The Aran Islands
- 208 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Records the author's visits to the Aran Islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged The Playboy of the Western World and his other major dramas.
Robin Skelton Book order (chronological)
Robin Skelton was a writer and poet. Under the pseudonym Georges Zuk, he explored deeper psychological and existential questions, often focusing on themes of identity and the inner world of the individual. His work is characterized by an introspective perspective and a desire to uncover the hidden motivations behind human actions. As Georges Zuk, he offered readers a unique perspective on the complexity of the human soul.
Poetry of the Forties
- 269 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Poetry of the Thirties
- 300 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Auden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the 'Thirties' were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and a passionate belief in poets as people whose actions are as publically important as their poems. For them, the Spanish Civil War epitomized the mood of the times, as their symbolic obsessions were transmuted into tragic reality. But from within their strongly defined unity of ideals, an astonishingly varied body of poetry emerged. Robin Skelton has arranged the poetry to make an illuminating 'critical essay' of the period, and in his introduction he brilliantly probes the moods and mores of an intensely troubled and creative decade.
Selected Poems of Byron
- 216 pages
- 8 hours of reading