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Title: Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by William Butler Yeats ISBN: 0-486-26941-8 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 23 December, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Pure Drivel
Comment: The road to hell... well that's what this is. Yeats wanted to create quaint traditions to revive a sense of nationalism and singlhandedly strip mined a culture. Read "In Search of Ancient Ireland" or other scholarly work. The truth of Ireland is as magical as Yeat's babble. Don't waste your time unless you need this book to write a report for school. And even then, use your library.
Rating: 5
Summary: Even a mere mortal can wander in Yeats' Celtic Twilight....
Comment: These stories that Yeats collected are as deeply moving as his poetry. You have the feeling that this collection is a part of the deep well that Yeats' created his earlier 'Celtic Twilight' poetry from. These stories are faery tales, but there is an element of realism to them for, as you read, you doubt not the truth of the tales, and immediately want to escape to Ireland and dance on the hills with the fey folk. Read this in the winter by the fire with a copy of Yeats' early poetry and prepare for a twilight wandering amongst shadowy woods, quiet country roads and green green hills. This is one of those books which you hold up to your heart upon completion, and sigh deeply from the experience of reading it - more of a journey than the act of turning pages and interpreting words...
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent collection
Comment: This is an excellent collection. All sorts of creatures and strange happenings are described, and a good number of the stories are told in the dialect of the person who the story was gotten from (Yeats & his friends traveled around Ireland collecting stories from the people they met - recording the oral traditions, if you will.)
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Title: Irish Myths and Legends by Lady Gregory, William Butler Yeats ISBN: 0762404515 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend & Folklore by William Butler Yeats ISBN: 051748904X Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 11 May, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by William Butler Yeats, Paul Muldoon ISBN: 0812968557 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 11 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: MYTHOLOGIES by William Butler Yeats ISBN: 0684826216 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 26 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Celtic Myths and Legends by T. W. Rolleston ISBN: 0486265072 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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