Pearl: A New Verse Translation, Paperback

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

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

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. 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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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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...

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...

The classic tale of Odysseus's return home in a stunning new translation.

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...

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 ...

DescriptionPoetry - Ancient Literature These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to ...

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 ...

A fresh English translation laid out facing the original Sanskrit for easy reference and accompanied by a wealth of essential ancillary materials t...

Reducere. In book three of the Tales of Sasha series, Sasha makes friends with one of the flying horses, but will she forget about her better-than-best frien...

On the battlefield of life, desiring to do our best, how should we act? Which values should we live by? What metaphysical outlook best explains wha...

Reducere. A reissue of Plato's work on political philosophy, this new translation aims to provide an accurate rendition of the work.

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, ...

This new translation of Anton Chekhov's classic The Seagull restores what most English-language versions of the play omit - Humor. Considered a wor...

Sophocles' Antigone: A New Translation - Diane J. Rayor

DescriptionThe Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A barbarian ...

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...

A beautiful and evocative collection of poems to guide you through fifteen centuries of Celtic mythologies, traditions and histories.Publisher: Wat...

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

A fresh translation of Vergil's Aeneid by a renowned classicist and scholar of Latin literature.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): VergilTransl...

Reducere. This new edition of the Qur'an is specifically designed to meet the needs of students of religion, and provides them with a one-volume resource com...

Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature...

Reducere. In these glimmering and lyrical translations, with an introduction and scholarly endnotes cowritten with Willis Barnstone, Aliki Barnstone has been...

One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride an...

Reducere. One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between indiv...

Reducere. The Life of Milarepa is the most beloved story of the Tibetan people amd one of the greatest source books for the contemplative life in all world l...

Reducere. Description"Divinely Praising Upon the Pearl of Creation" is a distinguished collection of supplications and praisings upon the Prophet Muhammad (p...

A NEW TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL MORPURGO, AUTHOR OF WAR HORSEMeet the Little Prince, a young fellow who hails from a tiny, distant planet. The friend ...

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