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Goethe's Faust (Parts 1 and 2)

Literature & Fiction

Goethe, J.W. Von

MacNeice, Louis

Dramas & Plays

Oxford University Press

Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) is rightfully regarded as one of the foremost Irish poets of this century, but he was also a distinctive, gifted, and popular playwright. This unique selection of eight of MacNeice's best plays, most of which were written for BBC Radio, draws on the most authoritative texts to provide a much-needed reminder of the power of his dramatic writing. The volume includes The Dark Tower, They Met on Good Friday, The Mad Islands, One for the Grave, Christopher Columbus, He Had a Date, Prisoner's Progress, and Persons from Porlock.

Selected Plays of Louis MacNeice

Clarendon Press

Mr. MacNeice has set himself to discuss contemporary poetry in the light of his own experience as student and poet. The first half of the book is devoted to his "case-book"  his formal introduction to poetry in preparatory school, the development of his taste in public school and Oxford ... The rest of the book treats technical problems  matters as fundamental as metric and rythme, imagery, diction, the quality of obscurity. He concludes with a brief statement of his faith as an artist.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:   Books for College Libraries.

Modern poetry: A personal essay;

Introduction by Walter Allen

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press

In addition to writing excellent verse, the Irish poet Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) also wrote lively prose and many pioneering plays for the BBC. This annotated collection includes fifty-one articles of previously neglected topical prose from 1929 to 1963, numerous articles and reviews, several chapters of early books long out of print, and a handful of previously unpublished autobiographical and travel documents on the Blitz, his favorite sport rugby, and philosophy. Heuser also includes an introduction, notes, and a full corrected bibliography of MacNeice's short prose.

Selected Prose of Louis MacNeice

British & Irish

The poet Louis MacNeice's pioneering critical study of W. B. Yeats was undertaken in 1939, shortly after the death of Yeats, and published early in 1941, in time of war - as an attempt to disentangle MacNeice's own feelings about the elder poetic statesman and compatriot, but also to investigate the reality of poetry at a historical moment when its uses seemed most tenuous. As Richard Ellmann remarked: 'MacNeice's book on Yeats is still as good an introduction to that poet as we have, with the added interest that it is also an introduction to MacNeice. It discloses a critical mind always discontented with its own formulations, full of self-questionings and questionings of others, scrupling to admire, reluctant to be won. Yet mistrust of Yeats is overcome by wary approval, in a rising tone of endorsement'. MacNeice's study succeeded in delineating those aspects of Yeats that remain central to discussion of the poet today.

The Poetry of W. B. Yeats

Poetry

Greenwood Pub Group

Provides a balanced treatment of the subject discussing its sometimes disreputable history, its disciples and critics as well as astrological predictions

Astrology

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

DOUBLEDAY

Four short plays for young actorsMaking Scenes 3 is an exciting selection of plays commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the BT National Connections festival for young actors in 1995.Indian Summer by Harwant Bains; Kulwant returns to India and becomes fascinated with an ice-cream seller and the Holy Man who has sat for years with a sword through his mouth. When Kulwant pulls out the sword and offers the man a tutti-frutti ice-cream, a remarkable friendship is established.Almost Grown by Richard Cameron; set in Yorkshire this is the story of how a tragic accident has affected the lives of three friends.The Ice Palace by Lucinda Coxon; in this magical rites of passage tale Siss and Unn are best friends at school, but when Siss goes to visit her one day they set out on an adventure into a magnificent frozen waterfall from which Unn will never return.The Dark Tower by Louis MacNeice; Roland must follow his ancestors' and brothers' footsteps on a journey through time, by ship across the sea of doubt, past ghost towns of history and through 'deserts of dried-up hopes', until he reaches the Dark Tower.Each play includes Production Notes, dealing with setting and staging, costume, lighting and casting. Also included are a set of questions and exercises for workshop classes.

Making Scenes 3: Indian Summer; Almost Grown; The Ice Palace; The Dark Tower (Play Anthologies)

Cameron, Richard

Coxon, Lucinda

Bains, Harwant S.

Methuen Drama

Louis MacNeice's radio plays are, apart from his verse, his major work. The freedoms of radio drama - to change scene at will, to move smoothly from soliloquy to dialogue, to use the unprojected voice - and its complete dependence on the spoken word offer unique opportunities to a poet. MacNeice took advantage of them and his plays are among the classics of the medium. In making this selection, W. H. Auden has chosen four plays well suited to radio. "Persons from Porlock" is a psychological drama which spans twenty years in the life of a painter. In "Enter Caesar", Caesar's rise to power is seen through the eyes of others. "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" is a fairy tale, and "They Met on Good Friday" concerns the complicated and ambiguous relations between the vikings and the native inhabitants of Ireland during the tenth and eleventh centuries. They prove the strength and flexibility of the medium and show a master of language working in an area which suits him supremely well. (Inside cover). Contents: Enter Caesar. East of the sun and west of the moon. They met on Good Friday. Persons from Porlock.

Persons from Porlock,: And other plays for radio;

British Broadcasting Corporation

"in Autumn Sequel the ephemeral and the topical have been transmuted into poetry which will remain permanently moving and which attains indeed something of the timelessness of myth.

Autumn Sequel. A Rhetorical Poem in XXVI Cantos.

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Faber&Faber

1972 reprint. Faber paper covered editions. Soiled covers, initials of previous owner on half title page, small spot stain on fore edge.

Selected Poems

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