W B Yeats

The Celtic Twilight W B Yeats

This book is not illustrated. This book is not a photocopy. Partial Intro by W. B. Yeats, "I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined. I have, however, been at no pains to separate my own beliefs from those of the peasantry, but have rather let my men and women, ghouls and faeries, go their way unoffended or defended by any argument of mine. The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pulls them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will, can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it does not unbecome me." "The Celtic Twilight" includes forty-two Celtic folklore tales, and Yeats makes shows his fascination and belief in the world of the occult and the existence of faeries.