Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth Paperback - 2002
by William Butler Yeats; Robert Welch (Editor)
Through his research into Irish folklore, legend, and myth, Yeats attempted to discover a specifically Irish imagination and to create a movement in literature enriched by, and rooted in, a vital narrative tradition. This collection brings together all of Yeats's published prose writings on the subject. These essays, introductions, and sketches are presented chronologically, enabling the reader to perceive how Yeats's analysis develops, embracing ideas and visions of increasing psychological and philosophical complexity.
Included here are a textual and editorial note, introduction, sixty-eight selections, explanatory notes, glossary, and an appendix listing the contents of the 1893 and 1902 editions of The Celtic Twilight.
"Yeats stood for enchantment. . . . He was the real original rationalist who said the fairies stand to reason. He staggered the materialists by attacking their abstract materialism with a completely concrete mysticism." (G. K. Chesterton)
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Dr Corbett, Bishop of Oxford and Norwich, lamented long ago the departure of the English fairies.
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- Title Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth
- Author William Butler Yeats; Robert Welch (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 458
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, London
- Date February 26, 2002
- ISBN 9780140180015 / 014018001X
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 1 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Myth in literature, Folklore in literature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94142187
- Dewey Decimal Code 398.094
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