Irish Fairy Folk Tales by William Butler Yeats (Modern Library)

Hardcover. Condition. Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good-. No Date. Random House (Modern Library).

Yeats has collected specimens representative of every kind of Irish folklore. These folk tales, handed down from century to century are the very voice and spirit of the Irish people. Into these legend are woven the imagination and mystical pathos of the Celtic mind, and for that reason are as true a revelation of Irish character as the authenticated facts of Ireland's history. Who better then to collect and arrange these tales than William Butler Yeats?