九九藏書

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

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.

My darling. I'm waiting for you. How long is a day in the dark? Or a week? The fire is gone now. And I'm cold, horribly cold. I really want to drag myself outside but then there'd be the sun. I'm afraid I waste the light on the paintings, and I'm not writing these words. We die. We die,we die rich with lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have...entered and swum up like rivers. Fears we have hidden in ---- like this wretched cave. I want all this marked on my body. We're the real countries, not the boundaries drawn on maps with the names of powerful men. I know you'll come and carry me out into the Palace of Winds. That's what I've wanted: to walk in such a place with you, with friends, on the earth without maps. The lamp has gone out and I'm writing in the darkness.

The 1820 Washington Irving classic. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a chilling tale of romantic rivalry and supernatural terror. The story begins with Ichabod Crane becoming the new schoolmaster of Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod comes to the idea of marrying the wealthy Katrina Van Tassel.

In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.

從小在父親的古舊書店幫忙的姑娘瑪格麗特，愛好讀經典小說和傳記。一天，她突然收到著名女作家維達·溫特的來信。溫特性格古怪而低調，常常編造自己的各種離奇故事糊弄記者，但誰也不知道她的真正來歷。可她居然寫信邀請默默無聞的瑪格麗特來為她寫傳。

出於好奇，同樣深居簡出的瑪格麗特來到偏僻的溫特家。如溫特所述，她的母親伊莎貝拉美麗任性，父親和哥哥完全聽命於她，伊莎貝拉生下的一對雙胞胎女兒卻行為怪異。瑪格麗特對女作家的故事既著迷，又困惑。半信半疑中，她開始調查這個家族，依照自己的調查結果將溫特講述的家族故事拼接起來。然而，尋找真相的過程令人膽戰心驚，也徹底改變了瑪格麗特自己的命運……

Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry

Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of Lyrical Ballads allows modern readers to recapture the book's original impact. In these poems-including Wordsworth's Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey and Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere-the two poets exercised new energies and opened up new themes.

奧威爾的作品，不僅有遠見卓識的政治寓言，更透出一股濃濃的對人類靈魂的關懷和對普通人的深愛。據說奧威爾幼時長得極丑，可想而知的成為了一個一個不合群的孩子，無法融入他所出生的上流社會。也許正是這種孤獨培養出他獨立思考和觀察的能力，也讓他接近下層的普通民眾，體驗他們的生活，關愛普通人的精神世界。

《上來透口氣》中的主人公是一個處在低層社會中的小推銷員，他一直在壓抑苦悶的生活中忍受和掙扎，終於有一天他決定不顧一切回自己美麗的家鄉透口氣。因為在他的記憶中，那裡有一大片一大片的山毛櫸樹林，樹上發著星星點點的新芽，陽光投下的影子在樹葉間互相追逐，晾在路邊的乾草瀰漫在整個村莊，還有那個有著碩大黑魚穿梭的池塘。

但他回去之後卻看到他的故鄉成了一個大規模的工業城鎮，整片整片相連的是一個模樣的鮮紅色屋頂，破舊的被熏黑的院牆、骯髒的河流和簡陋的街巷，這個想上來透口氣的可憐人最終發現原來根本沒有空氣可透。在中國日益工業化、城市化的今天，幾乎每個人的家鄉都遭遇了和小說中描述的同樣的淪落。當我們發現兒時碧水藍天的故鄉變成了一個個煙囪和一棟棟灰色的樓房，當我們發現已經無處透口氣，當我們在工業化的社會中迷失了自我……也許到了該好好思考一下的時候：究竟什麼是我們真正需要的？

當付出了一切，才發現追求的只是最初所擁有的東西，會不會太晚了呢？