Prefaces and Introductions

Prefaces and Introductions

1. Front Matter

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

   • William H. O’Donnell

   Pages 3-22

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

   • William H. O’Donnell

   Pages 23-28

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

   • William H. O’Donnell

   Pages 29-57

5. 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)

   • William H. O’Donnell

   Pages 58-67

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

   • William H. O’Donnell

   Pages 68-70

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

   • William H. O’Donnell

   Pages 71-73

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

   • William H. O’Donnell

   Pages 74-78

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

   • William H. O’Donnell

   Pages 79-101

10. ‘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)

    • William H. O’Donnell

    Pages 102-110

11. ‘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)

    • William H. O’Donnell

    Pages 111-112

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

    • William H. O’Donnell

    Pages 113-115

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

    • William H. O’Donnell

    Pages 116-117

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

    • William H. O’Donnell

    Pages 118-118

15. ‘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)

    • William H. O’Donnell

    Pages 119-134

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

    • William H. O’Donnell

    Pages 135-135

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

    • William H. O’Donnell

    Pages 136-136

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

    • William H. O’Donnell

    Pages 137-137

19. Introduction to Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (1912)

    • William H. O’Donnell

    Pages 138-143