The Celtic Twilight
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William Butler Yeats
(4,333 Sterne; 27 Bewertungen)
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.
Many of the tales in this book were told me by one Paddy Flynn, a little bright-eyed old man, who lived in a leaky and one-roomed cabin in the village of Ballisodare. He was a great teller of tales, and unlike our common romancers, knew how to empty heaven, hell, and purgatory, faeryland and earth, to people his stories. He did not live in a shrunken world, but knew of no less ample circumstance than did Homer himself. Perhaps the Gaelic people shall by his like bring back again the ancient simplicity and amplitude of imagination.
Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet. (W. B. Yeats) (4 hr 10 min)
Chapters
A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the Disposition of their Ghosts …
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Read by MaryAnne
Bewertungen
Yeats had GREATNESS!
Bluealways
(5 Sterne)
These are important, so only a small part of his oeuvre. Yet, being part of greatness, they are polished and superb. These reach far beyond children's stories, or common fairy tales. Ireland has a past so wonderful. It awes one.
Excellent stories
Brightsmith1
(5 Sterne)
So many wonderful voices telling tales We love to hear these Irish & Scottish folk stories of the Noble folk thier land and ways beautifully encasdd between the tireless rytham of Yates Words thans to all the readers and Librivox staff
wonderful book
adam
(5 Sterne)
I realized I've read this before once I started the recording. Sounds like it's. Lear and good quality and this is a charming, wonderful book worth enjoying.
Surpassed by its successors
Timothy Ferguson
(3 Sterne)
I wanted to like this recording, and so far as it goes, it’s fine. The problem, I suppose is that Yeats was one of the founders of his discipline, and so later people, building on his work, have eclipsed him. It is an interesting read if you are fascinated by folklore, but more modern folklorists have done far better work since.