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    The Wanderings of Oisin
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    The Wanderings of Oisin

    Written by William Butler Yeats

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    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.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox Audio
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    The Wanderings of Oisin
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    William Butler Yeats

    William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland’s greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.

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