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

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

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

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

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

Classical-style poetry in modern China and other Sinitic-speaking localities is attracting greater attention with the re......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

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

Didymus of Alexandria (also known as Chalcenterus, ’bronze-guts’, for his outstanding ability to ’digest’ and rework the......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

The classic medieval tale that brings romance, chivalry and adventure to the modern reader, and inspired the powerful 20......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

How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of gender When Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed......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

This study is the first exploration of the impact of World War Two on Scottish poets of both the front line and the home......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

The three plays that recount the tale of the doomed Theban royal family-Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colon......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

It can be said of the 19th century Kashmiri poet, Mahmud Ga mi that he was a pioneer in introducing the Persian genres o......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

This book addresses a range of highly debated problems among scholars of Plato’s Phaedo and provides an overall interpre......more

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

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

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

Three foundational Roman poets. The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with three high......more

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

Published between 1308 and 1321, ’Dante’s Inferno’ is the first part of the 14th-Century epic poem Divine Comedy by Dant......more

Published between 1308 and 1321, ’Dante’s Inferno’ is the first part of the 14th-Century epic poem Divine Comedy by Dant......more

Dunhuang: China’s traditional northwest frontier and overland conduit of exchange with the Old World. Jao Tsung-i: China......more

’the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man’ - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "the classic of all Europe" - T. S. Eli......more

These seventy poems are masterpieces from over a thousand years of classical Chinese poetry. Beauty and simplicity meld ......more

The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in trans......more

Dating from around the 8th century BC, The Iliad is a prime example of an epic narrative poem and is one of Western lite......more

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Trouble is brewing at the home of the hero Odysseus, who has spent years fighting in the Trojan Wars and is now captive ......more

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This volume explores various perceptions, adaptations and appropriations of both the personality and the writings of Hor......more

The fourth book of Virgil’s Aeneid is the shortest of his epic, and yet it has had an inestimable influence. The tragedy......more

The acclaimed Groningen commentary to Apuleius’ Metamorphoses was published as a multi-volume book series between 1977 a......more

The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn--as poetry, as craft, as a tool for w......more

Valmiki’s Ramayana provides the inspiration for this vibrant collection of poems, each of which acts as a persuasive enc......more

This newest Carcanet Classic collects the oldest poetry yet discovered, as written down or runed in the Ice Age in Lasca......more

Canadian poet and one of the persecuted writers, to win over her audience Isaacson had to be as poignant as Edna St. Vin......more

The Contemplacioun of Synnaris, by the Observant Franciscan William Touris, written c.1494 and evidently intended for Ki......more

Oltre la mer salee collects revised versions of twenty-eight papers in English, French, Italian, and Spanish originally ......more

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’Borel was the sun, ’ said Théophile Gautier, ’who could resist him?’ Indeed, who? A lycanthrope, necrophile, absurd rev......more

Sandra Gilgan’s Utopia in the Revival of Confucian Education examines the classics-reading movement in contemporary Chin......more

Michelangelo wrote the Poems to directly confront themes to which as an artist he could not give the type of expression ......more

The Tibetan Gesar epic, considered "the world’s longest poem," has been the object of countless retellings, translations......more

Eighteenth-century poetry was dominated by men of education and wealth, and bookcases sagged under the weight of volumes......more

This volume--the proceedings of a 2018 conference at LMU Munich funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation--brings together,......more

"A new translation of the fifth-century Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and love"--...more

This book, "Homer. The Odyssey", by W. Lucas Collins, is a replication of a book originally published before 1870. It ha......more

This book, "Ivanhoe. by ’the Author of Waverley’ Vol. 3", by Walter Scott, is a replication of a book originally publish......more

This book, "An Ideal Husband: A Woman of No Importance", by O. Wilde, is a replication of a book originally published be......more