One of the shortest plays in Greek drama, The Children of Herakles offers enough action for two or three plays of normal length. But this very richness and complexity have made the play elusive, subject to dismissive readings, and extraordinarily difficult to translate; in consequence, it has suffered from neglect over the ages. This vibrant new translation makes clear that The Children of Herakles is actually a wonderfully well-crafted work of art, a play offering a wealth of rewards to the modern reader. It is a play about war and the effects of war within the state. Herakles, the...
One of the shortest plays in Greek drama, The Children of Herakles offers enough action for two or three plays of normal length. But this very richnes...
Henry Taylor's poems in The Flying Change embrace a wide range of subjects and tones. Taylor's concern with the rural anecdote, demonstrated in his two earlier books of poetry, The Horse Show at Midnight and An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, is here broadened to include not only funny stories called "snapshots" but also extended meditations on change and death. Throughout, Taylor combines everyday speech with careful control of traditional forms to produce poems of unusual power.
Henry Taylor's poems in The Flying Change embrace a wide range of subjects and tones. Taylor's concern with the rural anecdote, demonstrated in his tw...
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (in 1986, for The Flying Change ) Taylor writes about 17 contemporary poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Anthony Hecht, Louis Simpson, William Stafford, William Meredith, and James Wright. The essays were written, and most of them published, over an extended period of tim
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (in 1986, for The Flying Change ) Taylor writes about 17 contemporary poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Anthony Hecht, Lo...
This collection of twenty-four poems reveals the range and power of a young Southern poet whose work is characterized by a tensile strength and a coldly factual style which beneath the surface carries great passion.
Some of the poems masterfully employ twists of irony; others utilize grotesque, yet real, characters and situations; others are nimble parodies. All of the poems, however, proclaim Taylor's sensitivity to the rhythms and idioms of everyday speech. All touch the unusual, the comic, the despairing, the hopeful.
These, then, are distinctive poems about man and his condition,...
This collection of twenty-four poems reveals the range and power of a young Southern poet whose work is characterized by a tensile strength and a c...
This collection of poems renders the vicissitudes of love, friendship and vocation. Using the craft of writing as a metaphor for the examined life, Taylor explores the slow-dawning awareness of our evanescence.
This collection of poems renders the vicissitudes of love, friendship and vocation. Using the craft of writing as a metaphor for the examined life, Ta...
Not since W. H. Auden's Academic Graffiti has a poet of serious substance indulged so thoroughly in clerihews, those miniature (and often outrageously fictional) biographies invented just over 100 years ago by E. C. Bentley (1875--1956). In Brief Candles, Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Taylor takes on with hilarious irreverence people usually taken most seriously -- members of the Supreme Court, poets laureate, literary theorists, Whitewater celebrities, and New Testament figures -- demonstrating through 101 clerihews that one of the primary purposes of poetry is to have fun, even while...
Not since W. H. Auden's Academic Graffiti has a poet of serious substance indulged so thoroughly in clerihews, those miniature (and often outrageou...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet moves back and forth over several centuries telling the stories of the rural corner of northern Virginia that used to be his home.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet moves back and forth over several centuries telling the stories of the rural corner of northern Virginia that used to ...
