This collection brings together a diverse array of literary fairies: here are Spensers Faerie Queene, Shakespeares Titania, and Keatss La Belle Dame Sans Merci, but also Arthur Rimbauds Fairy, Goethes Erlking, Claude McKays Snow Fairy, Denise Levertovs Elves, Sylvia Plaths Lorelei, Christopher Okigbos Watermaid, and Neil Gaimans The Fairy Reel. Elves, changelings, mermaids, pixies, and sprites, Englands Queen Mab, Frances Morgana, Scandinavian nixies, and Irish banshees: these magical creatures are sometimes mischievous, sometimes dangerous, but always enchanting. They have seen repeated surges of renewed popularity from the Renaissance to the present fantasy-besotted moment. With ancient roots in pagan belief, fairies have long populated mythology, folklore, and oral and written poetry. Book Synopsis A wide-ranging and appealingly fairy-sized treasury of fantastical poems from across the centuries and around the world, in a gorgeously jacketed small hardcover Fascination with fairies spans centuries and cultures.
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