Beowulf: An Updated Verse Translation, Paperback - Frederick Rebsamen

Reducere. A verse translation of the first great narrative poem in the English language that captures the feeling and tone of the original.

Reducere. A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate.Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beow...

"Alexander's translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful and] ...communicates the poem with a care ...

Reducere. "Hear the song of spear-Danes from sunken years, Kings had courage then, the kings of all tribes, We have heard their heroics, we hold them in memo...

Reducere. Aristophanes, a native Athenian and the leading exponent of Greek comedy, was born c. 450 BCE. Today forty-three of his plays are known by title; e...

Reducere. "Were Merwin not one of America's most admired poets, he would still be as famous as translators get." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"In the ...

Reducere. A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife Brash and belligerent, lunatic and envigorating, ...

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Publisher: Barbican PressAuthor(s): Francesco PetrarchTranslator: Peter ThorntonNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2023Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 2...

This collection of Dante Alighieri's "Canzoniere", translated for the first time in its entirety into English, charts his poetic evolution and disp...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thelma SargentNow Thelma Sargent has rendered these works into a lucid and beautiful English verse. Accompanying the transl...

DescriptionThis enthralling new translation of Dante's Inferno "immediately joins ranks with the very best" (Richard Lansing). One of the world's t...

R.M. Liuzza's translation of Beowulf, first published by Broadview in 1999, has been widely praised for its accuracy and beauty. The facing-page tr...

Reducere. Parmenides and Empedocles, along with Heraclitus the most important of the pre-Socratic philosophers, were at the same time among the greatest poet...

Reducere. One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who r...

Reducere. First appearing around 1400, The Death of King Arthur is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems penned in Middle Engli...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Larry D. BensonForeword by: Daniel DonoghueWith a foreword by Daniel Donoghue, the close verse translation of Sir Gawain an...

Reducere. The appearance of David R. Slavitt's translation of Orlando Furioso ("Mad Orlando"), one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissa...

Reducere. Award NameIndieFab awardsAward categoryTranslationJ. R. R. Tolkien, author of LORD OF THE RINGS and THE HOBBIT, in his famous 1936 lecture, BEOWULF...

The Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf tells the story of the hero's slaying of three fabulous monsters, set against the historical background of sixth-centu...

Reducere. Unlike every known translator before him, Michael Palma re-creates Dante's masterpiece in all its dimensions, without emphasizing some aspects over...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Geoffrey ChaucerTranslator: Simon WebbChaucer's 'Parliament of Fowls' is a story about love, lust, honour, nature . . . and...

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Reducere. Bearslayer; A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse, has been considered important throughout the human history, and...

Publisher: Mantra LinguaIllustration(s): illustrationsNumber of pages: 32Collection: Myths and Legends from Around the WorldPublication date: 2003D...

Reducere. An American Slave: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave Frederic...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fi...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Mathew (Caterham School, UK) OwenNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 217 x 138 x 1...

An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials The preeminent American slave narrative first publ...

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave - Frederick Douglass

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Publisher: Mantra LinguaAuthor(s): Henriette BarkowIllustration(s): illustrationsNumber of pages: 32Collection: Myths & Legends from Around the Wor...

Reducere. Beowulf is one of the most important works of Old English literature. This epic poem is believed to have been composed between 700 and 750, its aut...

Reducere. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglas...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave By Frederick Douglass

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Douglass Frederick DouglassAuthor: Frederick DouglassAuthor: Douglass begins by saying that he does not know his birthday a...

Frederick Douglass was a key figure in helping to secure the abolition of slavery in America - discover his Narrative this Black History Month. A p...

Reducere. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas an American Slave By Frederick Douglas

Douglass's memoir, first published in 1845, is the moving narrative of twenty-one years of enslavement and escape to freedom. In a new introduction...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frederick DouglassDouglass' powerful account of his journey from slave, by way of determined self education, to being one o...

Examinations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance for Anglo-Saxon culture in general.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s):...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass's autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, is widely regarded as a classic of American nin...

DescriptionUnabridged version with 110 illustrations and updated translation by F. P. Walter.A beautiful edition with 110 images from the 1875 Engl...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, h...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, h...

Reducere. Book 4 in the Kid Beowulf series.In this action-packed graphic novel, twin brothers, Beowulf and Grendel, are lost in ancient Italy and forced to f...

Reducere. Here in one omnibus edition are all three of Frederick Douglass' landmark autobiographies. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of th...

With essays by Eileen A. Joy, Mary K. Ramsey, Edward Said, Claire Sponsler, Nicholas Howe, Allen J. Frantzen, John D. Niles, John Moreland, Alfred ...