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Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c. 1490 to c. 1900,......more

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Mary Jo Bang’s translation of Paradiso completes her groundbreaking new version of Dante’s masterpiece, begun with Infer......more

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The first English translation of Olga A. Smirnitskaya’s influential 1994 Russian work on Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse studi......more

The complete collection of poems by Nansŏrhŏn, a 16th century sequestered noblewoman and one of Korea’s first feminists ......more

"The first and greatest anthology of classical Japanese poetry, the Man’yoshu is considered, along with Tale of Genji, t......more

A book-length poem that experiments with hybrid forms, bringing together elegy and prosaic meditation. Interweaving dist......more

A tragic epic love story before Romeo and Juliet, by one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, in a modern-ver......more

Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real w......more

A profoundly playful poem in three parts, developed from an art installation, that considers the ’echo/ekhō’ as a social......more

A collection of poems about nature and power To Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a ......more

Few among the surviving Hellenistic poets can rival the fame of Callimachus of Cyrene (approximately 320-240 BCE). Activ......more

Part Two of the Festschrift dedicated to William H. Nienhauser presents a collection of twelve academic papers that delv......more

Early modern culture was multilingual, and so were many of the works produced across Europe and beyond its borders. The ......more

Aphrodite’s famous ribbon known as the cestus, the irresistible love charm that she loaned to Hera in the Iliad, was, th......more

A comprehensive reevaluation of Chaucer’s early poetry, from the "dream visions" to Troilus and Criseyde While covering ......more

This book positions Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poe......more

This book makes available Ronald Knox’s hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, O......more

An ancient Greek guide to the heavens, translated in a new accessible modern English edition. A poetic guide to the heav......more

In A Bird Called Elaeus, poet and translator David Constantine presents a selection of poems from The Greek Anthology, a......more

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Part One of the Festschrift honoring William H. Nienhauser invites readers to explore the fascinating world of ancient C......more

Is it possible to be better than Homer? For most literary critics in late antiquity, the answer was an unequivocal no, b......more

Apollonius represents a crucial link in the epic tradition spanning Homer and Vergil, but arrestingly, his epic Argonaut......more

A sequel to Philip Terry’s Dante’s Inferno (2014), where Dante relocates to the University of Essex, here the action shi......more

An old friend, a new character - C. K. Stead is scribe to love and grief in this beautiful new collection. In two sequen......more

When Michael Palma’s translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commenta......more

For more than a millennium, Kālidāsa’s poem "Lineage of the Raghus" (Raghuvaṃśa) has been acknowledged as one of the mas......more

The mysterious tale of a great leader, martyred for her cause, and often regarded as a woman beyond her time. Patron sai......more

This striking hardback edition presents Homer’s legendary epic, The Odyssey, with striking gold cover embossing and sten......more

From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of......more

This bold literary experiment transforms the genre of the saint’s life by infusing it with techniques more often associa......more

Virgil remains one of the most important poets in the history of literature. This emerges in the rich translation histor......more

This volume offers a broad introduction to the correspondence of Ausonius of Bordeaux and his protégé Paulinus of Nola, ......more

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A coy tease, enchantress, adulteress, irresponsible mother, hard-hearted wife--such are the possible images of Penelope ......more

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The works of Titus Flavius Josephus ben Matthias on biblical history and the Jewish war were read and studied throughout......more

This volume of The Earthly Paradise continues William Morris’ masterful exploration of Northern and Classical mythology,......more

A new translation of the classic English poem that inspired Malory, stunningly illustrated with linocuts by the author. ......more

Elisa Gonzalez’s thrilling debut makes one "feel as if poems have never before been written" (Louise Glück). Grand Tour,......more

"A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth"--Dunya Mikhail In her marvelous new poetry c......more

Frederick Holland Dewey’s interlinear translation of the Roman poet Virgil’s classic work, "The Aeneid." Covers Books I-......more

This volume considers representations of space and movement in sources ranging from Roman comedy to late antique verse t......more

Samuel Butler’s translation of The Iliad, first published in 1898, is a prose rendition of this ancient Greek epic. The ......more

heir of sisyphus is a collection that travels between different cities, cultures, and languages. Adrija Ghosh’s poetry i......more

A beautiful Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy classic edition, featuring 135 large original illustrations. The Divine ......more

This book, Aruz is a teaching-methodical guide used in the organization of final examinations in the subject of classica......more

Traverse through hellfire, ascend the mountain, and hear the music of the spheres in this collection of poetry inspired ......more

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Delve into the ancient and mystical world of pre-classical Europe with The Hymns of Orpheus. These poetic compositions, ......more

This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original contex......more

The prose poem is the literary sphinx, the literary chimera, minotaur, gryphon-part one thing, part another and at their......more

Bringing the work of a highly influential medieval French writer to English-speaking audiences for the first time This b......more

Beowulf follows the valiant hero of the Geats who comes to the rescue of King Hrothgar of the Danes. Plagued by the mons......more

A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries I......more

Hopeful, passionate, and full of sharp discoveries about the dangers of the world, Fire on a Circle is an exploration of......more

This new translation of Pindar’s songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility in or......more

The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original Sumeri......more

First published in 1988, Priapea is a collection of eighty Latin epigrams, English translated, that make up the corpus P......more

FOR children who grew up in France before the Second World War, memorizing the fables of the 17th century poet Jean de L......more

This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spol......more

The greatest single narration of what the mythic world of antiquity looked, thought, and felt like at its climax in a st......more

No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton’s sublimity has ......more

Attend! Here comes Wort, Arthurs and all! As if sprung from a centuries long incantation, Arthur, in ink and blood, achi......more

Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless story of ......more

Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless story of ......more

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural qual......more

Leeds Medieval Studies is an international, refereed journal based in the University of Leeds Institute for Medieval Stu......more

The Odyssey was originally composed in Homeric Greek around the 8th or 7th century BC and, by the mid-6th century BC, ha......more

Augustan love elegy represents one of the most important and most distinctive Roman contributions to European and world ......more