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Horace shares with Italians of today a delight in the senses, a fundamental irony, a passion for seizing the moment, and a view of religion as aesthetic experience rather than mystical exaltation.

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Provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the "Paradiso". This work provides a profound analysis of the poem's basic allegory, and the illustrations, diagrams, and map clarify points that have confused readers of "The Divine Comedy".

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A selection of myths at the heart of Roman mythology and literature that manages to relate many of the episodes in that world-historical march toward the Age of Augustus and accompanied by an Introduction that deftly sets them in their cosmological, theological, and Augustan contexts.

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Part of a series of Spenser's great work, this title includes general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters. It also features Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Spenser.

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First in a series of Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own general Introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Spenser appear in every volume.

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Centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determine the fate of Troy. This book presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background.

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Contains two of the greatest adventure stories of all time. In this book, the first adventure recounts the war between the Trojans and Achaeans and the personal and tragic struggle of the fiery-tempered Achilles. It also includes a story which chronicles Odysseus' return from the Trojan War and the trials he endures on his journey home.

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"In this remarkable debut, which marks the beginning of Multiverse-a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent Hannah Emerson's poems keep, dream, bring, please, grownd, sing, kiss, and listen"--

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Meng Chiao developed an experimental poetry of virtuosic beauty, a poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a millennium. With the T'ang Dynasty crumbling, Meng's later work employed surrealist and symbolist techniques as it turned to a deep introspection. This title presents the English work of his poetry.

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Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. A superb new verse translation, now published in trade paperback, before the standard Penguin Classic B format.

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A lively contemporary translation of these action-packed medieval Icelandic poems.

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Published to celebrate the Hannah Lavery's term as Edinburgh Makar, this collection contains commissioned poems, including Edinburgh is a Story, performed at the opening of the Edinburgh International Festival.Unwritten Womenis a celebration of Lavery's home city, but also an exploration of gender, race and belonging.

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Latin text, with Latin-English vocabulary and notes in English.

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This is vagabonding for the pleasures of metal, for the exuberance of punk love, for endless lyrical charge. This is poetry for everything, forever: fata morgana of Williamstown or is the poet on fire Gareth Morgans book is rudely beautiful, a prolonged sensation melting through psychedelic intelligences + intimacies.'Lucy Van

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This award-winning debut interrogates the fragile, inherited ways of approaching love and family from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives.

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A translation of Hesiod's poems. It captures Hesiod's rustic wisdom, his humour and his cautious pessimism.

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"Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat"--

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A fierce and lyrical collection of poetry celebrating the moments of triumph and beauty in our lives, as well as the moments of despair recasting them as opportunities for growth.

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One of the most important books by the renowned French poet, Paul Eluard