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Excerpt from The Tower Press Booklets, Vol. 1: Some Irish Essaya The Editors of this series have asked my permission to reprint the four essays which follow. As I read them over I felt that life moves too quickly, and we can hardly write a word but it seems the moment after to refer only to a byegone age. Nature alone does not change, and the earliest of these essays On an Irish Hill is the only one which still means something to me. I cannot let The Dramatic Treatment of Heroic Literature be reprinted without saying that I feel now o'grady was right, and I retain the essay only because of some compliment implied to the finest personality in contemporary Irish literature. Nationality and Cosmopolitanism in J rt was the last essay in a forgotten con troversey in which W. B. Yeats, John Eglinton, William Larminie and myself took part. The essay on Yeats was written while the poet was still trailing the clouds and sunrise colours with which he came, and before he had published the later dramatic works to which my fantastic reverie over his poetry has no application. A. E. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.