Fairy Tales of Ireland Yeats, W. B.; Lynch, Patrick James and Philip, Neil by Yeats, W. B.; Lynch, Patrick James [Illustrator]; Philip, Neil [Introduction]; - 1990-01-22

Collins, 1990. Hard cover. Like New/Good. Lynch, Patrick James. William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others. Yeats is considered one of the key twentieth-century English-language poets. He was a Symbolist poet, using allusive imagery and symbolic structures throughout his career. He chose words and assembled them so that, in addition to a particular meaning, they suggest abstract thoughts that may seem more significant and resonant. His use of symbols is usually something physical that is both itself and a suggestion of other, perhaps immaterial, timeless qualities.

London: Collins, 1990. Book. Illus. by P. J. Lynch;. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 160 pp. Green boards lettered in gilt on the spine; beige endpapers; dj art and interior line drawings by P. J. Lynch. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. There are far too many stories here to list them all but some of the highlights are: The Stolen Child; The Legend of Knockfrafton; The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts; Donald and His Neighbours; The Man Who Never Knew Fear; The Horned Woman; The Story of the Little Bird; and many more..

William Collins Sons & Co., 1990. Second Impression. hbk. Used- Very good. Williams Collins Sons & Co., 1990, hardcover, unread, with dust cover faded at spine