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Plays for an Irish Theatre (Classic Reprint)
Plays for an Irish Theatre - Classic Reprint Author:W. B. Yeats PREFACE xi 1 A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air.' I have heard Anthony speak those lines before a painted cloth that, though it could not make them nothing, left in the memory the sensation of somet... more »hing childish, theatrical as we say. Words as solemn, and having more for the mind's eye than those of the Book of Common Prayer are spoken where no reformer has cast out the idolatrous mummery and no tradition sanctified. In no art can we do well unless we keep to those effects that are peculiar to it or it can show better than the other arts. We no longer paint wood with a grain that is not its own, but are content that it should display itself or be covered with paint that pretends to be but paint, and if we make a design for a vase or a plate, we are careful not to attempt something that can be better done in an easel picture. But in
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