Irish Literature

The extraordinary Irish tradition — Yeats and Joyce, Wilde and Shaw, Swift and the long line of writers who remade English from its western edge.

A small island, an outsized genius

In this collection

• The Miraculous Revenge
• Life
• Upon a Dying Lady
• Sententiae
• Serenade (for Music)
• Who Goes with Fergus
• A Chinese Sage
• Slaves of Fashion
• Impressions
• Another Song of a Fool
• The Critic as Artist with some Remarks Upon the Importance of Discussing Everything
• Discipline
• The Green Helmet
• M. Caro on George Sand
• The Canterville Ghost, a Hylo-Idealistic Romance
• Chamber Music
• The Balloon of the Mind
• The Dole of the King's Daughter (Breton)
• A Woman of no Importance
• The Fascination of what's Difficult
• The Battle of the Books
• Solomon to Sheba
• The Garden of Death
• A Lament
• A Lover's Quarrel Among the Fairies
• The Selfish Giant
• Jerusalem and the Mystical Sacrifice
• The Rider from the North
• When you are Old
• Mr. Pater's Imaginary Portraits
• The Two Kinds of Asceticism
• Misalliance
• Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation
• The Remarkable Rocket
• On the Beach at Fontana
• Robert Browning
• The Wake

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