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Modern poetry grows weary of using over and over again the personages and stories and metaphors that have come to us through Greece and Rome, or from Wales and Brittany through the Middle Ages, and has found new life in the Norse and German legends. The Irish legends, in popular tradition and in old Gaelic literature, are more numerous and as beautiful, and alone among great European legends have the beauty and wonder of altogether new things. May one not say, then, without saying anything improbable, that they will have a predominant influence in the coming century, and that their influence will pass through many countries?
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Ballads in Prose, pp. 83–7, 125–44, 151–60 and 167–77. See also Patrick Kennedy, Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts (London: Macmillan, 1866) p. 101.
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O’Donnell, W.H. (1988). ‘Nora Hopper’ (1898; rev. 1900), in A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue, ed. Stopford A. Brooke and T.W. Rolleston (1900). In: O’Donnell, W.H. (eds) Prefaces and Introductions. The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06236-2_12
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