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Selected Poems and Two Plays

10 best books like Selected Poems and Two Plays (W.B. Yeats): The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play, Selected Poems: 1931-2004, 1,000 Years of Irish Poetry, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996, Poems 1968-1998, The Angel of History, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Selected Poems, Naked Masks: Five Plays

The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374522898
The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until the closing stages of the Siege of Troy. Abandoned because...
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'...
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...
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
AuthorRobert Pinsky
ISBN0374525064
The Figured Wheel fully collects the first four books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems, by Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. Poet Laureate.

Critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky's first volume, described this poet's work as "nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole...
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...
The Angel of History
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN0060925841
Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitions and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable. These poems reflect the effects of such experience:...
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
AuthorAlex Preminger
ISBN0691021236
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in sufficient depth and with enough...
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,...
Naked Masks: Five Plays
AuthorLuigi Pirandello
ISBN0452010829
This special one-volume edition features five great plays by one of the most celebrated and fascinating dramatists of the twentieth century.

Pirandello, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934, was the playwright par excellence of the conflict between illusion and reality. His modern and sensationally...
Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs
AuthorAmy Hempel
ISBN0609803794
Now in paperback, an irresistible gift for dog lovers: poems from the dogs' point of view, written by the well known writers and poets who love them.

List of contributors:
Edward Albee,  Jennifer Allen,  Danny Anderson,  Lynda Barry,  Rick Bass,  Charles Baxter,  Robert...
Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays (Everyman's Library)
AuthorAnonymous
Miracle plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part of the poetic and dramatic tradition on which Shakespeare drew. Everyman discovers what you can't take with you when you go. He beseeches in turn friends, family (one pleads 'cramp in my toe'), possessions ('I follow...
The Complete Plays: The Hostage / The Quare Fellow / Richard's Cork Leg
AuthorBrendan Behan
ISBN0802130704
This volume contains everything Behan wrote in dramatic form in English. First comes the three famous full-length plays: The Quare Fellow, set in an Irish prison, is "something very like a masterpiece" (John Russell Taylor); The Hostage, set in a Dublin lodging-house of doubtful repute, "shouts,...
Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
AuthorDerek Walcott
ISBN0374508607
On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting...
Collected Poems in English and French
AuthorSamuel Beckett
ISBN0802130968
Although born in Ireland, Beckett is known to have written in French in the years following his immigration to France. French, he explained, removed him from the comforts of his mother tongue, from the ease of writing in his mother tongue. French forced him to write economically; it forced him to think...
The Haiku Anthology: Haiku And Senryu In English
AuthorCor van den Heuvel
ISBN0393321185
Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, haiku has recently experienced tremendous growth in popularity in the English language. The Haiku Anthology, first published in 1974, is a landmark work in modern haiku, honoring a genre of poetry that celebrates...
The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
AuthorWilliam Stafford
ISBN1555972845
William Stafford (1914-1993) was an earnest, perceptive, and often affecting American poet who filled his life and ours with poetry of challenge and consolation. The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems gathers unpublished works from his last year, including the poem he wrote the day he died, as well as...
Collected Plays 2 {The Lion and the Jewel; Kongi's Harvest; The Trials of Brother Jero; Jero's Metamorphosis; Madmen and Specialists}
AuthorWole Soyinka
ISBN0192811649
I really liked the two Brother Jero plays, which I thought were hilarious. I wasn't as sold on Kongi's Harvest or Madmen and Specialists. And I read The Lion and the Jewel in a separate edition, so you can see my review of that play.
Kongi's Harvest, the two Brother Jero plays, and Madmen and Specialists...
Selected Poems
AuthorZbigniew Herbert
ISBN0880010991
Blessed is the nation that in the course of a century could give the world two poets of Czeslaw Milosz's and Zbigniew Herbert's scope. Doubly blessed is the English-reader, for in this volume he gets Zbigniew Herbert's work rendered by Czeslaw Milosz: like the poor, or better yet like nature herself,...
Collected Poems
AuthorJames Joyce
Okuduğum ilk James Joyce eseri. Ulysses'i okumaya niyetlenmiş, okuyamamıştım. Sanırım nesirde epey farklı bir üslubu olacak ki her yerde karşıma "Ulysses üslubu"na göndermeler çıkmakta (bu eserin önsözü de dahil olmak üzere). Fakat çevirmenin de uyardığı gibi şiirlerde...
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