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George W. Russell) THE LIVING TORCH - A.E. (George W. Russell) Edited by Monk Gibbon With an Introductory Essay New York The Macmillan Company 1938 -------------------------------- "He shook out ideas as from a torch in dazzling improvisation, and each one carried away a spark to light his own fire." - Simone Tery, of A.E.'s conversation -------------------------------- Editor's Note I owe a big debt of gratitude to my wife for assistance in the selection and arrangement of this book to Mr. and Mrs. Curran and Mr. and Mrs. Norman for many talks about A.E. and much helpful criticism and suggestion, to Mrs. E. Hickson for a similar service, and to my friend Rupert Hart-Davis for the infinite patience and care with which he has read the proofs. -------------------------------- CONTENTS A.E. [[Biographical]] ............................................... 3 Literature and Criticism The Making of Poetry .............................. 85 A Gold Standard for Literature ......................... 86 Yeat's Essays ..................................... 90 The Winding Stair ...................................... 91 A Journal of Yeats ................................................. 94 Autobiography ........................................ 95 Of Yeats' Style ............................... 96 An Anthology ................................................. 97 A Poet ....................................................... 97 Another Poet ........................................... 98 Another .................................................... 98 Another ..................................................... 98 Another ............................................. 99 Another .................................................... 99 French and English Poets .......................................... 99 A Woman Poet .................................................... 100 Modernist Poetry .............................................. 100 Anthologies ...................................................... 101 Genius ............................................................. 101 The Memoirs of John Butler Yeats .................................... 102 Sephens' "Deirdre" ............................................... 103 A Platonic Criticism .......................................... 104 Stephen Mackenna and the Genius for Translation ..................... 107 Shakespeare and the Blind Alley ..................................... 111 Genius and Environment .......................................... 114 Blake ................................................................... 116 Blake's Prophetic Books .................................... 118 Blake's Designs ................................................. 121 The Hierarchy of Ideas ................................................... 123 The Architect of Dream ................................. 126 Personal Immortality ............................. 128 Dunne's Experiment with Time ........................ 131 The Professor and the Myth .................. 133 The Antecedents of History ....................... 134 Reaction in Literature ............................. 137 Joyce ........................... 139 Reticences ......................... 140 Men and Women Standish O'Grady .............. 143 Susan Mitchell ................... 145 John Butler Yeats ................................... 149 Katharine Tynan ......................... 151 Philip Francis Little .............................. 154 A Bibliophile ............................... 158 Eva Gore-Booth ................................... 162 Tagore ........................... 166 Krishnamurti .............................. 167 Kahil Gibran ............................ 168 Gandhi ............................................. 169 George Bernard Shaw ............................... 171 Alice Stopford Green ............................. 172 America and the Americans ................................ 174 A Journalist ............................................ 178 Dietician ...................... 179 Politics of Time and Eternity The Nation and Beauty ..................... 183 Must Ireland's Beauty Perish ......................... 184 Censorship ..................................... 187 The One-Dimensional Mind ................................ 191 Light in Dark Places .................................. 193 Imagination and the Ideal State .................................. 196 Cities ...................................... 197 The City States ............................................ 198 Peace ................................... 200 Complexities ............................... 200 Whitehead and Religion ......................... 201 A Centenary ....................................... 202 This Miraculous World ............................... 204 Reason and Intuition ..................................... 205 Suffering .................. 207 Endurance .................................................. 208 The Two Certainties ............................... 208 Religion and Fear ........................... 208 The Intruder ........................................... 209 Hell's Pavement ................................ 209 Human Nature ......................... 210 Religion and Science ............................ 210 Primitives ....................................... 211 Conversions ............................ 211 Symbols .............................................. 211 Foolishness .................................. 212 The Eternal Feminine ................................ 212 Boxers ............................................ 213 Women and Civilization ............................... 214 The Social Skin ....................................... 215 New Powers ............................................. 215 The Greatest European ..........................................216 Dictators .................................................. 217 Rivalries ............................................ 217 The Dublin Record Office ....................................... 217 Intensities ................................................. 218 The Pack ................................. 218 The Aftermath of the War Mood ................................ 220 The State .......................................... 222 Unities ........................................ 223 Emigration ............................................. 224 Drunkenness ........................................ 225 Humanitarians ..................................... 226 The Danger of Ideas ...................................... 227 More Criticism Free Verse .................................... 233 The Secret of Verbal Music ........................... 236 A Gaelic Literature .................................... 238 The Reading of Poetry ............................ 240 Myth and Folk-Tale ............................ 242 Romance ........................................ 245 The Abbey Theatre .................................. 247 Yeats and William Morris ................................ 250 Yeats' Controversies ...................................... 251 "A Vision," by Yeats ................................ 252 Yeats and the Nobel Prize .............................. 256 Heavenly Geometry .................................... 259 Yeats Rewritten ..................................... 262 "October Blast" ................................ 264 Illimitable Horizons ............................................ 267 The Critic ........................................... 267 A Rebel Artist ............................. 267 Insurgents ............................................. 268 Derivations .................................. 269 Juniors ......................... 269 Nature and Art ..................................... 270 Are the Masterpieces There ................................ 270 Van Gogh ..................................... 271 Jack Yeats ..................................... 272 Leonardo ................................................ 274 Rossetti ............................... 276 Harry Clarke's Illustrations to "Faust" ......................... 277 The Hibernian Academy, 1970 ........................... 280 The Art Patron .............................. 284 Art for Art's Sake ................................... 285 Conscience in Reviewing ................................ 286 Of Plotinus Again ......................... 286 Masefield's "Jesus" ............................... 289 The Bible Retold ............................... 290 Jung .......................... 291 Psychologists ............................... 293 Sinclair Lewis's "Elmer Gantry" .................................. 294 Middleton Murry and Religion ........................... 295 The Hen in Eagle's Feathers ........................... 297 De Quincey and Poetical Prose ............................. 300 Maurois's "Byron" .................................. 302 Tolstoi ........................................ 305 Tolstoi's Diary ........................................ 309 Tolstoi and George Sand ........................ 310 The Dark Avatar .............................................. 312 The Anatomy of a Poet ............................ 314 Swinburne ........................................... 317 American Culture ................................. 319 Francis Thompson ........................................... 323 The "Prometheus Bound" .......................... 326 Poetry of Revolt ................................ 326 Coleridge .................................. 327 Mangan ........................... 327 Thoreau .....................................
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