Parmenides and Empedocles: The Fragments in Verse Translation, Paperback - ***

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

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The bilingual InVerse anthology collects the work of seventeen contemporary Italian poets. This is the eighth edition of the anthology, which provi...

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...

"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. 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. 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...

Reducere. Behind the superficial obscurity of what fragments we have of Heraclitus' thought, Professor Kahn claims that it is possible to detect a systematic...

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...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

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Over nearly fifty years, the author has built up an extensive collection of memorabilia from the First and Second World Wars. This book looks at se...

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

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

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...

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

A novelPublisher: The Conrad PressAuthor(s): Kit MasonPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 196 x 43Cover type: Paperback / softback

Analyses key aspects of ancient Greek philosophy in their original context of mystery religion, and magic. The author brings to light evidence unco...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Michael (Dublin City University, Ireland) CroninNumber of pages: 178Collection: New Perspectives in Trans...

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Provides a view of Jewish experiences through history, literature, painting, anthropology, poetry, sociology, and politics. This title explores and...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Karl Sir PopperIllustration(s): 18 Line drawings, black and whiteNumber of pages: 300Collection: Routledg...

Reducere. With PARMENIDES began what is called, in more specific terms, true Philosophy. The Eleatic, and his Poem, constitute a "beacon" whose light illumin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin HeideggerTranslator: Andre SchuwerTranslator: Richard RojcewiczParmenides, a lecture course delivered by Martin Heid...

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A memoir that evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of t...

The awe with which Plato regarded the character of 'the great' Parmenides has extended to the dialogue which he calls by his name. None of the writ...

Objects found on the banks of the Thames tell the stories of Londoners through the centuries.

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Engages with one of the oldest philosophical problems-the relationship between thought and being-and offers a fresh perspective with which to appro...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Yoko (The University of California Berkeley, USA) HasegawaIllustration(s): 2 Illustrations, black and whi...

An advanced resource for a rapidly evolving research field, aimed at students and academics of translation studies and related fields such as appli...

Reducere. Volume 35 of Heidegger's Complete Works comprises a lecture course given at the University of Freiburg in 1932, five years after the publication of...

The practice of mudlarking, searching the Thames foreshore for fragments of historical significance such as pieces of Roman tile or Georgian potter...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: HeraclitusTranslator: G. T. W. PatrickHeraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived a lonely life ea...

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Reducere. Steer away from awkward, embarrassing Chinese-English translation, word by word, expression by expression, and situation by situation, with this ha...

Reducere. For centuries, Stoicism was virtually the unofficial religion of the Roman world Yet the stress on endurance, self--restraint and power of the will...

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