An Introduction to English Poetry

Reducere. Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe's verse in this complete poetry collection. Although best known for ...

Reducere. "Outside of her remarkable poems, we know next to nothing about Yu Xuanji, " David Young writes. "She was born in 844 and died in 868, at the age o...

Reducere. In this Anglo-Saxon epic, the hero Beowulf fights horrifying, ghastly monsters in his bid to save the hall of Hrothgar, King of the Danes. Composed...

Reducere. Edith Södergran's vital, compelling and very personal poems have been translated into many languages, and several times into English. Written for t...

Reducere. The new winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, granted by the National Poetry Series, is the author's impressionistic homage to his hometown of Colima...

Reducere. Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, the great twentieth-century Russian poet, was once thought to be buried forever in secret files and condemned to oblivio...

Poetry. Published in Baghdad in 2006, Falcon with Sun Overhead and The Age of Entertainment inspired a new generation of Iraqi poets, charmed by Ra...

Reducere. This second volume in the Russian Through Propaganda series provides a second semester's worth of intensive college-level Russian language learning...

Reducere. This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and...

This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different ...

This text communicates a user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. Side-stepping the jargon that often runs through discussion...

Reducere. Hilda Raz has an ability "to tell something every day and make it tough, " says John Kinsella in his introduction. Letter from a Place I've Never B...

One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and di...

Reducere. El Zarape Press presents its first collection of poetry by the eclectic Daniel Garc a Ordaz, The Poet Mariachi, "the voice of the Rio Grande Valley...

Reducere. In recent years, the ghazal (pronounced "ghuzzle"), a traditional Arabic form of poetry, has become popular among contemporary English language poe...

National Jewish Book AwardHebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish po...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the second of a projected six-volume series called Reading the Bible as Literature (the first volume being How Bible Stories Wor...

Michael Ferber's accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language tackles a wide range of subjects from a linguistic point of view. Wri...

Reducere. This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single vo...

Reducere. Haiku Master Buson is the only translation of the work of this important haiku poet in English. Buson (1716-1783), along with Basho and Issa, is re...

An introduction to Zen chanting practice, with new accurate and chantable translations of the texts used in Zen centers and monasteries throughout ...

Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome this bilingual anthology edited especially for their needs. Ranging from the fou...

The Sufis are as diverse as the countries in which they've flourished--from Morocco to India to China--and as varied as their distinctive forms of ...

Reducere. Miller Williams' Patterns of Poetry is an encyclopedia of the forms used by poets throughout the history of English, from blank verse to hymnal mea...

Reducere. "Laughter is the language of the soul, " Pablo Neruda said. Among the most lasting voices of the most tumultuous (in his own words, "the saddest") ...

DescriptionFollowing the editors' introduction to the collection, the essays in Scholarly Milton examine the nature of Milton's own formidable scho...

Reducere. Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the German by David Young. Cover art by the author's wife, Gisele Celan-Lestrange. "Celan's English lang...

Alda Merini is one of Italy's most important, and most beloved, living poets. She has won many of the major national literary prizes and has twice ...

Reducere. Spain's great lyric poet, Gustavo Adolfo B cquer (1836-1870), is famed both for his poetry and his fiction. B cquer's celebrated Rhymes consists of...

This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: ...

Reducere. DescriptionPeter Jones provides a line-by-line commentary on Homer's Odyssey that explains the factual details, mythological allusions, and Homeric...

DescriptionRed Hearts and Roses? paints a vivid picture of Saint Valentine, known in Wales as Sant Ffolant. This book focuses on the Welsh poetry w...

Reducere. Description"What is poetry? Poetry is art made with words. The rest of this book is about what that means."Speak Like Rain goes through the artisti...

Reducere. The Complete Poetry of Aim C saire gathers all of Cesaire's celebrated verse into one bilingual edition. The French portion is comprised of newly e...

Reducere. Guyon's theology and spiritual writing opened new doors to people from all walks of life who yearned for spiritual joy and wisdom. These new transl...

The poems in this anthology represent a panorama of the main trends in the development of the poetry of the German-speaking people. Beginning with ...

Considered the most inovative study of Chinese poetry ever written, Francois Cheng's Chinese Poetic Writing--now in its first expanded, English-lan...

DescriptionThis is a companion to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016), the largest ever collection of its kind. The mon...

Reducere. Poetry. Edited by Gian Lombardo. For the first time ever, this volume collects together all of Harry Crosby's published prose poems, including the ...

DescriptionThis bilingual board book by acclaimed authors Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy presents popular and beloved lullabies from all over t...

DescriptionThis book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It cover...

A definitive new collection of Oscar Wilde's best prison letters and poetry, with an introduction by Colm Toibin Bankrupt and with his reputation i...

In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume...

James Fenton's "An Introduction to English Poetry" offers a master class for both the reader and writer of poetry. Simply and elegantly written and...

The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backg...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adelia PradoThis is the first book published in English by of the work of Brazilian poet Adelia Prado. Incorporating poems ...

In 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or "rubáiyát") of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayyám. If not a tr...

Reducere. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus,...

English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence Nearly all the famous pieces de resistance will b...

A favorite of Tibetans and recommended by the Dalai Lama and other senior Buddhist teachers, this practical guide to inner transformation introduce...

Reducere. Muriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to create social change through language. She earned an international reputation as a...

Reducere. An extraordinary new verse translation of Dante's masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen Of the great poets, Dante is ...

The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) recorded his moral philosophy and reflections on life as a highly original kind of corresp...

Reducere. One of the most important Latin-American writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Nicaraguan poet and essayist Ruben Dario (th...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self ...

Reducere. This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart - the poems in Persian and English on facing pages - is a unique and captivating collection in...

Reducere. DescriptionPoetry. Latinx Studies. Edited and translated by Urayo n Noel. "This book is an event, a monumental work of translation and poetry that ...

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