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Ideas of Good and Evil
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IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL
BEING THE SIXTH VOLUME OF
THE COLLECTED WORKS IN
VERSE & PROSE OF WILLIAM
BUTLER YEATS :: IMPRINTED
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CONTENTS
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WHAT IS 'POPULAR POETRY'? 1
SPEAKING TO THE PSALTERY 13
MAGIC 23
THE HAPPIEST OF THE POETS 55
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHELLEY'S POETRY 71
AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON 111
WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE IMAGINATION 131
WILLIAM BLAKE AND HIS ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE
'DIVINE COMEDY' 138
SYMBOLISM IN PAINTING 176
THE SYMBOLISM OF POETRY 185
THE THEATRE 200
THE CELTIC ELEMENT IN LITERATURE 210
THE AUTUMN OF THE BODY 230
THE MOODS 238
THE BODY OF THE FATHER CHRISTIAN ROSENCRUX 240
THE RETURN OF ULYSSES 243
IRELAND AND THE ARTS 249
THE GALWAY PLAINS 259
EMOTION OF MULTITUDE 264
WHAT IS 'POPULAR POETRY'?
I THINK it was a Young Ireland Society that set my mind running on
'popular poetry. ' We used to discuss everything that was known to us
about Ireland, and especially Irish literature and Irish history. We
had no Gaelic, but paid great honour to the Irish poets who wrote in
English, and quoted them in our speeches. I could have told you at that
time the dates of the birth and death, and quoted the chief poems, of
men whose names you have not heard, and perhaps of some whose names I
have forgotten. I knew in my heart that the most of them wrote badly,
and yet such romance clung about them, such a desire for Irish poetry
was in all our minds, that I kept on saying, not only to others but
to myself, that most of them wrote well, or all but well. I had read
Shelley and Spenser and had tried to mix their styles together in a
pastoral play which I have not come to dislike much, and yet I do not
think Shelley or Spenser ever moved me as did these poets. I thought
one day--I can remember the very day when I thought it--'If somebody
could make a style which would not be an English style and yet would
be musical and full of colour, many others would catch fire from him,
and we would have a really great school of ballad poetry in Ireland.
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Title: The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 6 (of 8)
Ideas of Good and Evil
Author: William Butler Yeats
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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL
BEING THE SIXTH VOLUME OF
THE COLLECTED WORKS IN
VERSE & PROSE OF WILLIAM
BUTLER YEATS :: IMPRINTED
AT THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD
PRESS STRATFORD-ON-AVON
MCMVIII
LONDON:
CHAPMAN & HALL
LIMITED
CONTENTS
PAGE
WHAT IS 'POPULAR POETRY'? 1
SPEAKING TO THE PSALTERY 13
MAGIC 23
THE HAPPIEST OF THE POETS 55
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHELLEY'S POETRY 71
AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON 111
WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE IMAGINATION 131
WILLIAM BLAKE AND HIS ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE
'DIVINE COMEDY' 138
SYMBOLISM IN PAINTING 176
THE SYMBOLISM OF POETRY 185
THE THEATRE 200
THE CELTIC ELEMENT IN LITERATURE 210
THE AUTUMN OF THE BODY 230
THE MOODS 238
THE BODY OF THE FATHER CHRISTIAN ROSENCRUX 240
THE RETURN OF ULYSSES 243
IRELAND AND THE ARTS 249
THE GALWAY PLAINS 259
EMOTION OF MULTITUDE 264
WHAT IS 'POPULAR POETRY'?
I THINK it was a Young Ireland Society that set my mind running on
'popular poetry. ' We used to discuss everything that was known to us
about Ireland, and especially Irish literature and Irish history. We
had no Gaelic, but paid great honour to the Irish poets who wrote in
English, and quoted them in our speeches. I could have told you at that
time the dates of the birth and death, and quoted the chief poems, of
men whose names you have not heard, and perhaps of some whose names I
have forgotten. I knew in my heart that the most of them wrote badly,
and yet such romance clung about them, such a desire for Irish poetry
was in all our minds, that I kept on saying, not only to others but
to myself, that most of them wrote well, or all but well. I had read
Shelley and Spenser and had tried to mix their styles together in a
pastoral play which I have not come to dislike much, and yet I do not
think Shelley or Spenser ever moved me as did these poets. I thought
one day--I can remember the very day when I thought it--'If somebody
could make a style which would not be an English style and yet would
be musical and full of colour, many others would catch fire from him,
and we would have a really great school of ballad poetry in Ireland.
