYERTHE LOOKING-GLASSTHE TREE OF LIFETHE PRAISE OF OLD WIVES’ TALESTHE PLAY OF MODERN MANNERSHAS THE DRAMA OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE A ROOT OF ITS OWNWHY THE BLIND MAN IN ANCIENT TIMES WAS MADE A POETCONCERNING SAINTS AND ARTISTSTHE SUBJECT MATTER OF DRAMATHE TWO KINDS OF ASCETICISMIN THE SERPENT’S MOUTHTHE BLACK AND THE WHITE ARROWSHIS MISTRESS’S EYEBROWSTHE TRESSES OF THE HAIRA TOWER ON THE APENNINETHE THINKING OF THE BODYRELIGIOUS BELIEF NECESSARY TO SYMBOLIC ARTTHE HOLY PLACESTwo hundred copies of this book have been printed.◇DISCOVERIES; A VOLUME OF ESSAYS BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. →