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1) The poems
Author
Series
(William Butler),Works volume 1
Pub. Date
1989
Edition
A new ed. rev.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 751 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Poems (1920) is a collection of poems and plays by W.B. Yeats. Containing many of the poet's early important works, Poems illuminates Yeats' influence on the Celtic Twilight, a late-nineteenth century movement to revive the myths and traditions of Ancient Ireland.
The collection opens with Yeats' verse drama The Countess Cathleen, which he dedicated to the actress and revolutionary Maud Gonne. Set during a period of famine in Ireland, The Countess...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The Celtic Twilight (1893) is a collection of stories written and edited by W.B. Yeats. Compiled at the height of the Celtic Twilight, a movement to revive the myths and traditions of Ancient Ireland, The Celtic Twilight captures a wide range of stories, songs, poems, and firsthand accounts from artists and storytellers dedicated to the preservation of Irish culture.
In "Belief and Unbelief," a story is shared about a village at the foot of Ben...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
"The Land of Heart's Desire," one of Yeats best and most well-known works. The play describes an encounter between a fairy child and newlyweds Shawn and Bridget Bruin, and explores themes of mysticism and the temporary nature of life. Yeats felt an internal struggle with the contradictions he felt in his nature and in life, and spent much of his life seeking out a philosophical system to resolve this conflict.
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The Secret Rose (1897) is a collection of poems by W.B. Yeats. Written in response to demands that the poet write "a really national poem or romance," The Secret Rose exhibits Yeats' devotion to personal mythology and occult orders, and is a brilliant display of symbolism by one of Irish literature's premier poets.
"To the Secret Rose" opens the collection. The poem, inspired by Yeats' membership in the Rosicrucian Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,...
Author
Series
Great books of the Western World. 8th year volume 8, no. 15-16
Pub. Date
1960
Physical Desc
173, 32 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
12) Oedipus Rex
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1957
Physical Desc
2 audio discs : 33 1/3 rpm, microgroove ; 12 in.
Language
English
Description
AN EPIC TRAGEDY, WIDELY CONSIDERED TO BE A MASTERPIECE
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles' finest play is considered by many to be the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies. First produced sometime around 429 BC, it exhibits near-perfect harmony of character and action and is a work of extraordinary power which has circulated throughout world culture for thousands of years.
After Laius, King of Thebes, learns from an oracle that he is doomed to perish by...
18) Oedipus Rex
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
[2nd ed.].
Physical Desc
xiv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm + 3 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Collects works by forty-seven important poets, arranged chronologically by birth order from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to Sylvia Plath, and includes biographies, essays by accomplished contemporary poets, and CD recordings of each featured poet reading his or her own works.
