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Like Emily Wilson’s celebrated translations of Homer, this new Aeneid--the first collaborative translation of the poem i......more

For the first time, the poems and accompanying letters of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (Optatian) are published here w......more

The essential introduction to Saigyō, one of Japan’s greatest and most enduring poets. Born in the twelfth century durin......more

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

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

The Iliad presents superhuman heroes and superhuman rage, brutal death, unbounded sorrow, the craving for revenge, the s......more

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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 as a social and hi......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

With Beast: The Lost Chronicles, Paul Stubbs has fashioned a philosophical, theological, and visionary odyssey that foll......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

Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions produced hundreds of scriptures and treatises, only a small number of which have rec......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

The classic medieval tale that brings romance, chivalry and adventure to the modern reader. Alongside Gawain and the Gre......more

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

The Orphic Hymns, a collection of invocations to the complete Greek pantheon, have reached us without explicit informati......more

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

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A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt In the poems of Fate the......more

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

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A new translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and friendship, bringing Tiruvalluvar’s poetry an......more

In his exciting new book of poems and retrospective reflection, West Coast poet and devout philhellene Joe Safdie engage......more

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

The third and final book of Ovid’s love elegies is a complex farewell to the genre. It begins, programmatically, with Ov......more

Demons are real. Richard knows because he has listened to them his entire life. No longer able to bear their screams ech......more

Acclaimed for centuries as the "Father of English Literature," Geoffrey Chaucer enjoys widespread and effusive praise fo......more

A new English translation of Raghuvaṃśa by the celebrated Sanskrit poet Kalidasa, who inspired such modern writers as Go......more

The Latin Poems of Manilius Cabacius Rallus of Sparta presents the poetic oeuvre of a forgotten poet of Renaissance Rome......more

Virgil’s Eclogues are a fundamental text of Western literature that served as a model for the nascent poetry of the Augu......more

Published in 1789, this collection of poems by William Blake (1757-1827) has the poet’s own etchings as illustrations. I......more

This volume, the 37th year of published proceedings, contains five papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area ......more

This volume, the 37th year of published proceedings, contains five papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area ......more

During the latter phases of Covid, Isobel Williams completed her celebrated translations of the polyamorous ancient Roma......more

The Iliad reveals a traditional oral poetic style, but many researchers believe that the poem cannot be treated as solel......more

A poetry collection examining masculinity, aggression, and violence. In his fourth poetry collection, Matthew Minicucci ......more

The Grid is about the end of worlds, ancient and modern. In three sequences of poems interspersed with Mandel’s own tran......more

The Fozu tongji by Zhipan (ca. 1220-1275) is a key text of Chinese Buddhist historiography. The core of the work is form......more

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

Without reference of horizon farther makes navigation by usual instruments, and heroes, impossible. We recognize the ima......more

The most celebrated of French medieval poets, François Villon makes poetry out the basest material the raw urban life of......more

An experiment with language. Is it an object cultivated in poetic laboratories where entry is locked for mere mortals? A......more

When the Scottish poet Thomas Pringle emigrated to the Cape Colony in 1820 he voyaged also into a new creative life and ......more

In this series, Eric Cullhed (University of Uppsala) and S. Douglas Olson (University of Minnesota) combine to provide t......more

This edition offers you the first Modern English version of Chaucer’s only previously untranslated major work, Boece. Bo......more

Amidst conflicting information and personal experiences, how can someone distinguish between truth and falsehood? Criter......more

The Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe is part of the Timeless Classics series and comprises every known story penned by ......more

The Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe is part of the Timeless Classics series and comprises every known story penned by ......more

Antonio da Rho’s Three Dialogues against Lactantius (1445) followed the lead of Jerome and Augustine yet went well beyon......more

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

In this work Jeffrey Glodzik argues that Vergil played a central role in the prevailing discourse of Renaissance Rome. R......more

Nigel of Canterbury, also known as Longchamp and Whiteacre, wrote toward the end of the so-called Twelfth-Century Renais......more

The premier scholar-poet of the Hellenistic age. Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyren......more

The premier scholar-poet of the Hellenistic age. Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyren......more

The premier scholar-poet of the Hellenistic age. Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyren......more

Winner of the 2024 Khyentse Foundation Prize for Outstanding Translation​ A unique Buddhist tradition, accessible in Eng......more

This book presents the first systematic linguistic study of Zenodotus’ variant readings, showing that he used a version ......more