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The Celtic Twilight (Annotated) - Enriched Edition Irish Fairy Lore Ghostly Visions and Mystical Folklore from the Living Oral Traditions of the Celtic Countryside - cover

The Celtic Twilight (Annotated) - Enriched Edition Irish Fairy Lore Ghostly Visions and Mystical Folklore from the Living Oral Traditions of the Celtic Countryside

W. B. Yeats

Publisher: e-artnow

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The Celtic Twilight is W. B. Yeats's evocative collection of sketches, anecdotes, and visionary tales drawn from Irish folklore, first published in the 1890s and later revised. Blending ethnographic observation with symbolist prose, Yeats records encounters with peasants, storytellers, spirits, fairies, and prophetic dreamers, transforming oral tradition into a literary meditation on belief. Situated within the Irish Literary Revival, the book resists mere antiquarianism: it presents folklore as a living imaginative order, capable of challenging modern rationalism and nourishing national culture. Yeats, born in Dublin in 1865 and deeply shaped by Sligo's landscapes and legends, sought throughout his career to recover a distinctly Irish mythology for modern literature. His interests in occultism, mysticism, and visionary experience informed his treatment of supernatural testimony not as quaint superstition, but as evidence of hidden dimensions of consciousness and communal memory. The Celtic Twilight reflects his early nationalist and aesthetic ambitions. This book is recommended to readers interested in folklore, Irish cultural history, modernist origins, or Yeats's poetic imagination. It offers not only charming tales, but a profound inquiry into how nations dream themselves into being.

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Available since: 12/12/2023.
Print length: 91 pages.

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