The poetry of John Stewart of Baldynneis, one of James VI's soi disant Castalian Band, is a relatively unknown phenomenon of the Renaissance period. This book is a critical edition of his epic poem Roland Furious, supposedly a translation of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso into Scots but actually a brilliantly original poem which directly follows guidelines given by James VI for the creation of such literature in the Scottish vernacular. A fully annotated version of the text is given, along w...
Writers to Watch
by Denyse Kirkby, Christin Lawrence, Charlotte Comley, Andrew Prior, Amber Lee Dodd, James Law, Maggie Sawkins, Tom Harris, William Sutton, and James Schillemore
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Sankofa
Medieval children lived in a world rich in poetry, from lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs to riddles, tongue twisters, and nonsensical verses. They read or listened to stories in verse: ballads of Robin Hood, romances, and comic tales. Poems were composed to teach them how to behave, eat at meals, hunt game, and even learn Latin and French. In Fleas, Flies, and Friars, Nicholas Orme, an expert on childhood in the Middle Ages, has gathered a wide variety of children's verse that circulated in...
Rimas (Biblioteca Edaf, #45) (Clasicos Espanoles S.)
by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer