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Some Sources of Yeats's The Wanderings of Oisin

1943; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 58; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/458836

1938-1530

Russell K. Alspach,

Irish and British Studies

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.