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📘 The Celtic twilight by William Butler Yeats

The Celtic Twilight presents two distinct sections. The first, composed largely in 1902 with fragments dating to 1892, is a collection of Yeats’s personal observations and stories gathered while traveling through western Ireland. The second section, about forty percent of the book, contains poems set in Ireland that delve into its spiritual landscape and cultural mythology. Together they offer insights into Yeats’s formative years, his engagement with Irish folklore, and his early poetic imagination.

First publish date: 1893

Genre: Literary Fiction/Classic Literature

Authors: William Butler Yeats

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