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The Divine Comedy
Penguin Group US 2003; US$ 20.00Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy , is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise?the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation. 10 illustrations @HolyHaha I have to climb a mountain... more...
A Year with Rilke
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 17.99One of the most beloved poets of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke is widely celebrated for his depth of insight and timeless relevance. He has influenced generations of writers with his classic Letters to a Young Poet , and his reflections on the divine and our place in the world are disarmingly profound. A Year with Rilke provides the... more...
Selected Poems of Garcilaso de la Vega
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 31.00Garcilaso de la Vega (ca. 1501–36), a Castilian nobleman and soldier at the court of Charles V, lived a short but glamorous life. As the first poet to make the Italian Renaissance lyric style at home in Spanish, he is credited with beginning the golden age of Spanish poetry. Known for his sonnets and pastorals, gracefully depicting beauty... more...
The Complete Poems
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 30.00Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) is one of the finest female poets ever to write in Italian. Although she was lauded for her singing during her lifetime, her success and critical reputation as a poet emerged only after her verse was republished in the early eighteenth century. Her poetry runs the gamut of human emotion, ranging from ecstasy over a consummated... more...
The Love Aesthetics of Maurice Scève
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 42.00This book reassesses the love poetry of Maurice Scève from a phenomenological viewpoint. more...
The Appreciation of Modern French Poetry (18501950)
Cambridge University Press 1976; US$ 35.00Biographies of poets are often rich in human interest; manuals of literary history can be full of broad insight and suggestive parallels. But it is all too easy to let the study of French poetry drift towards lives, loves and -isms and away from the appreciation of its supremely creative use of language. Born of the belief that the proper study of... more...
Edouard Glissant
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 30.00First full-length study of influential novelist, poet and theorist of Caribbean and post-colonial literature. more...
The Art of Recognition in Wolfram's 'Parzival'
Cambridge University Press 1982; US$ 46.00Discusses when recognition or non-recognition plays a part in the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach. more...
A Question of Syllables
Cambridge University Press 1986; US$ 42.00Dr Scott examines the intimate life of words in verse, with all their fluctuations of meaning, mood and tone. more...
Songs Without Names Vol. VII-XII
World Wisdom 2010; US$ 9.99During the last three years of his life Frithjof Schuon wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express every conceivable subtlety of spiritual and moral counsel, and the same sharpness of intellect, profundity, comprehensiveness, and compassion which one finds in Schuon?s other writings. more...









