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ZIN Product Number: 10490329
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Edition: Special Value
Publisher: Friedman, Michael Publishing Group, Incorporated
ISBN: 158663609X
Release Date: Jan 1, 2002
| |  | | | In Brief
The Nobel-Prize winning poet—William Butler Yeats—has included almost every sort of Irish folk tale in this entertaining and comprehensive collection of fairy tales and songs first released in 1892. Irish folk and fairy tales describe a world where the cycles of love, pain, and death are interrupted by magic. Includes tales of the Banshee, the fish-tailed Merrow, more. These colorful gems are sure to beguile even the most serious of readers. Irish or not, you'll be enchanted by these timeless tales. 416pp.
| | | | From The Publisher
William Butler Yeats included almost every sort of Irish folktale in this marvelous compendium of fairy tales and songs, collected and edited for publication in 1892. Yeats had always been fascinated by Irish myths and folklore. Joining forces with other writers of the Irish Literary Revival who were eager to explore popular sources, Yeat began studying Irish folktales in a serious manner. Together, these writers unlocked the glories of Ireland's past captured in this unique literature.
In the world of Irish fairy tales, the cycles of birth, love, pain, and death have continued unchanged for countless generations. Here is a literature of the heart—a place where anything is possible and demons cannot be easily explained away. In stories where virtually every county and every family is favored or plagued by magic, imagination presses hard upon the routines of daily life to create legends that are both entertaining and terrifying. Here, for example, are tales of the Banshee, whose chilling cry portends death, adn of the fish-tailed Merrow, whose beautiful women spurn their green-haired husbands for handsome local fisherman.
Fairies, changelings, leprechauns, ghosts, giants, devils, and kings fill these pages, beguiling the imagination. Not ocincidentally, it was within the wealth of transcendent experience deeply embedded in Irish folklore that Yeats found the key to his personal and individual mythology—the muse of his poetic genuis.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
"Folk-art is, indeed...the soul where all great art is rooted. Wherever it is spoken by the fireside, or sung by the roadside, or carved upon the lintel, appreciation of the arts that a single mind gives unity and design to, spreads quickly when its hour is come.... There is no story handed down among the cottages that has not words and thoughts to carry one far...for one knows that they ascend like medieval genealogies through unbroken dignities to the beginning of the world." William Butler Yeats
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