Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
                                            
                            By William Butler Yeats
                            
                                13 Dec, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Nobel Prize-winning writer and poet W.B. Yeats included almost every sort of Irish folk in this marvelous compendium of fairy tales and songs that he collected and edited for publication in 1892. Yeats was fascinated by Irish myths and folklore and j
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                                                Nobel Prize-winning writer and poet W.B. Yeats included almost every sort of Irish folk in this marvelous compendium of fairy tales and songs that he collected and edited for publication in 1892. Yeats was fascinated by Irish myths and folklore and joined forces with the writers of the Irish Literary Revival. He studied Irish folk tales and chose to reintroduce the glory and significance of Ireland's past through this unique literature. Less