Wanderings of Oisin, The

By Yeats, William Butler

Book Id: WPLBN0002951929
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Reproduction Date: 2010

Title:	Wanderings of Oisin, The
Author:	Yeats, William Butler
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Poetry, Poetry
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Wanderings of Oisin, The
Historic Publication Date:	1889
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Butler Yeats, B. W. (1889). Wanderings of Oisin, The. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison relates his three-hundred year sojourn in the immortal isles of Faerie. In the isles, Oison married the beautiful Sidhe Niamh: together they traveled, feasted, and quested. At last Oison succumbs to the temptation to return and visit the lands of mortal men: inadvertently slipping from his faerie horse, his body touches the ground and instantly puts on the flesh of a decrepit old man. Oison describes various islands and what he did there: contrasting his noble deeds with the degenerate weakness of the present generation. (Summary by Godsend)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Poetry