For those who are familiar with Yeats' poetry, particulary his beloved early poems like "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," reading "Rosa Alchemica" is an experience of joy. Cal...
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The Major Works
W. B. Yeats
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У.Б.Иейтс принадлежит в равной степени ирландской и английской литературе, девятнадцатому веку и двадцатому. В его творчестве слились кельтские мотивы с теософией мадам Бл...
William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world.
This selection was commissioned...
This was the title poem of William Morris's most renowned collection, "The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems", originally published in 1858. The Arthurian setting permi...
If William Shakespeare had never written a single play, if his reputation rested entirely upon the substantial and sterling body of nondramatic verse he left behind, he wo...
The Taming of the Shrew
Robust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and lo...
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A splendid presentation of Pope’s poems, excluding only his translations of Homer, this is the only one-volume edition that can lay claim to completeness and accuracy of t...
Donne created new forms of lyric, satire, elegiac and religious verse, and his independence of view, compact manner of expression encompassing conflicting moods, impassion...
W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with...
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'To see a World in a Grain of Sand
'And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour'
William Blake wrote some of the mos...
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This volume, which collects the four books of “nonsense” published by Lear during his lifetime, contains all of his most celebrated verse and prose productions, from his f...
The Tower is a collection of poems by the Nobel laureate W. B. Yeats, inspired by his own tower in Ireland. In these poems, Yeats reflects on his aging body, his artistic ...