Prefaces and Introductions: Uncollected Prefaces and Introductions by Yeats to Works by other Authors and to Anthologies Edited by Yeats

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction and headnotes to Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, ed. W.B.Yeats (1888)....Pages 3-22
‘William Carleton’, in Stories from Carleton, ed. W.B.Yeats (1889)....Pages 23-28
Introduction and headnotes (1890) to Representative Irish Tales, ed. W.B.Yeats (1891)....Pages 29-57
Introduction (‘An Irish Story-teller’), acknowledgement note, ‘The Classification of Irish Fairies’, and ‘Authorities on Irish Folklore’ (1891), in Irish Fairy Tales, ed. W.B.Yeats (1892)....Pages 58-67
‘William Allingham 1824–1889’ (1891), in The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, ed. Alfred H. Miles (1892)....Pages 68-70
‘Ellen O’Leary 1831–1889’ (1891), in The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, ed. Alfred H. Miles (1892)....Pages 71-73
Preface (c. 1892) to The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, ed. Edwin J. Ellis and W. B. Yeats, 3 vols (1893)....Pages 74-78
Introduction to Poems of William Blake, ed. W. B. Yeats (1893, rev. 1905)....Pages 79-101
‘Modern Irish Poetry’ (1894; rev. 1899, c. 1903, 1908), repr. from A Book of Irish Verse Selected from Modern Writers, ed. W. B. Yeats (1895, rev. 1900)....Pages 102-110
‘Lionel Johnson‘ (1898; rev. 1900, 1908), repr. from A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue, ed. Stopford A. Brooke and T. W. Rolleston (1900)....Pages 111-112
‘AE’ (1898; rev. 1900), in A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue, ed. Stopford A. Brooke and T. W. Rolleston (1900)....Pages 113-115
‘Nora Hopper’ (1898; rev. 1900), in A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue, ed. Stopford A. Brooke and T.W. Rolleston (1900)....Pages 116-117
‘Althea Gyles’, in A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue, ed. Stopford A. Brooke and T. W. Rolleston (1900)....Pages 118-118
‘Thoughts on Lady Gregory’s Translations’: Prefaces (1902, 1903; rev. 1905, 1908, 1912), repr. from Lady Gregory, Cuchulain of Muirthemne (1902) and Gods and Fighting Men (1904)....Pages 119-134
Preface to The Love Songs of Connacht: Being the Fourth Chapter of the Songs of Connacht, collected and tr. Douglas Hyde (1904)....Pages 135-135
Preface to Lionel Johnson, ‘Poetry and Patriotism’, in Poetry and Ireland: Essays by W. B. Yeats and Lionel Johnson (1908)....Pages 136-136
Preface to John M. Synge, Deirdre of the Sorrows: A Play (1910)....Pages 137-137
Introduction to Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (1912)....Pages 138-143
Preface to Rabindranath Tagore, The Post Office, tr. Devabrata Mukerjea (1914)....Pages 144-144
Preface (1921) to John M. Synge, Shingu Gikyoku Zenshu (‘Collected Plays of Synge’), tr. Mineko Matsumura (1923)....Pages 145-146
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Introduction to Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales (1923)....Pages 147-151
Preface to John Butler Yeats, Early Memories: Some Chapters of Autobiography (1923)....Pages 152-153
Preface (1923) to Oliver St John Gogarty, An Offering of Swans and Other Poems (1924)....Pages 154-155
Preface (1924) to Jean Marie Matthias Philippe Auguste Count de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Axel, tr. H. P. R. Finberg (1925)....Pages 156-158
Introduction to The Midnight Court, from Brian Merriman and Donagh Rua Macnamara, The Midnight Court and The Adventures of a Luckless Fellow, tr. Percy Arland Ussher (1926)....Pages 159-163
Prefatory letter to the Medici Society, in William Blake, Songs of Innocence, illus. Jacynth Parsons (1927)....Pages 164-165
Introduction to The Coinage of Saorstât Éireann (1928)....Pages 166-171
Preface (1929) to Oliver St John Gogarty, Wild Apples (1930)....Pages 172-174
‘Anglo-Irish Ballads’, by F. R. Higgins and W. B. Yeats, in Broadsides: A Collection of Old and New Songs (1935)....Pages 175-181
Introduction (1935) to Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley (1936)....Pages 182-185
Introduction (1936) to Margot Ruddock, The Lemon Tree (1937)....Pages 186-190
‘Music and Poetry’, by W. B. Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley, in Broadsides: A Collection of New Irish and English Songs (1937)....Pages 191-193
Back Matter....Pages 194-370