| Titre : |
Fairy and folk tales of Ireland |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
W.B. Yeats, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Colin Smythe, 1995 |
| Importance : |
387 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-86140-392-9 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
3. Culture
|
| Index. décimale : |
820 Littérature anglaise |
| Résumé : |
In this delightful gathering of legendary tales and verse, the familiar caracters of Irish myth and folklore come to life: the mercurial trooping fairies, as ready to make mischief as to do good; the solitary and industrious leprechaun and his dissipated relative, 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. Here too are changelings, ghosts, witches, fairy doctors, saints and priests, the devil, giants, kings, queens, princesses, druids and robbers. More than an ambitious and successful effort to preserve the rich heritage of his native land, the volume confirms Yeats's conviction that imagination is the source of both life and art. It also shows that a world fed on dreaming is much more colourful than one that merely looks at reality.
This volume has a Foreword by the noted poet and Yeats and Blake scholar, Kathleen Raine. The cover illustrations are by Rowel Friers. |
Fairy and folk tales of Ireland [texte imprimé] / W.B. Yeats, Auteur . - Colin Smythe, 1995 . - 387. ISBN : 978-0-86140-392-9 Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
3. Culture
|
| Index. décimale : |
820 Littérature anglaise |
| Résumé : |
In this delightful gathering of legendary tales and verse, the familiar caracters of Irish myth and folklore come to life: the mercurial trooping fairies, as ready to make mischief as to do good; the solitary and industrious leprechaun and his dissipated relative, 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. Here too are changelings, ghosts, witches, fairy doctors, saints and priests, the devil, giants, kings, queens, princesses, druids and robbers. More than an ambitious and successful effort to preserve the rich heritage of his native land, the volume confirms Yeats's conviction that imagination is the source of both life and art. It also shows that a world fed on dreaming is much more colourful than one that merely looks at reality.
This volume has a Foreword by the noted poet and Yeats and Blake scholar, Kathleen Raine. The cover illustrations are by Rowel Friers. |
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