Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough briar...
Sometimes benevolent, sometimes misanthropic and always elusive, fairy
dolo
folk over many centuries have bewitched
the imaginations of their human kin. Very few have glimpsed more than a shadow or heard more than
an echo of their presence.
Thus the rich impressions of
wide-eyed elves and butterfly-winged fairies that Ida Rentoul Outhwaite so skilfully captured have proved, for many, the most satisfying embodiment of a hidden world.
This edition combines her glorious spirits of air, earth and water with much well-loved verse. Poems by Shakespeare, Keats, Robert Louis Stevenson and e.e. cummings will be recognised with pleasure among this compact treasury of fairy lore.