A collection of 21 essays written in the 19th and 20th century examining the influence of the Greek playwright on Western Civilization from the 1585 performance of Oedipus Rex at Vicenze to the present. They include discussions of Freud and the Oedipus Complex, views of generations of critics, and t

The Complete Poems of James Dickey is an authoritative edition of all 331 poems published by one of America's most distinguished poets, collected in one volume for the first time. Dickey's most-admired and most-anthologized poems--such as "The Performance," "Cherrylog Road," "The Firebombing," "Falling," and "May Day Sermon"--along with his epic poem The Zodiac are placed in chronological order of publication, affording a poetic autobiography that reveals the intellectual development and the constant experimentation of an iconic American literary figure.This collection includes 93 poems...