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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.
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.
The playwright set Midsummer in an ancient, vaguely mythological Greece in which intercourse between mortals and fairies is meant to be commonplace.
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.
But these stories are certainly not children's literature: The fairies are heartless and creepy (which makes them human enough that they're weirdly touching).