{"product_id":"fairy-poems-isbn-9780593536292","title":"Fairy Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging and appealingly fairy-sized treasury of fantastical poems from across the centuries and around the world, in a gorgeously jacketed small hardcover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFascination with fairies spans centuries and cultures. With ancient roots in pagan belief, fairies have long populated mythology, folklore, and oral and written poetry. They have seen repeated surges of renewed popularity from the Renaissance to the present fantasy-besotted moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElves, changelings, mermaids, pixies, and sprites, England’s Queen Mab, France’s Morgana, Scandinavian nixies, and Irish banshees: these magical creatures are sometimes mischievous, sometimes dangerous, but always enchanting. This collection brings together a diverse array of literary fairies: here are Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare‘s Titania, and Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” but also Arthur Rimbaud’s “Fairy,” Goethe's \"Erlking,\" Claude McKay’s “Snow Fairy,” Denise Levertov’s “Elves,” Sylvia Plath’s “Lorelei,\" and Christopher Okigbo's \"Watermaid.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.\u003ci\u003eForeword by Lynne Greenberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eENCHANTED PLACES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e THOMAS DE ERCIDOUN from \u003ci\u003eBallad of Thomas the Rhymer \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE from \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e GERALD GRIFFIN HyBrasail – The Isle of the Blest \u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL COIMÍN from \u003ci\u003eThe Lay of Oisín in the Land of Youth \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SARA TEASDALE The Faëry Forest \u003cbr\u003e ARTHUR SYMONS In the Wood of Finvara \u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS from \u003ci\u003eSir Orfeo \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL DRAYTON from \u003ci\u003eNymphidia: The Fairy Court \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A. E. (GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL) The Well of All Healing \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT SOUTHEY The Fountain of the Fairies \u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS Lovely Lady\u003cbr\u003e JAMES HOGG from \u003ci\u003eKilmeny\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY The Voyagers\u003cbr\u003e MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE St. Andrew’s \u003cbr\u003e CATHAL Ó SEARCAIGH The Berry Hollow of Lag Na Sméar \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFAIRY FOLK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e EDMUND SPENSER from \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SIR WALTER SCOTT from \u003ci\u003eTam Lin \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PAUL DUNBAR The Discovery\u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS The Fairy Host \u003cbr\u003e THOMAS BOYD To the Leanán Sidhe\u003cbr\u003e DENISE LEVERTOV The Elves\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE from \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY from \u003ci\u003eQueen Mab \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VICTOR HUGO A Fairy \u003cbr\u003e DORA SIGERSON SHORTER The Banshee \u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS Vilas \u003cbr\u003e JOSEPH CAMPBELL The Púca \u003cbr\u003e ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON from \u003ci\u003eIdylls of the King \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e WALLACE STEVENS The Dwarf\u003cbr\u003e ARTHUR RIMBAUD The Fairy\u003cbr\u003e CHARLOTTE DACRE Will O’ The Wisp\u003cbr\u003e CLAUDE MCKAY The Snow Fairy\u003cbr\u003e A. J. ODASSO Fairy Beekeeper\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMERMAIDS AND WATERFOLK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The Sea-Fairies\u003cbr\u003e HEINRICH HEINE The Loreley \u003cbr\u003e SYLVIA PLATH Lorelei \u003cbr\u003e CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO Watermaid\u003cbr\u003e T. S. ELIOT from \u003ci\u003eThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PABLO NERUDA Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks \u003cbr\u003e ERIK JOHAN STAGNELIUS Näcken (The Nixie) \u003cbr\u003e MARTIN OTT Return to Mermaid \u003cbr\u003e GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS from \u003ci\u003eA Vision of the Mermaids\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e JUAN FELIPE HERRERA La Sirena\u003cbr\u003e DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI A Sea-Spell\u003cbr\u003e SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER “Naiad, whose sliding lips were mine”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eQUEER FAIRIES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL FIELD (KATHERINE BRADLEY and EDITH COOPER) The Iris Was Yellow, The Moon Was Pale \u003cbr\u003e LANGSTON HUGHES Café: 3 a.m. \u003cbr\u003e CLAUDE MCKAY To O. E. A. \u003cbr\u003e JOHN WIENERS To Charles on His Home \u003cbr\u003e JAMES BROUGHTON only when i \u003cbr\u003e OLIVER BAEZ BENDORF Rainwater From Certain Enchanted Streams \u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL RUMAKER from \u003ci\u003eThe Fairies Are Dancing All Over the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFAIRY MUSIC AND DANCE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE from \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE from \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE from \u003ci\u003eSongs of the Pixies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS Cusheen Loo\u003cbr\u003e JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Elfenlied (Fairy Song) \u003cbr\u003e EDUARD MÖRIKE Elfenlied (Fairy Song) \u003cbr\u003e HENRY DAVID THOREAU Dong, Sounds the Brass in the East\u003cbr\u003e NORA CHESSON HOPPER The Fairy Fiddler\u003cbr\u003e PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR The Corn-Stalk Fiddle \u003cbr\u003e SU SHE Lyrics to the Tune “Fairy Grotto” \u003cbr\u003e ANN RADCLIFFE from \u003ci\u003eThe Romance of the Forest \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e JOHN MILTON from \u003ci\u003eA Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Faëry Chasm \u003cbr\u003e MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Faëry Morris\u003cbr\u003e SIMON STEWARD The Fairies Fegaries\u003cbr\u003e FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Fairies\u003cbr\u003e SIR WALTER SCOTT The Fairy Dance \u003cbr\u003e NEIL GAIMAN The Faery Reel \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFAIRY MISCHIEF AND MALEVOLENCE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e THOMAS RAVENSCROFT The Fayries’ Daunce \u003cbr\u003e LEIGH HUNT Song of Fairies Robbing Orchard\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM ALLINGHAM The Fairies \u003cbr\u003e CICELY FOX SMITH Pixie-Led\u003cbr\u003e CHRISTINA ROSSETTI from \u003ci\u003eGoblin Market \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Erlklönig (The Erl-King) \u003cbr\u003e MATTHEW ARNOLD from \u003ci\u003eTristram and Iseult \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS Swedish Ballad: Sir Olof and the Fairies\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSEDUCTIONS AND ABDUCTIONS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e JOHN KEATS La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad \u003cbr\u003e MARIE DE FRANCE from \u003ci\u003eSir Launfal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The Song of Wandering Aengus \u003cbr\u003e WALTER DE LA MARE Happy, Happy It Is To Be \u003cbr\u003e MOIREEN FOX CHEAVASA The Fairy Lover \u003cbr\u003e ETHNA CARBERY The Love-Talker \u003cbr\u003e DORA SIGERSON SHORTER The Wind on the Hills\u003cbr\u003e SAMUEL LOVER The Haunted Spring \u003cbr\u003e MARY C. G. BYRON The Fairy Thrall \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The Stolen Child\u003cbr\u003e JOHN ANSTER The Fairy Child \u003cbr\u003e PATIENCE AGBABI Double \u003cbr\u003e SEROJINI NAIDU Village-Song\u003cbr\u003e CHARLOTTE MEW The Changeling\u003cbr\u003e THEODORA GOSS The Changeling \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFAIRY SPELLS AND CHARMS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT HERRICK The Night-Piece, to Julia \u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS Gaelic Charm Against Fairy Influence \u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS Song to Quell the Elf\u003cbr\u003e THOMAS CAMPION Ayre XVIII \u003cbr\u003e JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN The Romance of the Fairy Cure\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT from \u003ci\u003eThe Ordinary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL DRAYTON from \u003ci\u003eNymphidia: The Fairy Court\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e BEN JONSON The Fairy Beam Upon You \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eABSINTHE, THE GREEN FAIRY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The Poison\u003cbr\u003e DELMIRA AGUSTINI Another Lineage\u003cbr\u003e GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Rhenish Night\u003cbr\u003e PAUL VALÉRY The Vain Dancers \u003cbr\u003e CARL DANIEL FÄLLSTRÖM Absinthe \u003cbr\u003e RAOUL PONCHON L’Absinthe \u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS I Am the Green Fairy \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSYMBOLIC FAIRIES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e LESLIE COULSON From the Somme \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT FROST The Spoils of the Dead \u003cbr\u003e SARA TEASDALE Silence\u003cbr\u003e HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Holidays\u003cbr\u003e FIONA MACLEOD (WILLIAM SHARPE) Dreams Within Dreams \u003cbr\u003e HENRIK JOHAN IBSEN In the Picture Gallery\u003cbr\u003e SEROJINI NAIDU To My Fairy Fancies\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM WINTER Unwritten Poems \u003cbr\u003e CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The Sick Muse \u003cbr\u003e THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Another \u003cbr\u003e E. E. CUMMINGS from \u003ci\u003ePost Impressions \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BLAKE The Fairy \u003cbr\u003e FRIEDRICH VON MATTHISSON Lied der Liebe (Song of Love) \u003cbr\u003e SIOBHAN CAMPBELL Quickthorn\u003cbr\u003e KATHERINE MANSFIELD Sorrowing Love \u003cbr\u003e ANNE SEXTON Old Dwarf Heart \u003cbr\u003e MONICA FERRELL Myths of the Disappearance \u003cbr\u003e COUNTEE CULLEN Lines To My Father\u003cbr\u003e ELINOR WYLIE Escape \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BROWNE from \u003ci\u003eVisions \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e EMILY BRONTË A Little Budding Rose\u003cbr\u003e CHARLOTTE SMITH Sonnet LXIII: The Gossamer \u003cbr\u003e EMILY DICKINSON Within my Garden, rides a Bird\u003cbr\u003e SOPHIE JEWETT Across the Border \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFATE OF THE FAIRIES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SHU¯ZO¯ TAKIGUCHI Fairy Distance \u003cbr\u003e MARIE ELIZABETH JOSEPHINE PITT The Lost Fairies \u003cbr\u003e VALERY BRYUSOV Golden Fairies \u003cbr\u003e A. E. HOUSMAN XXI \u003cbr\u003e LANGSTON HUGHES After Many Springs\u003cbr\u003e RICHARD CORBET Farewell Rewards and Fairies \u003cbr\u003e JOHN RUSKIN from \u003ci\u003eThe Emigration of the Sprites \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Fairies’ Recall\u003cbr\u003e EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Doubt No More that Oberon\u003cbr\u003e W. H. AUDEN BeliefLYNNE GREENBERG is a professor of seventeenth-century literature at Hunter College,   CUNY. She has published extensively on early modern poetry and is the author of a memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Body Broken\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York   City.\u003cb\u003eForeword \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eWith deep roots in pagan traditions and religions, fairies are ubiquitous in mythology and folklore in all periods of recorded history. Their wings’ breadth spans continents, and anthropologists, ethnographers, and folklorists have traced belief in fairies worldwide. The origin stories of fairies are diverse. In Irish tradition, fairies were said to have descended from the Tuatha Dé Danann, a superior race of beings and rulers. Others believed that fairies were fallen angels, of neither heaven nor hell. In the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, one of the first Gaelic folklorists, wrote: “Siths, or Fairies, they call Sluagh Maith, or the Goodpeople . . . are said to be of a middle nature betwixt man and angel, as were demons thought to be of old.” To still others, fairies were the descendants of monstrous Pre-Christian beings or of Cain. They have alternatively been characterized as restless spirits of the dead. While their origin stories differ, certain attributes of fairies appear in a number of cultures, including superior strength, uncanny intelligence, invisibility, supernatural gifts, and otherworldly physicalities.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Fairies, indeed, are endowed with powerful abilities, one of which is their capacity to soar into every literary genre. Transmitted originally through oral cultures, fairy stories are extant in ballads, songs, myths, and legends. Later, fairies become principal characters in epics, romances, dramas, and lyric poetry. Poets, inspired and haunted by fairies, both benevolent and wicked, have created a lasting canon of fairy poetry. This volume offers a sampling of classic works as well as lesser-known works, including traditional ballads, from a range of genres and places, focusing on the English and Irish traditions. Modern and contemporary poems about fairies attest to their enduring influence at the level of myth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThe poems sing of “Faerie,” the enchanted places in which fairies were thought to dwell: Tir Na N’og, the land of youth; HyBrasil, the fabled isle of the blessed; Avalon; forest; fl ower; cairn; body of water; the air itself. “Fairy” as a generic term encompasses a world of creatures, regionally and even locally named. Encyclopedias are devoted to classifying the different fairies, their appearance, behavior, and dwellings. A number of these creatures—elves, pixies, mermaids, and goblins, to name but a few—populate the poems. The characters, from Queen Mab to Robin Goodfellow, are as diverse as the types of fairies. They are kings and queens, helpful domestics, pranksters, muses, lovers, and murderers.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Fairies are liminal creatures. Morally ambivalent and having their own codes of behavior, the “good people” or “gentle folk,” as they were euphemistically called in Ireland, have been greeted alternatively with terror, skepticism, and delight. In the Renaissance, Protestant writers decried fairies as satanic beings or illusory manifestations of Satan. In Scotland, an admission of having seen fairies could lead to an accusation of witchcraft. In the seventeenth century, Puritan writers railed against fairy belief as mere superstition. In our time, fairies have been relegated to storybooks and cartoons for children.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThe poems in this volume reflect the range of human reactions to fairies. Some revel in fairies’ festive activities, their love of dance and song and their guardianship of the natural world. Other poems smile at their mischievous antics. Many of the poems bewail fairies’ malevolence. Preternaturally desirable, both male and female fairies were said to beguile, entice, and seduce the unwary. Fairies were also believed to abduct human children, replacing them with changelings, or fairy children, who would not thrive. These leitmotifs appear often in the poetry and suggest our all-too-human efforts to account for tragedy and disaster. In ages when fairies were feared as a mortal threat, humans sought both to channel and to ward off their magic through medicinal recipes, rituals, prayers, and charms. This volume includes a sampling of such poetic spells.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The poems are rich in fae “glamour,” that is, the ability to shapeshift. The poems themselves shift between a range of moods and registers, at times lyrical and whimsical, at other times hypnotic and disturbing. Poets have invoked fairies’ transformative ability to explore the endlessly shifting resonancesand meanings of the word fairy itself. As early as the nineteenth century, the term was used derogatorily to refer to homosexuals. It since has been reclaimed, in part due to Harry Hay, the founder of the Radical Faeries movement in the 1970s. Poets gesture alternatively, and sometimes in closeted ways, to the sexual valences of the term. A separate section of the volume is devoted to poets who wrote of their experiences with absinthe, popularly referred to as \u003ci\u003ela feé verte \u003c\/i\u003e(the green fairy). Particularly in the late 1900s, absinthe served as a source of inspiration for poets. A number of these poems absorb and are absorbed in the hallucinogenic properties of wormwood. Several of the poems in this volume allude to fairies in symbolic ways: to offer critiques of war, to  mourn the passing of youth, and to celebrate the beloved, nature, even the creative imagination itself. The range of poetic uses of fairies suggests the power of their glamour.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eIn choosing poems for this volume, the only difficulty was in deciding which works to include from amongst the rich traditions. Regardless of author, genre, or place of creation, each poem has been chosen for its timelessness. Together, they speak to our love of story, collective wonderment at the invisible and unknown, and desire to understand the ineffable mysteries of grief, longing, love, and joy. May these fairy poems offer flight. May they lure and allure you.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Lynne Greenberg\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Lyrics to “Fairy Grotto” by Su She (Sung Dynasty, 1037-1101)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Skin of ice.\u003cbr\u003e Bones of jade.\u003cbr\u003e Always cool and unperspiring.\u003cbr\u003e To the palace by the water\u003cbr\u003e Comes a breeze,\u003cbr\u003e Filling it with hidden fragrance.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c\/i\u003e by William Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,\u003cbr\u003e Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,\u003cbr\u003e Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,\u003cbr\u003e With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:\u003cbr\u003e There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,\u003cbr\u003e Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight;\u003cbr\u003e And there the snake throws her enamell’d skin,\u003cbr\u003e Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAfter Many Springs, by Langston Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Now,\u003cbr\u003e In June,\u003cbr\u003e When the night is a vast softness\u003cbr\u003e Filled with blue stars,\u003cbr\u003e And broken shafts of moon-glimmer\u003cbr\u003e Fall upon the earth,\u003cbr\u003e Am I too old to see the fairies dance?\u003cbr\u003e I cannot find them any more. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBelief, by W. H. Auden\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We do not know\u003cbr\u003e If there be fairies now\u003cbr\u003e Or no.\u003cbr\u003e But why should we ourselves involve\u003cbr\u003e In questions which we cannot solve.\u003cbr\u003e O let’s pretend it’s so\u003cbr\u003e And then perhaps if we are good\u003cbr\u003e Some day we’ll see them in the wood.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305045217509,"sku":"NP9780593536292","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593536292.jpg?v=1767726641","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/fairy-poems-isbn-9780593536292","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}