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Cantigas profanas
Edhasa 1753; US$ 5.10Dentro de la prolífica y variada producción de Alfonso X el Sabio, que abarca ámbitos tan diversos como el histórico, el literario o el científico, las Cantigas profanas destacan notablemente por su carácter personal y su cercanía para el lector de hoy. Escritas de puño y letra por el propio Rey, constituyen uno de los conjuntos de poemas más procaces,... more...
Voices From an Empire
University of Minnesota Press 1975; US$ 75.00The literature of the various regions of Lusophone Africa has received relatively little critical attention compared with that which has been focused on the work of writers in the English- and French- speaking countries of Africa. With the profound change more...
A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe
Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 17.00Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, Fernando Pessoa left a prodigious body of work, much of it under "heteronyms"?fully fleshed alter egos with startlingly different styles and points of view. Offering a unique sampling of all his most famous voices, this collection features poems that have never before been translated alongside... more...
Selected Sonnets
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 19.00The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luís de Camões (1524–80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare. Championed by such influential English poets as William Blake and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and admired in America... more...
Why This World
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 18.99That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers. Now, after years of research on three continents, drawing on previously unknown manuscripts and dozens of interviews, Benjamin Moser demonstrates how Lispector's art was directly... more...
Selected Poetry, 1937-1990
Wesleyan University Press 2011; US$ 13.99Brings together a representative selection of the work of one of Brazil's most respected poets, including many poems published in English for the first time. more...
The Lusiads
Oxford University Press, UK 1997; US$ 8.99First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first European artist to cross the equator, Cam--otilde--;es's... more...
Studies in the Literary Achievement of João Guimarães Rosa, the Foremost Brazilian Writer of the Twentieth Century
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 179.95This collection of centenary conference essays examines and analyzes the literature of João Guimarães Rosa and his impact on literature. more...
The Colonial Wars in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction
Boydell & Brewer 2008; US$ 90.00The Portuguese fiction that awakened public debate on imperialism more...
The Poetry and Prose of Rosalía de Castro
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 169.95This is the most thorough and representative volume of poetry and prose from Rosalía de Castro (1837-1885) ever translated into English. The book contains a comprehensive Introduction that provides essential information about the Galician land and language, supernatural spirits and shadows so significant in Rosalía de Castros works,... more...









