{"product_id":"the-celtic-twilight","title":"The Celtic Twilight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1893, W. B. Yeats’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Celtic Twilight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a lyrical journey into the folklore, spiritual imagination and oral traditions of rural Ireland. Drawing on stories gathered from local people, Yeats evokes a world inhabited by fairies, ghosts, prophetic visions and mysterious presences, where the boundary between the natural and supernatural remains delicately uncertain. Rather than treating these beliefs as quaint survivals of a disappearing past, he approaches them with curiosity and reverence, attentive to the poetry and imaginative richness of the people who preserve them. The Irish countryside becomes a place of enchantment, where everyday encounters open onto older, stranger ways of understanding the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA formative work of the Irish Literary Revival, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Celtic Twilight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e helped establish Yeats’s lifelong engagement with Irish myth, national identity and the unseen dimensions of experience. Its prose moves between folklore, personal reflection and literary reverie, revealing the early development of the symbolic imagination that would later define his poetry. Both a record of vanishing traditions and an act of creative transformation, the book captures Ireland at a moment when cultural memory was becoming central to the search for a modern national literature. Its enduring appeal lies in Yeats’s ability to make the mysterious feel intimate, allowing ancient beliefs to shimmer within the ordinary landscape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— W. B. Yeats, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Celtic Twilight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Celtic Twilight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The Celtic Twilight can be seen as a Yeatsian ‘antithetical’ cultural history, an invented history relying as much upon creative vision as it does upon established facts or academic rigour.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Nicholas Beauchesne, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRoutledge Encyclopedia of Modernism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64025772622154,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/products\/the-celtic-twilight","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}