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  • The Collected Poemsby Zbigniew Herbert

    HarperCollins 2010; US$ 13.99

    This outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, String of Light , in 1956, to his final volume, previously unpublished in English, Epilogue Of the Storm . Collected Poems: 1956-1998 , as Joseph Brodsky said of Herbert's SSelected Poems , is "bound for a much... more...

  • Ballads and Lyrics of Old Franceby Andrew Lang

    ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 4.99

    The book comprises of the folklores of France that have been compiled and translated by Andrew Lang. There are some poems by poets of nineteenth century that have also been made part of the collection. From one gem of literary beauty to next glorious poem, the book presents a rainbow of ideas that enraptures. more...

  • The Solitudesby Luis de Gongora; Edith Grossman

    Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 18.99

    An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one of the most acclaimed translators of our time. A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as "the Prince of Darkness." The Solitudes,... more...

  • The Divine Comedy, Volume 2: Purgatorioby Dante Alighieri; John D. Sinclair

    Oxford University Press, USA 1961; US$ 19.99

    An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries, appearing after each canto, which... more...

  • The Divine Comedy, Volume 3: Paradisoby Dante Alighieri; John D. Sinclair

    Oxford University Press, USA 1961; US$ 18.99

    An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries, appearing after each canto, which... more...

  • The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century German Poemsby Michael Hofmann

    Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 14.57

    Rilke, Sachs, Brecht, Celan: German has produced some of the giants of 20th century European poetry. In this new selection, complete with many new translations, Michael Hofmann guides us through the poems, poets and themes of German verse. Meticulously researched but eminently approachable, The Faber Book of Twentieth Century German Poems is an essential... more...

  • Infernoby Dante Alighieri; Steve Ellis; Steve Ellis

    Random House 2011; US$ 12.00

    Welcome to Hell. One evening, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan, where Dante witnesses the strange and gruesome sufferings of the damned. Written while Dante was in exile and under threat of being burned... more...

  • Across the Land and the Waterby W.G. Sebald; Iain Galbraith

    Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 14.00

    ?A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre.??Teju Cole, The New Yorker   German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that put its author in the company of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges. Now comes the first major collection of this... more...

  • Yevtushenko: Selected Poemsby Yevgeny Yevtushenko; Peter Levi; Robin Milner-Gulland

    Penguin Books Ltd 2008; Not Available

    This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. ?Zima Junction? vividly describes his idyllic childhood in Siberia and his impressions of home after a long absence in Moscow.... more...

  • The Odysseyby Robert Fitzgerald; Homer

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998; US$ 14.99

    Robert Fitzgerald's is the best and best-loved modern translation of The Odyssey, and the only one admired in its own right as a great poem in English.  Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited to the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War.  Homer's tale of love, adventure, food and drink, sensual pleasure,... more...