The Celtic twilight
By: by W. B. Yeats.
Publisher: A. H. Bullen
Published: 1902
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939 -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939 -- Childhood and youth; Tales -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Poets, Irish -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Mythology, Celtic -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Poets, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography; Folklore -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Sligo (Ireland : County) -- Social life and customs
Genres: Biography.
Notes: "Printed 1893; reprinted with additions 1902."
"Printed 1893; reprinted with additions 1902."
Table of contents: title: This book.-A teller of tales.-Belief and unbelief.-Mortal help.-A visionary.-Village ghosts.-ʻDust hath closed Helen's eye.'-A knight of the sheep.-An enduring heart.-The sorcerers.-The devil.-Happy and unhappy theologians.-The last gleeman.-Regina, regina pigmeorum, veni.-ʻAnd fair, fierce women.'-Enchanted woods.-Miraculous creatures.-Aristotle of the books.-The swine of the gods.-A voice.-Kidnappers.-The untiring ones.-Earth, fire and water.-The old town.-The man and his boots.-A coward.-The three O'Byrnes and the evil faeries.-Drumcliff and Rosses.-The thick skull of the fortunate.-The religion of a sailor.-Concerning the nearness together of heaven, earth, and purgatory.-The eaters of precious stones.-Our Lady of the hills.-The golden age.-A remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the disposition of their ghosts and faeries.-War.-The queen and the fool.-The friends of the people of faery.-Dreams that have no moral.-By the roadside.-Into the twilight.