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By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9780691019093
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides the English-speaking reader with what he needs to read and understand the Purgatorio. This volume consists of the prose translation of Giorgio Petrocchi's Italian text (which faces the translation on each page).
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By: Peter Cole
ISBN: 9780691121956
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies a faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time.
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By: Homer
ISBN: 9780872209008
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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An abridgement of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the "Odyssey", this book offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages.
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By: Jerome Mazzaro
ISBN: 9780691614892
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Jerome Mazzaro examines Dante's Vita Nuova as an artistic correlative to what Dante conceived as an image of himself. Specifically, he explores the structure of the work in relation to medieval views of memory, self, music, form, and interpretation, and against the facts of Dante's life and culture as we have come to know them. Originally publishe
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By: Roland Greene
ISBN: 9780691154916
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Suitable for students, scholars, and poets on various aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more, this book reflects changes in literary and cultural studies, providing coverage and giving greater attention to the international aspects of poetry.
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By: Michael Sells
ISBN: 9780691181349
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"A complete facing-page translation of the Tarjuman, which consists of sixty-one poems composed between 1202 and 1215 CE and published in 1215 at the earliest. The first word of the title can refer to a translator, interpreter, or biographer, on the one hand, and to a translation, interpretation, or biography on the other"--
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By: Srikanth Reddy
ISBN: 9798891060067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Wave Books
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By: Isabel Allende
ISBN: 9781877727382
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: White Pine Press
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"Flowing effortlessly from the erotic to the political...Agosin has chosen poems that delight and inspire." --Ms. Magazine
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By: Subhaga Crystal Bacon
ISBN: 9781950774968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
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By: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9780486401461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2000
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2000
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
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Amusing, thought-provoking epigrams, aphorisms, and other jests from the plays, essays, and lively conversation of Oscar Wilde offer a feast of humorous and profound quips. Nearly 400 quotes.
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By: Germaine Greer
ISBN: 9780349018720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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By: David Trinidad
ISBN: 9781933368184
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2007
Publisher: Counterpoint
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Presenting collaborative poetry collections, this anthology features poems by as many as 18 people in an array of forms: villanelles to ghazals, sonnets to somonkas, pantoums to haiku, even quizzes, questionnaires and other nonliterary forms. Collaborators' notes accompany many of the poems, giving a glimpse into the creative process.
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By: Chris Laoutaris
ISBN: 9780008238414
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed
FINANCIAL TIMES
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By: Clive James
ISBN: 9781529028850
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Renowned critic, bestselling author and award-winning poet Clive James offers an exploration and celebration of one of his favourite writers, Philip Larkin.
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By: Robert Hass
ISBN: 9781582435718
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2010
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: Ben Lerner
ISBN: 9781925355673
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Text Publishing
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By: DK
ISBN: 9780241566237
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 21st September 2023
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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By: Matthew Burgess
ISBN: 9781592701711
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2015
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
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ENORMOUS SMALLNESS tells the story of poet E.E.Cummings in language and images that are just as fresh as his own.
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By: David Cobb
ISBN: 9780714124018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2002
UK Publication Date: 11th November 2002
Publisher: British Museum Press
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This collection features 60 classic haiku by masters such as Basho, Kyoshi and Shiki, arranged by season and covering all the most popular subjects. The text features an introduction explaining the background to Japanese haiku and a short biographical note about each of the major poets.
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By: H. D.
ISBN: 9781644230237
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2019
Publisher: David Zwirner
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By: Ruth Padel
ISBN: 9780099429159
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2004
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2004
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Modern poetry is often represented as difficult or remote from most people's experience. This is a passionate attempt to introduce and examine all aspects of contemporary poetry and make it a familiar part of our lives.
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By: Roland Weidle
ISBN: 9781350382831
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Stanley Moss
ISBN: 9781583224854
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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By: Paul Auster
ISBN: 9781609807771
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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A fascinating discussion with one of America's greatest living writers about language, literature, and life.
