English Fairy Tales

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    “And in their fairy tales
    The warty giant and witch
    Get sealed in doorless jails
    And the match-girl strikes it rich.”
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)

    “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
    —17th-century English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

    “Why do we like being Irish? Partly because
    It gives us a hold on the sentimental English
    As members of a world that never was,
    Baptized with fairy water;”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)

    “Among the Indians he had fought;
    And with him many tales he brought
    Of pleasure and of fear;
    Such tales as told to any Maid
    By such a Youth, in the green shade,
    Were perilous to hear.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)