Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Notes on The Contributors xi
5. Ancient Myth and Poetry: A Panel Discussion 1
6. Saints, Scholars and Others, 500-800 A.D. 17
7. Augusta Gregory, Irish Nationalist: "After All, What Is Wanted But A Hag and A Voice?" 29
8. Ae As a Literary Critic 41
9. Naked Truth, Fine Clothes and Fine Phrases In Synge's Playboy of The Western World 63
10. Hopkins, Yeats and Dublin In The Eighties 77
11. Yeats: The Question of Symbolism 99
12. The Poetry of Confrontation: Yeats and The Dialogue Poem 117
13. Yeats As An Autobiographical Poet 129
14. After "Silence," The "Supreme Theme": Eight Lines of Yeats 149
15. Between Shapes and Shadows 175
16. Two Playwrights: Yeats and Beckett 183
17. Mythologized Presences: Murphy In Its Time 197
18. Beckett, The Camera, and Jack Macgowran 219
19. The Italian Sources For Exiles: Giacosa, Praga, Oriani and Joyce 227
20. Joyce, Eros, and "Array! Surrection" 239
21. Imagination's Abode: The Symbolism of House Settings in Modern Irish Stage Plays 255
22. Recurrent Patterns in O'Casey's Drama 265
23. The Realism of Denis Johnston 281
24. Myles Na Gopaleen 297
25. Imaginative Prose By The Irish, 1820-1970 305
26. The Literary Myths of The Revival: A Case for Their Abandonment 317