"THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN."
[To THY EDITOR OF THE " firscrATok."]
SIR,—In a kindly notice of my volume of poems, your reviewer asks where I got the materials for " The Wanderings of Oisin." The first few pages are developed from a most beautiful old poem written by one of the numerous half- forgotten Gaelic poets who lived in Ireland in the last century. In the quarrels between the saint and the blind warrior, I have used suggestions from various ballad Dialogues of Oisin and Patrick, published by the Ossianic Society. The pages dealing with the three islands, including your reviewer's second quota- tion, are wholly my own, having no further root in tradition than the Irish peasant's notion that Tir-u-au-oge (the Country of the Young) is made up of three phantom islands.—I am,
Previous page
