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Padraic Colum

Personal Information

Born December 8, 1881
Died January 1, 1972 (90 years old)
County Longford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Also known as: Pádraic Colum, Patrick Columb
60 books
3.7 (94)
1,044 readers

Description

Poet, playwright, and leader of the Irish Renaissance.

Books

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The Adventures of Odysseus And Tales of Troy

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A retelling of the events of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

The story of King Arthur and other Celtic heroes

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Episodes from the Mabinogion, a collection of medieval Welsh tales, recount the feats and exploits of King Arthur and other powerful kings and princes.

Collected Poems

D. J. Enright, Peter Redgrove, Alfred Noyes, Herman Melville, Wyatt, Thomas Sir, Vachel Lindsay, Dylan Thomas, Saint-John Perse, Kay Boyle, Stéphane Mallarmé, Elder Olson, Wilfred Owen, Yvor Winters, Jack Kerouac, Primo Levi, W. R. Rodgers, Edgell Rickword, William Butler Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Stephen Crane, Lorna Goodison, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Howard Paton Vincent, Nikolai Tolstoy, John Betjeman, James Arlington Wright, Edith Dame Sitwell, Horace Gregory, Tomas Tranströmer, Kingsley Amis, Omoseye Bolaji, W. H. Auden, Rita Dove, Miriam Waddington, Marianne Moore, Allan Ahlberg, Patrick O'Brian, Dorothy Livesay, Edgar Allan Poe, Chinua Achebe, Conrad Aiken, George Seferis, John Collings Squire, Mervyn Peake, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Richard L. Tierney, Lewis, Alun, Alan Sillitoe, Thom Gunn, John Berger, Mark Strand, Clarke, Austin, Christy Brown, Robert Bly, Sylvia Plath, Paul Goodman, Lawrence Durrell, Austin Dobson, Louis MacNeice, Jonathan Swift, Edward Thomas, C. H. Sisson, Emily Dickinson, Robert Hillyer, Abbie Huston Evans, Ted Hughes, Condé Bénoist Pallen, David Constantine, Gascoyne, David, Eavan Boland, Pratt, E. J., U. A. Fanthorpe, Ruth Pitter, Josephine Miles, Frederick William Rolfe, Hope Mirrlees, Anthony Thwaite, Thomas Kinsella, John Reed, Edwin Muir, Clive James, Padraic Colum, William Blake, Stevie Smith, F. T. Prince, Louise Glück, Paul Auster, William Plomer, Maurice Lindsay, Theodore Roethke, Justice, Donald Rodney, Iain Crichton Smith, Nicholson, Norman, Federico García Lorca, Leslie Norris, Robert Hayden, Rolfe Humphries, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ronald Duncan, Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, The

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A man in the garb of a slave went up the side of that mountain that is all covered with forest, the Mountain Pelion. He carried in his arms a little child.

The Trojan War and the adventures of Odysseus

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A retelling of the events of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

The King of Ireland's Son

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Sent to find the source of the heavenly music heard throughout the kingdom, the youngest son of the King of Ireland finds a beautiful maiden held captive by a fierce giant.

Nordic gods and heroes

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A collection of Norse myths and legends featuring such gods as Odin, Thor, Frey, and Freya.

The six who were left in a shoe

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After her children grew up, the old woman who lived in a shoe went away, leaving six animals behind in the shoe. They go together in search of a new home, and find one with another old woman who has a house just like the one they left.

The stone of victory, and other tales

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A collection of original and traditional folklore.

Roofs of gold, poems to read aloud

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An anthology of poems chosen for their striking imagery, picturesqueness, action and humor.