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The Celtic twilight

William Butler Yeats

The Celtic Twilight is an Irish poetry volume and a collection of William Butler Yeats's finest poems about mythical beings such as fairies, elves, and ghosts. Contents: This book -- A teller of tales -- Belief and unbelief -- Mortal help -- A visionary -- Village ghosts -- 'Dust hath closed Helen's eye' -- A knight of the sheep -- An enduring heart -- The sorcerers -- The devil -- Happy and unhappy theologians -- The last gleeman -- Regina, regina pigmeorum, veni -- 'And fair, fierce women' -- Enchanted woods -- Miraculous creatures -- Aristotle of the books -- The swine of the gods -- A voice -- Kidnappers -- The untiring ones -- Earth, fire and water -- The old town -- The man and his boots -- A coward -- The three O'Byrnes and the evil faeries -- Drumcliff and Rosses -- The thick skull of the fortunate -- The religion of a sailor -- Concerning the nearness together of heaven, earth, and purgatory -- The eaters of precious stones -- Our Lady of the hills -- The golden age -- A remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the disposition of their ghosts and faeries -- War -- The queen and the fool -- The friends of the people of faery -- Dreams that have no moral -- By the roadside -- Into the twilight.

GenresFictionFantasyLiterary CollectionsEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, WelshPoetry

212 pages, 2 editions

English edition · First published 1893 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · ISBN 9780861400690

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Editions

2 editions

English

  • The Celtic twilight · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 1893 · ISBN 9780861400690 This page
  • The Celtic Twilight · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2014 · ISBN 9781500646714

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