She re-read Rossetti, Keats, Shelley, dipped into William Morris,-Wordsworth no-into Fiona macleod, William Watson, John Davidson, Alfred Noyes.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
It is Pan who inspires Seumas, the old islander, of whom Fiona macleod writes, and who, looking towards the sea at sunrise, says, "Every morning like this I take my hat off to the beauty of the world."
"A Book of Myths"
Jean Lang
One version was recited by Ann Macneill, of Barra, in the year 1865, another by Angus macleod, of Harris, in 1877. In relation to their belief in fairies the anti-clerical bias of the reciters is worth noting as a curious phenomenon:- 'That is as I heard when a hairy little fellow upon the knee of my mother.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
