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The Cutting of an Agate (Classic Reprint)
The Cutting of an Agate - Classic Reprint Author:W. B. Yeats I am writing with my imagination stirred by a visit to the studio of Mr. Dulac, the distinguished illustrator of the Arabian Nights. I saw there the mask and headdress to be worn in a play of mine by the player who will speak the part of Cuchulain, and who wearing this noble, half-Greek, half-Asiatic face will appear perhaps like an image seen i... more »n reverie by some Orphic worshipper. I hope to have attained the distance from life which can make credible strange events, elaborate words. I have written a little play that can be played in a room for so little money that forty or fifty readers of poetry can pay the price. There will be no scenery, for three musicians, whose seeming sunburned faces will, I hope, suggest that they
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Certain Noble Plays of Japan i; The Tragic Theatre 25; Poetry and Tradition 36; Discoveries 58; Preface to the First Edition of The Well; of the Saints 111; Preface to the First Edition of John M; Synge's Poems and Translations 123; J M Synge and the Ireland of his Time 130 John Shawe-Taylor 177 Edmund Spenser 182
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