Fairy Poems

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A deeply researched treasury of fairy poems from across the centuries and around the world. 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').

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Lynne Greenberg (External Editor) EDITOR BIOGRAPHY Lynne Greenberg is Associate Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature at Hunter College, City University of New York. She has published extensively on early modern poetry and is the author of a memoir, The Body Broken. She lives in New York City.