Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Preface by Paul Muldoon
Edited by William Butler Yeats

Preface by Paul Muldoon
Edited by William Butler Yeats

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    About Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

    Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stories evoke both tender pathos and lighthearted mirth and embody what Yeats describes as “the very voice of the people, the very pulse of life.”

    “The impact of these tales doesn’t stop with Yeats, or Joyce, or Oscar Wilde,” writes Paul Muldoon in his Foreword, “for generations of readers in Ireland and throughout the world have found them flourishing like those persistent fairy thorns.”

    About Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

    Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stories evoke both tender pathos and lighthearted mirth and embody what Yeats describes as “the very voice of the people, the very pulse of life.”

    “The impact of these tales doesn’t stop with Yeats, or Joyce, or Oscar Wilde,” writes Paul Muldoon in his Foreword, “for generations of readers in Ireland and throughout the world have found them flourishing like those persistent fairy thorns.”

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    “These folk-tales are full of simplicity and musical occurrences, for they are the literature of a class…who have steeped everything in the heart: to whom everything is a symbol.”—William Butler Yeats

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    Published by Modern Library
    Feb 11, 2003 | 400 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812968552

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    Published by Modern Library
    Jul 18, 2012 | 400 Pages | ISBN 9780307824172

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