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Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) is one of the most important writers of the English Ressaissance. In this book he turns his attention to the status of poetry in England.

Defense of Poetry (also known as A Defence of Poesie) — Sidney wrote the Defence before 1583. It is generally believed that he was at least partly motivated by Stephen Gosson, a former playwright who dedicated his attack on the English stage, The School of Abuse, to Sidney in 1579, but Sidney primarily addresses more general objections to poetry, such as those of Plato. In his essay, Sidney integrates a number of classical and Italian precepts on fiction. The essence of his defense is that poetry, by combining the liveliness of history with the ethical focus of philosophy, is more effective than either history or philosophy in rousing its readers to virtue. The work also offers important comments on Edmund Spenser and the Elizabethan stage.

No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy. Set along the United States–Mexico border in 1980, the story concerns an illicit drug deal gone wrong in a remote desert location. The title comes from the poem Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats. In 2007 a film adaptation was released, winning four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolution. Common Sense presented the American colonists with an argument for independence from British rule at a time when the question of independence was still undecided. Paine wrote and reasoned in a style that common people understood; forgoing the philosophy and Latin references used by Enlightenment era writers, Paine structured Common Sense like a sermon and relied on Biblical references to make his case to the people.Historian Gordon S. Wood described Common Sense as, the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era.

Here ends 'Four Years,' written by William Butler Yeats. Four hundred copies of this book have been printed and published by Elizabeth C. Yeats on paper made in Ireland, at the Cuala Press, hurchtown, Dundrum, in the County of Dublin, Ireland. Finished on All Hallows' Eve, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty one.

O blessed and happy he, who knowing the mysteries of the gods,sanctifies his life, and purifies his soul, celebrating orgies in the mountains with holy purifications.--Euripides.

Hanrahan, that was never long in one place, was back again among the villages that are at the foot of Slieve Echtge, Illeton and Scalp and Ballylee, stopping sometimes in one house and sometimes in another, and finding a welcome in every place for the sake of the old times and of his poetry and his learning. There was some silver and some copper money in the little leather bag under his coat, but it was seldom he needed to take anything from it, for it was little he used, and there was not one of the people that would have taken payment from him. His hand had grown heavy on the blackthorn he leaned on, and his cheeks were hollow and worn, but so far as food went, potatoes and milk and a bit of oaten cake, he had what he wanted of it; and it is not on the edge of so wild and boggy a place as Echtge a mug of spirits would be wanting, with the taste of the turf smoke on it. He would wander about the big wood at Kinadife, or he would sit through many hours of the day among the rushes about Lake Belshragh, listening to the streams from the hills, or watching the shadows in the brown bog pools; sitting so quiet as not to startle the deer that came down from the heather to the grass and the tilled fields at the fall of night. . . .

WITH A NOTE CONCERNING A WALK THROUGH CONNEMARA WITH HIM

BY JACK BUTLER YEATS

Offers a glimpse of all Yeats' styles--beginning with his youthful romantic idealism and ending with his more outspoken, sardonic treatment of sexuality.

CONTENTS:

TO THE SECRET ROSE

THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE OUTCAST

OUT OF THE ROSE

THE WISDOM OF THE KING

THE HEART OF THE SPRING

THE CURSE OF THE FIRES AND OF THE SHADOWS

THE OLD MEN OF THE TWILIGHT

WHERE THERE IS NOTHING, THERE IS GOD

OF COSTELLO THE PROUD, OF OONA THE DAUGHTER OF DERMOTT, AND OF THE BITTER TONGUE.

FAR-OFF, most secret, and inviolate Rose,Enfold me in my hour of hours; where those Who sought thee in the Holy Sepulchre, Or in the wine-vat, dwell beyond the stir And tumult of defeated dreams; and deep Among pale eyelids, heavy with the sleep Men have named beauty. Thy great leaves enfold The ancient beards, the helms of ruby and gold Of the crowned Magi; and the king whose eyes Saw the pierced Hands and Rood of elder rise In Druid vapour and make the torches dim; Till vain frenzy awoke and he died; and him Who met Fand walking among flaming dew By a grey shore where the wind never blew, And lost the world and Emer for a kiss; And him who drove the gods out of their liss, And till a hundred moms had flowered red Feasted, and wept the barrows of his dead; And the proud dreaming king who flung the crown And sorrow away, and calling bard and clown Dwelt among wine-stained wanderers in deep woods: And him who sold tillage, and house, and goods, And sought through lands and islands numberless years, Until he found, with laughter and with tears, A woman of so shining loveliness That men threshed corn at midnight by a tress, A little stolen tress. I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die? Surely thine hour has come, thy great wind blows, Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose?

Inspired by Irish folklore, first published in 1892, first performed in 1899.

The sorrowful are dumb for thee--

Lament of Morion Shehone for Miss Mary Bourke

Originally published in 1892, The Countess Cathleen aroused fierce controversy when it was first performed in 1899. The play was frequently revived and almost as often revised, becoming at various points in Yeats』s career a decisive indicator of his relations with his literary and theatrical public, of his changing conception of dramatic form, and of the status of his pursuit of Maud Gonne, for whom the play was written. This volume in the Cornell Yeats reproduces the complete set of extant manuscripts preceding the play』s first publication and reassembles the extensive manuscript, proof, and authorial copy to present a crucial body of evidence of Yeats』s work and thought in drama and theater over the course of three decades.

A Morality Play, first performed in 1913.

O Rose, thou art sick.-- WILLIAM BLAKE

To FLORENCE FARR

The Scene is laid in the Barony of Kilmacowen, in the County of Sligo, and at a remote time.

Doris May Lessing, CH, OBE (née Tayler; born 22 October 1919) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.

In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy as that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny. Lessing is the eleventh woman to win the prize in its 106-year history, and also the oldest person ever to win the literature award.

W.B. Yeats is generally considered to be one of the twentieth century's key English-language poets. He can be considered a Symbolist poet in that he used allusive imagery and symbolic structures throughout his career. Yeats chooses words and puts them together so that in addition to a particular meaning they suggest other meanings that seem more significant. His use of symbols is usually something physical which is used both to be itself and to suggest other, perhaps immaterial, timeless qualities. Yet, unlike most modernists who experimented with free verse, Yeats was also a master of the traditional verse forms. The impact of modernism on his work can be seen in the increasing abandonment of the more conventionally poetic diction of his early work in favor of the more austere language and more direct approach to his themes that increasingly characterises the poetry and plays of his middle period, comprising the volumes In the Seven Woods, Responsibilities and The Green Helmet. His later poetry and plays are written in a more personal vein, and the works written in the last twenty years of his life include mention of his son and daughter, as well as meditations on the experience of growing old. In his poem, The Circus Animals' Desertion, he describes the inspiration for these late works:

Now that my ladder's gone

I must lie down where all the ladders start

In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart

《蜘蛛女之吻》是普伊格的第四部小說,這無疑是他的小說中影響最大的一部。在1976年發表后,幾次再版,被譯成多種文字,並改編成電影。

在阿根廷首都布宜諾斯艾利斯監獄的一間牢房裡關押著兩個囚犯,一個是政治犯瓦倫丁,另一個是同性戀者莫利納。小說以他們兩個人的對話為主線索,逐步展現出他們的內心世界,撥動了埋藏在他們意識深處的心弦,從一個側面剖露了阿根廷社會的現實。作者以主人公敘述電影故事的方法,一方面揭示了力圖改變社會的革命者的複雜的內心世界,另一方面又從社會、心理和生理諸方面多層次地剖析了同性戀這個日益引起人們重視的社會問題。

對於同性戀的產生與存在,作者以嚴肅的態度進行了具體的分析。他採用新穎的表現手法,頗具匠心地將許多藝術技巧巧妙地糅合在一起,精心構築了小說的結構,一部部異彩紛呈的電影故事,與小說正文相互呼應的理論柱石,穿插在對話當中的意識流,還有簡潔明快的行書公文,讓人讀起來興味盎然,余絲不斷,真可謂集嚴肅文學與通俗小說於一身,既有引人入勝的故事情節,又有對社會學和性心理學等問題的深刻探求,還有耐人琢磨的文學魅力。這種將文學性、趣味性、社會性、科學性融合在一起的特點是這部小說取得成功的主要原因。

這部小說中運用得最為突出的手法就是在兩個人的對話中敘述電影故事。深諳電影藝術的普伊格巧妙地將六部電影的情節貫穿于整部小說的始末。這些電影故事的構思巧妙,安排得當。每部電影雖然都獨立成篇,卻有著共同的深邃的內涵,即從不同的角度隱喻同性戀的不同的表現方式及其心理特徵。作者採用蒙太奇的手法,將電影與電影,電影與兩個囚犯的現實生活剪切對比、明敘暗喻,像多稜鏡一般折射出一幅幅既有情趣又耐人思索的畫面。

The well-known Kiss of the Spider Woman, a sharply provocative tale of love, victimization, and fantasy, and of the friendship that develops between two strikingly different men imprisoned together in a Latin American jail; This is convincing proof that Manual Puig was one of our most talented writers - no matter what the medium. Puig is the author of seven novels, translated into fourteen languages.

毛姆（1874-1965），英國著名的小說家與劇作家，他的作品取材廣泛，洞悉人性，被譽為最會講故事的作家《人生的枷鎖》是他的代表作，具有明顯的自傳色彩。

小說主人公菲利普·凱里自幼父母雙亡，不幸又先天殘疾，在冷漠而陌生的環境中度過了童年，性格因此孤僻而敏感。在寄宿學校度過的歲月讓他飽受了不合理的學校制度的摧殘，而當他走入社會後，又在愛情上經歷了傷痛。在坎坷的人生道路上，他每跨一步，都要付出艱辛的掙扎，但思想和個性都獨立不羈的凱里，一直努力掙脫宗教和小市民意識這兩條禁錮自己精神的桎梏，力圖在混沌紛擾的生活漩流中，尋求人生的真諦。