PAGEDISCOVERIES:PROPHET, PRIEST AND KING3PERSONALITY AND THE INTELLECTUAL ESSENCES8THE MUSICIAN AND THE ORATOR12A GUITAR PLAYER13THE LOOKING-GLASS14THE TREE OF LIFE15THE PRAISE OF OLD WIVES’ TALES18THE PLAY OF MODERN MANNERS20HAS THE DRAMA OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE A ROOT OF ITS OWN?22WHY THE BLIND MAN IN ANCIENT TIMES WAS MADE A POET24CONCERNING SAINTS AND ARTISTS29THE SUBJECT MATTER OF DRAMA32THE TWO KINDS OF ASCETICISM36IN THE SERPENT’S MOUTH38THE BLACK AND THE WHITE ARROWS39HIS MISTRESS’S EYEBROWS39THE TRESSES OF THE HAIR41A TOWER ON THE APENNINE42THE THINKING OF THE BODY43RELIGIOUS BELIEF NECESSARY TO SYMBOLIC ART45THE HOLY PLACES48EDMUND SPENSER51POETRY AND TRADITION91MODERN IRISH POETRY113LADY GREGORY’S CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE131LADY GREGORY’S GODS AND FIGHTING MEN147MR. SYNGE AND HIS PLAYS171LIONEL JOHNSON183THE PATHWAY189BIBLIOGRAPHY197