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Nol Coward was one of the most celebrated characters in british theatrical history, with a career that spanned almost sixty years. This volume brings together Coward's celebrated verse, from snappy epigrams to seven-hundred-line short stories.

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A comprehensive English-language collection of verse by the most celebrated Slovenian poet of modern times and one of Europe's most notable postwar poets, Edvard Kocbek (1904-1981). The selections introduce the reader to the Kocbek's long and distinguished career.

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The translation and notes for "Odes" is given by James Michie and introduction by Gregson Davis.

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Short poems of the master poet and mystic Rumi, by his English translator.

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A dazzling kaleidoscope of adventures, ogres, monsters, barbaric splendor, and romance, this epic poem stands as one of the greatest works of the Italian Renaissance.

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A translation of "Paradise", with illustrations by Gustove Dore.

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The poems in Rachel Hadas's new book are united by a common preoccupation with passage--passage variously construed. In Section I, the four seasons are glimpsed in turn through the lenses of several types of personal associations, especially parenthood. As spring gives way to fall and winter, separation looms; diverse kinds of temporary and permane

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Franceso Petrarch (1304-1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely read than even those of Dante. This title contains the English language versions of his poems from across six centuries.

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Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

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A representative collection of early and late lyrics, and the famed hymn, Sagesse.

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Collection of poetry containing a rich variety of styles.

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This volume of Alvin Feinman's poems presents a highly praised earlier work, Preambles and Other Poems, combined with more recent poems. Of Preambles Allen Tate wrote, "This is a remarkable first book...There is an acute and subtle sensibility at work. 'Pilgrim Heights' is one of the best poems by an American that I have seen in many years.' " Fro

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Features poetry that affirms author's belief in a whole natural order. This book deals with his delicately observed descriptions of landscapes that are infused throughout with a sense of unity and Buddhist devotion.

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As one of the first and most eloquent spokesmen for the New Criticism, R. P. Blackmur achieved a place of rare distinction in American letters. He preferred to think of himself as a poet, however, and this volume shows that his poetry was in its own right an enduring contribution to literature. Included here are The Second World (1942) and The Good

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This version of the poems of St John of the Cross is aimed at all who wish to pray through the poems, the source of all St John's work, but one that also features the popular "romance" (ballad) metre beloved of St John himself. Spanish and English text is on facing pages.

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Presents a English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century writers. This title testifies to the blazing talents for which Verlaine is celebrated.

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Prepare to be transported to places that your mind may have forgotten.Page after page takes you on a journey, wrapped in metaphors and rhyme of simplicity, through the depths of heartbreak, loss and longing, to the peaks of love, bliss and the passion that drives it

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Collected in this volume are fifteen essays, previously published in a wide variety of journals, on the pastoral poetry of Theocritus and Virgil. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton U