The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology, Paperback - Faubion Bowers

A highly distilled form of Japanese poetry, haiku consist of 17 syllables, usually divided among three lines. This unique collection spans over 400...

Reducere. This definitive biography of Alexander Scriabin (1871 1915), newly revised and updated by the author, incorporates many confessional letters and pe...

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Moroccan Sephardic Romancero is an anthology of Sephardic Romances in the Moroccan tradition, based on four decades of research. Starting in the 19...

DescriptionThis unique anthology presents the important historical essays on tragedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historica...

Introduces classical Arabic philosophers through substantial selections from key works in each of the fields - including logic, philosophy of scien...

Reducere. An Introduction to Philosophy by Daniel J. Sullivan is intended for the general reader as well as for the student. Its primary purpose is to presen...

Reducere. A sterling collection of classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction evoking the unique spirit of the West and its people, selected and introdu...

DescriptionJourney back in time with this collection of classic travel writing from great authors and adventurers. These extraordinary odysseys ove...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncTranslator: Max L. GoldmanNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 155 x 228 x 23Cover type: Pape...

Reducere. With this groundbreaking collection, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to...

This collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time - film and television - have engaged with the golden age as formulat...

This first anthology of 'Apocalyptic' or neo-romantic poetry since the nineteen-forties includes over 150 poets, many well known (Dylan Thomas, W.S...

Publisher: Oxford University PressNumber of pages: 480Collection: Oxford World's ClassicsPublication date: 2009Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 23Cover type...

Contains complete texts of a wide range of Romantic works, including Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience", "The Marriage of Heaven and He...

DescriptionTwenty curses, old and new, from bestselling fantasy authors such as Neil Gaiman, Karen Joy Fowler, Christina Henry, M.R. Carey and Char...

This anthology offers an introduction to New Russian Drama through plays that illustrate the versatility and global relevance of this exciting move...

Publisher: Broadview Press LtdNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 217 x 143 x 14Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): R.M. L...

Leading thinkers discuss the experience and repercussions of violence, exploring its varied manifestations in the world today

Reducere. The poetry of the Graveyard School - gloomy meditations on mortality, often composed in churchyards - was immensely popular in 18th-century England...

Presents an introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and others. This book traces t...

This pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century.Illustrations: 5 B/W illustrationsEditor(s): Be...

This new anthology provides seventeen key plays by twelve dramatists of the Restoration period in an anthology designed specifically for course use...

Publisher: Oxford University PressNumber of pages: 560Collection: Oxford World's ClassicsPublication date: 2008Dimensions: 182 x 127 x 32Cover type...

This title is also available in French. 80 powerful and moving poems from the First World War, including works by Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Sieg...

Reducere. Two classic tales of everyday heroes from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster Treat Her Right Gorgeous, statuesque fitness expert Wynn La...

Chandra Bozelko's Up the River Anthology projects many voices. But it is Bozelko's voice that harmonizes the discordant and disconcerting fragments...

Inclusive, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic, Kenyon shows that no matter how great the crisis, music has the power to bring us togetherPublisher: Ya...

DescriptionA rigorous, authoritative new anthology which brings together some of the most significant contemporary scholarship on the theory of kno...

Gathers the work of four of the 'first generation' of New York poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler. This anthology p...

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This anthology covers thirteen centuries of Christian poetry from the ancient Dream of the Rood to modern poems by T. S. Eliot and C. S. Lewis. I c...

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This new anthology of early modern philosophy enriches the possibilities for teaching this period by highlighting not only metaphysics and epistemo...

Reducere. Award NamePat Conroy Southern Book PrizeAward categoryPoetryFormer North Carolina Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers is celebrated with this impressi...

Reducere. Translations of twelve popular Arabic plays written and produced during the past thirty years introduce English readers to the vibrant theater scen...

Ethical Theory: An Anthology, 2nd Edition, is an authoritative collection of key essays by top scholars in the field, addressing core issues includ...

Now fully revised and updated, Bioethics: An Anthology, 3rd edition, contains a wealth of new material reflecting the latest developments. This def...