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Selected Poems and Three Plays

10 best books like Selected Poems and Three Plays (W.B. Yeats): Poems of Akhmatova, Selected Poems, 1966-1987, Yeats: The Man and the Masks, Selected Poems, Selected Poems: 1931-2004, 1,000 Years of Irish Poetry, Collected Poems, Belfast Confetti, In a Time of Violence: Poems, Poems 1968-1998

Poems of Akhmatova
AuthorAnna Akhmatova
ISBN0395860032


Anna Akhmatova by Natan Altman (1914)

Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966) lived through the worst years of the 20th century in one of the worst locations in which to be a poet unwilling to play the role of a trained parrot for the ruthless and murderous apes running the country. Born in Odessa,...
Selected Poems, 1966-1987
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374258686
Heaney’s poetry is more a voice than a style.
It seems to have been written to be listened to rather than to be thoroughly dissected and scrutinized.

The evocative tinge of children’s ideals and the brutality of a land divided by history and religion pulsate underneath the serene,...
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...
Selected Poems
AuthorAnne Sexton
ISBN0618057048
Anne Sexton is considered both a religious and feminist poet, a product of her upbringing and the era in which she lived. Born in 1928 outside of Boston to descendants of Puritans, Sexton was the oldest daughter in a deeply Christian family. Although her family may have expected more from her, Sexton...
Selected Poems: 1931-2004
AuthorCzesław Miłosz
ISBN0060188677
Selected Poems: 1931-2004 celebrates Czeslaw Milosz's lifetime of poetry. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of expression and probing inquiry. Life opened for Czeslaw Milosz at a crossroads of civilizations in northeastern Europe. This was less a melting...
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...
Collected Poems
AuthorPatrick Kavanagh
ISBN0393006948
I was introduced to Kavanagh’s work through several quotations in Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer. Those lines convinced me I had to seek out Kavanagh’s poetry.

Patrick Kavanagh wrote of Irish farm life, which he knew so well, without romantic sentimentality....
Belfast Confetti
AuthorCiaran Carson
ISBN0916390403
Belfast Confetti, Ciaran Carson’s third book of poetry, weaves together in a carefully sequenced volume prose pieces, long poems, lyrics, and haiku. His subjects include the permeable boundaries of Belfast neighborhoods, of memory, of public and private fear, and, indeed, of the forms of language...
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...
Poems 1968-1998
AuthorPaul Muldoon
ISBN0374528446
"Ireland"
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...
Y Gododdin
AuthorAneirin
ISBN0863833543
Aneirin, the sixth century Welsh poet, is reputed to have been one of a handful of survivors from the battle of Catraeth, which inspired his epic poem, The Gododdin. Aneirin's poem is a universal celebration of the undying theme of the ideal hero. O'Grady's belief that what Aneirin wrote of his war is...
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...
Collected Poems
AuthorGeorge Seferis
ISBN0691014914
In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the poems published in Princeton's earlier bilingual edition, "George Seferis: Collected Poems"...
Singularities
AuthorSusan Howe
ISBN0819511943
Since Susan Howe came to read last week, I’ve been thinking that I really must immediately read everything she’s ever written starting now go. Before hearing her read I’d read her major works: The Europe of Trusts (which I’m planning on re-reading because it was almost a decade ago I read it);...
The Panther and the Lash
AuthorLangston Hughes
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color, the first to commemorate the experience--and suffering--of African-Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear.  In this, his last collection of verse, Hughes's...
The Portable Emerson
AuthorRalph Waldo Emerson
ISBN0140150943
This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,”...
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