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10 best books like Mythologies (W.B. Yeats): Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions, A Hundred White Daffodils, Poetry as Survival, Answering Back: Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past, Irish Myths and Legends, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Loba, Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights, Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania, 1,000 Years of Irish Poetry

Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions
AuthorHilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
ISBN0815624417
Most people know of Valhalla, the World-Tree and the gods of Norse mythology, or the strange hunts and voyages of the ancient Irish tales. Yet, few people realize the significance of the similarities and contrasts between the religions of the pre-Christian people of north-western Europe. The Celts...
A Hundred White Daffodils
AuthorJane Kenyon
ISBN1555973086
In A Hundred White Daffodils - an enlightening and typically endearing collection of prose and poetry - the late author of five highly regarded books of verse reflects on her writing life, growing spirituality, passionate hobbies, and ultimately fatal struggle with leukemia. Jane Kenyon is one of...
Poetry as Survival
AuthorGregory Orr
ISBN0820324280
Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of poetry, Poetry as Survival is a complex and lucid analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving, and transcending pain and suffering.Gregory Orr draws from a generous array of sources. He weaves discussions of...
Answering Back: Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past
AuthorCarol Ann Duffy
ISBN0330448234
I'm not a big reader of poetry, but I'm
glad I read this, both for the opportunity to revisit poems by A.E. Housman, W.H. Auden, Christina Rossetti, Ben Jonson, and D.H. Lawrence (who knew he had a sense of humour?), but also to see how contemporary poets have responded to their predecessors. I particularly...
Irish Myths and Legends
AuthorLady Augusta Gregory
ISBN0762402814
I'll say this for this little morsel--it does make me want to track down the book from which it was clipped, Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory.
In this incarnation, though, I see only a teasing appetizer. The four stories of the stalwart Fianna are presented with zero context, so it felt a little...
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060925760
A combination of spiritual poetry and history of the poets. Really expansive, beautiful, informative collection.

My favorites were:

p 21, Zi Ye
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...
Loba
AuthorDiane di Prima
ISBN0140587527
Loba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for the first time in its completed form with new material, Loba, "she-wolf" in Spanish explores the wilderness...
Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights
AuthorAnonymous
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451525420

Bawdy and exotic, Arabian Nights, features the wily, seductive Scheherazade, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformations, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain...
Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania
AuthorJerome Rothenberg
ISBN0520049128
Since its first publication in 1968, Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred has educated a generation of poets, artists, and readers to the multiple faces and possibilities of poetry throughout the world. Hailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful work book and an unequivocal delight,"...
1,000 Years of Irish Poetry
AuthorKathleen Hoagland
ISBN1568522355
This is a very long anthology that tries very hard to be comprehensive. As a resource for those interested in the history of Irish poetry it is quite useful (the subtitle is "The Gaelic and Anglo-Irish Poets from Pagan Times to the Present"). For scholars it has less utility as it is rather short on annotations...
Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time
AuthorEavan Boland
ISBN0393314375
[O]ver a relatively short time--certainly no more than a generation or two--women have moved from being the subjects and objects of Irish poems to being the authors of them. It is a momentous transit. It is also a disruptive one. . . . What is more, such a transit . . . is almost invisible to the naked eye....
Poems Bewitched and Haunted
AuthorJohn Hollander
ISBN1400043883
A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pages–a literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of All Hallow’s Eve.

From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jarrell to James Merrill, Poems Bewitched...
The Collected Books
AuthorJack Spicer
The Collected Books includes
After Lorca , Admonitions , A Book of Music , Billy the Kid , Fifteen False Propositions About God , Apollo Sends Seven Nursery Rhymes to James Alexander , A Red Wheelbarrow , Lament for the Makers , Heads of the Town up to the Aether , The Holy Grail ,...
The Sacred Wood
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0571190898
This seminal book, Eliot's first collection of literary criticism, appeared in London in 1920, two years before The Waste Land. It contains some of his most influential early essays and reviews, among them 'Tradition and the Individual Talent', 'Hamlet and his Problems', and Eliot's thoughts on...
Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World
AuthorBarbara C. Sproul
ISBN0060675012
This was a big DID NOT FINISH for me. I love mythology, and I've been trying to broaden my understanding of it. I picked up this book hoping to get a taste of various mythologies from the perspective of each people's creation myth. What I got was a lot of long-winded, rambling, dry overviews.

I didn't...
The Life of Merlin
AuthorGeoffrey of Monmouth
ISBN0708305202
The VITA MERLINI (LIFE OF MERLIN) is an often-overlooked, but nonetheless important and fascinating, account of the life of Merlin, the good wizard of the Arthurian legendarium. In this volume, we have the original Latin poem (from the 12th century), an English translation thereof, and copious notes...
Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle
AuthorElaine Showalter
ISBN0140115870
This book looks at parallels between the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries and their representations in literature, art and film. This book ranges over the trial of Oscar Wilde, the public furore over prostitution and syphilis, moral outrage over the breakdown of the family, abortion rights and AIDS....
The Visionary Poetics of Allen Ginsberg
AuthorPaul Portuges
ISBN0915520176
The first major full-length study of the most famous poet of our time, this insightful book is drawn from unlimited access to Ginsberg's papers as well as conversations with the poet. A fascinating and coherent presentation of some of the largely unknown facts about Ginsberg's background as a poet,...
Myths Texts
AuthorGary Snyder
ISBN0811206866
Snyder's book-length poem can be called mythopoeia; creating modern myth based upon modern culture and history. Snyder's previous work and environmental concerns form the background of his mythic poem. The three religions, Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism reflect his beliefs in his work....
Global Perspectives and Psychedelic Poetics
AuthorTerence McKenna
ISBN1879323265
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The Peyote Dance
AuthorAntonin Artaud
ISBN0374230900
Artaud received a grant to travel to Mexico, where he met his first (Mexican) Parisian friend, the Painter Federico Cantú in 1936 when he gave lectures on the decadence of Western civilization. He also studied and lived with the Tarahumaran people and experimented with peyote, recording his experiences,...
Practical Mysticism
AuthorEvelyn Underhill
ISBN1463705069
Practical Mysticism is a work by one of the foremost 20th century Christian mystics, Evelyn Underhill. Her book, Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness, is the authoritative text of modern mysticism. This shorter work, Practical Mysticism, is an abridged version...
The Religion of Ancient Egypt
AuthorWilliam Matthew Flinders Petrie
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS, known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated at many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, such as Naukratis,...
Nine Fairy Tales and One More Thrown in for Good Measure
AuthorKarel Čapek
Karel Capek, author of the acclaimed War with the Newts, is one of the great Czechoslovak writers of the twentieth century. These fairy tales bear Capek's combination of the fantastic and the satirical, offering fairies, elves, and talking animals alongside references to detectives, secret police...
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