Irish Fairy and Folk Tales - Softcover

Yeats, William Butler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408697769 ISBN 13: 9781408697764

Publisher: Wharton Press, 2008

Synopsis

An ethereal collection of long-lost fairy tales and folk stories from Ireland, collated and edited by one of the most sensational Irish poets, W. B. Yeats.

This anthology of Irish myths and folklore was first published in 1892 after being carefully collated by W. B. Yeats. The prolific poet had a deep interest in the folkloric history of his country and dedicated part of his career to editing traditional fairy tales and translating them from the original Irish. Irish Fairy and Folk Tales is an illusive collection of beautiful and ghostly stories concerning fairies, changelings, witches, giants, the devil, and the supernatural.

The tales featured in this volume are divided between the following sections:

- The Trooping Fairies

- Changelings

- The Merrow

- The Solitary Fairies

- Ghosts

- Witches, Fairy Doctors

- T’yeer-Na-N-Oge

- Saints, Priests

- The Devil

- Giants

- Kings, Queens, Princesses, Earls, Robbers

About this title

From the Back Cover

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."

Edition details

• Publisher: Wharton Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408697769
• ISBN 13: 9781408697764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 526