1,000 Years of Irish Poetry
10 best books like 1,000 Years of Irish Poetry (Kathleen Hoagland): Yeats: The Man and the Masks, Irish Folk Tales, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Human Chain, Immortal Poems of the English Language, In a Time of Violence: Poems, Poems 1968-1998, Selected Poems and Three Plays, The Celtic Heroic Age, Y Gododdin
| Author | Richard Ellmann |
| ISBN | 0393008592 |
One of the most influential poets of his age, W.B. Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him. His life was complex in both its outer and inner events. Yeats's mystical concerns, such as his involvement with spiritualism and construction...
| Author | Henry Glassie |
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0060925760 |
My favorites were:
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All night I could not sleep / because of the moonlight on my bed. / I kept on hearing a voice calling: / Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
| ISBN | 0374173516 |
Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2011 Poetry Now Award
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present--the...
| Author | Oscar Williams |
| ISBN | 0671496107 |
Here is the most inclusive anthology of verse ever published at so low a price. It contains not only the best-known works of the British and American masters but also the verse of the most brillant poets of our own day. Oscar Williams, who compiled Immortal Poems, was a distinguished...
| Author | Eavan Boland |
| ISBN | 0393312984 |
The Pomegranate - by Eavan Boland
The only legend I have ever loved is
the story of a daughter lost in hell.
And found and rescued there.
Love and blackmail are the gist of it.
Ceres and Persephone the names.
And the best thing about the...
| Author | Paul Muldoon |
| ISBN | 0374528446 |
The Volkswagen parked in the gap,
But gently ticking over.
You wonder if it's lovers
And not men hurrying back
Across two fields and a river.
Sven Birkerts has said, "It is not usual for a poet of Muldoon's years to have . . . an oeuvre disclosing significant shifts...
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 0020715609 |
The Lake of Innisfree
When you are Old
The Second Coming
On Woman
The People
However, my favorite lines came for "The Death of Cuchulain" (1939)
When they told me that I could have my own way I wrote certain guiding principles...and...
The Celtic Heroic Age
| Author | John T. Koch |
| ISBN | 1891271091 |
| Author | Aneirin |
| ISBN | 0863833543 |
| Author | Marie Heaney |
| Author | Moyra Caldecott |
| ISBN | 0892813571 |
| Author | Miranda Aldhouse-Green |
| ISBN | 0415057647 |
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 0140585850 |
“The pathos and liveliness of ordinary human communication is poetry to me,” John Ashbery has said of this controversial work, a collection of three long prose poems originally published...
The Druids
| Author | Stuart Piggott |
| ISBN | 0500273634 |