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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, 3by Robert Durling; Ronald Martinez; Robert Turner
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 17.95Robert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the entirety of Dante's epic poem of spiritual ascent with the guidance of one of the greatest living Italian-to-English translators. Reunited with his beloved Beatrice in the Purgatorio, in the Paradiso the poet-narrator journeys with her through the heavenly spheres and comes to know "the state of blessed souls after death." As with the previous volumes, the original Italian and its English translation appear on facing pages. Readers will be drawn... more...
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 7, Part 1by John Donne; Gary A. Stringer; Paul A. Parrish
Indiana University Press 2005; US$ 47.95Praise for previous volumes: "This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." -- Chronique This is the 4th volume of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne to appear. This volume presents a newly edited critical text of the Holy Sonnets and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time through 1995. The editors identify and print both an earlier and a revised authorial sequence of sonnets, as well as presenting the scribal collection -- which contains unique authorial versions of several of the sonnets -- inscribed by Donne's friend Rowland... more...
Comic Provocationsby Holly A. Crocker
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00Explores the ability of Old French fabliaux to disrupt the literal bodies with which they come into contact. This volume addresses issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, and others to trace the competing consequences that result from this literary body's unsettling capacity. more...
Violent Passionsby Tracy Adams
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00This book re-evaluates the perception of "courtly love" in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of "amour" and propose coping methods for the lovelorn. more...
Works of William Blakeby MobileReference
MobileReference.com 2007; US$ 5.99Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Table of Contents. List of Works by Title. List of Works in Alphabetical Order. List of Works in Chronological Order. William Blake Biography. America: A Prophecy. Auguries of Innocence. The Book of Thel. Eternity. Europe: A Prophecy. The Gates of Paradise. I Heard an Angel. I saw a chapel all of gold. An Island in the Moon. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:. The Argument. The Voice of the Devil. A Memorable Fancy. Proverbs of Hell. A Memorable Fancy 1. A Memorable Fancy 2. A Memorable Fancy 3. A Song of Liberty. Milton. Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau. Poetical Sketches:. Song: How sweet... more...
Charles Baudelaireby Rosemary Lloyd
Reaktion Books 2008; US$ 20.95An engrossing and readable biography, Rosemary Lloyd's 'Charles Baudelaire' will be essential for scholars and Baudelaire admirers alike. more...
Selected Writings (Dario, Ruben)by Ruben Dario; Ilan Stavans
Penguin Group Inc. 2005; US$ 16.99Born in Nicaragua, Rubén Darío is known as the consummate leader of the Modernista movement, an esthetic trend that swept the Americas from Mexico to Argentina at the end of the nineteenth century. Seeking a language and a style that would distinguish the newly emergent nations from the old imperial power of Spain, Darío?s writing offered a refreshingly new vision of the world?an artistic sensibility at once cosmopolitan and connected to the rhythms of nature. The first part of this collection presents Darío?s most significant poems in a bilingual format and organized thematically in the way Darío himself envisioned them. The second part is devoted to Darío?s prose, including short stories, fables, profiles, travel writing, reportage, opinion... more...
A Little Larger Than the Entire Universeby Fernando Pessoa; Richard Zenith
Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 13.99The poetry of "the greatest twentieth century writer you have never heard of " ( Los Angeles Times ) Writing 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 many originally composed in English. In addition to such major works as "Maritime Ode of Campos" and his Goethe-inspired Faust , written in blank verse, there are several stunning poems that have only come to light in the last five years. Selected and translated by leading Pessoa scholar Richard... more...
An Almost Pure Empty Walkingby Tryfon Tolides
Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 5.99A stunning debut from the winner of the National Poetry Series In his debut collection, chosen by Mary Karr as a winner of the 2005 National Poetry Series, Tryfon Tolides weaves together poems that speak of desire, loss, and small joys. Tolides was born in a tiny village in Greece and his work is rooted in the mountains and wind and the deep interior of that place; his poems express a longing and a searching for peace, for home, for beauty, for escape. These poems constitute a lament, whether they concern themselves with the difficulties of assimilation or the question of whether it is possible for people to live with one another in a spirit of true understanding. They prove that the physical and the metaphysical can share residence, can... more...
The Poems of Goetheby MobileReference
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ************. . more...