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Search Books Please visit the How to Order page to place an order. To search for a book, you can fill in as many or as few of the fields below as you wish. If you are not getting any results, try leaving some of the fields blank. Order Now! BookId: J2-002416 ISBN: 0872941078 Title: Wine for a Breaking Heart Author: Hafiz Publisher: Bluemound Press Price: 35.00 Description: The Bluemound Press, Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1977. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Very good with Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. This is a collection of poetry " Odes. Wine for a Breaking Heart " by Hafiz, translated into English by Richard Le Gallienne and with an introduction by Joseph John. Very clean , The binding is tight. Some Persian B&W illustrations complement the text. 160 pages , as good as new . Order Now! BookId: J2-0025 Title: Oxford Poetry 1921 Author: Robert Graves, Alan Porter, Publisher: Oxford basil Blackwell Price: 35.00 Description: Edited by Alan Porter, Richard Hugues, Robert Graves , this was a yearly selection by Oxford of Poetry representative of the new production by local undergraduates . In this issue in addition to those name above were some poems byF N W Bateson, Edmund Blunden, Louis Golding, Rosaleen Graves, Bertram Higgins, Frank Prewett and Edgel Rickword. Being from 1921 , the soft paper has many foxing spots, but it still in great condition , blac cover with label for the title . name og past owner on end paper, 64 pages. Order Now! BookId: J2-0026 Title: Under Milk Wood A Play for Voices Author: Dylan Thomas Publisher: J M Dent Price: 40.00 Description: Under Milk Wood is a 1954 radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. The BBC commissioned the play, which was later adapted for the stage. A film version directed by Andrew Sinclair, was released in 1972, and another adaptation of the play, directed by Pip Broughton, was staged for television for the 60th anniversary in 2014. An omniscient narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of the fictional small Welsh fishing town, Llareggub, (buggerall spelt backwards). They include Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly nagging her two dead husbands; Captain Cat, reliving his seafaring times; the two Mrs. Dai Breads; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; and Polly Garter, pining for her dead lover. Later, the town awakens, and, aware now of how their feelings affect whatever they do, we watch them go about their daily business. Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953)was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood. He also wrote stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then, he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet". Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, in 1914. An undistinguished student, he left school in 1931 at the age of 16 to become a reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. Many of his works appeared in print while he was still a teenager. In 1934, the publication of "Light breaks where no sun shines" caught the attention of the literary world. While living in London, Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara. They married in 1937 and had three children: Llewelyn, Aeronwy, and Colm. He came to be appreciated as a popular poet during his lifetime, though he found earning a living as a writer difficult. He began augmenting his income with reading tours and radio broadcasts. His radio recordings for the BBC during the late 1940s brought him to the public's attention, and he was frequently featured by the BBC as an accessible voice of the literary scene. Thomas first travelled to the United States in the 1950s. His readings there brought him a degree of fame, while his erratic behaviour and drinking worsened. His time in the United States cemented his legend, and he went on to record to vinyl such works as A Child's Christmas in Wales. During his fourth trip to New York in 1953, Thomas became gravely ill and fell into a coma. He died on 9 November 1953 and his body was returned to Wales. On 25 November 1953, he was interred at St Martin's churchyard in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. Although Thomas wrote exclusively in the English language, he has been acknowledged as one of the most important Welsh poets of the 20th century. He is noted for his original, rhythmic, and ingenious use of words and imagery. His position as one of the great modern poets has been much discussed, and he remains popular with the public. the book is an hard cover with dust jacket , the jacket is well used, small tears, , the book is in a beige cover, title and name of author on spine in gilded letters.the book is used and still have the name of past owner, on end paper, many pencil marks as well. The song and music can be found towards the end of the book , 101 pages . The pencil markings were intended to attribute the roles of the voices to some students , very likely. Good book in spite of that . Order Now! BookId: J2-0027 Title: A Dylan Thomas treasury Poems, stories, and broadcasts. Author: Dylan thomas, /Walford Davies Publisher: J M Dent Price: 25.00 Description: An exclusive and detailed collection of Dylan Thomas’ poems, stories and broadcasts, featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary. A must-have for all literature lovers. This selection provides the perfect introduction to Dylan Thomas’ work, from poems and broadcasts to his short stories. It highlights his myriad talents, as well as the fluctuating moods and passions that inform his work. Discovered at the age of 19 through a poetry competition in a London newspaper, Dylan Thomas became the object of immediate acclaim and criticism for his adventurous language and resonant verse. Thomas’ poetry and prose embrace touching childhood reminiscence and a spiritual yearning from which he emerges, not as the loud bohemian of the personal legend, but as the careful and reflective artist of the poems, stories and broadcasts themselves. Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood. He also wrote stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then, he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet". Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, in 1914. An undistinguished student, he left school in 1931 at the age of 16 to become a reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. Many of his works appeared in print while he was still a teenager. In 1934, the publication of "Light breaks where no sun shines" caught the attention of the literary world. While living in London, Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara. They married in 1937 and had three children: Llewelyn, Aeronwy, and Colm. He came to be appreciated as a popular poet during his lifetime, though he found earning a living as a writer difficult. He began augmenting his income with reading tours and radio broadcasts. His radio recordings for the BBC during the late 1940s brought him to the public's attention, and he was frequently featured by the BBC as an accessible voice of the literary scene. Thomas first travelled to the United States in the 1950s. His readings there brought him a degree of fame, while his erratic behaviour and drinking worsened. His time in the United States cemented his legend, and he went on to record to vinyl such works as A Child's Christmas in Wales. During his fourth trip to New York in 1953, Thomas became gravely ill and fell into a coma. He died on 9 November 1953 and his body was returned to Wales. On 25 November 1953, he was interred at St Martin's churchyard in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. Although Thomas wrote exclusively in the English language, he has been acknowledged as one of the most important Welsh poets of the 20th century. He is noted for his original, rhythmic, and ingenious use of words and imagery. His position as one of the great modern poets has been much discussed, and he remains popular with the public. The book is new , 1988 edition by J M Dents . Very clean all around , no markings, writing, spoiling of any kind, 186 pages. Order Now! BookId: J2-0028 Title: New Poems 1958 a P.E.N. Anthology Author: Bonamy Dobree, Louis MacNeice, Philip Larkin Publisher: Michael Joseph Price: 45.00 Description: This is an Annual Anthology of Poems selected by P.E.N., and the seventh ones since 1952 . bright, tight edition w/Poetry Supplement & newsletter from The Poetry Book Society concerning this edition tipped-in. DJ is sunned at spine; lightly rubbed at edges; clean. Text is firmly bound w/clean, unmarked pages throughout. Prints poems by Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Kingsley Amis, Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Hugh MacDiarmid, Siegfried Sassoon, and others. The book comes with a dust jacket , in very good condition but a bit faded... the book itself , hard cover with fancy artistic multicolored cover , title in white on the red spine.... book is as new , some browning on the endpaper, no name of past owner , 123 pages includes a list of contributors... Order Now! BookId: J2-0029 Title: Hogarth Living Poets # 24 New signatures Poems by Several hands Author: Collected by Michael Roberts Publisher: Leonardand Virginia Woolf Price: 45.00 Description: First edition. Hogarth Living Poets No. 24. Good condition but some serious age-fading of the blue cover Gilt is faded as well on front panel. A very nice copy. Title: New Signatures: Poems by Several Hands Publisher: London: Hogarth Press Publication Date: 1932 Binding: Hardcover Condition: Very Good Edition: 1st Edition Includes some great works by W H Aden : Chorus from a play J.Bell R . Eberhart W. Empson J. Lehmann W.Plomer Stephen Spender A.S.J.Tessimond all have several poems printed in this great book , rare and highly collectible. Name of past owner on the end paper. 103 pages. C Day Lewis : The Magnetic mountain Order Now! BookId: J2-003 Title: Another September ... Poems Author: Thomas Kinsella Publisher: The Dolmen Press Price: 200.00 Description: First edition 1958 This was the Choice of the Poetry Book Society. Hard cover with dust jacket .... the dust jacket is in very good condition with title and author name , in black and red letters on cover and on spine . The book cover is plain beige cloth with name and title on the spine again. First published in Dublin in 1958 , quality paper and 50 pages only of Poems. Thomas Kinsella was an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher. Born outside Dublin, Kinsella attended University College Dublin before entering the civil service. He began publishing poetry in the early 1950s and, around the same time, translated early Irish poetry into English. Thomas Kinsella, (born May 4, 1928, Dublin, Ireland—died December 22, 2021, Dublin), Irish poet whose sensitive lyrics deal with primal aspects of the human experience, often in a specifically Irish context. Kinsella acquired a series of grants and scholarships that allowed him to attend University College in Dublin, where he studied physics and chemistry before receiving a degree in public administration. He began serving in the Irish civil service in 1946, and in the early 1950s he met Liam Miller, the founder of the Doleman Press, which published much of Kinsella’s poetry beginning in 1952. Among these publications were Poems (1956), Kinsella’s first volume of collected work; Another September (1958; rev. ed. 1962), which contains poems that explore the imposition of existential order through various forms, be they natural or products of the poet’s imagination; and Downstream (1962), a collection focusing on war and political and social disruption in modern Ireland. In 1965 he left the Irish civil service and took a position as a writer in residence at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (1965–70). During this time he published Nightwalker, and Other Poems (1967), a sombre collection ruminating on Ireland’s past and turbulent present. His translation of the ancient Gaelic saga The Cattle Raid of Cooley (Táin bó Cuailnge) was published in 1969, and the following year he began teaching at Temple University in Philadelphia. New Poems 1956–73 (1973) and One, and Other Poems (1979) skillfully extend the themes of love, death, and rejuvenation. Kinsella founded his own publishing company, the Peppercanister Press, in Dublin in 1972, which allowed him to publish pamphlets and individual poems in limited editions without relying on submissions to journals or magazines. Kinsella’s first poem to be published through his press was Butcher’s Dozen (1972; rev. ed. 1992), about Bloody Sunday, in which 13 demonstrators were killed by British troops in Londonderry (Derry), Northern Ireland, and the ensuing tribunal. Blood & Family (1988) combines four short collections of prose and verse originally published individually through Peppercanister, and Godhead (1999) explores the Trinity in the light of contemporary society. Later works published through Peppercanister included Marginal Economy (2006), Man of War (2007), and Belief and Unbelief (2007). Numerous collections of Kinsella’s poems were released, including Collected Poems, 1956–2001 (2001), Selected Poems (2007), Fat Master (2011), and Late Poems (2013); the latter was published by Carcanet Press, which released several of his works in the early 21st century. Order Now! BookId: J2-0030 Title: Poems of Twenty years An Anthology 1918-1938 Author: selected by maurice Woolman Publisher: MacMillan Price: 45.00 Description: 1938. No Edition Remarks. 253 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. The dust jacket has small tears and tanning . the book itself is perfect very good condition. Very clean in and out h. Over 100 poenms and 100 poets are in there represented , this is a very great book for the poetry lover 320 pages . Order Now! BookId: J2-0031 Title: Elizabethan Lyrics from the original Texts Author: Norman Ault Publisher: Capricorn Books Price: 22.00 Description: This is an older anthology of lyric poetry covering the time from Thomas Wyatt to 1620, and as such is influenced by the ideal that the Elizabethans were best when they were warbling. In other words, it's only a slice of their ; if you want a sense of the range of what Elizabethans wrote, you'd be better off with something like the Penguin anthology of English Renaissance Poetry or _The New Oxford Book of Fifteenth Century Verse_.But oh what a slice it is. Ault includes generous selections from the song books. Most of the poems in this collection were written with the voice in mind, and opening this collection at random will give you (odds are) something that's lovely to recite. The older idea had something to it, for all that it limited the Elizabethan achievement -- and this collection shows this to perfection. Thomas Norman Ault (December 17, 1880 – February 6, 1950 was a book illustrator and writer, now best known as a compiler of anthologies. He wrote children's literature with his wife (He)Lena, who died in 1904. He later was noted as a scholar of English poetry of the seventeenth century, and Alexander Pope. The book from the Capricorn collection is a thick paperback in great condition , with 560 pages , including notes and index , ... plenty of songs classified by years and easy to read through .... a great collecting work . no name , no writing or spoiling , a good book at that price. Order Now! BookId: J2-0032 Title: English Pastorals Author: Edmund K Chambers Publisher: Blackie and Son Price: 60.00 Description: Chambers was born in West Ilsley, Berkshire. His father was a curate there and his mother was the daughter of a Victorian theologian. He was educated at Marlborough College, before matriculating at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He won a number of prizes, including the chancellor's prize in English for an essay on literary forgery in 1891. He took a job with the national education department, and married Eleanor Bowman in 1893. In the newly created Board of Education, Chambers worked principally to oversee adult and continuing education.There, he rose to the position of second secretary, but the work for which he is remembered took place outside the office, sometime before he retired from the Board in 1926. He was the first president of the Malone Society, serving from 1906 to 1939.[1] He edited collections of verse for Oxford University Press. He produced a work on King Arthur and a privately printed collection of poems. However, Chambers's great work, begun before he even left Oxford, was an extensive examination of the history and conditions of English theatre in the medieval and Renaissance periods. He and pursued the project for three decades, and it was published in three bursts. The Medieval Stage, issued in 1903, offered a comprehensive survey of medieval theatre, covering not only the fairly well-known interludes, but also the then-obscure folk drama, minstrelsy, and liturgical drama. The Elizabethan Stage followed after two decades. The Elizabethan Stage, though containing less original discovery than its predecessor, was often referenced to describe the material conditions of English Renaissance theatre. It is no longer considered reliable, since Chambers misrepresents the royal household as an organizational entity in general, and the duties of the Master of Revels, in particular.His two-volume work on Shakespeare came in 1930, which collected and analyzed the extant evidence of Shakespeare's work and life. Current scholarship does not consider the relationship between "liturgical drama" and stage performance to have been as strong as Chambers claims. In his retirement, Chambers produced works on Coleridge (1938) and Matthew Arnold (1947).After moving to Eynsham, Oxfordshire, he returned to medieval history, producing a volume in the Oxford history and a local study of Eynsham. He died on 21 January 1954 at Beer, Devon, at the age of 87. In the Casket library , this is a beautiful book in very good condition , the dust jacket is original in good condition , Off white cover with a pastoral maid illustrated, title and editor names.... the book itself in blue cloth cover is perfect , no name on the front but on the spine in gold letters, title and editor. the inside as well is perfect , no name, marking, pencilling or spoiling of any kind , 280 pages including index of the poems listed by their first line. A nice add for a collector. Order Now! BookId: J2-0033 Title: English Lyric Poetry Author: Frederic Ives Carpenter Publisher: Blackie and Son Price: 60.00 Description: Professor of English. A.B., Harvard University, 1885. Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1895. Docent, University of Chicago, 1895-1897; instructor, 1897-1902; assistant professor, 1902-1904; associate professor, 1904-1910; professor, 1911. F. I. Carpenter was born in Monroe, Wisconsin on November 29, 1861. After completing Chicago High School, he attended Harvard College from which he was graduated in 1885. While at Harvard he displayed an interest in literature, music and art, and was managing editor of the Herald, later known as the Harvard Crimson. In 1885-1886 he was a student in France and Germany, and in 1886-1887 attended the Union College of Law, Chicago. He then entered into his father's business, a large lumbering firm in northern Michigan. Carpenter's interest in research and the study of literature, however, steadily became more dominant, and in 1892 he left the firm to become one of the first graduate students in English Literature at the University of Chicago. After receiving his doctorate in 1895, he remained at the University as a teacher and stayed until his retirement in 1911. Carpenter, both as a graduate student and as a professor, was keenly interested in the problems of research in literature. He was aware of the inadequacies and the inaccuracies of the available bibliographies and reference books, and worked to correct the situation. Other contributions to scholarship which Carpenter made were his work in the establishment of Modern Philology and his long service as library adviser to the University of Chicago and trustee to the Newberry Library. In 1911 Carpenter retired to manage the large estate that his father had left him. His interest in scholarship, though, never waned, and he continued to serve as a trustee for the Newberry Library; to purchase books for the English Department at the University of Chicago; to serve as secretary of the Modern Language Association's Committee on the Reproduction of Books and Manuscripts; and in 1923 to publish his Reference Guide to Edmund Spenser. He died January 28, 1925. The book is in its original Casket library dust jacket , with the portrait of a pastoral maid, and title and editor name on the front... in fairly good condition , small tears due to age but still protecting the little book. the book in Navy blue cloth cover is perfect , nothing on the cover but title and editor name in gold letters on the spine, the inside of the book is as well perfect, no marking, pencilling , spoiling of any kind but for the name of past owner on the grey end paper. 286 pages including the index of poems listed by the first line .... another collector book in beautiful condition ...and 100 years old. Order Now! BookId: J2-0034 Title: English Poetry a Student's Anthology Author: Kenneth Muir Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: 60.00 Description: English Poetry - A Students' Anthology by Kenneth Muir.1938. 306 pages. Beige jacket over dark blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. All together a very good collectible book. Kenneth Arthur Muir (5 May 1907 – 30 September 1996) was a literary scholar and writer, prominent in the fields of Shakespeare studies and English Renaissance theatre. He served as King Alfred Professor of English Literature at Liverpool University from 1951 to 1974. Muir edited volumes 19 through 33 of the Shakespeare Survey, and served as chairman of the International Shakespeare Association. He authored and edited a wide range of scholarly articles and books – primarily on Shakespeare and other Elizabethans, but also on various other subjects, including John Keats, Jean Racine, and Pedro Calderon de la Barca. He edited modern texts of many classic plays of the English Renaissance, including Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida, and Richard II. He also edited the collected poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt. Order Now! BookId: J2-0035 Title: The Penguin book of Comic and Curious Verse Author: J M Cohen Publisher: Penguin Book Price: 28.00 Description: J. M. (John Michael) Cohen (5 February 1903 – 19 July 1989) was a prolific translator of European literature into English. Born in London, J.M. Cohen was educated at St. Paul's School and Queens' College of Cambridge University.After working in his father's manufacturing business from 1925 until 1940, he was moved by a wartime shortage of teachers to become a schoolmaster. In addition to teaching young people, he spent the war years teaching himself Spanish and Russian, and he launched his translation career with the first English translation of poems by Boris Pasternak, then unknown outside the Soviet Union. His translation of Pasternak garnered praise from American poet John Ashbery, in his book Other Traditions. In 1946, on the strength of a commission from Penguin Books for a major translation of Don Quixote, Cohen quit his teaching job to dedicate himself full-time to writing and translation. His workmanlike and accurate translation of Don Quixote, published in 1950, has been highly praised, and remained in print until 2000. However, some critics have compared it unfavourably to the translation by Samuel Putnam on the basis of Cohen being "too faithful to the original." In addition to his translations of major works of Spanish and French literature for Penguin, Cohen also edited several important anthologies of Spanish and Latin American literature, as well as many of the Penguin Classics (alongside E. V. Rieu). He played an instrumental role in the Latin Boom of the 1960s by translating works by Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, and Carlos Fuentes, and by bringing the works of Gabriel García Márquez to the attention of his future English publisher. He also wrote a number of works of literary criticism and biography. In its obituary, The Times described him as "the translator of foreign prose classics for our times."The Guardian declared that he "did perhaps more than anyone else in his generation to introduce British readers to the classics of world literature by making them available. A Classic Penguin book in very good condition in spite of its age ... very amusing in part... 315 pages with index of poems by the first line.... very clean, solid, spine unbroken , no name, spoiling, writing. Order Now! BookId: J2-0036 Title: Poetry of this Age Author: J.M.Cohen Publisher: Arrow books Price: 28.00 Description: First edition . A Grey Arrow books in excellent condition, no writting, no marking, no name of past owner...This book is a survey of the best poetry written in the chief European languages in the past fifty years. From Moscow to Santiago de Chile, from London to Rome....This is perhaps the first book in English to cover this field in its entirety , the first to bring Yeats, Pasternak,Dylan Thomas, Auden, Alberti and Neruda into a single panorama . 262 pages .... A great little book. J. M. (John Michael) Cohen (5 February 1903 – 19 July 1989) was a prolific translator of European literature into English. Born in London, J.M. Cohen was educated at St. Paul's School and Queens' College of Cambridge University.After working in his father's manufacturing business from 1925 until 1940, he was moved by a wartime shortage of teachers to become a schoolmaster. In addition to teaching young people, he spent the war years teaching himself Spanish and Russian, and he launched his translation career with the first English translation of poems by Boris Pasternak, then unknown outside the Soviet Union. His translation of Pasternak garnered praise from American poet John Ashberry, in his book Other Traditions. In 1946, on the strength of a commission from Penguin Books for a major translation of Don Quixote, Cohen quit his teaching job to dedicate himself full-time to writing and translation. His workmanlike and accurate translation of Don Quixote, published in 1950, has been highly praised, and remained in print until 2000. However, some critics have compared it unfavourably to the translation by Samuel Putnam on the basis of Cohen being "too faithful to the original." In addition to his translations of major works of Spanish and French literature for Penguin, Cohen also edited several important anthologies of Spanish and Latin American literature, as well as many of the Penguin Classics (alongside E. V. Rieu). He played an instrumental role in the Latin Boom of the 1960s by translating works by Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, and Carlos Fuentes, and by bringing the works of Gabriel García Márquez to the attention of his future English publisher. He also wrote a number of works of literary criticism and biography. In its obituary, The Times described him as "the translator of foreign prose classics for our times."The Guardian declared that he "did perhaps more than anyone else in his generation to introduce British readers to the classics of world literature by making them available in good modern English translations." Order Now! BookId: J2-0037 Title: Poetry of the Forties Author: Robin Skelton Publisher: Penguin Price: 28.00 Description: First edition . A Penguin book of 1958 from the series Penguin Poets , introduced and edited by Robin Skelton , in very good condition , no writing , marking or else... no name of past owner. 269 pages including index of the First line of the poems.... Robin Skelton (12 October 1925 – 22 August 1997) was a Canadian academic, writer, poet, and anthologist. Born in Easington, Yorkshire, Skelton was educated at the University of Leeds and Cambridge University.From 1944 to 1947, he served with the Royal Air Force in India. He later taught at Manchester University, where he was a founder member of The Peterloo Group. In 1963, he emigrated to Canada, and began teaching at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Skelton was an authority on Irish literature. He is well known for his work as a literary editor; he was a founder and editor, with John Peter, of The Malahat Review, and a translator. Known as a practising Wiccan, Skelton also published a number of books on the subject of the occult and other neopagan religions. Order Now! BookId: J2-0038 Title: The New Poetry Author: A Alvarez Publisher: Penguin Price: 28.00 Description: In the Penguin Poets Collection , the New Poetry , selected and introduced by A Alvarez . the book is in perfect condition, from 1968 edition, very clean, no name of past owner, no marking or spoiling and no writting. 248 pages including index by the first line of the poems, and a list of the poets.... Alfred Alvarez (5 August 1929 – 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, essayist and critic who published under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez. Alfred Alvarez was born in London, to an Ashkenazic Jewish mother and a father from a Sephardic Jewish family. He was educated at The Hall School in Hampstead, London, and then Oundle School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he took a First in English. He was subsequently elected as a Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. After teaching briefly in Oxford and the United States, he became a full-time writer in his late twenties. From 1956 to 1966, he was the poetry editor and critic for The Observer, where he introduced British readers to John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Zbigniew Herbert, and Miroslav Holub. Alvarez was the author of many non-fiction books. His renowned study of suicide, The Savage God, gained added resonance from his friendship with Plath. He also wrote on divorce (Life After Marriage), dreams (Night), and the oil industry (Offshore), as well as his hobbies of poker (The Biggest Game In Town) and mountaineering (Feeding the Rat, a profile of his frequent climbing partner Mo Anthoine). His 1999 autobiography is entitled Where Did It All Go Right? His 1962 poetry anthology The New Poetry was hailed at the time as a fresh departure. It championed the American style, in relation to the perceived excessive 'gentility' of British poetry of the time. In 2010, he was awarded the Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature. Order Now! BookId: J2-0039 Title: The modern Poet, an anthology Author: Gwendolen Murphy Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Price: 35.00 Description: Under a paper dust jacket, blue wrap with title and names of all the poets represented , this anthology is a hard cover navy blue cover, with gilt title on the spine,. All in very good condition ,no writing but for one past owner name on the end paper, very clean otherwise....208 pages including index by the first line of the poems , also very interesting small biographies of all the poets .... great little book. Sorry , no information whatsoever about the author of this great little book. In the introduction it says however " Based as it is mainly on the work of living poets ( American and From the British Isles) it includes valuable explanations and comments secured by the editors from some of the poets themselves ...Thereby it constitutes a document of unique critical value, as well as being an anthology ". Order Now! BookId: J2-004 Title: Collected poems Author: William Empson Publisher: Chatto & windus Price: 35.00 Description: Sir William Empson (27 September 1906 – 15 April 1984) was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism. His best-known work is his first, Seven Types of Ambiguity, published in 1930. Jonathan Bate has written that the three greatest English literary critics of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries are Johnson, Hazlitt and Empson, "not least because they are the funniest" William Empson is well known for his work in literary criticism and theory, particularly Seven Types of Ambiguity and The Structure of Complex Words, but he began his career as a poet and was at one time considered one of the best young poets in England. His poems are often difficult, occasionally deeply moving, frequently funny, and always brilliantly constructed. In an age when smart, honest poetry is being appreciated once again, Empson's poems deserve our renewed attention Empson's poems are clever, learned, dry, aethereal and technically virtuosic, not wholly dissimilar to his critical work. His high regard for the metaphysical poet John Donne is to be seen in many places within his work, tempered with his appreciation of Buddhist thinking, an occasional tendency to satire and a larger awareness of intellectual trends. He wrote very few poems and stopped publishing poems almost entirely after 1940. His Complete Poems [edited by John Haffenden, his biographer] is 512 pages long, with over 300 pages of notes. In reviewing this work Frank Kermode commended Empson as a "most noteworthy poet" and chose it as International Book of the Year for The Times Literary Supplement. The book is a hard cover with well used dust jacket ,this one is yellow with black lettering for title and author's name . the book cover itself is Orangy/red cloth with gold letters on spine for title and author's name again. the inside of the book is perfect, clear , easy reading , great font for the letters, clean pages , just the name of past owner with a note on the front end paper.119 pages. Order Now! BookId: J2-0040 Title: New Signatures Poems by several hands Author: Michael Roberts Publisher: Leonard & Virginia Woolf Price: 40.00 Description: Published by Virginia Woolf in 1934 , this little hard cover book is not in perfect condition. Hardcover with light blue cloth cover , no dust jacket , and no visible title or name on the outside of the book , very shelf used and faded ...spine still holding but with no backup...end papers are stamped with Royal Grammar School , Plender Library ? ,some writing number as well.It is a third edition. An introduction of 20 pages by Michael Roberts and then 80 pages of various poems by various people ...W H Auden, J Bell. C Day Lewis, R Eberhart, W. Empson, J Lehmann,W. Plower, S Spender and A S Tillemond... Michael Roberts (6 December 1902 – 13 December 1948), originally named William Edward Roberts, was an English poet, writer, scientist, mathematician, critic and broadcaster, a polymath who made his living as a teacher. He was born in Bournemouth, named William Edward Roberts. He was the eldest child of Edward George Roberts and Henrietta Mary Sellers. He was educated at Bournemouth School. From 1920 to 1922 he studied at King's College London, taking a BSc in Chemistry. From 1922 to 1925 he read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge; it was during this period of his life he acquired the name Michael (after Mikhail Lomonosov). In 1925 or 1926 he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain but was expelled within a year. From 1925 to 1931 he taught at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle.Then he moved to London, teaching at Mercers' School from 1931 to 1934.He then returned to the RGS, where he worked until 1941, teaching English, mathematics, physics and chemistry. Having published his first poetry collection in 1930, he began to edit anthologies, of which New Country (1933) was celebrated for the group of poets (including W. H. Auden) that it featured. In 1934, he participated in a series of radio broadcasts, Whither Britain?. The next year, he married Janet Adam Smith, critic, anthologist, and fellow mountaineer; they lived in Fern Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1939 they went to Penrith in Cumberland when the school was evacuated there. There they briefly shared a house with the poet Kathleen Raine. Together, they had four children: Andrew Roberts, Professor of the History of Africa at the University of London, born 1937; Henrietta Dombey, Professor of Literacy in Primary Education at the University of Brighton, born 1939; Adam Roberts, Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, born 1940; and John Roberts, writer on energy issues and Middle East politics, born 1947. The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936), which he edited, is the piece of work for which Roberts is now best remembered.He followed it with poetry and prose writing, and a study of T. E. Hulme.In 1941–45 he worked in London for the BBC European Service, mainly on broadcasting to German-occupied countries. From 1945 to 1948 he was Principal of College of St Mark and St John in Chelsea, London. He died of leukaemia in 1948. Michael and Janet Roberts had built up a collection of books on mountaineering, which (along with the collection of the Oxford University Mountaineering Club) provided a basis for establishment in December 1992 of the Oxford Mountaineering Library. This is now based in the Social Science Library in the Manor Road Building, Oxford, OX1 3UQ. Many of his papers are in the National Library of Scotland, at Edinburgh. They include literary correspondence and records of his BBC work in 1941–45. Order Now! BookId: J2-0041 Title: Poems of To-day second series Author: English Association Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Price: 40.00 Description: Some light wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, Surface of covers a little grubby and discoloured with age, Top and bottom of spine bumped, Internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, no writing, no marking, no name of past owner ....72 poets are represented with about 100 poems ... 175 pages with index by the first line of the poems . Soft cover. Order Now! BookId: J2-0042 Title: Poems of To-day Third series Author: English Association Publisher: MacMillan Price: 30.00 Description: 'Some light wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, Surface of covers a little grubby and discoloured with age, Top and bottom of spine bumped, Internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, no writing, no marking, no name of past owner But stamp from original seller "specimen price"....72 poets are represented with about 100 poems ( From Auden , Bell to Dylan Thomas or E H Lawrence)... 198 pages with index by the first line of the poems . Soft cover. Order Now! BookId: J2-0043 Title: The New Poetry Author: A Alvarez Publisher: Penguin Price: 28.00 Description: In the Penguin Poets Collection , the New Poetry , selected and introduced by A Alvarez . the book is in perfect condition, from 1962 edition, very clean, no name of past owner, no marking or spoiling and no writing. 189 pages including index by the first line of the poems, and a list of the poets.... Alfred Alvarez (5 August 1929 – 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, essayist and critic who published under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez. Alfred Alvarez was born in London, to an Ashkenazic Jewish mother and a father from a Sephardic Jewish family. He was educated at The Hall School in Hampstead, London, and then Oundle School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he took a First in English. He was subsequently elected as a Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. After teaching briefly in Oxford and the United States, he became a full-time writer in his late twenties. From 1956 to 1966, he was the poetry editor and critic for The Observer, where he introduced British readers to John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Zbigniew Herbert, and Miroslav Holub. Alvarez was the author of many non-fiction books. His renowned study of suicide, The Savage God, gained added resonance from his friendship with Plath. He also wrote on divorce (Life After Marriage), dreams (Night), and the oil industry (Offshore), as well as his hobbies of poker (The Biggest Game In Town) and mountaineering (Feeding the Rat, a profile of his frequent climbing partner Mo Anthoine). His 1999 autobiography is entitled Where Did It All Go Right? His 1962 poetry anthology The New Poetry was hailed at the time as a fresh departure. It championed the American style, in relation to the perceived excessive 'gentility' of British poetry of the time. In 2010, he was awarded the Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature. Order Now! BookId: J2-0044 Title: Elizabethan Love Lyrics Author: John Hadfield Publisher: Edward Hulton Price: 25.00 Description: First edition . Small paperback in as new condition, in the Pocket Poets collection. No writing, no marking, no spoiling and no name ... poetry selected by John Hadfield , 48 pages with a list of authors , from Marlowe, raleigh, spencer to Queen Elizbeth I... John Charles Heywood Hadfield (16 June 1907 – 10 October 1999) was an English writer and publisher, best known for his 1959 comic novel Love on a Branch Line.[ John Hadfield was born on 16 June 1907 in Birmingham, and was the second son of Heywood George Hadfield (d. 1946) and Hilda Bragg (d. 1959). He was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire. Hadfield's career began in 1935 when he joined J. M. Dent & Sons as an editor, a position he held until 1942. That year he became a Book Officer for the British Council and formed a unit translating books into Arabic. In 1944, while travelling to the middle east, his ship was torpedoed and sunk in the mid-Atlantic. In the aftermath he was sent to recover in Norfolk. Between 1944 and 1950 he served as the director of the National Book League. He moved to Suffolk just before the closure of the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway branch line from Haughley to Laxfield and it was this that is said to have inspired the novel Love on a Branch Line After the war he founded the Cupid Press, which specialised in limited-edition anthologies of verse.In 1956 he published A Book of Britain, an anthology of words and pictures covering 500 years of art, articles and poems celebrating the best of British culture. Following the success of Love on a Branch Line, he and his wife Anna McMullen bought Barham Manor in Suffolk. Hadfield was an avid gardener and was a member of the Savile Club in London. In 1931 Hadfield married Phyllis Anna McMullen of the McMullen's Brewery family. John and Anna had one son, Jeremy Heywood Hadfield (1932–1988). The Hadfields settled in Hitchin, Hertfordshire before moving in 1952 to Suffolk. In Suffolk they purchased Barham Manor, a 16th century house north of Ipswich. After Anna's death in 1973, in 1975 he remarried to Joy Westendarp and moved to Woodbridge. Hadfield died on 10 October 1999 at age 92. He was buried in Sussex beside his first wife. Order Now! BookId: J2-0045 Title: Poetry for You Author: C Day Lewis Publisher: Basil Blackwell Price: 22.00 Description: A hard cover book with dust jacket , old but in good condition, plain wrapped paper with title and author name in ble ... " a book for boys and girls on the enjoyment of poetry." Blue cloth hard cover in good condition , some spotting and foxing , title in gold (faded) on spine. This is more an essay that a book of poems , in fact very few of them are quotes but you will find how poetry began, whta is its use, differents types of poetry, etc 112 pages ....quite informatice for adults more than kids i believe.... Cecil Day-Lewis CBE (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, most of which feature the fictional detective Nigel Strangeways. During World War II, Day-Lewis worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information for the U.K. government, and also served in the Musbury branch of the British Home Guard.He is the father of actor Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, and documentary filmmaker and television chef Tamasin Day-Lewis. Order Now! BookId: J2-0046/7 Title: The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children vol 1 & II... Author: Kenneth Grahame Publisher: Cambridge University Press Price: 50.00 Description: Two rare volumes , hard cover of the Cambridge Book of Poetry fro Children in good used condition . Blue-black cloth covered , in shelf used condition with title and author name on front and spine in silver white letters. Inside is good, some foxing on the end papers, the books are filled with song that most people have known since they were really little kids ... it starts with rhymes and jingles and grows to become full poems by Browning, Wordsworth or Tennyson .... a great adventure in poetry... Books are respectively 117 and 126 pages with first line of the poems indexes... Should be sold together , but I will sell them individually at 30.00$ea. Kenneth Grahame (/??re?.?m/ GRAY-?m; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), a classic of children's literature, as well as The Reluctant Dragon. Both books were later adapted for stage and film, of which A. A. Milne's Toad of Toad Hall, based on part of The Wind in the Willows, was the first. Other adaptations include Cosgrove Hall Films' The Wind in the Willows (and its subsequent long-running television series), and the Walt Disney films (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad and The Reluctant Dragon). Two great books much more educative that the modern poetry .... and children book. Order Now! BookId: J2-005 Title: The Testament of Beauty Author: Robert Bridges Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press Price: 145.00 Description: IT is not remarkable that so studious a poet as Mr. Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate of England, trained originally in medicine and deeply versed not only in the natural sciences but in human literature and history, should write his great work in the latter years of his life. It would be only then that his learning, rarefied by poetic meditation, could bring him to that height of outlook which a few other poets, implicated more than he in the immediate happenings of life, have reached earlier. It is nine years since be composed his last published work, and in general in his life he has written little. In the four books and four thousand lines of The Testamentof Beauty, using a loose metre of six feet with great variety and power, Mr. Bridges gives to the world what is avowedly the gathered conclusion of his life concerning the development and meaning of the human soul. He has climbed, he says, to that high slope of life from which he can see the country of his earlier travel out - spread at his feet. It was there that he felt a relaxation from the struggle of climbing and a new communion with the things of life, great and small. Natural objects took on a double significance; in addition to their beauty in nature, they possessed a beauty of spiritual meaning, by which they addressed the soul. Wrapt in that vision, the poet understood that all higher and lower forms of life are alike children of the common parent Nature, and that the soul is at home in the universe, since beauty speaks to it. In the second and third books, Mr. Bridges expounds the myth told, in the Phœdrus of Plato, by Socrates to the boy Pinedrus on the banks of the Missus. The human soul is a chariot drawn between earth and heaven by two winged horses; the charioteer is Reason, the two horses, unnamed in Plato, are Selfhood and Breed. Selfhood, the older horse, is the instinct of life, which, struggling in the young of all species, would seize for itself everything within its reach. Were human infants not cared for lovingly by their mothers, they would show the same instinct unmitigated. As it is, the love which surrounds a child makes him subject to spiritual influences, which, softening his egotisms and wakening his mind, bring him slowly to a larger awareness. It is just so with the younger horse, Breed, the sexual instinct. In animals it. is transient; in man, purified bylove, it can he his second awakening to the influence of beauty. Reason, then, with Will as his rein, must guide the two horses. His goal, told of in the fourth hook of Ethick, is the vision of God. In that vision he discerns the cause of the benign influences which, in childhood, in love, and in the beauty of the natural world, solicit the soul to its true life. No such summary describes the poem’s range and beauty. In treating of men’s natural functions, the poet writes with the most detailed insight into the lives of plants of creatures, and especially of birds, which he loves. In tracing developments and seeking illustrations, he cites the authority of history, often verbally, in the sayings of poets and great men, His beautiful lines of understanding of former eras are such things as before have not found place in poetry; they must seem words of inspiration to many readers of a generation trained in the historical method of study. The frequent descriptions of nature, the accounts of childhood and motherhood, the parts concerning marriage and man’s and woman’s differing function in it, the passages on sin and error — all these are of a sustained and lofty beauty. In general, the sweeping power of the thought, as in the Paradise Lost, seeks its unit of expression in the paragraph rather than in the line. It will be seen, however, that although the poem, in spirit, resembles rather Dante’s than Milton’s, it resembles neither in its lack of definite scenes and characters. It is inevitable that a modern poet should lack the accepted symbolism possessed. in common with his time, by a poet of a simpler age. There is, therefore, an abstractness in the poem which differentiates it from the great poems of the past. It has for compensation a breadth and sublimity which are the direct products of a mind of extraordinary attainments brooding in love upon the facts of its experience. The Testament of Beauty has the apocalyptic force which is the quality of great works. It raises facts hitherto unrelated to a high unity of poetic vision, and in that act acquaints the reader with a standard of character and insight which may well take a place in his mind beside similar standards received by him from the great works of the past. JOHN FINLEY, JR. As in the title description The Testament of Beauty is a Poem in Four books 1-introduction, 2- Selfhood, 3-Breed and $- Ethick . 192 pages .... This is a First edition , there is a publisher note at the end explaining their choice of spelling ... The book is a hard cover with dust jacket , In a blue decorative frame name of the book and initials of author plus date of publication. general good condition. The book itself has a white cloth cover with gold letters title replica from the dust jacket . The inside of the book is book , a bit of tanning mostly on the end papers, and name of past owner as well. , but the inside of the book is perfect , very clean, no marking , good condition. fifth impression of first edition. Order Now! BookId: J2-006 Title: A Bravery of Earth Author: Richard Eberhart Publisher: Jonathan Cape Price: 200.00 Description: Richard Ghormley Eberhart (April 5, 1904 – June 9, 2005) was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. "Richard Eberhart emerged out of the 1930s as a modern stylist with romantic sensibilities." He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems, 1930–1965 and the 1977 National Book Award for Poetry for Collected Poems, 1930–1976. He was the grandfather of Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Ben Cherington. For several years Mr. Eberhart has been writing lyrics that have caught the attention of those following the work of the younger poets, but "A Bravery of Earth" is his first long poem. Written while its author was in residence at St. John's College, Cambridge, and published in attractive form by the English firm of Jonathan Cape, it is a poem of some 8200 lines, in a loose three-or fourstress meter, for the most part unrhymed. Its theme is youth's search for reality, through three natural stages. First, he seeks the meaning of life through sense-contacts with the world about him; next, through introspection; last, through action. In the third experience only does he find reality. The conclusion of the poem summarizes its whole theme; "Into the first awareness trembling, Girded with mortality; Into the second awareness plunging, Impaled upon mentality; Into the third awareness coming To understand in men's action Mankind's desire and destiny, Youth lies buried and man stands up In a bravery of earth." And then are repeated the opening lines of the poem: "This fevers me, this sun on green, On grass glowing, this young spring," signifying that he has recovered the joy of existence that was his birthright. The faults of the poem are many and obvious. Like most youthful poets, Mr. Eberhart has been led by the intensity of his devotion to his art into the assumption of affectations that weaken his effect. Those most annoying to the reader are unnecessary word-coinings and perversions of the parts of speech, awkward ellipses that instead of producing terseness result merely in choppiness, needless inversions of sentence-structure, and tiresome and meaningless repetitions of words and phrases. More serious than these surface faults, however, is the incoherent and confused philosophizing that pervades the first three-fifths of the poem. Although lighted here and there with passages of great beauty, much of the first two thousand lines seems to deal with ideas that are not of great importance and to express them dully. The philosophical utterances, although evidently sincerely conceived, are often not sufficiently fired with imagination to stir the reader's emotions, and this lack of imaginative power combined with the loose metrical form employed by the poet results in many stretches of flat prose. I have stressed these shortcomings first that I may give the greater emphasis to my liking for the last fifty pages of the poem. Here Mr. Eberhart casts his vague generalities to the winds, and concentrates 'with compelling vividness upon the concrete details of a voyage in a freighter from San Francisco to China, the Philippines, Sumatra, and the Indian Ocean. The underlying theme here is youth's envisioning of the meaning of life through action, and the poet translates real experiences into deep emotions for us. Now his imagination is clear, his feeling is profound, and he lifts us with him into the realms of pure poetry. These passages sing themselves, and their lovely rhythms and beauteous phrasings haunt us long after we have closed the book. So, gentle reader, if you are bored when you begin this book, persist, for the dull pages will fade for you when you reach the brilliant third section, and you will close the volume convinced that you have found another young poet to whose maturer work you are going to look forward with eagerness. The book is hard cover with dust jacket . The jacket cover has a fancy green frame within it the name of the author and title of the book , which is repeated on the spine, all in black lettering. Fair to good condition for the jacket. The book itself has a blue cover , with the usual title and author's name on the spine. it is a bit faded. the inside of the book is perfect , no pinched corners of the pages, no wring, marking , spoiling of any kind, clear writing for easy reading. 128 pages , Very likely first edition . end papers have some tanning and name of past owner, with date 1930, which is the date of publication. Order Now! BookId: J2-007 Title: The Seven Plays in English Verse Author: Sophocles / Lewis Campbell Publisher: Henry Frowde Oxford U.Press Price: 65.00 Description: Sophocles, (born c. 496 bce, Colonus, near Athens [Greece]—died 406, Athens), with Aeschylus and Euripides, one of classical Athens’s three great tragic playwrights. The best known of his 123 dramas is Oedipus the King. Only seven of Sophocles’ tragedies survive in their entirety, along with 400 lines of a satyr play, numerous fragments of plays now lost, and 90 titles. All seven of the complete plays are works of Sophocles’ maturity, but only two of them, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus, have fairly certain dates. Ajax is generally regarded as the earliest of the extant plays. Some evidence suggests that Antigone was first performed in 442 or 441 bce. Philoctetes was first performed in 409, when Sophocles was 90 years old, and Oedipus at Colonus was said to have been produced after Sophocles’ death by his grandson. Ajax The entire plot of Ajax (Greek: Aias mastigophoros) is constructed around Ajax, the mighty hero of the Trojan War whose pride drives him to treachery and finally to his own ruin and suicide some two-thirds of the way through the play. Ajax is deeply offended at the award of the prize of valour (the dead Achilles’ armour) not to himself but to Odysseus. Ajax thereupon attempts to assassinate Odysseus and the contest’s judges, the Greek commanders Agamemnon and Menelaus, but is frustrated by the intervention of the goddess Athena. He cannot bear his humiliation and throws himself on his own sword. Agamemnon and Menelaus order that Ajax’s corpse be left unburied as punishment. But the wise Odysseus persuades the commanders to relent and grant Ajax an honourable burial. In the end Odysseus is the only person who seems truly aware of the changeability of human fortune. Antigone Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus, the former king of Thebes. She is willing to face the capital punishment that has been decreed by her uncle Creon, the new king, as the penalty for anyone burying her brother Polyneices. (Polyneices has just been killed attacking Thebes, and it is as posthumous punishment for this attack that Creon has forbidden the burial of his corpse.) Obeying all her instincts of love, loyalty, and humanity, Antigone defies Creon and dutifully buries her brother’s corpse. Creon, from conviction that reasons of state outweigh family ties, refuses to commute Antigone’s death sentence. By the time Creon is finally persuaded by the prophet Tiresias to relent and free Antigone, she has killed herself in her prison cell. Creon’s son, Haemon, kills himself out of love and sympathy for the dead Antigone, and Creon’s wife, Eurydice, then kills herself out of grief over these tragic events. At the play’s end Creon is left desolate and broken in spirit. In his narrow and unduly rigid adherence to his civic duties, Creon has defied the gods through his denial of humanity’s common obligations toward the dead. The play thus concerns the conflicting obligations of civic versus personal loyalties and religious mores. Trachinian Women This play centres on the efforts of Deianeira to win back the wandering affections of her husband, Heracles, who is away on one of his heroic missions and who has sent back his latest concubine, Iole, to live with his wife at their home in Trachis. The love charm Deianeira uses on Heracles turns out to be poisonous, and she kills herself upon learning of the agony she has caused her husband. Thus, in Trachinian Women (Greek: Trachiniai) Heracles’ insensitivity (in sending his mistress to share his wife’s home) and Deianeira’s ignorance result in domestic tragedy. The plot of Oedipus the King (Greek: Oidipous Tyrannos; Latin: Oedipus Rex) is a structural marvel that marks the summit of classical Greek drama’s formal achievements. The play’s main character, Oedipus, is the wise, happy, and beloved ruler of Thebes. Though hot-tempered, impatient, and arrogant at times of crisis, he otherwise seems to enjoy every good fortune. But Oedipus mistakenly believes that he is the son of King Polybus of Corinth and his queen. He became the ruler of Thebes because he rescued the city from the Sphinx by answering its riddle correctly, and so was awarded the city’s widowed queen, Jocasta. Before overcoming the Sphinx, Oedipus left Corinth forever because the Delphic oracle had prophesied to him that he would kill his father and marry his mother. While journeying to Thebes from Corinth, Oedipus encountered at a crossroads an old man accompanied by five servants. Oedipus got into an argument with him and in a fit of arrogance and bad temper killed the old man and four of his servants. Hear Oedipus question a shepherd who affirms the prophecy is fulfilled in Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus Rex Hear Oedipus question a shepherd who affirms the prophecy is fulfilled in Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus Rex See all videos for this article The play opens with the city of Thebes stricken by a plague and its citizens begging Oedipus to find a remedy. He consults the Delphic oracle, which declares that the plague will cease only when the murderer of Jocasta’s first husband, King Laius, has been found and punished for his deed. Oedipus resolves to find Laius’s killer, and much of the rest of the play centres upon the investigation he conducts in this regard. In a series of tense, gripping, and ominous scenes, Oedipus’s investigation turns into an obsessive reconstruction of his own hidden past as he begins to suspect that the old man he killed at the crossroads was none other than Laius. Finally, Oedipus learns that he himself was abandoned to die as a baby by Laius and Jocasta because they feared a prophecy that their infant son would kill his father; that he survived and was adopted by the ruler of Corinth (see video), but in his maturity he has unwittingly fulfilled the Delphic oracle’s prophecy of him; that he has indeed killed his true father, married his own mother, and begot children who are also his own siblings. Electra As in Aeschylus’s Libation Bearers, the action in Electra (Greek: ?lektra) follows the return of Orestes to kill his mother, Clytemnestra, and her lover Aegisthus in retribution for their murder of Orestes’ father, Agamemnon. In this play, however, the main focus is on Orestes’ sister Electra and her anguished participation in her brother’s plans. To gain admittance to the palace and thus be able to execute his revenge, Orestes spreads false news of his own death. Believing this report, the despairing Electra unsuccessfully tries to enlist her sister Chrysothemis in an attempt to murder their mother. In a dramatic scene, Orestes then enters in disguise and hands Electra the urn that is supposed to contain his own ashes. Moved by his sister’s display of grief, Orestes reveals his true identity to her and then strikes down his mother and her lover. Electra’s triumph is thus complete. In the play Electra is seen passing through the whole range of human emotions—from passionate love to cruel hatred, from numb despair to wild joy. There is debate over whether the play depicts virtue triumphant or, rather, portrays a young woman incurably twisted by years of hatred and resentment. Philoctetes In Philoctetes (Greek: Philokt?t?s) the Greeks on their way to Troy have cast away the play’s main character, Philoctetes, on the desert island of Lemnos because he has a loathsome and incurable ulcer on his foot. But the Greeks have discovered that they cannot win victory over Troy without Philoctetes and his wonderful bow, which formerly belonged to Heracles. The crafty Odysseus is given the task of fetching Philoctetes by any means possible. Odysseus knows that the resentful Philoctetes will kill him if he can, so he uses the young and impressionable soldier Neoptolemus, son of the dead Achilles, as his agent. Neoptolemus is thus caught between the devious manipulations of Odysseus and the unsuspecting integrity of Philoctetes, who is ready to do anything rather than help the Greeks who abandoned him. For much of the play Neoptolemus sticks to Odysseus’s policy of deceit, despite his better nature, but eventually he renounces duplicity to join in friendship with Philoctetes. A supernatural appearance by Heracles then convinces Philoctetes to go to Troy to both win victory and be healed of his disease. Oedipus at Colonus In Oedipus at Colonus (Greek: Oidipous epi Kol?n?) the old, blind Oedipus has spent many years wandering in exile after being rejected by his sons and the city of Thebes. Oedipus has been cared for only by his daughters Antigone and Ismene. He arrives at a sacred grove at Colonus, a village close by Athens (and the home of Sophocles himself). There Oedipus is guaranteed protection by Theseus, the noble king of Athens. Theseus does indeed protect Oedipus from the importunate pleadings of his brother-in-law, Creon, for Oedipus to protect Thebes. Oedipus himself rejects the entreaties of his son Polyneices, who is bent on attacking Thebes and whom Oedipus solemnly curses. Finally Oedipus departs to a mysterious death; he is apparently swallowed into the earth of Colonus, where he will become a benevolent power and a mysterious source of defense to the land that has given him final refuge. The play is remarkable for the melancholy, beauty, and power of its lyric odes and for the spiritual and moral authority with which it invests the figure of Oedipus. Trackers Four hundred lines of this satyr play survive. The plot of Trackers (Greek: Ichneutai) is based on two stories about the miraculous early deeds of the god Hermes: that the infant, growing to maturity in a few days, stole cattle from Apollo, baffling discovery by reversing the animals’ hoof marks, and that he invented the lyre by fitting strings to a tortoise shell. In this play the trackers are the chorus of satyrs, who are looking for the cattle; they are amusingly dumbfounded at the sound of the new instrument Hermes has invented. Enough of the play survives to give an impression of its style; it is a genial, uncomplicated travesty of the tragic manner, and the antics of the chorus were apparently the chief source of amusement. This is an older hard cover, no dust jacket, Greenish cloth cover in used condition , spine getting loose, but not detached as yet, Title and author;s name on the spine in gold letters with ornementation in gold as well but faded. Part of the World Classics collection #116 from Oxford.... the inside of the book is very good , no writing, marking or spoiling ....316 pages , Name of past owner on the front end papers. Order Now! BookId: J2-0073 Title: The Imagist Poem Modern Poetry in Miniature... An anthology of the finest Imagist Poems ... Author: William Pratt Publisher: E P Dutton Price: 16.00 Description: Order Now! 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