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Iliadby Homer; Stanley Lombardo; Sheila Murnaghan
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 12.95Stanley Lombardo is Professor of Classics, University of Kansas. Sheila Murnaghan is Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania. more...
Beowulfby Anonymous; Burton Raffel
Penguin Group Inc. 2008; US$ 4.99The epic poem Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language? reflecting a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory, life and death. Its beauty, power, and artistry have kept it alive for more than thirteen centuries. more...
Solon and Early Greek Poetryby Elizabeth Irwin; R. L. Hunter; R. G. Osborne; M. D. Reeve; P. D. Garnsey; M. Millett; D. N. Sedley; G. C. Horrocks
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 40.00Archaic Greek poetry is an important source for the history of the period. This book offers close readings of this poetry, particularly that of Solon, in order to explore the politics and ideologies of the day. The influence of performance context is also examined. more...
The Odysseyby Homer; Robert Fagles
Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 12.99Robert Fagles?s stunning modern-verse translation?available at last in our black-spine classics line The Odyssey is literature?s grandest evocation of everyman?s journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer?s original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homer?s students. more...
The Cambridge Companion to John Drydenby Steven N. Zwicker
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 27.00John Dryden was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at the full range of Dryden's work in the context of his time, and includes a chronology of Dryden's life and times and a guide to further reading. more...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Poetryby Nikki Moustaki
Penguin Group Inc. 2001; US$ 13.99You?re no idiot, of course. You?ve read poetry that has touched your heart, and you?d like to improve your own writing technique. But even though you have loads of inspiration, you?re discovering that good instruction can be as elusive as a good metaphor. Don?t let your Muse leave you! With loads of smart advice and helpful exercises, The Complete Idiot?s Guide® to Writing Poetry will help you compose powerful, emotion-packed poems that you can be proud of. In this Complete Idiot?s Guide®, you get: --Simple explanations of the building blocks of poetry?metaphor, imagery, symbolism, repetition, and more. --A step-by-step guide to the poetic process?from your first inspiration to your poem?s last stanza. --Easy-to-follow guidelines for writing... more...
The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verseby Geoffrey Chaucer; Joseph Glaser
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2005; US$ 8.95Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than other translators, a four-beat rhythm well-established in the English poetic tradition up to Chaucer's time. Glaser's shortened lines make compelling reading and mirror the elegance and variety of Chaucer's verse to a degree rarely met by translations that copy Chaucer beat for beat. Moreover, this translation's full, Chaucerian range of diction?from earthy to Latinate?conveys the great scope of Chaucer's interests and effects. more...
The Epic of Gilgameshby Anonymous; N. Sandars
Penguin Group Inc. 1960; US$ 9.99Miraculously preserved on clay tablets deciphered only in the last century, the cycle of poems collected around the character of Gilgamesh, the great king of Ukruk, tells of his long and arduous journey to the Spring of Youth, of his encounters with monsters and gods and of his friendship with Enkidu, the wild man from the hills. Also included in the epic is a legend of the Flood, which agrees in many details with the biblical story of Noah. more...
Odysseyby Homer; Stanley Lombardo; Sheila Murnaghan
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 13.95Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad . more...
The Essential Homerby Homer; Stanley Lombardo; Sheila Murnaghan
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 13.50Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey , made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology. more...