Prose · 1893

The Celtic Twilight

First published by Lawrence and Bullen, London, in December 1893. Yeats added new chapters for the enlarged edition of 1902, published by A. H. Bullen, and this is the text followed here.

43 chapters · 2 h 50 min

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  1. 1The Moods1 min
  2. 2The Hosting of the Sidhe1 min
  3. 3This Book2 min
  4. 4A Teller of Tales3 min
  5. 5Belief and Unbelief2 min
  6. 6Mortal Help2 min
  7. 7A Visionary5 min
  8. 8Village Ghosts9 min
  9. 9“Dust Hath Closed Helen’s Eye”12 min
  10. 10A Knight of the Sheep4 min
  11. 11An Enduring Heart4 min
  12. 12The Sorcerers5 min
  13. 13The Devil1 min
  14. 14Happy and Unhappy Theologians6 min
  15. 15The Last Gleeman9 min
  16. 16Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni4 min
  17. 17“And Fair, Fierce Women”3 min
  18. 18Enchanted Woods6 min
  19. 19Miraculous Creatures2 min
  20. 20Aristotle of the Books1 min
  21. 21The Swine of the Gods1 min
  22. 22A Voice1 min
  23. 23Kidnappers9 min
  24. 24The Untiring Ones4 min
  25. 25Earth, Fire and Water1 min
  26. 26The Old Town3 min
  27. 27The Man and His Boots1 min
  28. 28A Coward1 min
  29. 29The Three O’Byrnes and the Evil Faeries2 min
  30. 30Drumcliff and Rosses9 min
  31. 31The Thick Skull of the Fortunate2 min
  32. 32The Religion of a Sailor1 min
  33. 33Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth, and Purgatory1 min
  34. 34The Eaters of Precious Stones1 min
  35. 35Our Lady of the Hills3 min
  36. 36The Golden Age2 min
  37. 37A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for Having Soured the Disposition of Their Ghosts and Faeries5 min
  38. 38War2 min
  39. 39The Queen and the Fool7 min
  40. 40The Friends of the People of Faery11 min
  41. 41Dreams That Have No Moral19 min
  42. 42By the Roadside3 min
  43. 43Into the Twilight1 min

Text: The Celtic Twilight (A. H. Bullen, London, 1902). Public domain.