Author: Robert Fitzroy Foster
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198184652
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Recounts the life of the Irish poet and nationalist, describes his relationships with his contemporaries, and traces his interest in the occult.
W.B. Yeats: The arch-poet, 1915-1939
Author: Robert Fitzroy Foster
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198184652
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Recounts the life of the Irish poet and nationalist, describes his relationships with his contemporaries, and traces his interest in the occult.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198184652
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Recounts the life of the Irish poet and nationalist, describes his relationships with his contemporaries, and traces his interest in the occult.
When You Are Old
Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014310764X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Beautiful early writings by one of the 20th century’s greatest poets on the 150th anniversary of his birth A Penguin Classic The poems, prose, and drama gathered in When You Are Old present a fresh portrait of the Nobel Prize–winning writer as a younger man: the 1890s aesthete who dressed as a dandy, collected Irish folklore, dabbled in magic, and wrote heartrending poems for his beloved, the beautiful, elusive Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne. Included here are such celebrated, lyrical poems as “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” as well as Yeats’s imaginative retellings of Irish fairytales—including his first major poem, “The Wanderings of Oisin,” based on a Celtic fable—and his critical writings, which offer a fascinating window onto his artistic theories. Through these enchanting works, readers will encounter Yeats as the mystical, lovelorn bard and Irish nationalist popular during his own lifetime. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014310764X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Beautiful early writings by one of the 20th century’s greatest poets on the 150th anniversary of his birth A Penguin Classic The poems, prose, and drama gathered in When You Are Old present a fresh portrait of the Nobel Prize–winning writer as a younger man: the 1890s aesthete who dressed as a dandy, collected Irish folklore, dabbled in magic, and wrote heartrending poems for his beloved, the beautiful, elusive Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne. Included here are such celebrated, lyrical poems as “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” as well as Yeats’s imaginative retellings of Irish fairytales—including his first major poem, “The Wanderings of Oisin,” based on a Celtic fable—and his critical writings, which offer a fascinating window onto his artistic theories. Through these enchanting works, readers will encounter Yeats as the mystical, lovelorn bard and Irish nationalist popular during his own lifetime. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Yeats
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0385474547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0385474547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
The Rag and Bone Shop
Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0385729928
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Twelve-year old Jason is accused of the brutal murder of a young girl. Is he innocent or guilty? The shocked town calls on an interrogator with a stellar reputation: he always gets a confession. The confrontation between Jason and his interrogator forms the chilling climax of this terrifying look at what can happen when the pursuit of justice becomes a personal crusade for victory at any cost.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0385729928
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Twelve-year old Jason is accused of the brutal murder of a young girl. Is he innocent or guilty? The shocked town calls on an interrogator with a stellar reputation: he always gets a confession. The confrontation between Jason and his interrogator forms the chilling climax of this terrifying look at what can happen when the pursuit of justice becomes a personal crusade for victory at any cost.
I Am of Ireland
Author: W. B. Yeats
Publisher: Gill Books
ISBN: 9780717148356
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the opinion of many critics, Yeats is the greatest poet of the twentieth century. He is without question the greatest Irish poet. His work has influenced all who have come after him both in Ireland and throughout the English speaking world. In this beautifully designed and produced gift book, we get a selection of about sixty of Yeats's best loved poems complemented by the paintings from Irish artists, usually artists who were contemporaries of the poet.
Publisher: Gill Books
ISBN: 9780717148356
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the opinion of many critics, Yeats is the greatest poet of the twentieth century. He is without question the greatest Irish poet. His work has influenced all who have come after him both in Ireland and throughout the English speaking world. In this beautifully designed and produced gift book, we get a selection of about sixty of Yeats's best loved poems complemented by the paintings from Irish artists, usually artists who were contemporaries of the poet.
Making the Void Fruitful
Author: Patrick J. Keane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781800643222
Category : Occultism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Shedding fresh light on the life and work of William Butler Yeats--widely acclaimed as the major English-language poet of the twentieth century--this new study by leading scholar Patrick J. Keane questions established understandings of the Irish poet's long fascination with the occult: a fixation that repelled literary contemporaries T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, but which enhanced Yeats's vision of life and death.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781800643222
Category : Occultism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Shedding fresh light on the life and work of William Butler Yeats--widely acclaimed as the major English-language poet of the twentieth century--this new study by leading scholar Patrick J. Keane questions established understandings of the Irish poet's long fascination with the occult: a fixation that repelled literary contemporaries T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, but which enhanced Yeats's vision of life and death.
Yeats’s Poems
Author: W. B. Yeats
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349202843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Here in one volume is the entire canon of Yeat's verse, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He was a poet and playwright, storyteller and visionary. The author also wrote "Yeats: Man and Poet".
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349202843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Here in one volume is the entire canon of Yeat's verse, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He was a poet and playwright, storyteller and visionary. The author also wrote "Yeats: Man and Poet".
Yeats’s Poems
Author: A. Norman Jeffares
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349261556
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
William Butler Yeats is considered Ireland's greatest poet. He is one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. This is the definitive collection of his poems, encompassing the full range of his powers, from the love lyrics to the political poems, from poems meditating on the bliss of youth, to the verse that rails against old age. A detailed notes section and full appendix provide an invaluable key to the poems as well as biographical information on the life of the poet and a guide to his times. The collection includes Yeats's fourteen books of lyrical poems, his narrative and dramatic poetry, and his own notes on individual poems.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349261556
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
William Butler Yeats is considered Ireland's greatest poet. He is one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. This is the definitive collection of his poems, encompassing the full range of his powers, from the love lyrics to the political poems, from poems meditating on the bliss of youth, to the verse that rails against old age. A detailed notes section and full appendix provide an invaluable key to the poems as well as biographical information on the life of the poet and a guide to his times. The collection includes Yeats's fourteen books of lyrical poems, his narrative and dramatic poetry, and his own notes on individual poems.
Responsibilities, and other poems
Author: W. B. Yeats
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
This work contains the most cherished poems by Irish poet, dramatist, writer, and one of the prominent figures of 20th-century literature, W.B Yeats. He beautifully presented his thoughts about the responsibilities of life and how people must handle them.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
This work contains the most cherished poems by Irish poet, dramatist, writer, and one of the prominent figures of 20th-century literature, W.B Yeats. He beautifully presented his thoughts about the responsibilities of life and how people must handle them.