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1000 Years of Irish Poetry: The Celtic and Anglo-Irish Poets from Pagan Times to the Presentby Kathleen HoaglandISBN 1566490103 (1-56649-010-3)
Softcover, Welcome Rain Publishers
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Ark of the Northby Paul Durcan, Francis StuartISBN 0906897416 (0-906897-41-6)
Softcover, Raven Arts Press
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The Astrakhan Cloakby Paul Muldoon, Nuala Ni DhomhnaillISBN 1852351047 (1-85235-104-7)
Softcover, Gallery Press
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The Astrakhan Cloakby Nwala Ni DhomhnaillISBN 0788150944 (0-7881-5094-4)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Ballad of HMS Belfast: A Compendium of Belfast Poemsby Ciaran CarsonISBN 1852352469 (1-85235-246-9)
Softcover, Gallery Press
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Belfast Confettiby Ciaran CarsonISBN 0916390403 (0-916390-40-3)
Softcover, Wake Forest Univ Pr
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Berlin Wall Cafeby Paul DurcanISBN 1860460887 (1-86046-088-7)
Softcover, Random House
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Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experienceby William Blake, Richard HolmesISBN 1854377299 (1-85437-729-9)
Hardcover, Tate Gallery Pubn
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience'Book summary:This beautiful, hardcover gift edition allows Blake to communicate with his readers as he intended, reproducing his illuminations and lettering from the finest existing example of the original. In this way readers can experience the mystery and beauty of Blakes poems as he created them. This unique edition is essential for those who love Blakes work, and also offers an ideal entrance into his visionary world for those encountering him for the first time. [via]
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The Celtic Twilight: Faerie And Folkloreby W. B. YeatsISBN 1596050012 (1-59605-001-2)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Celtic Twilight: Faerie And Folklore'Book summary:Ireland is home to some of the world's most enchanting myths and tales. But many of these stories would have been lost if they hadn't been recorded and written down. Poet and Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats was one of these fortunate witnesses. In "The Celtic Twilight," originally published in 1893, he collected some of the most delightful myths and folktales of his native land. [via]
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The Celtic Twilight: Myth, Fantasy and Folkloreby W. B. YeatsISBN 1853270296 (1-85327-029-6)
Softcover, Prism Pr Ltd
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Collected Poems [of] Patrick Kavanaghby Patrick KavanaghISBN 0856161004 (0-85616-100-4)
Hardcover, Martin Brian and O'Keeffe Ltd
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The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeatsby W. B. YeatsISBN 1853264547 (1-85326-454-7)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats'Book summary:William Butler Yeats, whom many consider this century's greatest poet, began as a bard of the Celtic Twilight, reviving legends and Rosicrucian symbols. By the early 1900s, however, he was moving away from plush romanticism, his verse morphing from the incantatory rhythms of "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" into lyrics "as cold and passionate as the dawn." At every stage, however, Yeats plays a multiplicity of poetic roles. There is the romantic lover of "When You Are Old" and "A Poet to His Beloved" ("I bring you with reverent Hands / The books of my numberless dreams..."). And there are the far more bitter celebrations of Maud Gonne, who never accepted his love and engaged in too much politicking for his taste: "Why should I blame her that she filled my days / With misery, or that she would of late / Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, / Or hurled the little streets upon the great, / Had they but courage equal to desire?" There is also the poet of conscience--and confrontation. His 1931 "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" ends: "Out of Ireland have we come. / Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start. / I carried from my mother's womb / A fanatic heart."
Yeats was to explore several more sides of himself, and of Ireland, before his Last Poems of 1938-39. Many are difficult, some snobbish, others occult and spiritualist. As Brendan Kennelly writes, Yeats "produces both poppycock and sublimity in verse, sometimes closely together." On the other hand, many prophetic masterworks are poppycock-free--for example, "The Second Coming" ("Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...") and such inquiries into inspiration as "Among School Children" ("O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?"). And at his best, Yeats extends the meaning of love poetry beyond the obviously romantic: love becomes a revolutionary emotion, attaching the poet to friends, history, and the passionate life of the mind. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeatsby Richard J. FinneranISBN 0020556500 (0-02-055650-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Yeats was to explore several more sides of himself, and of Ireland, before his Last Poems of 1938-39. Many are difficult, some snobbish, others occult and spiritualist. As Brendan Kennelly writes, Yeats "produces both poppycock and sublimity in verse, sometimes closely together." On the other hand, many prophetic masterworks are poppycock-free--for example, "The Second Coming" ("Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...") and such inquiries into inspiration as "Among School Children" ("O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?"). And at his best, Yeats extends the meaning of love poetry beyond the obviously romantic: love becomes a revolutionary emotion, attaching the poet to friends, history, and the passionate life of the mind.
Though this edition has been reset and revised, the changes are not as shocking as the 1984 edition, which included 100 extra pages of notes, changes in language and punctuation, and, most significantly, a redefinition of the Last Poems. Richard Finneran has had the courage to reorder the poems according to notes that Yeats made shortly before his death. Readers may be surprised to find that "Under Ben Bulben," the poet's powerful and self-mythologizing epitaph, no longer ends the collection, as it has for more than 30 years. In its place they will discover the wistful "Politics": "How can I, that girl standing there, / My attention fix / On Roman or on Russian / Or on Spanish politics..." Yet devotees of either ending will agree that this is a truly necessary volume--indeed, one of the few. As Seamus Heaney writes, "All readers of Yeats will need this book; when they open it they will feel a surprise like that experienced by St. Brendan the Navigator and his crew when they disembarked upon an island that turned out to be the back of a dormant sea monster." [via]
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Collected Poems: Yeatsby W. B. YeatsISBN 0330316389 (0-330-31638-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Crazy about Women: Poemsby Paul Durcan, National Gallery of IrelandISBN 0903162598 (0-903162-59-8)
Hardcover, National Gallery of Ireland
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Cries of an Irish Cavemanby Paul DurcanISBN 1860469108 (1-86046-910-8)
Softcover, Harvill
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District And Circleby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374530815 (0-374-53081-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Dublinersby James Joyce, Del DoughtyISBN 1416500359 (1-4165-0035-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:Classic Irish Literature; Irish Studies; Literary Studies [via]
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Dublineses / Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 8420639176 (84-206-3917-6)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Early Poemsby W. B. YeatsISBN 0486278085 (0-486-27808-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Fairy And Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantryby W. B. YeatsISBN 1598186566 (1-59818-656-6)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy And Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry'Book summary:If you are a stranger, you will not readily get ghost and fairy legends, even in a western village. You must go adroitly to work, and make friends with the children, and the old men, with those who have not felt the pressure of mere daylight existence, and those with whom it is growing less, and will have altogether taken itself off one of these days. The old women are most learned, but will not so readily be got to talk, for the fairies are very secretive, and much resent being talked of; and are there not many stories of old women who were nearly pinched into their graves or numbed with fairy blasts?
At sea, when the nets are out and the pipes are lit, then will some ancient hoarder of tales become loquacious, telling his histories to the tune of the creaking of the boats. Holy-eve night, too, is a great time, and in old days many tales were to be heard at wakes. But the priest have set their faces against wakes.
In the Parochial Survey of Ireland it is recorded how the storytellers used to gather together of an evening, and if any had a different version from the others, they would all recite theirs and vote, and the man who had varied would have to abide by their verdict. In this way stories have been handed down with such accuracy, that the long tale of Dierdre was, in the earlier decades of this century, told almost word for word, as in the very ancient MSS. in the Royal Dublin Society. . . . [via]
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Fairy And Folk Tales Of The Irish Peasantry 1890by W. B. YeatsISBN 1417977787 (1-4179-7778-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Irelandby David LyonsISBN 185648324X (1-85648-324-X)
Hardcover, Advantage Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ireland'Book summary:A treasury of poems offers readers a heart-and-soul look at Ireland, providing a real "feel" for the people and culture of the land in addition to the beauty of the environment and nature; complete with beautiful photography of a land that has inspired poets for generations. [via]
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Irish Fairy and Folk Talesby W. B. YeatsISBN 158663609X (1-58663-609-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Irish Fairy and Folk Tales'Book summary:Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stories evoke both tender pathos and lighthearted mirth and embody what Yeats describes as the very voice of the people, the very pulse of life.
The impact of these tales doesnt stop with Yeats, or Joyce, or Oscar Wilde, writes Paul Muldoon in his Foreword, for generations of readers in Ireland and throughout the world have found them flourishing like those persistent fairy thorns.
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The Irish for Noby Ciaran CarsonISBN 0916390292 (0-916390-29-2)
Softcover, Wake Forest Univ Pr
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James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 1555460208 (1-55546-020-8)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:Considered to be cast in a daring rhetorical mode, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel by James Joyce. Originally published as a series, the novel continually interacts with Irish history and culture.
The title, James Joyces A Portrait of Artist As Young Man, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on James Joyces A Portrait of Artist As Young Man through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on James Joyce, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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James Joyce's Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 1555460194 (1-55546-019-4)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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The New Estateby Ciaran CarsonISBN 0916390020 (0-916390-02-0)
Softcover, Wake Forest Univ Pr
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The New Oxford Book of Irish Verseby Thomas KinsellaISBN 0192801929 (0-19-280192-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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New Selected Poems, 1966-1987by Seamus HeaneyISBN 0571143725 (0-571-14372-5)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Selected Poems, 1966-1987'Book summary:An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet. [via]
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O Westport in the Light of Asia Minorby Paul DurcanISBN 1860460879 (1-86046-087-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry : The Gaelic and Anglo-Irish Poets from Pagan Times to the Presentby Kathleen HoaglandISBN 0517342952 (0-517-34295-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996by Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374526788 (0-374-52678-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996'Book summary:For Seamus Heaney, "opened ground" is a necessity--a way of getting to the root of things. The book bearing that name spans three decades, beginning with "Digging," his exhilarating portrait of the artist as a young revolutionary. "Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun," Heaney boasts (although by the end of the poem, his weapon has metamorphosed into something closer to the spade his grandfather and father once relied upon). The last entry, the sonnet "Postscript," appears some 400 pages later, which makes Opened Ground a capacious selection of his work. But at this point Heaney requires the largest of hold-alls. There are beautiful, pastoral lyrics here, sequences such as "Glanmore Sonnets" and "Clearances," and a multitude of love poems, not solely to his wife but to his parents and children. And in Heaney's hands, small domestic moments and objects--a scrabble board, a swing, a kite, a bed sawn in half to get it downstairs--invariably become both reality and soaring myth.
At the same time, his Ireland is the site of "neighborly murders," and the past and larger world he confronts is one threatened by history and brutal sectarianism. Heaney has declared, "Fear is the emotion that the muse thrives on. That's always there"--and terror is pervasive in his "land of password, handgrip, wink and nod, / Of open minds as open as a trap." Many of his poems that explore the Troubles reflect his own considerable concern that he has long "confused evasion and artistic tact." Others might be termed self-reflexive, since Heaney uses them to unearth his own role. "Kinship" features a simple, brilliant (not to mention canine!) simile:
I step through origins
In a later poem, "From the Frontier of Writing," he compares the struggle for inspiration to being stopped at a roadblock: "And everything is pure interrogation / until a rifle motions you and you move / with guarded unconcerned acceleration." Heaney's gift is dazzling, and would be almost unbearable were it not matched by vigilance, self-doubt, and regret--and his longing for the day in which "justice can rise up / And hope and history rhyme." --Kerry Fried [via]
like a dog turning
its memories of wilderness
on the kitchen mat.
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An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-1987by Eavan BolandISBN 0393316017 (0-393-31601-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Outside Historyby Eavan BolandISBN 0393308227 (0-393-30822-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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P.j. Kavanagh: Collected Poemsby Patrick KavanaghISBN 0393006948 (0-393-00694-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Penguin Book of Irish Verseby Brendan KennellyISBN 0140585265 (0-14-058526-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Pharaoh's Daughterby Nuala Ni DhomhnaillISBN 1852350563 (1-85235-056-3)
Softcover, Gallery Press
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Plays, Prose Writings & Poemsby Oscar WildeISBN 1857150422 (1-85715-042-2)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plays, Prose Writings & Poems'Book summary:Famed as a wit and bon viveur, Oscar Wilde lived up to his reputation. This selection of plays, poems and prose writings, introduced by Terry Eagleton, includes "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Lady Windermere's Fan", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Critic as an Artist", Apologia", "The Soul of a Man Under Socialism", "Letter to Robert Ross", "Requiescat" and "The Ballad of Reading Goal". Terry Eagleton is the author of "Criticism and Ideology", "Marxism and Literary Criticsm" and "Literary Theory: An Introduction". [via]
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The Poemsby W. B. Yeats, Richard J. FinneranISBN 0684839350 (0-684-83935-0)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems'Book summary:William Butler Yeats, whom many consider this century's greatest poet, began as a bard of the Celtic Twilight, reviving legends and Rosicrucian symbols. By the early 1900s, however, he was moving away from plush romanticism, his verse morphing from the incantatory rhythms of "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" into lyrics "as cold and passionate as the dawn." At every stage, however, Yeats plays a multiplicity of poetic roles. There is the romantic lover of "When You Are Old" and "A Poet to His Beloved" ("I bring you with reverent Hands / The books of my numberless dreams..."). And there are the far more bitter celebrations of Maud Gonne, who never accepted his love and engaged in too much politicking for his taste: "Why should I blame her that she filled my days / With misery, or that she would of late / Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, / Or hurled the little streets upon the great, / Had they but courage equal to desire?" There is also the poet of conscience--and confrontation. His 1931 "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" ends: "Out of Ireland have we come. / Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start. / I carried from my mother's womb / A fanatic heart."
Yeats was to explore several more sides of himself, and of Ireland, before his Last Poems of 1938-39. Many are difficult, some snobbish, others occult and spiritualist. As Brendan Kennelly writes, Yeats "produces both poppycock and sublimity in verse, sometimes closely together." On the other hand, many prophetic masterworks are poppycock-free--for example, "The Second Coming" ("Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...") and such inquiries into inspiration as "Among School Children" ("O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?"). And at his best, Yeats extends the meaning of love poetry beyond the obviously romantic: love becomes a revolutionary emotion, attaching the poet to friends, history, and the passionate life of the mind.
Though this edition has been reset and revised, the changes are not as shocking as the 1984 edition, which included 100 extra pages of notes, changes in language and punctuation, and, most significantly, a redefinition of the Last Poems. Richard Finneran has had the courage to reorder the poems according to notes that Yeats made shortly before his death. Readers may be surprised to find that "Under Ben Bulben," the poet's powerful and self-mythologizing epitaph, no longer ends the collection, as it has for more than 30 years. In its place they will discover the wistful "Politics": "How can I, that girl standing there, / My attention fix / On Roman or on Russian / Or on Spanish politics..." Yet devotees of either ending will agree that this is a truly necessary volume--indeed, one of the few. As Seamus Heaney writes, "All readers of Yeats will need this book; when they open it they will feel a surprise like that experienced by St. Brendan the Navigator and his crew when they disembarked upon an island that turned out to be the back of a dormant sea monster." [via]
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Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man And Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 159308031X (1-59308-031-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 1416500316 (1-4165-0031-6)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man'Book summary:Originally published in serial format, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," is the semi-autobiographical portrayal of James Joyce's early upbringing as an Irish Catholic in late 19th century and early 20th century Dublin. At the center of the novel is the protagonist Stephen Dedalus whose life is depicted from its various stages starting in childhood and moving through early adulthood. The language of the novel changes throughout the book to correspond with the artistic development of Stephen Dedalus as he ages and matures. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is a masterful depiction of the process of self-discovery that is indicative of the early stages of everyone's life. [via]
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Softcover, Digireads.Com - A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: ISBN 1853260061 (1-85326-006-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: ISBN 141762650X (1-4176-2650-X)
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Prefaces and Introductionsby W. B. Yeats, William O'DonnelISBN 0025925512 (0-02-592551-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prefaces and Introductions'Book summary:Arranged together for the first time, thirty-two introductions by W. B. Yeats to the works of such literary greats as William Blake, J.M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde and more. [via]
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The Price of Stone and Earlier Poemsby Richard MurphyISBN 0916390233 (0-916390-23-3)
Softcover, Wake Forest Univ Pr
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Selected Poems and Three Plays of William Butler Yeatsby M.L. RosenthalISBN 0020715609 (0-02-071560-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems and Three Plays of William Butler Yeats'Book summary:A revised and expanded edition of the classic volume of Yeats' work, including the play The Death of Cuchulain. [via]
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Selected Poems and Two Plays of William Butler Yeatsby W. B. YeatsISBN 0020715404 (0-02-071540-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Selected Poems of Louis Macneiceby Michael LongleyISBN 0916390381 (0-916390-38-1)
Softcover, Wake Forest Univ Pr
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Selected Poems: Rogha Dantaby Michael Hartnett, Nuala Ni DhomhnaillISBN 1851860274 (1-85186-027-4)
Softcover, New Island Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems: Rogha Danta'Book summary:Now regarded as a landmark in contemporary Irish literature. [via]
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Selected Poems, 1966-1987by Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374522804 (0-374-52280-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems, 1966-1987'Book summary:Seamus Heaney was the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize, and this collection reveals the range, sureness, and quality of his achievements. Includes the complete and revised version of his long poem, "Station Island," as well as a number of prose poems previously unpublished in the U.S. [via]
Snail in My Primeby Paul DurcanISBN 1860461875 (1-86046-187-5)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Snow Waterby Michael LongleyISBN 193063014X (1-930630-14-X)
Softcover, Wake Forest Univ Pr
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Songs Of Innocence And Experienceby William BlakeISBN 1419148230 (1-4191-4823-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Songs Of Innocence And Experience'Book summary:The simple and beautiful eloquence of William Blake's poetry is exemplified here in Songs of Innocence and of Experience. This collection of forty-six poems is actually two volumes in one. After first completing and publishing Songs of Innocence in 1789 Blake would, some five years later, add Songs of Experience to the volume in an effort to show "the two contrary states of the human soul." [via]
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Songs of Innocence And of Experienceby William BolcomISBN 1423402898 (1-4234-0289-8)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Station Islandby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374519358 (0-374-51935-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Station Island'Book summary:[via]The title poem of this collection, set on an Irish island, tells of a pilgrim on an inner journey that leads him back into the world that formed him, and then forward to face the crises of the present. Writing in The Washington Post Book World, Hugh Kenner called this narrative sequence "as fine a long poem as we've had in fifty years." -
Sweet Smell Of Successby Clifford OdetsISBN 0571194931 (0-571-19493-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sweet Smell Of Success'Book summary:For Seamus Heaney, "opened ground" is a necessity--a way of getting to the root of things. The book bearing that name spans three decades, beginning with "Digging," his exhilarating portrait of the artist as a young revolutionary. "Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun," Heaney boasts (although by the end of the poem, his weapon has metamorphosed into something closer to the spade his grandfather and father once relied upon). The last entry, the sonnet "Postscript," appears some 400 pages later, which makes Opened Ground a capacious selection of his work. But at this point Heaney requires the largest of hold-alls. There are beautiful, pastoral lyrics here, sequences such as "Glanmore Sonnets" and "Clearances," and a multitude of love poems, not solely to his wife but to his parents and children. And in Heaney's hands, small domestic moments and objects--a scrabble board, a swing, a kite, a bed sawn in half to get it downstairs--invariably become both reality and soaring myth.
At the same time, his Ireland is the site of "neighborly murders," and the past and larger world he confronts is one threatened by history and brutal sectarianism. Heaney has declared, "Fear is the emotion that the muse thrives on. That's always there"--and terror is pervasive in his "land of password, handgrip, wink and nod, / Of open minds as open as a trap." Many of his poems that explore the Troubles reflect his own considerable concern that he has long "confused evasion and artistic tact." Others might be termed self-reflexive, since Heaney uses them to unearth his own role. "Kinship" features a simple, brilliant (not to mention canine!) simile:
I step through origins
In a later poem, "From the Frontier of Writing," he compares the struggle for inspiration to being stopped at a roadblock: "And everything is pure interrogation / until a rifle motions you and you move / with guarded unconcerned acceleration." Heaney's gift is dazzling, and would be almost unbearable were it not matched by vigilance, self-doubt, and regret--and his longing for the day in which "justice can rise up / And hope and history rhyme." --Kerry Fried [via]
like a dog turning
its memories of wilderness
on the kitchen mat.
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Teresa's Barby Paul DurcanISBN 0902996487 (0-902996-48-7)
Hardcover, The Gallery Press
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Voices of Ireland: Classic Writings of a Rich and Rare Landby Malachy McCourtISBN 0762413360 (0-7624-1336-0)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voices of Ireland: Classic Writings of a Rich and Rare Land'Book summary:This anthology collects fiction, poetry, and essays by several esteemed Irish writers over three centuries that describe the beauty and mystique of Ireland. From Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" to James Joyce's "Dubliners, " these masterpieces form a collective record of the modern Irish experience. [via]
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W. B. Yeats: Collected Poemsby W. B. YeatsISBN 0099723506 (0-09-972350-6)
Softcover, Vintage Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'W. B. Yeats: Collected Poems'Book summary:William Butler Yeats, whom many consider this century's greatest poet, began as a bard of the Celtic Twilight, reviving legends and Rosicrucian symbols. By the early 1900s, however, he was moving away from plush romanticism, his verse morphing from the incantatory rhythms of "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" into lyrics "as cold and passionate as the dawn." At every stage, however, Yeats plays a multiplicity of poetic roles. There is the romantic lover of "When You Are Old" and "A Poet to His Beloved" ("I bring you with reverent Hands / The books of my numberless dreams..."). And there are the far more bitter celebrations of Maud Gonne, who never accepted his love and engaged in too much politicking for his taste: "Why should I blame her that she filled my days / With misery, or that she would of late / Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, / Or hurled the little streets upon the great, / Had they but courage equal to desire?" There is also the poet of conscience--and confrontation. His 1931 "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" ends: "Out of Ireland have we come. / Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start. / I carried from my mother's womb / A fanatic heart."
Yeats was to explore several more sides of himself, and of Ireland, before his Last Poems of 1938-39. Many are difficult, some snobbish, others occult and spiritualist. As Brendan Kennelly writes, Yeats "produces both poppycock and sublimity in verse, sometimes closely together." On the other hand, many prophetic masterworks are poppycock-free--for example, "The Second Coming" ("Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...") and such inquiries into inspiration as "Among School Children" ("O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?"). And at his best, Yeats extends the meaning of love poetry beyond the obviously romantic: love becomes a revolutionary emotion, attaching the poet to friends, history, and the passionate life of the mind. --Kerry Fried [via]
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W. B. Yeats : Selected Poemsby Phoenix Press Staff, W. B. YeatsISBN 0753816652 (0-7538-1665-2)
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Wake Forest Book of Irish Women Poetry 1967-2000by Peggy O'BrienISBN 0916390888 (0-916390-88-8)
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The Water Horseby Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Medbh McGuckian, Eilean Ni ChuilleanianISBN 0916390934 (0-916390-93-4)
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Water Horse: Poems in Irishby Dhomhnaill Nuala NiISBN 1852352337 (1-85235-233-7)
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Wb Yeats Poems Selected by Seamus Heaneyby W. B. YeatsISBN 0571203787 (0-571-20378-7)
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William Butler Yeats : Selected Poemsby W. B. Yeats, E. DickinsonISBN 051707396X (0-517-07396-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Butler Yeats : Selected Poems'Book summary:William Butler Yeats was not only one of the most beloved and honored poets of this century. Playwright, essayist, theatrical impresario, occultist, politician, famously hapless lover--he was also one of the most colorful and complex. Astonishingly, no full biography of Yeats has appeared in many years. Now, Keith Alldritt gives us a lively telling of Yeats's story that puts the poet in the context of his times, from the high Victorian era to the modernism of the thirties.
Alldritt reveals that Yeats was not just "the sensitive introvert who began as the mooning dreamer and after a lifetime seeking philosophical and hermetic wisdom, ended as the learned sage" that Yeats himself and his biographers would have us believe. He shows us a less familiar man: "a dedicated careerist, an ambitious man of determined self-interest, a seeker after social standing, and a combative man with a violent temper that sustained him in many nasty quarrels." Confrontational, scrappy, driven, he was deeply involved in both the political and literary issues of his day. He was instrumental in overturning the English domination of Irish literature and in researching and publishing books on Irish lore and fairy tales. He was the founder, with George Bernard Shaw, of the Irish Institute of Arts and Letters as well as the Abbey Theatre, where he refused to close down Synge's inflammatory play The Playboy of the Western World, despite riots in the street. During his tenure as senator in the Irish Parliament, he fought the Catholic divorce laws. At every level, Alldritt shows us a poet engaged in the world.
Yeats's long, passionate, and physically unrequited love affair with the beautiful Irish nationalist Maud Gonne, which led to some of his most poignant poetry, is brought vividly to life. Also covered in some detail are Yeats's numerous love affairs in the years before his death. Though condoned by his wife, they have not been explored in previous biographies out of respect for her feelings.
Another aspect of Yeats not generally appreciated is his involvement with literary movements outside Ireland and England. He wrote reviews for the Boston Globe; lectured regularly throughout the United States; and spent much time in France, where he was influenced by the symbolist poets, and in Italy, where he joined the Rapallo group led by the quixotic Ezra Pound.
In his years of research, Alldritt visited libraries worldwide. He was given special access to Yeats's private papers in the National Library of Ireland and interviewed many people who knew or are knowledgeable about Yeats, most notably Yeats's daughter, Anne.
Yeats has been called "the greatest poetic imagination of our century." Now Keith Alldritt reveals another facet of his extraordinary persona.
William Butler Yeats was a master craftsman, and one of his most skillful constructs was his own image. He wished to be remembered, above all, as an Irishman and a poet; as a man whose nature had been determined by the almost magical qualities of his childhood in Sligo and whose character had been shaped by the influence of admirable men. There is truth in this depiction of himself, but it is a partial truth only.
In this account, I attempt to go beyond his interior world and to evoke and do justice to those individuals and external forces which in their turn made up part of the dialectic of Yeats's life. Yeats lived at a time of profound changes for the Western world from the high Victorianism of the late 1800s to the advent of modernism in the 1930s. I have attempted to offer a strong sense of Yeats in his social and historical context--to show that an important side of his genius was his deep and often manipulative relationship with the turbulent life around him as with his turbulent life within. [via]More editions of William Butler Yeats : Selected Poems:
The Wind Among the Reeds 1899by W. B. YeatsISBN 1854771620 (1-85477-162-0)
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The Yeats Readerby W. B. Yeats, Richard J. FinneranISBN 0743227980 (0-7432-2798-0)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yeats Reader'Book summary:Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats -- Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century -- produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle age address the human condition with language that has entered our vocabulary for cataclysmic personal and world events. The writings of his final years offer wisdom, courage, humor, and sheer technical virtuosity. T. S. Eliot pronounced Yeats "the greatest poet of our time -- certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language" and "one of the few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them."
The Yeats Reader is the most comprehensive single volume to display the full range of Yeats's talents. It presents more than one hundred and fifty of his best-known poems -- more than any other compendium -- plus eight plays, a sampling of his prose tales, and excerpts from his published autobiographical and critical writings. In addition, an appendix offers six early texts of poems that Yeats later revised. Also included are selections from the memoirs left unpublished at his death and complete introductions written for a projected collection that never came to fruition. These are supplemented by unobtrusive annotation and a chronology of the life.
Yeats was a protean writer and thinker, and few writers so thoroughly reward a reader's efforts to essay the whole of their canon. This volume is an excellent place to begin that enterprise, to renew an old acquaintance with one of world literature's great voices, or to continue a lifelong interest in the phenomenon of literary genius. [via]
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The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Proseby W. B. Yeats, Richard J. FinneranISBN 0684831880 (0-684-83188-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Canciones De Inocencia Y De Experienciaby William BlakeISBN 8437606683 (84-376-0668-3)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Retrato Del Artista Adolescente/ Portrait of the Young Artistby James JoyceISBN 9685270740 (968-5270-74-0)
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