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For centuries, poets have looked into the mirror of classical myth to show us the many ways our emotional lives are still reflected in the ancient stories of heroism, hubris, transformation, and loss that myths so eloquently tell. Now, in Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-03-22
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This vibrant collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma. These poems--many of which are presented here for the first time in English translation--were written from the early eighteenth century up to the contemporary...
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Oxford University Press
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2001-03-01
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First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation.
At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa...
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OUP Oxford
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2001-02-15
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`I sing of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds.' So begins Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532), the culmination of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France. It is a brilliantly witty parody of the...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-02-11
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Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-07-02
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The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often paradoxical and always...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-05-07
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`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died'
Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of Troilus and Criseyde...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1998-04-02
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`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died'
Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of Troilus and Criseyde...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1998-04-02
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This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor. Remarkably true to both the letter and spirit of this central...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-03-06
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Most readers of contemporary poetry would agree with literary critic Helen Vendler that "there is no significant poet whose work does not mirror, both formally and in its preoccupations, the absence of the transcendent"--that no major modern poet writes religious...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-12-12
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For generations, poets have turned to the Bible for insight and inspiration. What did so many creative minds find in scripture? Is the Bible still a vital source of poetic inspirations?
Chapters Into Verse is the first comprehensive collection ever made of poems...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-05-06
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An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1961-12-31
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An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1961-12-31
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First published in 1912, Songs of Jamaica is the debut poetry collection of Claude McKay—one of the most influential voices of the Harlem Renaissance. Written in both Standard English and Jamaican Creole, the poems capture the rhythms, landscapes, and everyday lives of...
Editeur :
Yekri
Parution :
2025-09-22
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Obsidian Classics
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Narrative poem, a huge success at the time of its publication, and the inspiration for the 1944 movie The White Cliffs of Dover. The White Cliffs is a novel in verse, the story of an American girl who falls in love with an Englishman in the era of World War I. The...
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2025-09-12
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Notes from the Ward is Steffi Tad-y's new collection of poetry exploring bipolar disorder and psychotic break through lived experience and a poet's eye. It is breathtakingly truthful and disarmingly direct, a powerful intervention into a diagnosis that remains more...
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Gordon Hill Press
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2025-09-01
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In this impressive new collection of poetry, Susan McCaslin explores the meaning and significance of identity and all that can be found in a name, or lack thereof. Mixing the personal with the societal, McCaslin weaves together the ancient past and the complicated...
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Inanna Publications
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2025-08-25
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These insightful poems invite the reader to reflect on the bond of animal and human life- both the shadows that trouble it and the hope that emerges in its presence. It begins with explorations of the natural world, moving into the equally natural place of human loss...
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Inanna Publications
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2025-08-15
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Maurice Bandaman prize for best poetic creation.
Safaola, it’s that voice that resonates in each one of us. It’s the mixture of images from here and elsewhere, of bygone eras and unconfessed hopes. It’s an invitation to go on a voyage. Safaola, it’s an ode to love, an...
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Éditions TNT
Parution :
2025-08-14
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