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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his inspirational poetry that "expresses the spirit of a nation". This formula is also true of his prose, and it is no coincidence that on the threshold of Irish independence, the title of his essay collection Celtic Twilight became a figurative designation of the entire national literary revival of which he was a leading representative. "A "handful of dreams", as he modestly defined it, Celtic Twilight is an excursion into the land of the faeries, creatures descended from ancient gods and belonging neither to the forces of light nor to the forces of darkness, into the land of spirits and ghosts, and thus into the heart of Ireland, where folk beliefs go back to the foggy past, where the gift of visionary vision has been preserved, and where it is customary to "exchange pleasantries" with the afterlife rather than to enemy it. The notes of the folklorist, who carefully and enthusiastically recorded the stories of the peasants, are interspersed with insightful comments by the writer, who himself had a visionary experience.