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Poems of religious doubt and closely-observed uncertainties, expressing the wants and feelings of man and women everywhere.
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-04-26
Format(s) : ePub
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A revolutionary voice in English verse, and a much loved and celebrated lyric poet.
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-04-26
Format(s) : ePub
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Selected verse from the Iliad and the Odyssey, edited by David Hopkins.
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-04-26
Format(s) : ePub
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Robert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-10-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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`Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language'.
Jean Rousselot
Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud as one of the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-02-26
Format(s) : PDF
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'sense too definite cancels your
indistinct literature'
Stéphane Mallarmé was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, perplexed or outraged many early readers;...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-11-13
Format(s) : ePub
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'sense too definite cancels your
indistinct literature'
Stéphane Mallarmé was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, perplexed or outraged many early readers;...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-05-11
Format(s) : PDF
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In the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri set out to write the three volumes which make the up The Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the second volume in this set and opens with Dante the poet picturing Dante the pilgrim coming out of the pit of hell. Similar to the Inferno (34...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2003-04-17
Format(s) : PDF
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'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert Camus
Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote all his...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2001-06-07
Format(s) : ePub
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'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert Camus
Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote all his...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2001-06-07
Format(s) : PDF
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First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation.
At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2001-02-15
Format(s) : ePub
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`I sing of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds.' So begins Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532), the culmination of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France. It is a brilliantly witty parody of the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 1999-02-11
Format(s) : ePub
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This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor. Remarkably true to both the letter and spirit of this central...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1997-03-06
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1961-12-31
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1961-12-31
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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