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Author: Greenberg, Lynne

Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Published on 16 February 2023 by Everyman (Everyman’s Library) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Everyman’s Library POCKET POETS’ series.

Hardback | 256 pages
165 x 113 x 19 | 230g

Elves, changelings, leprechauns, pixies, brownies and sprites; England’s Queen Mab, France’s Melusine, Scandinavian nixies and Scottish selkies: these magical creatures are sometimes mischievous, sometimes dangerous, always enchanting. This collection brings together a diverse array of literary fairies: here are Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Titania, Keats’s Belle Dame Sans Merci, of course, but also Rimbaud’s ‘Fairy’, Goethe’s ‘Erl-King’, Denise Levertov’s ‘Elves’, Sylvia Plath’s ‘Lorelei’, Christopher Okigbo’s ‘Watermaid’, Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Fairy Reel’ and Patience Agbabi’s changeling boy (‘The Double’).