A Dream of Angus Oge

A Dream of Angus Oge

Frame story is contemporary; sister Norah tells traditional Cuculain tale to Con, who re-enacts the heroes; sister sings him to sleep, invoking the Lord of the Wand; Con in turn summons the Shepherd, a golden-bearded man who flies over fairyland with him, to his home with the Danaans in their immortal lands, in a cave where “there was everywhere a wandering ecstasy of sound: light and sound were one; knight had a voice, and the music hung glittering in the air.” This is the cave of eternal forms, of which earth is a mere shadow. Shepherd identifies himself as Angus the Young, the sunlight in the heart, the moonlight in the mind. The child wakes.

Prose story with frame narrative.

A.E. [George Russell], story,
Pamela Colman Smith, initial letter,

Pamela Colman Smith

[August] 1903

Public Domain
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press.

English

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