This short and well-loved book is a series of essays by Yeats on Irish folklore, particularly the Fairies and other supernatural beings. Yeats, a key figure in the Celtic literary revivial at the turn of the 20th Century, also moved in occult circles and knew many of the key figures of the Golden Dawn. He served as a Senator of the Irish free state and won the Nobel prize for literature in 1923. Yeats' writings entered in the public domain in 1999.
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