The Celtic Twilight
W. B Yeats
In addition to his considerable gifts as a poet, William Butler Yeats had a deep and lifelong interest in Irish folklore, and in The Celtic Twilight he collects tales told by friends, neighbors and acquaintances that venture into the realm of the mystical and magical. The title refers to the pre-dawn hours when Druid rituals were performed. These words from Yeats’ introduction give a good sense of his purpose in plucking this “handful of dreams”.
I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined. I have, however, been at no pains to separate my own beliefs from those of the peasantry, but have rather let my men and women, dhouls and faeries, go their way unoffended or defended by any argument of mine. The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.
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Product Details
| Read by: | Multiple readers |
| Length: | 4 hours and 7 minutes |
| Type: | Collaborative reading |
| Media: | MP3 CD |
| Package: | Paper sleeve |
| Item No.: | CD-1289 |
| List Price: | $2.99 |
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| CD jewel case art: | Includes cover, inner insert, and J-card |
| DVD case art: | Includes wrapper for Amaray box and inner insert |
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Artwork
Cover: Ireland Sunsets, photo by Jon Sullivan, 2013
Inset: A Moonlit Landscape, by James Arthur O'Connor, between 1792 and 1841
Inset: Portrait of W. B. Yeats by his father John Butler Yeats, November, 1896
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Table of Contents
| Track | Title | Reader | Length |
| 1 | 00 - Epigraph The Hosting of | Shakira Searle | 2:05 |
| 2 | 01 - This book | Arie | 2:33 |
| 3 | 02 - A Teller of Tales | Arie | 4:11 |
| 4 | 03 - Belief and Unbelief | Arie | 3:26 |
| 5 | 04 - Mortal Help | Arie | 2:27 |
| 6 | 05 - A Visionary | Arie | 7:32 |
| 7 | 06 - Village Ghosts | Arie | 12:36 |
| 8 | 07 - 'Dust Hath closed Helen's | Arie | 15:16 |
| 9 | 08 - A Knight of the Sheep | Arie | 5:40 |
| 10 | 09 - An Enduring Heart | Arie | 4:47 |
| 11 | 10 - The Sorcerers | Arie | 7:42 |
| 12 | 11 - The Devil | russellhughes | 1:31 |
| 13 | 12 - Happy and Unhappy Theolog | Jordan Heron | 7:56 |
| 14 | 13 - The Last Gleeman | John O'Riordan | 13:56 |
| 15 | 14 - Regina Regina Pigmeorum | John O'Riordan | 6:49 |
| 16 | 15 - 'And Fair Fierce Women' | Luna Pierson | 4:18 |
| 17 | 16 - Enchanted Woods | Luna Pierson | 8:12 |
| 18 | 17 - Miraculous Creatures | KHand | 2:33 |
| 19 | 18 - Aristotle of the Books | russellhughes | 1:27 |
| 20 | 19 - The Swine of the Gods | Tim Rainey | 1:47 |
| 21 | 20 - A Voice | Anusha Iyer | 3:21 |
| 22 | 21 - Kidnappers | John O'Riordan | 13:30 |
| 23 | 22 - The Untiring Ones | John O'Riordan | 5:27 |
| 24 | 23 - Earth Fire and Water | Robert Dixon | 2:06 |
| 25 | 24 - The Old Town | John Van Stan | 3:49 |
| 26 | 25 - The Man and his Boots | John Van Stan | 2:29 |
| 27 | 26 - A Coward | Simon Smoke | 3:10 |
| 28 | 27 - The Three O'Byrnes and th | Kathy Wright | 3:38 |
| 29 | 28 - Drumcliff and Rosses | James McAndrew | 16:52 |
| 30 | 29 - The Thick Skull of the Fo | Simon Smoke | 3:52 |
| 31 | 30 - The Religion of a Sailor | Glenn O'Brien | 2:24 |
| 32 | 31 - Concerning the nearness t | MaryAnne | 2:16 |
| 33 | 32 - The Eaters of Precious St | MaryAnne | 2:24 |
| 34 | 33 - Our Lady of the Hills | Imke Stevens | 4:26 |
| 35 | 34 - The Golden Age | MaryAnne | 3:03 |
| 36 | 35 - A Remonstrance with Scots | MaryAnne | 7:30 |
| 37 | 36 - War | MaryAnne | 3:23 |
| 38 | 37 - The Queen and the Fool | Imke Stevens | 8:40 |
| 39 | 38 - The Friends of the People | Max Wainer | 12:25 |
| 40 | 39 - Dreams that have no Moral | MaryAnn | 20:37 |
| 41 | 40 - By the Roadside | Erin B. Lillis | 3:25 |
| 42 | 41 - Into the Twilight | Shakira Searle | 1:41 |
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