Responsibilities, and other poemsYeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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Responsibilities, and other poems
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
English poetry -- Irish authors
"Mr. Yeats is probably the most important as well as the most widely
known of the men concerned directly in the so-called Celtic renaissance.
More than this, he stands among the few men to be reckoned with in
modern poetry."--_New York Herald._
The Green Helmet and Other Poems
_Decorated cloth, 12mo, $1.25_
The initial piece in this volume is a deliciously conceived heroic
farce, quaint in humor and sprightly in action. It tells of the
difficulty in which two simple Irish folk find themselves when they
enter into an agreement with an apparition of the sea, who demands that
they knock off his head and who maintains that after they have done that
he will knock off theirs. There is a real meaning in the play which it
will not take the thoughtful reader long to discover. Besides this there
are a number of shorter poems, notably one in which Mr. Yeats answers
the critics of "The Playboy of the Western World."
Lyrical and Dramatic Poems
In Two Volumes
_Vol. I. Lyrical Poems, $1.75 Leather, $2.25_
_Vol. II. Plays (Revised), $2.00 Leather, $2.25_
The two-volume edition of the Irish poet's works included everything he
has done in verse up to the present time. The first volume contains his
lyrics; the second includes all of his five dramas in verse: "The
Countess Cathleen," "The Land of Heart's Desire," "The King's Threshold,"
"On Baile's Strand," and "The Shadowy Waters."
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The Quest
By JOHN G. NEIHARDT
Author of "The Song of Hugh Glass"
Here are brought together the more important of Mr. Neihardt's poems.
For some years there have been those--and prominent critics, too--who
have quite emphatically maintained that there is no greater American
poet than Mr. Neihardt, that in him are found those essentials which
make for true art--a feeling for words, a lyric power of the first
quality, an understanding of rhythm. Here, for example, is the comment
of the _Boston Transcript_ on the book just preceding this, _The Song of
Hugh Glass:_ "In this poem Mr. Neihardt touches life, power, beauty,
spirit; the tremendous and impressive forces of nature.... The genius of
American poetry is finding itself in such a poem as this.... The poem
is powerfully poetic.... It is a big, sweeping thing blazing a pathway
across the frontiers of our national life."
Californians
By ROBINSON JEFFERS
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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