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The Celtic Twilight

W. B. Yeats

Yeats draws from personal experiences and stories he has encountered, intertwining them with his contemplations of art, belief, and the nature of reality.

"The Celtic Twilight" by W. B. Yeats is a collection of folklore and mystical tales. Yeats draws from personal experiences and stories he has encountered, intertwining them with his contemplations of art, belief, and the nature of reality.

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Many of the tales in this book were told me by one Paddy Flynn, a little bright-eyed old man, who lived in a leaky and one-roomed cabin in the village of Ballisodare, which is, he was wont to say, “the most gentle”—whereby he meant faery—“place in the whole of County Sligo.” Others hold it, however, but second to Drumcliff and Drumahair. The first time I saw him he was cooking mushrooms for himself; the next time he was asleep under a hedge, smiling in his sleep. He was indeed always cheerful, though I thought I could see in his eyes (swift as the eyes of a rabbit, when they peered out of their wrinkled holes) a melancholy which was well-nigh a portion of their joy; the visionary melancholy of purely instinctive natures and of all animals.

Contents

  1. 01W. B. Yeats
  2. 02The Hosting of the Sidhe
  3. 03This Book
  4. 04I
  5. 05II
  6. 06W. B. Yeats.
  7. 07A Teller of Tales
  8. 08Belief and Unbelief
  9. 09Mortal Help
  10. 10A Visionary
  11. 11Village Ghosts
  12. 12“Dust Hath Closed Helen’s Eye”
  13. 13I
  14. 14II
  15. 15A Knight of the Sheep
  16. 16An Enduring Heart
  17. 17The Sorcerers
  18. 18The Devil
  19. 19Happy and Unhappy Theologians
  20. 20I
  21. 21II
  22. 22The Last Gleeman
  23. 23Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni
  24. 24“And Fair, Fierce Women”
  25. 25Enchanted Woods
  26. 26I
  27. 27II
  28. 28Miraculous Creatures
  29. 29Aristotle of the Books
  30. 30The Swine of the Gods
  31. 31A Voice
  32. 32Kidnappers
  33. 33The Untiring Ones
  34. 34Earth, Fire and Water
  35. 35The Old Town
  36. 36The Man and His Boots
  37. 37A Coward
  38. 38The Three O’byrnes and the Evil Faeries
  39. 39Drumcliff and Rosses
  40. 40The Thick Skull of the Fortunate
  41. 41I
  42. 42II
  43. 43The Religion of a Sailor
  44. 44Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth, and Purgatory
  45. 45The Eaters of Precious Stones
  46. 46Our Lady of the Hills
  47. 47The Golden Age
  48. 48A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for Having Soured the Disposition of Their Ghosts and Faeries
  49. 49War
  50. 50The Queen and the Fool
  51. 51The Friends of the People of Faery
  52. 52Dreams That Have No Moral
  53. 53By the Roadside
  54. 54Into the Twilight

About this edition

Author
W. B. Yeats
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
135 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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