The Celtic Twilight: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Celtic Twilight, credited to William Butler Yeats, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Celtic Twilight by William Butler Yeats. Read in English by Shakira Searle; Arie; russellhughes; Jordan Heron; John O'Riordan; Luna Pierson; KHand; Tim Rainey; Anusha Iyer; Robert Dixon; John Van Stan; Simon Smoke; Kathy Wright; JamesMcAndrew; Glenn O'Brien; MaryAnne; ImkeStevens; Max Wainer; MaryAnn; and Erin B. Lillis. I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined. Many of the tales in this book were told me by one Paddy Flynn, a little bright-eyed old man, who lived in a leaky and one-roomed cabin in the village of Ballisodare. He was a great teller of tales, and unlike our common romancers, knew how to empty heaven, hell, and purgatory, faeryland and earth, to people his stories. He did not live in a shrunken world, but knew of no less ample circumstance than did Homer himself. Perhaps the Gaelic people shall by his like bring back again the ancient simplicity and amplitude of imagination. Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet. (W. B. Yeats)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Celtic Twilight
• Author credits: William Butler Yeats
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 42
• Listed recording duration: 4:10:47

Catalogue topics

• fairy
• Celtic
• Ireland
• Yeats
• twilight

Opening tracks: first 24 of 42

1. 00 - Epigraph, The Hosting of the Sidhe — 2:11
2. 01 - This book — 2:38
3. 02 - A Teller of Tales — 4:16
4. 03 - Belief and Unbelief — 3:31
5. 04 - Mortal Help — 2:32
6. 05 - A Visionary — 7:37
7. 06 - Village Ghosts — 12:41
8. 07 - 'Dust Hath closed Helen's Eye' — 15:18
9. 08 - A Knight of the Sheep — 5:44
10. 09 - An Enduring Heart — 4:52
11. 10 - The Sorcerers — 7:47
12. 11 - The Devil — 1:35
13. 12 - Happy and Unhappy Theologians — 8:00
14. 13 - The Last Gleeman — 14:02
15. 14 - Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni — 6:50
16. 15 - 'And Fair, Fierce Women' — 4:22
17. 16 - Enchanted Woods — 8:15
18. 17 - Miraculous Creatures — 2:38
19. 18 - Aristotle of the Books — 1:32
20. 19 - The Swine of the Gods — 1:54
21. 20 - A Voice — 3:27
22. 21 - Kidnappers — 13:27
23. 22 - The Untiring Ones — 5:32
24. 23 - Earth, Fire and Water — 2:12

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