San Antonio College Library

An accomplished poet finds a fresh intensity and reach in this book. In four sequences, the poet tells of a life in love moving through the passionate erotic, the dramas of wooing, promising and quarrelling and the day-by-day of home. It culminates in the subtleties and variations of growing old while revelling in the love of life a deux.

Collection of 12 works of selected Irish fiction, poetry and nonfiction "in a single volume which that recognizes their enormous literary contribution" to English language literature. Biographical notes precede each author's entry.

"A powerful new collection from one of our leading contemporary poets, reflecting the strange and chaotic times we live in. Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the push and pull of daily life. At the book's heart lies the title sequence, a profound meditation on a father's dying, the reverberations...

An anthology containing ten centuries of Irish poetry.

"Irish Literature: The Eighteenth Century illustrates not only the impressive achievement of the great writers - Swift, Berkeley, Burke, Goldsmith and Sheridan - but also shows the varied accomplishment of others, providing unexpected, entertaining examples from the pens of the less well known. Here are examples of the witty comic dramas so successfully written by Susannah Centlivre, Congreve, Steele, Farquhar and Macklin. There are serious and humorous...