Editor's Preface Abbreviations Noble and Ignoble Loyalties: The United Irishman, 21 April 1900 Irish Fairy Beliefs: The Speaker, 14 July 1900 Irish Witch Doctors: The Fortnightly Review, September 1900 Irish Language and Irish Literature: The Leader, 1 September 1900 A Postscript to as Forthcoming Book of Essays by Various Writers: All Ireland Review, 1 December 1900 John Eglinton: The United Irishman, 9 November 1901 Literature and the Conscience: The United Irishman, 7 December 1901 Egyptian Plays: The Star, 23 January 1902 Away: The Fortnightly Review, April 1902 Mr Yeats's New Play: The United Irishman, 5 April 1902 An Ancient Conversation: All Ireland Review, 5, 12 April 1902 The Acting at St Teresa's Hall: The United Irishman, 12 April 1902 The Acting at St Teresa's Hall II: The United Irishman, 26 April 1902 The Freedom of the Theatre: The United Irishman, 1 November 1902 A Canonical Book: The Bookman, May 1903 The Irish National Theatre and Three Sorts of Ignorance: The United Irishman, 24 October 1903 Emmet the Apostle of Irish Liberty: The Gaelic American, 5 March 1904 America and the Arts: The Metropolitan Magazine, April 1905 British Association Visit to the Abbey Theatre: British Association Visit, Abbey Theatre, Special Programme, 4, 8, September 1908 The Art of the Theatre: The New Age, 16 June 1910 The Theatre of Beauty: Harper's Weekly, 11 November 1911 The Story of the Irish Players: Sunday Record-Herald, 4 February 1912 The Polignac Prize: Royal Society of Literature, The Academic Committee: Addresses of Reception, 1914 Thomas David: New Ireland, 17 July 1915 Sir Hugh Lane's Pictures: The Observer, January 21, 1917 Major Robert Gregory: The Observer, February 17, 1918 The Irish Dramatic Movement: The Voice of Ireland, 1923 Nobel Prize Acceptance: Les Prix Nobel en 1923, 1923 Miss Sara Allgood: The Irish Times, January 19, 1924 The Memory of Synge: The Irish Statesman, August 2, 1924 Compulsory Gaelic: The Irish Statesman, August 2, 1924 Royal Irish Society Awards at the Tailteann Festival: The Transatlantic Review, November 1924 An Undelivered Speech: The Irish Statesman, March 14, 1925 Divorce: The Irish Times, June 12, 1925 The Child and the State: The Irish Statesman, December 5, 12, 1925 The Need for Audacity of Thought: The Dial, February 1926 A Defence of the Abbey Theatre: The Dublin Magazine, April-June 1926 Memorial to the Late T.W. Lyster (pamphlet for subscribers), June 1926 The Censorship and St Thomas Aquinas: The Irish Statesman, September 22, 1928 The Irish Censorship: The Spectator, September 29, 1928 Oedipus the King: BBC Broadcast, September 8, 1931 Reading of Poems: BBC Broadcast, September 8, 1931 Ireland, 1921-1931: The Spectator, January 30, 1932 Poems About Women: BBC Broadcast, April 10, 1932 Plain Man's Oedipus: The New York Times, January 15, 1933 The Great Blasket: The Spectator, June 2, 1933 The Growth of a Poet: The Listener, April 4, 1934 The Irish Literary Movement: Radio Aeireann Broadcast, October 12, 1935 Abbey Theatre Broadcast: BBC Broadcast, February 1, 1937 In the Poet's Pub: BBC Broadcast, April 2, 1937 In the Poet's Parlour: BBC Broadcast, April 22, 1937 My Own Poetry: BBC Broadcast, July 3, 1937 My Own Poetry Again: BBC Broadcast, October 29, 1937 I Became an Author: The Listener, August 4, 1938 Appendixes A: Copy-Texts Used for This Edition B: Emendations to the Copy-Texts and Broadcast Texts C: The Setting of 'My Own Poetry' Notes Index