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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Reducere. The appearance of David R. Slavitt's translation of Orlando Furioso ("Mad Orlando"), one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissa...
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Reducere. Unlike every known translator before him, Michael Palma re-creates Dante's masterpiece in all its dimensions, without emphasizing some aspects over...
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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...
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Reducere. Poetry. SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT by the anonymous Gawain-Poet (or Pearl-Poet) is, like Beowulf, one of the greatest classics of English lite...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thelma SargentNow Thelma Sargent has rendered these works into a lucid and beautiful English verse. Accompanying the transl...
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Reducere. Parmenides and Empedocles, along with Heraclitus the most important of the pre-Socratic philosophers, were at the same time among the greatest poet...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Larry D. BensonForeword by: Daniel DonoghueWith a foreword by Daniel Donoghue, the close verse translation of Sir Gawain an...
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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. "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. Bearslayer; A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse, has been considered important throughout the human history, and...
Reducere. Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Antigone is one of the seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now avai...
Reducere. Ovid's epic poem whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration ...
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Reducere. A new translation, with an Introduction, by Gregory Hays Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121-180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome ...
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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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Reducere. "Calibrating his work with the research of other Gospel of Philip experts like Andrew Phillip Smith and Jean-Yves Leloup, Brantingham provides an e...
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Reducere. This volume presents the Greek text of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, as edited by F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart, with a parallel verse translation by Ia...
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