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Selected Poems and Four Plays

10 best books like Selected Poems and Four Plays (W.B. Yeats): The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994, Yeats: The Man and the Masks, Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock / The Shadow of a Gunman / The Plow and the Stars, The 100 Best Poems of All Time, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play, 1,000 Years of Irish Poetry, In a Time of Violence: Poems, Selected Poems, Imaginations, The Screens

The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994
AuthorJorie Graham
ISBN0880014768
The Dream of the Unified Field is a selection of Jorie Graham's poems from five collections, including: Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts , Erosion , The End of Beauty , Region of Unlikeness , and Materialism ...

From Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts ...

The slow overture of...
Yeats: The Man and the Masks
AuthorRichard Ellmann
ISBN0393008592
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

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...
Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock / The Shadow of a Gunman / The Plow and the Stars
AuthorSeán O'Casey
ISBN0312802900
Sean O'Casey was born in 1880 and lived through a bitterly hard boyhood in a Dublin tenement house. He never went to school but received most of his education in the streets of Dublin, and taught himself to read at the age of fourteen. He was successively a newspaper-seller, docker, stone-breaker, railway-worker...
The 100 Best Poems of All Time
AuthorLeslie Pockell
ISBN0446676810
Some great poetry; I tried to read one or two to start off each day. Two new favorites:

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night - Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise...
The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
AuthorWallace Stevens
ISBN0679724451
As a phrase and idea, "the palm at the end of the mind" serves well in illustrating the distinctive elegance of Wallace Stevens' poetry. He had a way of boosting odd notions into the aesthetic stratosphere; appealing enigmas were his forte. What palm and why at the end of the mind and how did it get there?

Stevens'...
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...
In a Time of Violence: Poems
AuthorEavan Boland
ISBN0393312984
I am rather fond of this one:

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...
Selected Poems
AuthorGalway Kinnell
ISBN0395320461
Did you know Galway Kinnell was active in the Civil Rights movement, jailed in Louisiana for his role in voter registration activities? I didn't know that until I read the excerpts from Kinnell's long poem "The Last River" that are included in this 1982 compilation. "The Last River" is, interestingly,...
Imaginations
AuthorWilliam Carlos Williams
ISBN0811202291
Written between 1920 and 1932, all five were first published in small editions, three of them in France. These are pivotal and seminal works, books in which a great writer was charting the course he later would follow, experimenting freely, boldly searching for a new kind of prose style to express "the...
The Screens
AuthorJean Genet
ISBN0802151582
Jean Genet was one of the world’s greatest contemporary dramatists, and his last play, The Screens, is his crowning achievement. It strikes a powerful, closing chord to the formidable theatrical work that began with Deathwatch and continued, with even bolder variations, in The Maids, The Balcony,...
Poetry: A Pocket Anthology
AuthorR.S. Gwynn
I think it's a pretty good survey of English poetry. All the big names are in here, including Shelley, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Whitman, Poe, Keats, Dickinson, Frost, Bishop, Plath, etc. This collection spans several centuries, from around 1450 (first poem listed) to 2000 (the last poem listed;...
The Poems of Alexander Pope
AuthorAlexander Pope
ISBN0300000308
A splendid presentation of Pope’s poems, excluding only his translations of Homer, this is the only one-volume edition that can lay claim to completeness and accuracy of text. It presents the corpus of Pope’s poetry as printed in the highly praised Twickenham Edition, except for the 1712 version...
The Complete Plays
AuthorJ.M. Synge
I read this collection as part of a class on Irish Revival Literature. Out of the five assigned plays (we didn't do Tinker's Wedding, though I did read it on my own), I'd have to say "Playboy of the Western World" and "Well of the Saints" were my favorites; they just struck me as more interesting than some...
Electric Light
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0571207626
The powerful collection by the bestselling translator of "Beowulf"
"In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air"
"That is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on hold"
"In the everything flows and steady go of the world."
--from "Perch"
Seamus Heaney's collection travels...
Complete Works, Vol. 1: The Birthday Party / The Room / The Dumb Waiter / A Slight Ache / A Night Out / The Black and White / The Examination
AuthorHarold Pinter
ISBN0802150969
Harold Pinter has long been acknowledged as one of the most influential playwrights in contemporary theatre; his arresting and original works have left a lasting imprint on the development of the stage and screen while delighting audiences around the world.
This, the first of four volumes, contains...
The Norton Book of Classical Literature
AuthorBernard Knox
ISBN0393034267
Preface
Introduction
Greece
Homer
Hesiod
The archaic lyric & iambus
Archilochus (7th century B.C.)
Tyrtaeus (7th century B.C.)
Alcman (late 7th century B.C.)
Hipponax (middle 6th century B.C.)
Alcaeus (late 7th century-middle 6th century B.C.)...
The Hostage
AuthorBrendan Behan
ISBN0413311902
This is the first Behan I've read, but it fit in easily with my wider knowledge of Irish Drama (Yeats, Gregory, Synge, Friel, etc etc etc...). Of course it's madly depressing if you think about the issues at hand. The obvious depressing thing happens at the end rather than (as sometimes occurs in Irish...
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