基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：496 页
出版日期：2002年02月
ISBN：014018001X
International Standard Book Number：014018001X
条形码：9780140180015
EAN：9780140180015
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics

内容简介 Through his research into Irish folklore, legend, and myth, Yeats attempted to discover a specifically Irish imagination and to create a movement in literature enriched by, and rooted in, a vital narrative tradition. This collection brings together all of Yeats's published prose writings on the subject. These essays, introductions, and sketches are presented chronologically, enabling the reader to perceive how Yeats's analysis develops, embracing ideas and visions of increasing psychological and philosophical complexity.

Included here are a textual and editorial note, introduction, sixty-eight selections, explanatory notes, glossary, and an appendix listing the contents of the 1893 and 1902 editions of The Celtic Twilight.

"Yeats stood for enchantment. . . . He was the real original rationalist who said the fairies stand to reason. He staggered the materialists by attacking their abstract materialism with a completely concrete mysticism." (G. K. Chesterton)
作者简介 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)-Irish poet, dramatist, autobiographer, critic, and occult philosopher -is regarded by many critics as one of the greatest English-language writers of the twentieth century. He dedicated much of his life to the critical reinterpretation and advancement of the Irish literary tradition.