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Its boudoir is an entire forest, symbolizing Nature itself, where mortals and fairies, regals and bumpkins, make love and war, where passion becomes arbitrary and paramours interchangeable; and its last act is a riotously bungled tragedy-within-a-comedy (a celebratory performance by a troupe of "rude mechanicals") that's an ironic comment on the trivial pursuits that have preceded it.
Warner wrote a series of stories--I think, but I'm not sure, that a lot of them were published in The New Yorker in the '70s--about communities of fairies living in various countries.
Pharisees fairies are also deep in Sussex folklore, while something too complex to understand is called wigwams for goose's bridles.
Above all, Foster is ruthless about Yeats' ruthlessness: He shows how Yeats went about building modern Irish literature in Dublin and in London at the end of the 19 th century, and how Irish goblins and fairies were foot soldiers in that campaign.
Looking again at the poetry written between 1889 and 1914, one notices the scattered petals of familiar flowers, the secondhand imagery, the automatic despondency (far too much "ancient sorrow"), the druids, fairies, hermits, and witches.