Poetry : Ancient, Classical & Medieval

A PEN CENTER USA 2006 Literary Award Finalist. Long a master of the crafts of Homeric translation and of rhapsodic performance, Stanley Lombardo now turns to the quintessential epic of Roman antiquity, a work with deep roots in the Homeric tradition. With characteristic virtuosity, he delivers a rendering of the Aeneid as compelling as his groundbreaking translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey , yet one that—like the Aeneid itself—conveys a unique epic sensibility and a haunting artistry all its own. more...

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This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo’s translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages. more...

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Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than other translators, a four-beat rhythm well-established in the English poetic tradition up to Chaucer's time. Glaser's shortened lines make compelling reading and mirror the elegance and variety of Chaucer's verse to a degree rarely met by translations that copy Chaucer beat for beat. Moreover, this translation's full, Chaucerian range of diction—from earthy to Latinate—conveys the great scope of Chaucer's interests and effects. more...

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This is an electronic edition of the complete poems complemented by Ovid biography. Table of Contents. Amores ("The Loves"), five books, published 10 BC and revised into three books ca. 1 AD. ("Transformations"), 15 books. Published ca. AD 8. Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love"), three books. First two books published 2 BC, the third somewhat later. Remedia Amoris ("Remedy of Love"), 1 book. Published 5 BC. Medicamina Faciei Feminae ("Women''s Facial Cosmetics"), also known as The Art of Beauty, 100 lines surviving. Published ca. 5 BC. The Court of Love by Chaucer. The History of Love by Charles Hopkins. Appendix:. Ovid Biography. About and Navigation. more...

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A collection of essays on Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, The Art of Love and Cures for Love, written by leading scholars and offering a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics of the poems. - ;The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2. Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love), which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good lovers, were partly responsible for the poet's exile from Rome under the emperor Augustus. None the less they exerted great. influence over ancient and later love poetry. This is the first collection in English devoted to the poems, and brings together many of the leading figures in the field of Latin literature and Ovidian studies from the British Isles, Germany, Italy, and the United States. It offers a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics. of the poems, beginning with a critical survey of recent research, and concluding with papers on the ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the poems. - more...

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