Prefaces and Introductions

Chapter 1 Introduction and headnotes to Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry , ed. W.B.Yeats (1888)

Chapter 2 ‘William Carleton’, in Stories from Carleton , ed. W.B.Yeats (1889)

Chapter 3 Introduction and headnotes (1890) to Representative Irish Tales , ed. W.B.Yeats (1891)

Chapter 4 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)

Chapter 5 ‘William Allingham 1824–1889’ (1891), in The Poets and the Poetry of the Century , ed. Alfred H. Miles (1892)

Chapter 6 ‘Ellen O’Leary 1831–1889’ (1891), in The Poets and the Poetry of the Century , ed. Alfred H. Miles (1892)

Chapter 7 Preface ( c . 1892) to The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical , ed. Edwin J. Ellis and W. B. Yeats, 3 vols (1893)

Chapter 8 Introduction to Poems of William Blake , ed. W. B. Yeats (1893, rev. 1905)

Chapter 9 ‘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)

Chapter 10 ‘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)

Chapter 11 ‘AE’ (1898; rev. 1900), in A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue , ed. Stopford A. Brooke and T. W. Rolleston (1900)

Chapter 12 ‘Nora Hopper’ (1898; rev. 1900), in A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue , ed. Stopford A. Brooke and T.W. Rolleston (1900)

Chapter 13 ‘Althea Gyles’, in A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue , ed. Stopford A. Brooke and T. W. Rolleston (1900)

Chapter 14 ‘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)

Chapter 15 Preface to The Love Songs of Connacht: Being the Fourth Chapter of the Songs of Connacht , collected and tr. Douglas Hyde (1904)

Chapter 16 Preface to Lionel Johnson, ‘Poetry and Patriotism’, in Poetry and Ireland: Essays by W. B. Yeats and Lionel Johnson (1908)

Chapter 17 Preface to John M. Synge, Deirdre of the Sorrows: A Play (1910)

Chapter 18 Introduction to Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (1912)

Chapter 19 Preface to Rabindranath Tagore, The Post Office , tr. Devabrata Mukerjea (1914)

Chapter 20 Preface (1921) to John M. Synge, Shingu Gikyoku Zenshu (‘Collected Plays of Synge’), tr. Mineko Matsumura (1923)

Chapter 21 Introduction to Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales (1923)

Chapter 22 Preface to John Butler Yeats, Early Memories: Some Chapters of Autobiography (1923)

Chapter 23 Preface (1923) to Oliver St John Gogarty, An Offering of Swans and Other Poems (1924)

Chapter 24 Preface (1924) to Jean Marie Matthias Philippe Auguste Count de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Axel , tr. H. P. R. Finberg (1925)

Chapter 25 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)

Chapter 26 Prefatory letter to the Medici Society, in William Blake, Songs of Innocence , illus. Jacynth Parsons (1927)

Chapter 27 Introduction to The Coinage of Saorstât Éireann (1928)

Chapter 28 Preface (1929) to Oliver St John Gogarty, Wild Apples (1930)

Chapter 29 ‘Anglo-Irish Ballads’, by F. R. Higgins and W. B. Yeats, in Broadsides: A Collection of Old and New Songs (1935)

Chapter 30 Introduction (1935) to Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley (1936)

Chapter 31 Introduction (1936) to Margot Ruddock, The Lemon Tree (1937)

Chapter 32 ‘Music and Poetry’, by W. B. Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley, in Broadsides: A Collection of New Irish and English Songs (1937)