Celtic Twilight

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781775458449
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

W.B. Yeats was a towering figure in twentieth-century letters. Though best remembered as a poet and playwright, Yeats was insatiably curious and devoted much of his life to the study of folk literatures. This collection brings together an astounding array of Irish legends, fables, and fairy tales.

Table of contents

• THE CELTIC TWILIGHT
• Contents
• The Hosting of the Sidhe
• This Book
• A Teller of Tales
• Belief and Unbelief
• Mortal Help
• A Visionary
• Village Ghosts
• "Dust Hath Closed Helen's Eye"
• A Knight of the Sheep
• An Enduring Heart
• The Sorcerers
• The Devil
• Happy and Unhappy Theologians
• The Last Gleeman
• Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni
• "And Fair, Fierce Women"
• Enchanted Woods
• Miraculous Creatures
• Aristotle of the Books
• The Swine of the Gods
• A Voice
• Kidnappers
• The Untiring Ones
• Earth, Fire and Water
• The Old Town
• The Man and His Boots
• A Coward
• The Three O'Byrnes and the Evil Faeries
• Drumcliff and Rosses
• The Thick Skull of the Fortunate
• The Religion of a Sailor
• Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth, and Purgatory
• The Eaters of Precious Stones
• Our Lady of the Hills
• The Golden Age
• A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for Having Soured the Disposition of Their Ghosts and Faeries
• War
• The Queen and the Fool
• The Friends of the People of Faery
• Dreams that Have No Moral
• By the Roadside
• Into the Twilight
• Endnotes