Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth

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Penguin UK, 29 de jul. de 1993 - 496 páginas
This collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats’s published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs. Through his researches on Irish folklore, Yeats attempted to create a movement in literature that was enriched by and rooted in a vital native tradition. In this volume Yeats’s essays, introductions and sketches are presented chronologically, giving a clear picture of how his analysis developed, increasing in its depth and complexity in his quest to create an Ireland of the imagination.
 

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A TEXTUAL AND EDITORIAL NOTE
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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION TO FAIRY AND FOLK TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY
THE IRISH FAIRIES from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry 1888
IRISH FAIRIES GHOSTS WITCHES from Lucifer 1889
SCOTS AND IRISH FAIRIES from the Scots Observer 1889
COLUMKILLE AND ROSSES from the Scots Observer 1889
BARDIC IRELAND from the Scots Observer 1890
TALES FROM THE TWILIGHT from the Scots Observer 1890
IRISH FAIRIES from the Leisure Hour 1890
INVOKING THE IRISH FAIRIES from the Irish Theosophist 1890
IRISH FOLK TALES from the National Observer 1891
AN IRISH VISIONARY from the National Observer 1891
AN IRISH STORYTELLER the introduction to Irish Fairy Tales 1892

IRISH WONDERS from the Scots Observer 1889
VILLAGE GHOSTS from the Scots Observer 1889
KIDNAPPERS from the Scots Observer 1889
THE LAST GLEEMAN from the National Observer 1893
A LITERARY CAUSERIE from the Speaker 1893
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W B Yeats (1865 - 1939) is one of the great and innovative poets of the twentieth century. Much of his most vigorous verse on love, sex, Irish and international politics, the complexities of the occult and the 'sedentary toil' of poetry was producedin the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939.

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