Irish Fairy and Folk Tales - Hardcover

Yeats, W. B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880290730 ISBN 13: 9780880290739

Publisher: Hippocrene Books, 1987

Synopsis

Includes tales of fairies, changelings, ghosts, witches, saints, the devil, giants, kings, queens, and robbers.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

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."

From the Back Cover:

“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

About this edition

• Publisher: Hippocrene Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0880290730
• ISBN 13: 9780880290739
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416