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The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore Kindle Edition

by W. B. Yeats (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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.
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  1. Print length
    129 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Open Road Media
  4. Publication date
    May 5, 2020
  5. File size
    6.6 MB
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Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B087T735DB
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (May 5, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 5, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6.6 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 129 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 out of 5 stars 48 ratings

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  • C. G. Hill
    5.0 out of 5 stars This book has so many interesting stories and essays in ...
    Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2014
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    This book has so many interesting stories and essays in it. It's a must for any library that has books of 'investigation' in it of the past customs, stories, and fables of our different regions.
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  • Arch Llewellyn
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dream Time
    Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2003
    This is an essential read for any Yeats fan. It shows his will to believe at its most naked, before the gyres and slouching Sphinxes forged it into System. You can see Yeats mapping the wistful melancholy of his early poems onto the village folklore around his family home in Sligo--already in 1893, he's looking for a way to weld his personal interests in aestheticism and the occult to a wider national cause. You'll also find the seeds of the older proto-Fascist Yeats in his worship of lineage, parochial peasant wisdom and anti-modernism (the faery folk, along with the Great Anglo-Irish houses, have sadly for Yeats all but disappeared). The dreamy villagers he meets with turn back the clock against "that decadence we call progress" in a way that the poet at 28 already finds powerfully attractive.
    Most of Yeats's early poems can be linked to a vignette from "The Celtic Twilight," while recurring motifs from his later writings--beauty, passionate old age, ghosts--take on a deeper resonance after reading these lighter pieces. Yeats walks a fine line between believing in the faeries that so many of the peasants he talks to can see, and regarding them simply as "dramatizations of our moods," an example of the tragic Celtic taste for unreachable beauty that he wanted to capture in his poems. Yeats walked that line in one form or another his whole life, and I understood the poems much better after reading these sketches--for that alone, this book's worth a read.
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  • J. V. Beek
    1.0 out of 5 stars The book cover of the book I received was completely ...
    Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2017
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    The book cover of the book I received was completely different than the book cover pictured on the website. I don't understand why there is such a discrepancy between what is presented and what is actually received. Why not show the cover of the book that is actually being sold.?
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  • Cwn_Annwn
    2.0 out of 5 stars I was disappointed
    Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2009
    Yeats compiled these stories from various Irish hillbillies in the 1890s. I am a lover of all things Celtic as well as a lover of folklore, local legends, ghost stories, faerie lore, etc, but surprisingly I just didn't get sucked into this book like I thought I would.
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  • Diggermitch
    5.0 out of 5 stars An intersting work
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2018
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    A fresh look at Yeats from a different perspective great service well packed and super value thank you
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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars It is a book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 9, 2021
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    Ramblings of a poet in the 19c
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  • Shirley M.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 26, 2017
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    Great read.
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