Kathleen Raine, ed. & intro., The Celtic Twilight, by W. B. Yeats (1981)

Bibliographical note: W. B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight (London: Bullen 1893; revised edn. Bullen 1902); rep. edn., introduced by Kathleen Raine (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1981), ill. by Jean Townsend. For a full copy of Raine's introduction, see under RICORSO Library, “Criticism > Major Authors” > Raine - as attached.
W. B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight [1893; rev. 1902], ed. & intro. by Kathleen Raine (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1981)
Table of Contents
  • Introduction [7]
  • “Time drops in decay” [verse; 30]
  • The Host [31]
  • This Book (1902) [32]
The Stories .. .
  • A Teller of Tales [34]
  • Belief and Unbelief [36]
  • Mortal Help* [38]
  • A Visionary [40]
  • Village Ghosts [43]
  • “Dust hath Closed Helen’s Eye”* [49]
  • A Knight of the Sheep [56]
  • An Enduring Heart* [59]
  • The Sorcerers [62]
  • The Devil* [65]
  • Happy and Unhappy Theologians* [67]
  • The Last Gleeman [71]
  • Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni [77]
  • “And Fair, Fierce Women” [81]
  • Enchanted Woods* [83]
  • Miraculous Creatures* [87]
  • Aristotle of the Books* [88]
  • The Swine of the Gods* [89]
  • A Voice* [90]
  • Kidnappers [91]
  • The Untiring Ones [97]
  • Earth, Fire and Water* [100]
  • The Old Town* [101]
  • The Man and His Boots [103]
  • A Coward [104]
  • The Three O’Byrnes and the Evil Faeries [105]
  • Drumcliff and Rosses [107]
  • The Thick Skull of the Fortunate [115]
  • The Religion of a Sailor [117]
  • Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth and Purgatory [118]
  • The Eaters of Precious Stones [119]
  • Our Lady of the Hills [120]
  • The Golden Age [122]
  • A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the Disposition of their Ghosts and Faeries [124]
  • War* [127]
  • The Queen and the Fool* [129]
  • The Friends of the People of Faery* [135]
  • Dreams that have no Moral* [141]
  • By the Roadside* [153]
  • Four Winds of Desire [155] - given in its place as “Appendix”;
  • Into the Twilight* [verse; 160]

Note: Asterisk indicates stories added in the 1902 edition.

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