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Imaginations and Reveries
Author: A. E.

IMAGINATIONS AND REVERIES - The author desires to make acknowledgment to The Times for permission to include an article on The Spiritual Conflict. - PREFACE - THE publishers of this book thought that a volume of articles and tales written by me during the past twenty-five years would have interest enough to justify publication, and asked me to m... more »ake a selection. I have not been able to make up a book with only one theme. My temperament would only allow me to be happy when I was working at art. My conscience would not let me have peace unless I worked with other Irishmen at the reconstruction of Irish life. Birth in Ireland gave me a bias towards 1rish nationalism, while the spirit which inhabits my body told me the politics of eternity ought to be my only concern, and that all other races equally with my own were children of the Great King. To aid in movements one must be orthodox. My desire to help prompted agreement, while my intellect was always heretical. I had written out of every mood, and could not retain any mood for long. If I advocated a national ideal I felt immediately I could make an equal plea for more cosmopolitan and universal ideas. I have obeyed my intuitions wherever they drew me, for I felt that the Light within us knows better than any other the need and the way. So I have no book on one theme, and the only unity which connects what is here written is a common origin. The reader must strike a balance between the contraries which exist here as they exist in us all, as they exist and are harmonised in that multitudinous meditation which is the universe. A. E. ART AND LITERATURE Two IRISHA RTISTS . PAGE i THE CHARACTER OF HEROIC LITERATURE LADY G REGORYa, fairy godmother, has given to Young Ireland the gift of her Cucfiulain of Muirtfiemne, which should be henceforward the book of its dream. I do not doubt but there will be a great change in the next generation, for the character of many children will have grown to maturity brooding over the memories of heroes who were themselves half children, half demigods. Though the hero tales will have their greatest power over the young, no one mind could measure their depth. Ths-stgcg-s imple--and p-r - i - m .. itiv e,.-yet-they-draw.. us strangely aside from life, and the emotions they awaken are not s - imp - le but co - mp lex. Here are twenty tales, and they are so alike in imaginative character that they seem all to have poured from one mind and to these twenty we could add a hundred others, all endlessly fertile in difference of incident, but all seeming to own the same imaginative creator. It was so for many centuries, and then the maker of the song seems to have grown weary, and distinct voices not overladen with the tradition of the ages were heard and to-day every one wanders in a path of his own, finding or losing the way, the truth, and the life of art in the free play of his desires. There was something more to cause this later period of diverse utterance than the interruption of other races and the claims of the world upon us. Surely the ancient Egyptian met in Memphis or Thebes as many strangers as we did, but he went on through many dynasties carving the same face of mystery and rarely altering the peculiar forms which were his inheritance from the craftsmen of a thousand years before. It was not the introduction of something new, but the loss of something which finally vexed the calm of the Sphinx and marred the Phidian beauty which in Greece was a long dream for many generations. It was not because the Dane or Norman came and dwelt among us that the signature of the Sidhe was withdrawn from the Gaelic mind...

ISBN-13: 9781115604116
ISBN-10: 1115604112
Publication Date: 10/27/2009
Pages: 270
Edition: Large type edition
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Publisher: BiblioLife
Book Type: Paperback
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