The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

by William Butler Yeats

Overview

An exploration of the Sidhe and the people of Ireland by the Nobel Prize–winning writer.

The renowned Irish poet W. B. Yeats was fascinated by the mystical and the supernatural, as well as Irish culture. The Celtic Twilight combines these interests with stories and commentary that both illustrate the inhabitants of the world of the Fae and examine their meaning in the contexts of individuals’ daily lives, societal belief systems, and Ireland’s history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504062909
Publisher:	Open Road Media
Publication date:	05/05/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	123
Sales rank:	708,967
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was an Irish poet, playwright, and author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923. Yeats published his first works in the mid-1880s while still a student; however, his most famous works, such as The Tower and Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems, were not published until after he received the Nobel. He teamed up with Lady Gregory to develop plays in Ireland and soon founded the Irish National Theatre Society. He has since inspired poets and playwrights around the world.

Table of Contents

	This Book	1
	A Teller of Tales	3
	Belief and Unbelief	5
	Mortal Help	7
	A Visionary	9
	Village Ghosts	13
	"Dust Hath Closed Helen's Eye"	19
	A Knight of the Sheep	26
	An Enduring Heart	29
	The Sorcerers	31
	The Devil	35
	Happy and Unhappy Theologians	36
	The Last Gleeman	40
	Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni	46
	"And Fair, Fierce Women"	49
	Enchanted Woods	51
	Miraculous Creatures	55
	Aristotle of the Books	57
	The Swine of the Gods	58
	A Voice	59
	Kidnappers	60
	The Untiring Ones	66
	Earth, Fire and Water	69
	The Old Town	70
	The Man and His Boots	72
	A Coward	73
	The Three O'Byrnes and the Evil Faeries	74
	Drumcliff and Rosses	76
	The Thick Skull of the Fortunate	82
	The Religion of a Sailor	84
	Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth, and Purgatory	85
	The Eaters of Precious Stones	86
	Our Lady of the Hills	87
	The Golden Age	89
	A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for Having Soured the Disposition of Their Ghosts and Faeries	91
	War	94
	The Queen and the Fool	96
	The Friends of the People of Faery	100
	Dreams That Have No Moral	106
	By the Roadside	116
	Into the Twilight	118