Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentar......more
My notion of translation is that you try to bring it back alive. . . . If you take on a text which is somehow appropriat......more
I came to see that a line that simply says I love you, at the right point in the show, is entirely adequate, that a g......more
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In The Liberation of Jerusalem (1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike......more
Homer s Iliad can justly be called the world s greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains ......more
Homer s Iliad can justly be called the world s greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains ......more
One of the great masterpieces of Western literature, Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pas......more
One of the great masterpieces of Western literature, Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pas......more
The Vercelli Book is one of the oldest surviving collections of Old English homilies and poems, compiled in England in t......more
A major new blank verse translation of Vergil s epic masterpiece This extraordinary new translation of Vergil s Aeneid s......more
Jacopo Sannazaro (1456-1530), considered by some authorities the finest Neo-Latin poet of the Italian Renaissance, spent......more
Marco Girolamo Vida (1485-1566), humanist and bishop, came to prominence as a Latin poet in the Rome of Leo X and Clemen......more
In response to being exiled to the Black Sea by the Roman emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Ovid began to compose the Tristia an......more
The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous prince......more
Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and tr......more
A classic Persian tale of war and forbidden love in the eleventh century Believed by scholars to be the inspiration for ......more
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of thes......more
Ovid s Heroides, a collection consisting mainly of poetic love letters sent by mythological heroines to their absent lov......more
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of thes......more
This collection of new translations of eighty poems provides a pleasant, thought-provoking reminder of love s vagaries a......more
While it is unknown if there ever was a man named Homer, there is no doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name ......more
The General Prologue is the first part of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Set out in 858 lines of Middle English, this t......more
Ovid’s rarely studied Ibis is an elegiac companion-piece to the Tristia and Ex Ponto written after his banishment to the......more
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The Greek epic account of the quest for the golden fleece. Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica, composed in the 3rd century ......more
Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, Bucolic Ecology illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to......more
By considering women s voices in performance, Anne Klinck provides a new perspective on women s writing . She shows tha......more
Through a balanced discussion of poetry as performance, relevant kinds and genres of poetry, the definition and scope of......more
The accepted standard of Christian poetry in an Islamic context is disclosed in this two-volume collection that contains......more
At the Tabard Inn, thirty travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimag......more
Teofilo Folengo (1491-1544) was born in Mantua and joined the Benedictine order, but became a runaway monk and a satiris......more
This edition of Book III of Eutropius s Breviarium ab urbe condita is designed to be a student s first encounter with au......more
L hexametre dactylique, dans lequel ont ete composes l Iliade et l Odyssee, est selon Aristote la forme metrique la plus......more
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First published in 1950 and followed by this second edition in 1952, Gow s Theocritus comprises an authoritative text an......more
The Trojan war inspired a multifaceted mythological tradition which evolved through a variety of artistic devices - oral......more
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In recent decades, literary studies have shown great interest in issues concerning the elements of narrative. Narratolog......more
This enduring masterpiece tells of the epic quest of Aenas, who flees the ashes of Troy to found a new civilization: Rom......more
Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales ingeniously linked by the idea of ......more
This enduring masterpiece tells of the epic quest of Aenas, who flees the ashes of Troy to found a new civilization: Rom......more
In these poems, Marianne Broyles acknowledges the historic oppression of Native Americans and other peoples, tracking th......more
Sophocles tragedies--from Antigone to Oedipus Tyrannus--are filled with highly wrought, vivid, and emotionally powerful......more
This prose translation of the The Odyssey is so successful that is has taken its place as on the few really outstanding ......more
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This selection of the earliest poems in English comprises works from an age in which verse was not written down, but rec......more
Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown ......more
Most translations of The Odyssey are in the kind of standard verse form believed typical of high-serious composition in ......more
Embracing the whole two-thousand-year corpus of Latin poetry, this book seeks to stimulate interest in the neglected art......more
Lucan’s epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, unfinished at the time of his death, stands beside the poe......more
Alleged incompatibility of Epicurus’ philosophy with rhetoric has led modern scholars to isolate rhetorical procedures i......more
This enduring masterpiece tells of the epic quest of Aenas, who flees the ashes of Troy to found a new civilization: Rom......more
Complete 7-part TOEIC-style test paper Includes tapescripts and Answer Key Answer key explains why answers are right or ......more
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Vis & Ramin is one of the world s great love stories. it was the first major Persian romance, written between 1050 and 1......more
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The Aeneid is an epic poem written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC. It tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who ......more
Francis B. Gummere s translation of Beowulf. Reprinted in facsimile from the 1910 edition.]...more
John O Hagan s translation of The Song of Roland. Reprinted in facsimile from the 1910 edition.]...more
Collecting the most important of the great classics of world literature, this series spans a wide variety of genres, sty......more
Winner of the Michael Hartnett Annual Poetry Award 2009 James Harpur s fourth collection includes intimate responses to ......more
Depicting a realm of intense sensation and physical experience, this poem transforms the traditional Christian idea of P......more
Written in the fifth century B.C., Sophocles’ tragedy concerns the shame and death of Ajax, a Greek who had won fame for......more
Propertius is a poet of the Augustan period, a successor of the great Hellenistic elegiac poets Callimachus and Philitas......more
This book brings into print editions, translations, and commentaries for more than two dozen unique poems (in Latin) fro......more
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This volume is devoted to poems of Christian piety, often recorded outside prose contexts, which date from the mid-twelf......more
Considered one of the greatest works of ancient Babylon, this epic poem--also considered one of the earliest known works......more
An aristocratic scholar and influential member of the court of Theodoric, Boethius (born about AD 480) was arrested for ......more
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