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  • The Aeneid of Virgilby Allen Mandelbaum; Virgil

    Bantam Books 2003; US$ 1.99

    Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well.  Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years.  Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express. The Aeneid is a book for all the time and all people. From the Paperback edition. more...

  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Worksby Alfred Lord Tennyson

    Packard Technologies 2004; US$ 9.95

    Includes the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson Includes easy-to-use search and navigation. Includes tap-and-go Table of Contents. Includes: BECKET AND OTHER PLAYSTHE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADECROSSING THE BARTHE EARLY POEMS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSONENOCH ARDEN AND OTHERSIDYLLS OF THE KINGLADY CLARETHE LAST TOURNAMENTTHE PRINCESSQUEEN MARY and HAROLD more...

  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2by David T. Dante Alighieri; Robert M. Durling; Ronald L. Martinez; Robert Turner

    Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 15.00

    Purgatorio' is the second of three volumes of a new edition and translation of Dante's masterpiece, 'The Divine Comedy'. Similar to volume I, 'The Inferno', this translation in English prose emphasizes the literal-vs-phonetic. A newly edited version of the Italian text is on facing pages and includes comprehensive notes. more...

  • Fire to Fireby Mark Doty

    HarperCollins 2008; US$ 10.99

    Mark Doty's Fire to Fire collects the best of Mark Doty's seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. Doty's subjects—our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the world, desire's transformative power, and art's ability to give shape to human lives—echo and develop across twenty years of poems. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought; here one of contemporary American poetry's most lauded, recognizable voices speaks to the crises and possibilities of our times. more...

  • Beowulfby Gummere

    The Floating Press 1910; US$ 4.99

    Beowulf 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 Grendel, Grendel's mother and an unnamed dragon. The epic was recently released as a blockbuster film starring Ray Winstone... more...

  • Collection of English Poetryby Various

    MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 9.99

    Collection of English Poetry: William Blake, Elizabeth B. Browning, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, John Keats, William Shakespeare, Percy B. Shelley, Lord Tennyson, William Wordsworth, W.B. Yeats.TABLE OF CONTENTS:William BlakeElizabeth Barrett BrowningRobert BrowningG. G. Lord ByronJohn KeatsHenry Wadsworth LongfellowWilliam ShakespearePercy Bysshe ShelleyAlfred Lord TennysonWilliam WordsworthW. B. YeatsAppendix:List of Works in Alphabetical OrderAuthors' Biographies more...

  • Beowulfby Anonymous

    MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99

    Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th to the early 11th century, and relates events described as having occurred in what is now Denmark and Sweden. Commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature, Beowulf has been the subject of much scholarly study, theory, speculation, discourse, and, at 3182 lines, has been noted for its length.In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, battles three antagonists: Grendel, who has been attacking the mead hall in Denmark called Heorot and its inhabitants; Grendel's mother; and, later in life after returning to Geatland (modern southern Sweden) and becoming a king, he fights an... more...

  • Of Indigo and Saffronby Michael McClure; Leslie Scalapino

    University of California Press 2010; US$ 24.95

    This essential collection of Michael McClure's poetry contains the most original, radical, and visionary work of a major poet who has been garnering acclaim and generating controversy for more than fifty years. Ranging from A Fist Full, published in 1957, through Swirls in Asphalt, a new poem sequence, Of Indigo and Saffron i s both an excellent introduction to this unique American voice and an impressive selection from McClure's landmark volumes for those already familiar with his boldly inventive work. One of the five poets who heralded the Beat movement in the 1955 Six Gallery reading in San Francisco, McClure reveals in his poetry a close kinship to Romanticism, Modernism, Surrealism, and Japanese haiku. These poems?grounded in imagination... more...

  • Poemsby William Blake; Patti Smith

    Random House 2010; US$ 11.00

    SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY PATTI SMITH William Blake is one of Britain's most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps. In this collection Patti Smith has collected together her personal selection of Blake's poems, including the complete poems from the famous Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience , to give a singular picture of this unique genius. more...

  • The Best American Poetry 2011by David Lehman; Kevin Young

    Simon & Schuster 2011; US$ 9.99

      The latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary world. more...