William Butler Yeats And the Irish Literary Revival
William Butler Yeats And the Irish Literary Revival
Horatio Sheafe Krans
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From The Celtic Twilight, his first prose work, it becomes plain how im- portant an influence these boyhood days spent in the West had upon him. There he came completely under the spell of the fairy lore that still lived upon the lips of the people. About Drumcliff and the Rosses, where "to the wise peasant the green hills and woods around him are full of never-ending mystery," and where the whole country "breaks out in ghosts, fairies, and demons," he gathered many a crumb of fairy lore, and "...found a short cut to the dim kingdom." In these places of unearthly resort, so The Celtic Twi- light tells us, the peasant feels himself [42] Digitized by Google THE IRISH LITERARY REVIVAL perpetually haunted by supernatural pres- ences, and is ever ready with complaints like that of a dweller in these scenes, which the book records: "By the cross of Jesus! how shall I go? If I pass by the hill of Dunboy old Cap- tain Burney may look out on me. If I go round by the water, and up by the steps, there is the headless one, and an- other on the quays, and a new one under the old churchyard wall.
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