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Yeats combined his idiosyncratic symbolism with echoes of Japan’s noh drama, attempting to create a new kind of theater. This 1921 collection comprises 1919’s celebrated Two Plays for Dancers (The Only Jealousy of Emer and The Dreaming of the Bones) as well as At the Hawk’s Well and Calvary.

Yerba Buena’s guardian is the Mayor. But when he dies, Yerba Buena is unsure if she really is the descendent of an important Spanish family, as her mother told her. When her ward, Paul, begins to fall in love with her, Yerba Buena discovers what her secret may be.

This 1856 retelling of the Greek myths for children includes “How Perseus Vowed a Rash Vow,” “How Perseus Slew the Gorgon,” “How the Centaur Trained the Heroes on Pelion,” “How the Argonauts Were Driven into the Unknown Sea,” “How Theseus Slew the Minotaur,” and other stories. Kingsley’s child-oriented language gains richness from his true love for Greek mythology.  

The year before his death, the author of The Water Babies and other beloved fantasy novels, collected five lectures from his tour of America for this volume: “Westminster Abbey,” “The Stage As It Was Once,” “The First Discovery of America,” “The Servant of the Lord,” and “Ancient Civilisation.”

Charles Kingsley turned his literary skills to poetry for this collection. Gathered here are his long poem “Andromeda,” and poems with such evocative titles as “The Starlings,” “Ode to the Northeast Wind,” “The Watchman,” and “The World’s Age”—as well as some of Kingsley’s earlier verses.

This 1873 collection displays Kingsley’s wide-ranging interests. In the title essay, he suggests that Victorian attitudes toward art resemble those of the Puritans. The book also includes “Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time,” and a review of James Anthony Froude’s history of England.

Passionately admired, Eda St. Vincent Millay's works are some of the most often memorized of modern poetry. Early Works of Edna St. Millay reprints the early poems and plays that created the famous figure of the "girl poet." Published between 1917 and 1921, and collected in this volume, are the three...

The richness and beauty of medieval English poetry comes alive in this collection of fourteenth-century poems rendered into modern verse by the scholar Jessie L. Weston. These poems, including the classics Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Morte Arthure, are extraordinarily good tales, told extraordinarily well, of an era long past.

From the Persian astronomer and philosopher Omar Khayyam comes this collection of poems that will take your breath away.  The quatrains are simple and spontaneous yet brimming with beauty.  Not discovered until 1859, they are now some of the best-known and most frequently quoted verses.

The poems collected here are mostly light verse—“barrack-room ballads,” Kipling called them—inspired by Kipling’s early adventures as a newspaperman in British colonial India. The first book Kipling published, Departmental Ditties (1886), emphasizes the universality of human experience and the cross-cultural ubiquity of the ignoble and tragicomic aspects of human character.

In this 1912 edition (originally published in 1891), the author has collected all the lyrics and verses used in his books, excepting the Jungle Books and Just So Stories.  Included are memorable verses such as “Puck’s Song” from Puck, as well as songs from Actions and Reactions, Naulakha, Rewards and Fairies, and other works.

In the title story, the “hermit” is a boy who witnessed the murder of his parents and sister. The trauma has shaped his life, but a new neighbor—the “wild woman”—is about to change his outlook. Wharton’s 1908 collection also includes “The Last Asset,” “In Trust,” “The Pretext,” “The Verdict,” “The Pot-Boiler,” and “The Best Man.”

The prolific biographer, first editor of the 26 volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography, and father of Virginia Woolf, shares secrets of the trade in this wide-ranging collection of essays. This last of four volumes published from 1898-1902 includes "Shakespeare as a Man," "Southey's Letters,"...

Sir Leslie Stephen was a distinguished literary and social critic. The third of four wide-ranging volumes on books, writers, and history, this 1907 edition includes the essays “Charlotte Brontë,” “Charles Kingsley,” “Godwin and Shelley,” “Macaulay,” “Landor’s Imaginary Conversations,”...