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Puerilities
Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology
Häftad, 2001
372 kr
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Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms Puerilities, comprise most of the twelfth book of The Greek Anthology. That book, the so-called Musa Puerilis, is brilliantly translated in this, the first complete verse version in English. It is a delightful eroticopia of …
Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts
Seventy Poems by Wislawa Szymborska - Bilingual Edition
Av Wislawa Szymborska, Magnus J. Krynski m. fl.
Häftad, 1981
302 kr
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Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is, in the translators' words, "that rarest of phenomena: a serious poet who commands a …
Translator of Desires
Poems
Häftad, 2021
253 kr
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A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translationThe Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi (1165–1240 CE), one of the most influential writers of classical Arabic and Islamic civilization. In this …
Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius
Av Propertius
Häftad, 2004
372 kr
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The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy, a technical as much as a psychological and cultural feat. Propertius has been admired for both his metrical genius and the modernity of his narrative flow. Many of the poems here pay tribute to Cynthia, …
Poems Under Saturn
Poèmes saturniens
Häftad, 2011
317 kr
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Poems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century writers. This new translation, by respected contemporary poet …
Greener Meadow
Selected Poems
Av Luciano Erba
Häftad, 2006
184 kr
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Luciano Erba's poems discover in the details of everyday life--a cream-colored tie, an old book, a swallow--access to far-reaching mysteries, including the fact of our being here at all. One of Italy's most important contemporary poets, Erba is approachable yet complex, distinctively and artfully …
C. P. Cavafy
Collected Poems, Revised Edition
Av C. P. Cavafy, George Savidis
Häftad, 2024
194 kr
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The acclaimed translation of the most important modern Greek poetC. P. Cavafy (1863–1933) is the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard’s celebrated English …
Dante's Rime
Inbunden, 2016
2186 kr
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Spanning the years from the early 1280s until about 1308, this collection of poems contains Dante's juvenilia as well as his more mature work prior to the Divine Comedy. Patrick Diehl's translation offers in a single volume the bulk of Dante's shorter poetry. The collection, omitting only those …
Hymns and Fragments
Häftad, 1984
372 kr
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The description for this book, Hymns and Fragments, will be forthcoming.
Complete Odes and Satires of Horace
Häftad, 1999
372 kr
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Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest strata of Italian …
Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid
Häftad, 1996
480 kr
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The first major poet of the Hebrew literary renaissance of Moslem Spain, Shmuel Ben Yosef Ha-Levi HaNagid (993-1056 c.e.) was also the Prime Minister of the Muslim state of Granada, battlefield commander of the non-Jewish Granadan army, and one of the leading religious figures in a medieval Jewish …
Late Poems of Meng Chiao
Av Meng Chiao
Häftad, 1997
322 kr
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Late in life, Meng Chiao (A.D. 751--814) developed an experimental poetry of virtuosic beauty, a poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a millennium. With the T'ang Dynasty crumbling, Meng's later work employed surrealist and symbolist techniques as it …
Survivors and Other Poems
Av Tadeusz Rozewicz, Robert A. Maguire m. fl.
Häftad, 1977
499 kr
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The description for this book, The Survivors and Other Poems, will be forthcoming.
Brocade River Poems
Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan
Av Xue Tao
Häftad, 1987
332 kr
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Xue Tao (A.D. 768-831) was well known as a poet in an age when all men of learning were poets--and almost all women were illiterate. As an entertainer and official government hostess, she met, and impressed, many of the most talented and powerful figures of her day. As a maker of beautiful paper …
Leopardi
Selected Poems
Häftad, 1997
332 kr
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These translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798--1837) render into modern English verse the work of a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary tradition. In spite of this reputation, and in spite of a number of nineteenth-and twentieth-century …
Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Häftad, 2001
421 kr
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Poet, philosopher, and sensitive misanthrope, a spectacular fly in the ointment of the refined eleventh-century Andalusian-Jewish elite, Solomon Ibn Gabirol comes down to us as one of the most complicated intellectual figures in the history of post-biblical Judaism. Unlike his worldly predecessor …
Night Journey
Häftad, 2002
332 kr
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One of South America's most celebrated contemporary poets takes us on a fantastic voyage to mysterious lands and seas, into the psyche, and to the heart of the poem itself. Night Journey is the English-language debut of the work that won Maria Negroni an Argentine National Book Award. It is a book …
Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out
Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Terán
Häftad, 2002
332 kr
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Ana Enriqueta Teran is arguably Venezuela's finest poet. Celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, she is almost unknown among anglophones. Until now only a handful of her poems have been translated into English, giving at best a diluted impression of a uniquely intense imagination. This …
Nothing is Lost
Selected Poems
Häftad, 2004
391 kr
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This is the first comprehensive English-language collection of verse by the most celebrated Slovenian poet of modern times and one of Europe's most notable postwar poets, Edvard Kocbek (1904-1981). The selections introduce the reader to the full spectrum of Kocbek's long and distinguished career, …
Dream of the Poem
Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
Häftad, 2007
372 kr
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Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary sensuality and …
Enough to Say It's Far
Selected Poems of Pak Chaesam
Av Chaesam Pak
Häftad, 2006
155 kr
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This is the first English translation of selected poems by one of the most important and unusual modern poets of South Korea. In contrast to the strident political protests found in the poetry of many of his contemporaries, Pak Chaesam's work is characterized by intimate portraits of place, nature, …
In Hora Mortis / Under the Iron of the Moon
Poems
Häftad, 2006
544 kr
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Internationally acclaimed Austrian novelist, playwright, and memoirist Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) has been compared to Kafka and Beckett, and critics have ranked his novels among the masterpieces of the twentieth century. But in fact he began his career in the 1950s as a poet, publishing three …
Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões
Häftad, 2008
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296 kr
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Luis de Camoes is world famous as the author of the great Renaissance epic The Lusiads, but his large and equally great body of lyric poetry is still almost completely unknown outside his native Portugal. In The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes, the award-winning translator of The Lusiads …
Cantigas
Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems
Häftad, 2022
204 kr
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A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and SpainThe rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century. …
After Callimachus
Poems
Inbunden, 2020
253 kr
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Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Greeks and Romans, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, …
Translator of Desires
Poems
Inbunden, 2021
843 kr
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A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translationThe Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi (1165–1240 CE), one of the most influential writers of classical Arabic and Islamic civilization. In this …
Final Matters
Selected Poems, 2004-2010
Inbunden, 2019
647 kr
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An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilárd Borbély, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from post-Communist Hungary, received numerous literary awards in his native country. In this volume, …
Final Matters
Selected Poems, 2004-2010
Häftad, 2019
243 kr
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An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilárd Borbély, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from post-Communist Hungary, received numerous literary awards in his native country. In this volume, …
Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli
Inbunden, 2019
647 kr
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The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetryGiovanni Pascoli (1855–1912)—the founder of modern Italian poetry and one of Italy's most beloved poets—has been compared to Robert Frost for his evocation of natural speech, his bucolic settings, and the way he …
Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli
Häftad, 2019
204 kr
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The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetryGiovanni Pascoli (1855–1912)—the founder of modern Italian poetry and one of Italy's most beloved poets—has been compared to Robert Frost for his evocation of natural speech, his bucolic settings, and the way he …
