About this book
Celtic Twilight by William Butler Yeats beckons listeners into a liminal world where Irish fairy tales, folklore, and the poet’s visionary imagination converge. Part memoir, part folkloric anthology, Yeats collects eerie tales, personal reflections, and accounts of the otherworld that helped spark the Celtic Revival at the turn of the 20th century. Through prose that reads like storytelling by lamplight, he preserves voices—like that of Paddy Flynn—and sketches a living Ireland in which mysticism, national identity, and the persistence of oral tradition meet.
Themes of memory, myth, and the porous boundary between seen and unseen run throughout, as Yeats argues for the artist’s duty to shape a small, beautiful world from a troubled one. The book blends antiquarian scholarship with hypnotic narratives, illuminating how fairy lore and spiritual belief informed Irish culture and the modernist imagination that followed.
Perfect for fans of fairy tales, mythology, and literary history, this audiobook will appeal to listeners who love lyrical storytelling, Irish folklore, and W. B. Yeats’s evocative voice. Listen to be transported into a vanished landscape where everything seems possible.
