This work presents an incredible collection of essays by Irish poet, dramatist, writer, and one of the central figures of 20th-century literature, W.B. Yeats. The pieces here are written in Yeats's pleasant style, and his observations are immensely profound. Content includes: 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
