Stories of Red Hanrahan E-Book

William Butler Yeats

• Herausgeber: Nobel
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Hanrahan is an hedge schoolmaster: with his little inkpot hanging from his neck by a chain, and his big Virgil and his primer in the skirt of his coat, he goes walking through the villages in the Kirtantan County. He sings songs that himself has written after had heard them from the green plover of the mountain or from the wind in the moor. He is a poet and knows the sorrow and the grief. He is a musician and can sing it. He is a man and “chants and enchants”. The character created by W.B.Yeats who better embodies the spirit of Ireland.

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William Butler Yeats

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ISBN 978-88-97502-00-5 (versione eBook)

Edited by Luisa Pecchi

Prima edizione: giugno 2015

Table of contents

Synopsis

Short account

Introduction

Red Hanrahan

The Twisting Of The Rope

Hanrahan And Cathleen The Daughter Of Hoolihan

Red Hanrahan's Curse

Hanrahan's vision

The Death Of Hanrahan

Photo gallery

Synopsis

Hanrahan is an hedge schoolmaster: with his little inkpot hanging from his neck by a chain, and his big Virgil and his primer in the skirt of his coat, he goes walking through the villages in the Kirtantan County. He sings songs that himself has written after had heard them from the green plover of the mountain or from the wind in the moor. He is a poet and knows the sorrow and the grief. He is a musician and can sing it. He is a man and “chants and enchants”.

The character created by W.B.Yeats who better embodies the spirit of Ireland.

Short account

William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939), an irish poet, was one of the most important figures in the literature of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 because he had given voice to the irish spirit. He is famous for his old tale’s collections, for his poems, for his Cuchulain’s saga, legendary irish hero.

William Butler Yeats

Introduction

Lady Gregory (Augusta Isabella Perce, born in 1852 in Roxborough and dead in Galway in 1932) a woman at last, great intellectual, writer, playwriter, irish folklorist, had a special relationship with Yeats, who wrote poems for her and worked with her for thirty years.

The text opens with:

I owe thanks to Lady Gregory, who helped me to rewrite “The Stories of Red Hanrahan” in the beautiful country speech of Kiltartan, and nearer to the tradition of the people among whom he, or some likeness of him, drifted and is remembered.

A thank for her suggestions about the writing style and to set geographically the story in Kirtantan County. You can think that it’s not so important, in a story like this, so beautiful. The style is “dry”, gaunt, with simple and short sentences, easy verbal form (Lady Gregory thought that a writer had to write “mirabilia” but using a simple language, the same of common people). It is amazing but real: the dryness and the simple form help the reader to enter into the story, into the events, into the landscape, into the feelings.