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Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) [Mass Market Paperback]

William Yeats (Author), Robert Welch (Introduction)
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Publication Date: 29 July 1993 | ISBN-10: 014018001X | ISBN-13: 978-0140180015
This collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats’s published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs. Through his researches on Irish folklore, Yeats attempted to create a movement in literature that was enriched by and rooted in a vital native tradition. In this volume Yeats’s essays, introductions and sketches are presented chronologically, giving a clear picture of how his analysis developed, increasing in its depth and complexity in his quest to create an Ireland of the imagination.

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics (29 July 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 014018001X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140180015
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.1 x 19.8 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 754,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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W B Yeats (1865 - 1939) is one of the great and innovative poets of the twentieth century. Much of his most vigorous verse on love, sex, Irish and international politics, the complexities of the occult and the 'sedentary toil' of poetry was producedin the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Yeats, a Poet, even in Prose 24 Dec 2006
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This book was great. It is a expose of Yeats evolution from a writer to a better writer to a Master over a span of time. His critiques of peers and his approval or caustic distain are wonderful. For me he brought to life the very real fairy tale world which the Irish lived in the 1800's. I recommend it to all. It is a bit heavy at times but in some places his sentences reveal such a love for his subject that I consider it to be as poetry. I guess I can only compare some of these passages to the first chapter of the book Hawaii written by James Michner.
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