Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888)
Book ID: 69552
Price: €250.00
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. Edited and Selected by W.B. Yeats. London: Walter Scott, 1888. First Edition. Pp cviii, 326, + adverts; uncut. Slate green cloth boards, title label to spine, covers darkened & worn along spine, scuffed at head & tail of spine; contents pages in nice bright condition.
Number 32 of Camelot Series.
In this delightful gathering of legend and song, the familiar characters of Irish myth come to life: the mercurial trooping fairies, as ready to make mischief as to do good; the solitary and industrious Lepracaun and his dissipated cousin, the Cluricaun; the fearsome Pooka, who lives among ruins and has “grown monstrous with much solitude”; and the Banshee, whose eerie wailing warns of death. More than an ambitious and successful effort to preserve the rich heritage of his native land, this volume confirms Yeats’s conviction that imagination is the source of both life and art.
In addition to editing, Yeats’ contributions include “The Stolen Child” and “The Priest of Coloony.”
[Wade 212]
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