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The Aeneid (Focus Classical Library)
Par Virgil. 2020
Rising to the challenge of rendering the poem's Latin hexameters by adopting English iambic ones, Len Krisak's Aeneid doubles down…
on the English poetic tradition by also featuring rhyme. In Krisak's hands, these devices provide not only a superb kind of music but the snap and power of an epic adventure that glories in what only formal poetry can do. Enhanced by an Introduction and an extensive set of notes by Christopher M. McDonough, this Aeneid works as story, voice, and verse.Favorite Poems of Childhood (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)
Par Philip Smith. 1992
Superb treasury of time-honored poetic gems includes Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter," Edward Lear's "The Owl and the…
Pussy-Cat," Eugene Field's "Wynken, Blynken and Nod," Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody! Who are you?," Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Swing," many more. Printed in large, easy-to-read type. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Owl and the Pussycat" and "Who Has Seen the Wind?"The Aeneid: Translated By Shadi Bartsch (Barnes And Noble Classics Ser.)
Par Vergil, Virgil. 2009
A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil&’s Aeneid restores the epic&’s spare language and fast pace and sheds new light…
on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.&“The best version of the Aeneid in modern English: concise, readable and beautiful, but also as accurate and faithful to Vergil&’s Latin as possible.&”—James J. O&’Hara, George L. Paddison Professor of Latin, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillFor two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas&’s dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil&’s telling, Aeneas&’s heroic journey not only gave Romans and Italians a thrilling origin story, it established many of the fundamental themes of Western life and literature—the role of duty and self-sacrifice, the place of love and passion in human life, the relationship between art and violence, the tension between immigrant and indigenous people, and the way new foundations are so often built upon the wreckage of those who came before. Throughout the course of Western history, the Aeneid has affirmed our best and worst intentions and forced us to confront our deepest contradictions.Shadi Bartsch, Guggenheim Laureate, award-winning translator, and chaired professor at the University of Chicago, confronts the contradictions inherent in the text itself, illuminating the epic&’s subversive approach to storytelling. Even as Vergil writes the foundation myth for Rome, he seems to comment on this tendency to mythologize our heroes and societies, and to gesture to the stories that get lost in the mythmaking. Bartsch&’s groundbreaking translation, brilliantly maintaining the brisk pace of Vergil&’s Latin even as it offers readers a metrical line-by-line translation, provides a literary and historical context to make the Aeneid resonant for a new generation of readers.Our Old Nursey Rymes (Classics To Go)
Par Various. 1912
Excerpt: "Sing a song of Sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty Blackbirds, Baked in a pie; When…
the pie was open’d, The birds began to sing, Oh, was not that a dainty dish, To set before the King."Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary (Vol. 2)
Par Aleksandr Pushkin. 1991
When Vladimir Nabokov first published his controversial translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin in 1964, the great majority of the edition…
was taken up by Nabokov’s witty and detailed commentary. Presented here in its own volume, the commentary is a unique and exhaustive scholarly masterwork by one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers—a work that Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd calls “the most detailed commentary ever made on” Onegin and “indispensable to all serious students of Pushkin’s masterpiece.”In his commentary, Nabokov seeks to illuminate every possible nuance of this nineteenth-century classic. He explains obscurities, traces literary influences, relates Onegin to Pushkin’s other work, and in a characteristically entertaining manner dwells on a host of interesting details relevant to the poem and the Russia it depicts. Nabokov also provides translations of lines and stanzas deleted by the censor or by Pushkin himself, variants from Pushkin’s notebooks, fragments of a continuation called “Onegin’s Journey,” the unfinished and unpublished “Chapter Ten,” other continuations, and an index.A work of astonishing erudition and passion, Nabokov’s commentary is a landmark in the history of literary scholarship and in the understanding and appreciation of the greatest work of Russia’s national poet.Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library Classics)
Par Arthur Rimbaud, Wyatt Mason. 2002
Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the…
most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs isRimbaud Complete,the first and only truly complete edition of Rimbaud’s work in English, translated, edited, and introduced by Wyatt Mason. Mason draws on a century of Rimbaud scholarship to choreograph a superbly clear-eyed presentation of the poet’s works. He arranges Rimbaud’s writing chronologically, based on the latest manuscript evidence, so readers can experience the famously teenaged poet’s rapid evolution, from the lyricism of “Sensation” to the groundbreaking early modernism ofA Season in Hell. In fifty pages of previously untranslated material, including award-winning early verses, all the fragmentary poems, a fascinating early draft of A Season in Hell, a school notebook, and multiple manuscript versions of the important poem “O saisons, ô chateaux,”Rimbaud Completedisplays facets of the poet unknown to American readers. And in his Introduction, Mason revisits the Rimbaud myth, addresses the state of disarray in which the poet left his work, and illuminates the intricacies of the translator’s art. Mason has harnessed the precision and power of the poet’s rapidly changing voice: from the delicate music of a poem such as “Crows” to the mature dissonance of theIlluminations,Rimbaud Completeunveils this essential poet for a new generation of readers. From the Hardcover edition.Ariel: Poems
Par Sylvia Plath. 1968
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy' and 'Fever 103 degrees',…
were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event. ' A. Alvarez in the ObserverA camp-fire yarn 1: Henry Lawson: complete works: 1887-1891
Par Henry Lawson. 1984
Complete works:1887-1891: the works are arranged chronologically and thematically, showing Lawson's progression of ideas, themes and influences on his work.…
His poetry and prose blend together giving an insight into Henry Lawson's world and mind.A camp-fire yarn 4: Henry Lawson: complete works : 1899-1900
Par Henry Lawson. 1984
Complete works:1899-1900: the works are arranged chronologically and thematically, showing Lawson's progression of ideas, themes and influences on his work.…
His poetry and prose blend together giving an insight into Henry Lawson's world and mind.A camp-fire yarn 2: Henry Lawson: complete works: 1892-1893
Par Henry Lawson. 1984
Complete works:1892-1893: the works are arranged chronologically and thematically, showing Lawson's progression of ideas, themes and influences on his work.…
His poetry and prose blend together giving an insight into Henry Lawson's world and mind.The Odyssey (Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity)
Par Homer. 2004
A bold new translation that preserves the swiftness, austerity, and clarity of the original."Tell us, Goddess, daughter of Zeus, start…
in your own place:when all the rest at Troy had fled from that steep doomand gone back home, away from war and the salt sea,only this man longed for his wife and a way home."Homer's Odyssey, at once an exciting epic of strife and subterfuge and a deeply felt tale of love and devotion, stands at the very beginning of the Western literary tradition. From ancient Greece to the present day its influence on later literature has been unsurpassed, and for centuries translators have approached the meter, tone, and pace of Homer's poetry with a variety of strategies. Chapman and Pope paid keen attention to color, drama, and vivacity of style, rendering the Greek verse loosely and inventively. In the twentieth century, translators such as Lattimore kept rigorously close to the sense of each word in the original; others, including Fitzgerald and Fagles, have departed further from the language of the original, employing their own inventive modern style.Poet and translator Edward McCrorie now opens new territory in this striking rendition, which captures the spare, powerful tone of Homer's epic while engaging contemporary readers with its brisk pace, idiomatic language, and lively characterization. McCrorie closely reproduces the Greek metrical patterns and employs a diction and syntax that reflects the plain, at times stark, quality of Homer's lines, rather than later English poetic styles. Avoiding both the stiffness of word-for-word literalism and the exaggeration and distortion of free adaptation, this translation dramatically evokes the ancient sound and sense of the poem. McCrorie's is truly an Odyssey for the twenty-first century.To accompany this innovative translation, noted classical scholar Richard Martin has written an accessible and wide-ranging introduction explaining the historical and literary context of the Odyssey, its theological and cultural underpinnings, Homer's poetic strategies and narrative techniques, and his cast of characters. In addition, Martin provides detailed notes—far more extensive than those in other editions—addressing key themes and concepts; the histories of persons, gods, events, and myths; literary motifs and devices; and plot development. Also included is a pronunciation glossary and character index.Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Par Robert Frost. 2021
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
Par Edgar Poe, J Kennedy. 2006
A fully revised collection of Poe s work The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents…
a more complicated perverse and culturally engaged Poe Along with the author s familiar masterworks in poetry and fiction this new Portable Poe includes satirical tales that reflect his critique of American cultureThe Portable Dante
Par Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa. 1995
Dante Alighieri paved the way for modern literature, while creating verse and prose that remain unparalleled for formal elegance, intellectual…
depth, and emotional grandeur. The Portable Dante contains complete verse translations of Dante's two masterworks, The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova, as well as a bibliography, notes, and an introduction by eminent scholar and translator Mark Musa.Gilgamesh
Par Stephen Mitchell. 2004
The hero is 16 feet tall. He is the king of Uruk, in the Iraq of about 2750 BCE, and…
he is a despot, running afoul of even the gods. The man who is his soul mate, lover and spouse is Enkidu, who was once wild and naked but was tamed by the erotic ministrations of a temple priestess. When their preemptive strike on a monster of evil results in the death of Enkidu, Gilgamesh's desperate mourning and search for a way to avoid a similar fate leads him to understand, at the end of the world, that the best ..."My love shall in my verse ever live young." –William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare's sonnets are among the best-known poems in the…
English language, and the verses continue to touch the hearts of readers today. In Shakespeare's Sonnets and Other Poems, readers will find all 154 of the Bard's sonnets, along with his other poetic creations: "Venus and Adonis," "Lucrece," "A Lover's Complaint," "Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music," and "The Phoenix and Turtle." With a flexibound cover that features foil stamping and a clean, modern look, this collection of poems is a beautiful addition to the shelf of any reader.The Divine Comedy: Iii Paradise (Leather-bound Classics)
Par Dante Alighieri, Paul Gustave Dore. 2013
Inferno Purgatorio and Paradiso -- the three fates of the deceased become the three pillars of an epic…
poem The Divine Comedy written by Italian poet Dante Alighieri in the fourteenth century is considered the foremost work in Italian literature The journey begins with Dante s descent into the depths of Hell where he witnesses those eternally separated from God Then he climbs the mountain of Purgatory where Christian souls undergo final purification before finally touring the celestial circles of Heaven where he is filled with the image of God An allegorical work the comedy is representative of the soul s journey towards God Influential for seven centuries this classic is a must have for lovers of great literature and the luxurious leather-bound edition from Canterbury Classics will make a stunning addition to any libraryRomeo & Juliet
Par William Shakespeare. 2010
This tale of star-crossed lovers and the families determined to keep them apart of one of Shakespeare's most well-known and…
beloved plays. One part romance, one part tragedy, it features some of Shakespeare's most inventive language and delightful characters. Romeo + Juliet has proven one of the most enduring and important romances ever written, influencing plays, films, and novels all the way up to present-day favourites like Twilight and The Fault in Our Stars. This premium ebook is perfect for both fans looking for a digital copy and new readers looking to fall in love with this classic. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.The Iliad
Par Homer, W. H. Rouse, Seth L. Schein, Adam Nicholson. 1938
This translation of The Iliad equals Fitzgerald's earlier Odyssey in power and imagination. It recreates the original action as conceived…
by Homer, using fresh and flexible blank verse that is both lyrical and dramatic.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: In a Modern English Version with a Critical Introduction
Par John Gardner, Fritz Kredel. 2011
The adventures and challenges of Sir Gawain, King Arthur’s nephew and a knight at the Round Table, including his duel…
with the mysterious Green Knight, are among the oldest and best known of Arthurian stories. Here the distinguished author and poet John Gardner has captured the humor, elegance, and richness of the original Middle English in flowing modern verse translations of this literary masterpiece. Besides the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, this edition includes two allegorical poems, “Purity” and “Patience”; the beautiful dream allegory “Pearl”; and the miracle story “Saint Erkenwald,” all attributed to the same anonymous poet, a contemporary of Chaucer and an artist of the first rank. “Mr. Gardner has translated into modern English and edited a text of these five poems that could hardly be improved. . . . The entire work is preceded by a very fine and complete general introduction and a critical commentary on each poem.”—Library Journal