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Opus Posthumous and Other Poems
Häftad, 2021
286 kr
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As he enters his sixth decade of publishing poetry, David R. Slavitt remains a determined wildcatter who ranges as far as he thinks necessary to drill for meaning, wherever and however he can get it. In his new collection, Slavitt traverses Africa, India, Israel, and the America in which he finds …
The Book of the Twelve Prophets
Inbunden, 1999
830 kr
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This is a glittering new translation of the portion of the Hebrew Bible known as the Book of the Twelve Prophets, or the Twelve "Minor" Prophets. In the Bible, the books of the prophets are arranged in rough order of length. The present group of writings thus appears after the so-called "major" …
Book of the Twelve Prophets
E-bok, 1999
385 kr
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This is a glittering new translation of the portion of the Hebrew Bible known as the Book of the Twelve Prophets, or the Twelve "Minor" Prophets. In the Bible, the books of the prophets are arranged in rough order of length. The present group of writings thus appears after the so-called "major" …
Virgil
Häftad, 1991
445 kr
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Virgil is Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BC - 19 BC), classical Roman poet, author of Aeneid, Eclogues, and Georgics. Biographical and historical study includes analyses of his works and his profound influence on Medieval writers, including Dante.Slavitt provides new translations of Georgics and …
Plautus
The Darker Comedies. Bacchides, Casina, and Truculentus
Av Titus Maccius Plautus, David R. Slavitt m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
440 kr
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The plays translated in this volume represent everything one would not expect either from the third-century B.C. playwright Plautus or from Roman comedy in general. A common theme in all three comedies is the triumph of women over men. In Truculentus, prostitutes snare all of the men in the play; …
Seneca
The Tragedies
Häftad, 1995
476 kr
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Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if they do not occupy themselves with rewarding virtue and punishing wickedness? Seneca's plays might be dismissed as bombastic and extravagant answers to such questions-if so much of human history were not …
Plautus
The Comedies
Av Plautus, David R. Slavitt m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
495 kr
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"The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature." In these lively new translations, which effectively communicate the vitality and verve of the originals, the plays of Plautus are accessible to a new generation. Plays and translators: Volume 1: Amphitryon, …
Plautus
The Comedies
Av David R. Slavitt, T. Maccius Plautus m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
440 kr
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"The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature." Now Bovie and David Slavitt have brought together a distinguished group of translators for the final two volumes of a four-volume set containing all twenty-one surviving comedies of one of Western …
Equinox and Other Poems
Häftad, 1989
250 kr
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In his newest volume of verse, David R. Slavitt offers some of his finest poetry to date. Equinox is a collection of twenty-five poems on various subjects. They are occasional, the that most of them are the result of specific moments of experience, whether of an art work, as in ""Canaletto's …
Eight Longer Poems
Häftad, 1990
250 kr
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In this volume David R. Slavitt brings together eight poems that deal largely with the mind's relation to history, personal history, and the history of myth and of empires. In addressing these two seemingly independent modes of thinking and remembering, Slavitt reveals that they are in fact closely …
Crossroads
Poems
Häftad, 1994
250 kr
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In his twelfth book of original verse David R. Slavitt leads us to a crossroads where terror, loneliness, and despair are transfigured by love and art.Much of the collection centers on the poet's family history. In the title poem, Slavitt imagines the ""dour landscape"" of the Polish hamlet his …
Cliff
A Novel
Inbunden, 1994
395 kr
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John Smith is an imminent historian, secure in his well-paid position as an endowed professor at a major university. Any day he expects a favourable reply to his application for a residency at the Villa Sfrondata, a foundation-supported colony for artists and intellectuals on the banks of Italy's …
Gift
The Life of Da Ponte: a Poem
Häftad, 1996
250 kr
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Epic poem, biography, literary criticism, historical romance, in A Gift, David Slavitt presents the fascinating life of Mozart's librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte, one of history's great unknowns, a man blessed and cursed by his conviction that within him lay the capacity for literary greatness.Educated …
Epic and Epigram
Two Elizabethan Entertainments
Häftad, 1997
250 kr
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David R. Slavitt's affectionate translations of epigrams by sixteenth-century Welsh academic John Owen transmute a careful selection of the writer's work into a vision of life, and in so doing bring Owen into conversation with the present day. Pithy, quick, favouring balance and economy over …
PS3569.L3
Poems
Häftad, 1998
267 kr
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PS3569.L3, David R. Slavitt's sixtieth book, is a collection of poems, translations, imitations, parodies, jeux de mots, and jeux d'esprit, work that ranges from grief-stricken brooding to exuberant clowning around. The odd title, for instance, is nothing more or less than the author's Library of …
Short Stories Are not Real Life
Stories
Häftad, 1999
317 kr
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In these fourteen beautifully crafted stories David R. Slavitt shows his mastery of the form. Elegant, spare, sometimes funny, sometimes elegiac- this collection reflects a writer in admirable control of his craft.The title story (complete with footnotes á la The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction) …
Falling from Silence
Poems
Häftad, 2001
250 kr
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Falling from Silence is the seventy-third book by David Slavitt, the prolific poet, novelist, translator, and editor. His amazing rate of production has only amplified and reigned the power of his art. This is the work of an accomplished veteran, a craftsman who laments the limitations of what his …
Change of Address
Poems, New and Selected
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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A selection of recent work as well as the best from thirteen volumes of poetry published across four decades, Change of Address highlights the magnitude and scope of David Slavitt's poetic achievement. Meditating on both the quotidian and the sublime and ranging from brilliant satire to tender …
William Henry Harrison and Other Poems
Häftad, 2006
268 kr
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The prodigiously imaginative mind and penetrating wit of David R. Slavitt are on full display in his newest collection of poetry that is perhaps his most engaging to date. The title poem begins by fooling around- ""With three names like that, it sounds as though his mother is calling him and she's …
Seven Deadly Sins and Other Poems
Häftad, 2009
266 kr
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In The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Poems, veteran poet David R. Slavitt touches on topics from the mundane to the mysterious with his signature wit and intelligence. In Stupid, for instance, he transforms a simple head cold into an appreciation for the richness of consciousness, and in Waking, the …
Civil Wars
Poems
Häftad, 2013
268 kr
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Praise for David R. Slavitt""Slavitt's touch is light, and he writes beautifully.... His satire is sharp, and he can be wildly funny.""- New York Times Book Review""One of America's most lucid and classical poets.... Slavitt's attitude is, as one would expect of a Hebrew as well as Greco-Latin …
Octaves
Poems
Häftad, 2017
286 kr
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An accomplished poet and a keen observer of the human condition, David Slavitt deploys both skills to create the whimsical, insightful, and witty poems of The Octaves. In these graceful but often blunt, slyly humorous eight-line poems, Slavitt notes the passing of decades and the loss that entails, …
Death Benefits
A Century of Sonnets
Häftad, 2024
286 kr
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Death Benefits deepens and extends David R. Slavitt's sublime, lyric confrontation with mortality and does so in a plainspoken and marvelously entertaining, conversational way. His poetry encourages us to recognize our own predicaments, as we see ourselves reflected as fellow sufferers entrapped by …
Day Sailing
Häftad, 1969
482 kr
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This volume of poetry illustrates a new side of the author of The Carnivore and Suits for the Dead. The wit, the toughness, the shining lyric clarity of the earlier books are still here, but they have been joined by a quiet understanding, a joyfulness, and an acceptance of things as they are that …
Carnivore
Häftad, 2012
482 kr
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Directly or obliquely, while reading Gibbon or shopping for toys at F. A. O. Schwarz, Slavitt addresses, invokes, or simply enjoys the civilization that has been the poet's true subject from the time of the wandering bards. Upon the foundation of technical mastery, he has begun to build an oeuvre, …
Euripides, 1
Medea, Hecuba, Andromache, the Bacchae
Av David R. Slavitt, Palmer Bovie
Häftad, 1997
514 kr
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The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.This volume includes …
Aeschylus, 1
The Oresteia (Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides)
Häftad, 1997
384 kr
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The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.
Euripides, 2
Hippolytus, Suppliant Women, Helen, Electra, Cyclops
Häftad, 1997
514 kr
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The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.This volume includes …
Broken Columns
Two Roman Epic Fragments: "the Achilleid" of Publius Papinius Statius and "the Rape of Proserpine" of Claudius Claudianus
Häftad, 1997
317 kr
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There is more to classical literature than just the classics. Here David Slavitt expands the canon by presenting vivid, graceful, and amusing translations of two neglected fragmentary works of Latin literature. The first is Publius Papinius Statius's first-century epic Achilleid, an extraordinary …
Euripides, 3
Alcestis, Daughters of Troy, the Phoenician Women, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus
Av David R. Slavitt, Palmer Bovie
Häftad, 1998
514 kr
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The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.This volume includes …
