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For over a hundred years, the journal of the Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was thought to have been destroyed. In 1967 the manuscript was found in the archives of the Longman Publishing House in London. This edition, to be published in six volumes, reveals the essential Moore and introduces the reader to the daily, personal record of Moore's life from 1818 to 1847. The journal begins as an accurate rendering of the author's daily life and ends as a tragic reflection of a failing memory and a deteriorating mind.

This collection includes a wide-ranging and candid interview conducted by the editors, touching on such topics as the role of art as an active, shaping force in society; the relationship between art and political institutions; dramatic production and theory; the art of adaptation; and Albee's methods and purposes as a playwright and director. The essays exemplify dramatic, literary, linguistic and psychological approaches to Albee's work and range from detailed interpretations of individual plays to broad overviews. They discuss Albee's admitted concern with the problem of "knowing" and his frequent use of abstraction and allegory as a means of exploring this theme in his work. Other topics covered are: Albee's use of elements of Pirandellian drama, the vaudevillian form of Counting the Ways, ritual and initiation in The Zoo Story and a psychological reading of Seascape. ISBN 0-8156-8106-2 : $18.00 ; ISBN 0-8156-8107-0 (pbk.) : $10.00.

For over a hundred years, the journal of the Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was thought to have been destroyed. In 1967 the manuscript was found in the archives of the Longman Publishing House in London. This edition, to be published in six volumes, reveals the essential Moore and introduces the reader to the daily, personal record of Moore's life from 1818 to 1847. The journal begins as an accurate rendering of the author's daily life and ends as a tragic reflection of a failing memory and a deteriorating mind. Illustrated.

For over a hundred years, the journal of the Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was thought to have been destroyed. In 1967 the manuscript was found in the archives of the Longman Publishing House in London. This edition, to be published in six volumes, reveals the essential Moore and introduces the reader to the daily, personal record of Moore's life from 1818 to 1847. The journal begins as an accurate rendering of the author's daily life and ends as a tragic reflection of a failing memory and a deteriorating mind. Illustrated.