Irish Verse: An Anthology

Here are sixteen of the best stories by one of America's most popular storytellers. For nearly a century, the work of O.Henry has delighted readers with its humor, irony and colorful, real-life settings. The writer's own life had more than a touch

Considered by many critics the foremost English "metaphysical" poet, John Donne earned renown for both sacred and secular verse, his love poems in the latter genre ranking among his most original and popular works. Brilliant and wide-ranging,

Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and four Pulitzer prizes, Eugene O'Neill is generally acknowledged as America's greatest playwright. This volume includes three of the writer’s early, influential works: The Emperor Jones presents a forceful powerful psychological portrayal of brute power, fear, and madness as it traces events in the life of the self-proclaimed ruler of a West Indian islan...

Many experiences in the personal life of dramatist August Strindberg involved duels between the sexes, with ruthless, aggressive women usurping the supposedly male prerogatives of decision-making and leadership. Strindberg explores this theme in depth in The Father - a highly emotional study of marital upheaval and a no-holds-barred struggle between man and woman. One of Strindberg's best wor...

In his stories and in such landmark novels as Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser defied literary propriety and broke new ground in American fiction by focusing on life as it is, rather than as it ought to be. Sherwood Anderson, introducing a collection of Dreiser stories, said of him: "If there is a modern movement in American prose writing, a movement toward greater courage a...

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.