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Born in a Longford workhouse where his father was first teacher and then master, Padraic Colum grew into an important figure in the Irish literary renaissance before immigrating to the United States. Invited by the Fay brothers to join the National Theatre Society, he married the teacher and writer mehr anzeigen Mary Maguire, with whom he undertook several joint projects. The Colums immigrated to the United States in 1914. Colum kept up a varied production of verse, plays, fiction, criticism, and children's literature, together with active lecturing. His most extended teaching appointment was at Columbia University, where he and his wife offered a joint course in comparative literature. Colum felt that his Roman Catholic and peasant roots gave him a closer tie to the Irish folk than did the Protestant, Anglo-Irish background of many writers of the Irish renaissance. His poetry usually deals with common people and rural landscapes in a forthright manner. Colum was resolutely Irish, and his work for the most part avoids didacticism or sentimental nationalism in favor of straightforward presentation. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Padraic Colum

Der Königssohn von Irland (1916) 306 Exemplare
Treasury of Irish Folklore (1954) 283 Exemplare
Myths of the World (1930) 103 Exemplare
The Arabian Nights (1923) 74 Exemplare
Legends of Hawaii (1937) 50 Exemplare
An Anthology of Irish Verse (1948) 49 Exemplare
Great Myths of the World (1930) 37 Exemplare
Our friend James Joyce (1958) 36 Exemplare
The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes (1919) 30 Exemplare
The Flying Swans (1957) 19 Exemplare
Wild Earth and Other Poems (1922) 16 Exemplare
The Six Who Were Left In A Shoe (1923) 16 Exemplare
The Forge in the Forest (1925) 13 Exemplare
The Road Round Ireland (1926) 13 Exemplare
Poems (1932) 12 Exemplare
The White Sparrow (1933) 11 Exemplare
Gulliver's Travels [adapted] (1962) 11 Exemplare
Three Plays (1963) 10 Exemplare
Cross Roads in Ireland (1930) 8 Exemplare
Castle Conquer (1923) 7 Exemplare
Creatures (1927) 6 Exemplare
The Peep-Show Man (1924) 5 Exemplare
Boy in Eirinn (Jack Yeats) (2013) 4 Exemplare
The Legend of Saint Columba (1935) 3 Exemplare
Arthur Griffith 3 Exemplare
The Vegetable Kingdom (1954) 3 Exemplare
My Irish Year 2 Exemplare
Irish Elegies (1965) 2 Exemplare
Images of Departure (1969) 2 Exemplare
Mogu the Wanderer 2 Exemplare
The Yeats We Knew 1 Exemplar
Three Men 1 Exemplar
Old Pastures 1 Exemplar
The Wall of China 1 Exemplar
Poems of Samuel Ferguson (1963) — Herausgeber — 1 Exemplar
Studies (2012) 1 Exemplar

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Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben14,221 Exemplare
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Classics Library (NTC)) (1832) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben4,179 Exemplare
Der Landpfarrer von Wakefield (1766) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben2,808 Exemplare
Der Roman von Tristan und Isolde (1150) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben1,933 Exemplare
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners (1967) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben1,194 Exemplare
Verbannte : Schauspiel in drei Akten (1918) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben618 Exemplare
A Dreamer's Tale and Other Stories (1910) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben284 Exemplare
Auguste Rodin (1903) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben239 Exemplare
The New Junior Classics Volume 03: Myths and Legends (1938) — Mitwirkender — 236 Exemplare
The New Junior Classics Volume 04: Hero Tales (1938) — Mitwirkender — 215 Exemplare
The New Junior Classics Volume 02: Stories of Wonder and Magic (1912) — Mitwirkender — 200 Exemplare
The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (1981) — Mitwirkender — 194 Exemplare
The Young Folks' Shelf of Books, Volume 07: Legends of Long Ago (1900) — Mitwirkender — 173 Exemplare
The Charwoman's Daughter (1912) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben166 Exemplare
Complete Poems (1958) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben118 Exemplare
Hibernian Nights (1963) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben81 Exemplare
The Collegians (1829) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben79 Exemplare
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Mitwirkender — 72 Exemplare
The Easter Book of Legends and Stories (1947) — Mitwirkender — 34 Exemplare
Ulysses in Nighttown (1958) 30 Exemplare
Between Friends: Letters of James Branch Cabell and Others (1962) — Herausgeber — 28 Exemplare
60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Mitwirkender — 28 Exemplare
What We Did on Our Holidays (1969) — Lyricist — 23 Exemplare
The Land and People of Ireland (1953) — Einführung — 21 Exemplare
Popular Irish Poetry (1995) — Mitwirkender — 19 Exemplare
The Golden Wind (1929) — Einführung — 12 Exemplare
A James Stephens Reader (1962) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben9 Exemplare
Spring World, Awake: Stories, Poems, and Essays (1970) — Mitwirkender — 9 Exemplare
All Sails Set (1948) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare
New Songs: A Lyric Selection — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 7, March 1977 (1977) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
Pastimes of James Joyce — Nachwort — 2 Exemplare
The Poems of Jonathan Swifteinige Ausgaben2 Exemplare
The World's Best Stories for Boys and Girls: Second Series (1930) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

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I don’t know much about Greek Mythology. But, hey, Zeus and Hercules and all that stuff has always been SUPER cool when it’s shown up in TV and movies! And then… yaaaaaaawn. I was reading sentences, and realizing that the material in the sentences should have been exciting. There was fighting. There was lots of drama and abrupt life (-no, WORLD-) altering things. Plus, explanations for the heavens and seasons and so on. That should be really interesting. For whatever reason, I couldn’t get along with the author’s writing style. It was easy enough to understand, it just wasn’t easy to enjoy. It wasn’t a terrible book, and I genuinely did like pieces; I’m merely pained by thinking that something SHOULD be so much more fun.… (mehr)
 
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