FOOTNOTES:[A]Poems of Spenser: Selected and with an Introduction by W. B. Yeats.(T. C. and E. C. Jack, Edinburgh,N.D.)[B]Rose Kavanagh, the poet, wrote to her religious adviser from, I think, Leitrim, where she lived, and asked him to get her the works of Mazzini. He replied, ‘You must mean Manzone.’[C]I have heard him say more than once, ‘I will not say our people know good from bad, but I will say that they don’t hate the good when it is pointed out to them as a great many people do in England.’[D]A small political organizer told me once that he and a certain friend got together somewhere in Tipperary a great meeting of farmers for O’Leary on his coming out of prison, and O’Leary had said at it: ‘The landlords gave us some few leaders, and I like them for that, and the artisans have given us great numbers of good patriots, and so I like them best: but you I do not like at all, for you have never given us any one.’ I have known but one that had his moral courage, and that was a woman with beauty, to give her courage and self-possession.[E]This version, though Dr. Hyde went some way with it, has never been published. I do not know why.—W.B.Y.,March, 1908.[F]Reprinted fromThe Wanderings of Oisin, 1889.[G]Reprinted fromThe Countess Cathleen, 1892.[H]Written for the first production ofThe King’s Thresholdin Dublin, but not used, as, owing to the smallness of the company, nobody could be spared to speak it.—W.B.Y., 1904.[I]Reprinted fromThe Shadowy Waters, 1900.[J]Reprinted fromIn the Seven Woods, 1903.[K]‘The Green Sheaf,’ No. IV., published as a supplement a reproduction of a pastel by Mr. Yeats,The Lake at Coole.[L]The Pot of Broth, contained in this volume, originally appeared inThe Gael, (an American Monthly Magazine, printed in New York, partly in Irish and partly in English,) September, 1903.
[A]Poems of Spenser: Selected and with an Introduction by W. B. Yeats.(T. C. and E. C. Jack, Edinburgh,N.D.)
[A]Poems of Spenser: Selected and with an Introduction by W. B. Yeats.(T. C. and E. C. Jack, Edinburgh,N.D.)
[B]Rose Kavanagh, the poet, wrote to her religious adviser from, I think, Leitrim, where she lived, and asked him to get her the works of Mazzini. He replied, ‘You must mean Manzone.’
[B]Rose Kavanagh, the poet, wrote to her religious adviser from, I think, Leitrim, where she lived, and asked him to get her the works of Mazzini. He replied, ‘You must mean Manzone.’
[C]I have heard him say more than once, ‘I will not say our people know good from bad, but I will say that they don’t hate the good when it is pointed out to them as a great many people do in England.’
[C]I have heard him say more than once, ‘I will not say our people know good from bad, but I will say that they don’t hate the good when it is pointed out to them as a great many people do in England.’
[D]A small political organizer told me once that he and a certain friend got together somewhere in Tipperary a great meeting of farmers for O’Leary on his coming out of prison, and O’Leary had said at it: ‘The landlords gave us some few leaders, and I like them for that, and the artisans have given us great numbers of good patriots, and so I like them best: but you I do not like at all, for you have never given us any one.’ I have known but one that had his moral courage, and that was a woman with beauty, to give her courage and self-possession.
[D]A small political organizer told me once that he and a certain friend got together somewhere in Tipperary a great meeting of farmers for O’Leary on his coming out of prison, and O’Leary had said at it: ‘The landlords gave us some few leaders, and I like them for that, and the artisans have given us great numbers of good patriots, and so I like them best: but you I do not like at all, for you have never given us any one.’ I have known but one that had his moral courage, and that was a woman with beauty, to give her courage and self-possession.
[E]This version, though Dr. Hyde went some way with it, has never been published. I do not know why.—W.B.Y.,March, 1908.
[E]This version, though Dr. Hyde went some way with it, has never been published. I do not know why.—W.B.Y.,March, 1908.
[F]Reprinted fromThe Wanderings of Oisin, 1889.
[F]Reprinted fromThe Wanderings of Oisin, 1889.
[G]Reprinted fromThe Countess Cathleen, 1892.
[G]Reprinted fromThe Countess Cathleen, 1892.
[H]Written for the first production ofThe King’s Thresholdin Dublin, but not used, as, owing to the smallness of the company, nobody could be spared to speak it.—W.B.Y., 1904.
[H]Written for the first production ofThe King’s Thresholdin Dublin, but not used, as, owing to the smallness of the company, nobody could be spared to speak it.—W.B.Y., 1904.
[I]Reprinted fromThe Shadowy Waters, 1900.
[I]Reprinted fromThe Shadowy Waters, 1900.
[J]Reprinted fromIn the Seven Woods, 1903.
[J]Reprinted fromIn the Seven Woods, 1903.
[K]‘The Green Sheaf,’ No. IV., published as a supplement a reproduction of a pastel by Mr. Yeats,The Lake at Coole.
[K]‘The Green Sheaf,’ No. IV., published as a supplement a reproduction of a pastel by Mr. Yeats,The Lake at Coole.
[L]The Pot of Broth, contained in this volume, originally appeared inThe Gael, (an American Monthly Magazine, printed in New York, partly in Irish and partly in English,) September, 1903.
[L]The Pot of Broth, contained in this volume, originally appeared inThe Gael, (an American Monthly Magazine, printed in New York, partly in Irish and partly in English,) September, 1903.
Transcriber’s Notes:Obvious punctuation errors repaired.Page 23, “he” changed to “be” (may be greater)Page 35, “maybe” changed to “may be” (it may be, generations)Page 236, “p.” changed to “pp.” (Ghosts, pp. 128-129)Page 247, “esssay” changed to “essay” (essay originally appeared)
Transcriber’s Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Page 23, “he” changed to “be” (may be greater)
Page 35, “maybe” changed to “may be” (it may be, generations)
Page 236, “p.” changed to “pp.” (Ghosts, pp. 128-129)
Page 247, “esssay” changed to “essay” (essay originally appeared)