Project Gutenberg 2025-06-14 Public domain in the USA. 325 Waite, Arthur Edward 1857 1942 Waite, A. E. (Arthur Edward) Sharp, William 1855 1905 Macleod, Fiona 01005726 Elfin music : $b An anthology of English fairy poetry $aLondon :$bWalter Scott, $c1888. The Canterbury poets Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Elfin music : An anthology of English fairy poetry" by Waite and Sharp is a collection of poetry written in the late 19th century. The volume gathers English-language fairy verse across roughly six centuries, curated and introduced to explore the lore, landscapes, and figures of Faërie. It foregrounds iconic beings such as Oberon, Titania, Puck, and Queen Mab alongside sprites, pixies, water-nymphs, and mermaids, arranged in themed sections that move from vistas of Fairyland to chronicles, travels, and human–fairy encounters. The opening of this anthology presents Arthur Edward Waite’s substantial introduction, which traces a contemporary revival of the romantic and supernatural in poetry; the etymology of “fairy” from Latin via French romance; and the blending of French, Teutonic, Celtic, and classical traditions into England’s elfin mythology. Waite contrasts lineages and beliefs (from Spenser’s elfin emperors to Shakespeare’s Indian-threaded lore), debates fairy stature and religion, and sketches the elfin court—Oberon, Titania/Mab, and Robin Goodfellow—alongside a taxonomy of land, sea, and underworld spirits. He retells key medieval romances—“Orfeo and Heurodis” and “The Knight Launfal”—to show how mortals journey into Fairyland, and explains the book’s thematic arrangement. After this, the selections begin with Poe’s dreamlike “Fairyland” and Hemans’s invocation to recall the elves, followed by portraits of the fairy family: Spenser’s dynastic rolls, Steward’s dressing of Oberon, Jonson’s and Shakespeare’s Queen Mab and lullaby for Titania, Puck’s fleet song, and Herrick’s playful fairy chapels and feasts. Early pieces also widen the realm to pixies, water sprites, and mermaids, setting a lyrical, otherworldly tone for the sections that follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/elfinmusicanthol00wait/page/n5/mode/2up 20220409110946waite 1888 GB Reading ease score: 80.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en English poetry Fairy poetry, English PN Text Category: Poetry Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore Category: British Literature 716940 2025-07-30T07:28:02.398437 text/html 689186 2025-06-13T23:30:16 text/html 417170 2025-07-30T07:28:17.146783 application/epub+zip 418024 2025-07-30T07:28:05.036870 application/epub+zip 297942 2025-07-30T07:28:03.572849 application/epub+zip 848037 2025-07-30T07:28:23.312743 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 816466 2025-07-30T07:28:15.719813 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 378545 2025-07-30T07:27:58.908367 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 358621 2025-06-13T23:30:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14954 2025-07-30T07:28:23.496767 application/rdf+xml 19334 2025-07-30T07:28:03.997836 image/jpeg 2854 2025-07-30T07:28:03.804856 image/jpeg 594505 2025-07-30T07:28:02.472401 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia