Prefaces and Introductions

Editor's Preface - Prefaces and Introductions - Introduction to Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry - 'William Carleton' in Stories from Carleton - Introduction to Representative Irish Tales - Introduction to Irish Fairy Tales - 'William Allingham 1824-1889' in The Poets and the Poetry of the Century - 'Ellen O'Leary 1831-1889' in The Poets and the Poetry of the Century - Preface to The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical - Introduction to Poems of William Blake - 'Modern Irish Poetry' reprinted from A Book of Irish Verse Selected from Modern Writers - 'Lionel Johnson', 'AE', 'Nora Hopper' and 'Althea Gyles', reprinted in A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue - 'Thoughts on Lady Gregory's Translations' Prefaces to Cuchulain of Muirthemne and Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Preface to Love Songs of Connacht Being the Fourth Chapter of the Songs of Connacht - Untitled Introduction to 'Poetry and Patriotism' by Lionel Johnson in Poetry and Ireland: Essays by W.B.Yeats and Lionel Johnson - Preface to Deirdre of the Sorrows: A Play by J.M.Synge Introduction to Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany - Preface to The Post Office by Rabindranath Tagore - Untitled Preface to Shingu Gikyoku Zenshu (Collected Plays of J.M.Synge) - Introduction to The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde - Preface to Early Memories: Some Chapters of Autobiography by J.B.Yeats - Preface to An Offering of Swans and Other Poems by Oliver Gogarty - Preface to 'Axel' by Jean Marie Matthias Philippe August Count de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam - Introduction to The Midnight Court by Brian Merriman - Prefatory Letter to the Medici Society in Songs of Innocence by William Blake - 'What we did or tried to do' The Coinage of Saorstat Eireann - Preface to Wild Apples by Oliver Gogarty - 'Anglo-Irish Ballads by F.R.Higgins and W.B.Yeats in Broadsides: A Collection of Old and New Songs - Introduction to Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley - Introduction to The Lemon Tree by Margot Ruddock - 'Music and Poetry' by W.B.Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley in Broadsides: A Collection of Irish and English Songs - Textual Appendices - Explanatory Annotation - Individual Textual Introductions - List of Copy-texts used for this edition - List of Emendations to the Copy-texts - List of Abbreviations of Works by W.B.Yeats - Index