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High Quality FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) :Ideas Of Good And Evil :Originally published by London : A. H. Bullen in 1903. 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 -- S Book will be printed in black and white, with grayscale images. Book will be 6 inches wide by 9 inches tall and soft cover bound. Any foldouts will be scaled to page size. If the book is larger than 1000 pages, it will be printed and bound in two parts. Due to the age of the original titles, we cannot be held responsible for missing pages, faded, or cut off text.

Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats is a collection of essays about art written during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His thoughts on symbolism versus allegory, art as "the theater of commerce" versus art as a "great Passion" and the essays on William Blake are marvelous. This book is a real treasure and one to add to the collection.

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. If these poets, who have never ceased to fill the newspapers and the ballad-books with their verses, had a good tradition they would write beautifully and move everybody as they move me.’ Then a little later on I thought, ‘If they had something else to write about besides political opinions, if more of them would write about the beliefs of the people like Allingham, or about old legends like Ferguson, they would find it easier to get a style.’ Then, with a deliberateness that still surprises me, for in my heart of hearts I have never been quite certain that one should be more than an artist, that even patriotism is more than an impure desire in an artist, I set to work to find a style and things to write about that the ballad writers might be the better.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... themselves honoured the great poets greatly they were hard put to it for lack of good reasons. In our time we are agreed that we 'make our souls' out of some one of the great poets of ancient times, or out of Shelley or Wordsworth, or Goethe or Balzac, or Flaubert, or Count Tolstoy, in the books he wrote before he became a prophet and fell into a lesser order, or out of Mr. Whistler's pictures, while we amuse ourselves, or, at best, make a poorer sort of soul, by listening to sermons or by doing or by not doing certain things. We write of great writers, even of writers whose beauty would once have seemed an unholy beauty, with rapt sentences like those our fathers kept for the beatitudes and mysteries of the Church; and no matter what we believe with our lips, we believe Jdeasof with our hearts that beautiful things, as Evil. Browning said in his one prose essay that was not in verse, have 'lain burningly on the Divine hand,' and that when time has begun to wither, the Divine hand will fall heavily on bad taste and vulgarity. When no man believed these things William Blake believed them, and began that preaching against the Philistine, which is as the preaching of the Middle Ages against the Saracen. He had learned from Jacob Boehme and from old alchemist writers that imagination was the first emanation of divinity, 'the body of God,' 'the Divine members,' and he drew the deduction, which they did not draw, that the imaginative arts were therefore the greatest of Divine revelations, and that j the sympathy with all living things, sinful! and righteous alike, which the imagina (tive arts awaken, is that forgiveness of sins commanded by Christ. The reason, and by the reason he meant deductions from the observations of the senses, William...

Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats is a collection of essays about art written during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His thoughts on symbolism versus allegory, art as "the theater of commerce" versus art as a "great Passion" and the essays on William Blake are marvelous. This book is a real treasure and one to add to the collection.

"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"

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments published ideas of good and evil. The book offers titles like 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 and much more.