... been balanced by other writers who have made use of popular forms in order to communicate with a wider audience. A tension in writing between the popular and the esoteric, and the popular and specialized, the commercial and the avant-garde, became a feature of twentieth-century literature. Isolation and alienation, together with experimental forms of expression, came to characterise serious literature, ... interest in Celtic myth and legend. In fact the Celtic Twilight was the title of a collection of stories published by W.B. Yeats in 1893. The slightly negative connotations which the ...

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