Irish Verse: An Anthology

Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) called himself "an Aeolian harp strung to every wind of heaven." His first volume of poems, entitled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was published in 1786. An immediate success, it established Burns's poetic reputation, which has grown over two centuries to the point where he is not only the Scottish national poet but the object of a cult unique in British p...

This Dover edition, first published in1993, contains of all the lyric poems from the following W. B. Yeats volumes: The Wind Among the Reeds, In the Seven Woods:Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age, The Green Helmet and Other Poems, Poems, and Responsibilities: Poems and a Play. The Note, the footnotes and the alphabetical lists of titles and first lines were prepared specially for the pre...

Treasury of 30 works, including such favorites as "On first looking into Chapman's Homer," "The Eve of St. Agnes," "On seeing the Elgin Marbles," "La Belle Dame sans Merci," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn," and 23 more. Reprinted from a standard text. Alphabetical List of Opening Lines.

One of the greatest classics of modern theater - the fateful drama of a willful young aristocrat's seduction of her father's valet during a Midsummer's Eve celebration. Inspired by the new ideas of naturalism and psychology that swept Europe in the late 19th century, the play is reprinted here complete with Strindberg's critical preface.