Peter Alderson Smith, W. B. Yeats and the Tribes of Danu: Three Views of Irelands Fairies Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987

Author(s)

James E. Doan, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

ORCID ID

0000-0002-4966-1251

Publication Title

Irish Literary Supplement

ISSN

0733-3390

Publication Date

3-1-1988

Abstract

Excerpt

This is a very ambitious work, in which the author seeks to 1) present early Irish beliefs concerning the Tuatha De Danann (Tribes of the Goddess Danu) as revealed in medieval Irish literary tradition; 2) describe the modern (19th- and 20th-century) Irish folk beliefs concerning the fairies, thought to derive from the Tuatha De Danann; and 3) investigate the changes in W.B. Yeats’s views of the Otherworld between his writing of The Countess Cathleen and the publication of Responsibilities.

Volume

7

Issue

1

NSUWorks Citation

Doan, J. E. (1988). Peter Alderson Smith, W. B. Yeats and the Tribes of Danu: Three Views of Irelands Fairies Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987. Irish Literary Supplement, 7 (1) Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facarticles/445