The Crock of Gold (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: James Stephens
- First Published: 1912
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: Indeterminate
- Genres: Long fiction, Fable, Fantasy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, Supernatural, Other worlds, Legends, Folklore, Gods or goddesses, Adventure, Ireland or Irish people, Gold, Precious metals or stones, Fairies
- Locales: Ireland
Places Discussed
*Ireland. Island nation west of Britain that was united under British rule in 1912—the same year James Stephens published The Crock of Gold. (In 1922, Ireland was partitioned into the Republic of Eire and Northern Ireland, which remained part of the United Kingdom). The Ireland depicted in the novel, however, is an Ireland of the imagination, carefully repopulated with all the lost idols of local mythology (and one visitor from overseas, the Greek nature-God Pan). Like William Butler Yeats and other champions of the so-called Celtic Twilight, Stephens...
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