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Includes tales of fairies, changelings, ghosts, witches, saints, the devil, giants, kings, queens, and robbers.
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Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stories evoke both tender pathos and lighthearted mirth and embody what Yeats describes as "the very voice of the people, the very pulse of life."
"The impact of these tales doesn't stop with Yeats, or Joyce, or Oscar Wilde," writes Paul Muldoon in his Foreword, "for generations of readers in Ireland and throughout the world have found them flourishing like those persistent fairy thorns."
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"The impact of these tales doesn't stop with Yeats, or Joyce, or Oscar Wilde," writes Paul Muldoon in his Foreword, "for generations of readers in Ireland and throughout the world have found them flourishing like those persistent fairy thorns."
“These folk-tales are full of simplicity and musical occurrences, for they are the literature of a class...who have steeped everything in the heart: to whom everything is a symbol.”—William Butler Yeats
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- PublisherHippocrene Books
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0880290730
- ISBN 13 9780880290739
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. "Everyone is a visionary if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt is a visionary without scratching."<br /><br />W. B. Yeats included almost every sort of Irish folk tale in this marvelous compendium of fairy tales and song which he collected and edited for publication in 1892. Yeats was fascinated by Irish myths and folklore, and joined forces with the writers of the Irish Literary Revival. He studied Irish folk tales in the British Museum and chose to reintroduce the glory and significance of Ireland's past through this unique literature.<br /><br />In the world of Irish fairy tales, the cycles of birth, love, pain and death have continued unchanged for countless generations. Here is the literature of the heart - a place where anything is possible and demons cannot be rationalized. In stories where every county and family is favored or plagued by magic, imagination and daily life combine in legend which is both entertaining and terrifying. Here are tales of the chilling wail of the Banshee, whose cry portends death, and of the fish-tailed Merrow, whose beautiful women spurn their gree-haired husbands for handsome local fisherman.<br /><br />There are bewitched puddings, lost wishes, fairies, changelings, Leprechauns, ghosts, giants, devils and kings that touch our souls and fire our imaginations. Not coincidentally it is in the wealth of symbol within Irish folklore that Yeats found the key to his personal and individual mythology - the muse of his poetic genius. Seller Inventory # DADAX0880290730
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