Discoveries: A Volume of Essays

CONTENTS

Prophet, Priest and King	Page 1
Personality and the Intellectual Essences	5
The Musician and the Orator	9
A Banjo Player	10
The Looking-glass	11
The Tree of Life	12
The Praise of Old Wives’ Tales	15
The Play of Modern Manners	16
Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own	18
Why the Blind Man in Ancient Times was made a Poet	20
Concerning Saints and Artists	24
The Subject Matter of Drama	27
The Two Kinds of Asceticism	30
In the Serpent’s Mouth	32
The Black and the White Arrows	33
His Mistress’s Eyebrows	33
The Tresses of the Hair	35
A Tower on the Apennine	36
The Thinking of the Body	37
Religious Belief necessary to symbolic Art	39
The Holy Places	41

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