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According to Wikipedia: "Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels,...

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career, from luminous reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards...

This landmark edition makes many of Yeats's early poems available to readers for the first time, along with many of his own notes about Irish mythology and folklore. Though he is best known for his later, more political poems, such as Easter 1916, he began his career as a student of Blake, Shelley,...

The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays William Butler Yeats, irish poet (1865-1939) This ebook presents «The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays», from William Butler Yeats. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents...

Paul Muldoon has been interested in writing for music for at least twenty years, over which time he has collaborated with composers as various as Mark-Anthony Turnage, Warren Zevon, and Wayside Shrines, the Princeton-based musical collective of which he is a founder member. Songs and Sonnets brings together...

The Secret Rose by the Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, W. B. Yeats.Following the work, Yeats never again attempted another long poem. His other early poems, which are meditations on the themes of love or mystical and esoteric subjects, include Poems (1895), The Secret Rose (1897)(This book), and The Wind Among the Reeds (1899).

Reveries over Childhood and Youth William Butler Yeats, irish poet (1865-1939) This ebook presents «Reveries over Childhood and Youth», from William Butler Yeats. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- DEDICATION -03- PREFACE -04- REVERIES OVER CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH

The title of Horse Latitudes, Paul Muldoon's tenth collection of poetry, refers to those areas thirty degrees north and south of the equator where sailing ships tend to be becalmed, where stasis (if not stagnation) is the order of the day. From Bosworth Field to Beijing, the Boyne to Bull Run, from...

The Poetry Of Rudyard Kipling, Volume 2. Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets...

Kissing the Witch Adapted from her book of thirteen revisionist fairy tales of the same name, this play interweaves four classic plots – Beauty and the Beast, Donkeyskin, the Goose Girl, the Little Mermaid – with an invented one about a desperate girl going to a witch for help. Kissing...

Two plays for dancers William Butler Yeats, irish poet (1865-1939) This ebook presents «Two plays for dancers», from William Butler Yeats. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- PREFACE -03- THE DREAMING OF THE BONES -04- THE MUSICIANS

Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats discovered early in his literary career a fascination with Irish folklore and the occult. Later awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, Yeats produced a vast collection of stories, songs, and poetry of Ireland’s historical and legendary...

Published in 1922, this collection of plays features, in addition to The Image, Hanrahan's Oath, Shanwalla, and The Wrens.  A contemporary review in The Atlantic praised The Image as "a finely spun comedy" and complimented Gregory's "complete understanding of the Irish people."

strange fruits is a poetry collection by Kent writer, Maria C. McCarthy. Maria is a poet of remarkable skill, whose work offers surprising glimpses into our 21st-century lives - the `strange fruits' of our civilisation or lack of it. Shot through with meditations on the past and her heritage as `an Irish...