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Unanimous praise for this selection of Heaney's poems, which "eloquently confirms his status as the most skilful and profound poet writing in English today" (Edward Mendelson, the New York Times Book Review ). The book includes excerpts from his translation of Sophocles and his Nobel lecture, but more important, it features a wide selection of his poems, charting his progress from unknown to Nobel laureate.
The premiers of several major pieces by Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes were performed here, and the Athens assembly also met here late in its history.
(Cato quotes a man who asked Sophocles whether, being old, he still indulged in "the delights of love."
Theater -- Electra , by Sophocles (Ethel Barrymore Theater, New York City).
, Poet of the Poor (George Crabbe), Attic Bee (Sophocles), Madman of the North (Charles XII of Sweden), Manchester Poet (Charles Swain), Great Prussian Drill-sergeant (Frederick William I), etc.)