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Scottish Ballads
Canongate Books 2010; US$ 9.99Edited and Introduced by Emily Lyle. Scotland?s ballads represent one of the high-water marks of Scottish literature and are famous as superb expressions of oral culture, reflecting a world of magic, deep passion and history transformed into legend. This selection includes more than eighty of the finest ballads, together with an introduction, notes... more...
Three Scottish Poets
Canongate Books 2010; US$ 9.99MACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEAD Introduced by Roderick Watson This book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland?s best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have fascinated and charmed thousands of readers and listeners across Europe and America with the energy, humour and compassion of... more...
Come On In!
Canongate Books 2007; US$ 15.82Bukowski's unmistakable charisma ? an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of booze and loneliness in maverick, confident free verse ? made him one of the world?s most popular poets long before he died in 1994. More than a decade later, death has not slowed his production. This collection is selected from an archive of verse that... more...
Annals
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableA compelling new translation of Tacitus' Annals , one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome, by Cynthia Damon. Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity Tacitus describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius,... more...
The Trickster in Ginsberg
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 40.00This examination reconsiders Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" through a four-part trickster framework: appetite, boundlessness, transformative power, and a proclivity for setting and falling victim to tricks and traps. The Trickster in Ginsberg utilizes different narratives of the trickster Coyote and the historical and biographical contexts of... more...
Beowulf
The Floating Press 1910; US$ 4.99Beowulf is the earliest surviving poem in Old English. Although the authorship is anonymous it is believed to have been written before the 10th century AD. The only extant European manuscript of the Beowulf text is placed at around 1010. The epic tells the tale of the Scandinavian hero Beowulf as he struggles against three adversaries; the monster... more...
Troilus and Cressida
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ************. Troilus and Criseyde (circa 1380-87) is Geoffrey Chaucer''s poem in rhyme royal (rime royale) re-telling the tragic love story of Troilus, a Trojan prince, and Criseyde. Scholarly consensus is that Chaucer completed Troilus and Criseyde by the... more...
Paradise
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 14.00Crisis In this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy , Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved Beatrice, he enters Paradise, to profess his faith, hope, and love before the Heavenly court. Completed shortly before his death, Paradise is the volume that perhaps best expresses Dante?s... more...
Beowulf and Other Old English Poems
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 4.95Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of the hero Beowulf,... more...
Random House Treasury of Friendship Poems
Diversified Publishing 2010; US$ 11.95The latest addition to the Random House poetry treasury series is a charming collection of timeless poems celebrating the virtues of friendship. ? Features more than 100 poems from such greats as Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Billy Collins ? Compact jacketed hardcover gift edition with a ribbon page marker From the Hardcover... more...









