Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Modern Library Classics)
Contributors: William Butler Yeats (Editor); Paul Muldoon (Preface)
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: February 11, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780812968552
Subjects: Folklore; Myth & legend told as fiction; General; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Sociology; Fiction; Ireland; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Fiction / General
First sentence: Growing up in the 1950s in Northern Ireland, I had any number of opportunities to experience the fairy faith.
Description: 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."--Publisher description.