Essays and introductions

1. Ideas of good and evil: What is 'popular poetry'?

Speaking to the psaltery

Magic

The happiest of the poets

The philosophy of Shelley's poetry

At Stratford-on-Avon

William Blake and the imagination

William Blake and his illustrations to the Divine comedy

Symbolism in painting

The symbolism of poetry

The theatre

The Celtic element in literature

The autumn of the body

The moods

The body of the Father Christian Rosencrux

The return of Ulysses

Ireland and the arts

The Galway plains

Emotion of multitude

2. The cutting of an agate: Certain noble plays of Japan

The tragic theatre

Poetry and tradition

Discoveries

Preface to the first edition of The well of the saints

Preface to the first edition of John M. Synge's Poems and translations

J.M. Synge and the Ireland of his time

John Shawe-Taylor

Art and ideas

Edmund Spenser

[3.] later essays and introduction: Gitanjali

Bishop Berkeley

My friend's book

Prometheus unbound

An Indian monk

Louis Lambert

The holy mountain DtThe Mandukya Upanishad

Parnell

Modern poetry

A general introduction for my work

An introduction for my plays.