• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Some Sources of Yeats's The Wanderings of Oisin
  • Contributor: Alspach, Russell K.
  • imprint: Modern Language Association (MLA), 1943
  • Published in: PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2307/458836
  • ISSN: 0030-8129; 1938-1530
  • Keywords: Literature and Literary Theory ; Linguistics and Language ; Language and Linguistics
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  • Description: <jats:p>The purposes of this article are two: 1) to consider the sources of “The Wanderings of Oisin” that Yeats himself gives; and 2) to consider additional sources, not given by Yeats, that I have found in the Irish literature written in English that we are fairly sure Yeats was familiar with. I shall be concerned throughout with only the first version of the poem—that of 1889—for in subsequent printings it was much changed.</jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access