Flashes of Fire (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)
by Eliyahu Assis
The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849, has evolved into the world's most venerable and extensive series of editions of Greek and Latin literature, ranging from classical to Neo-Latin texts. Some 4-5 new editions are published every year. A team of renowned scholars in the field of Classical Philology acts as advisory board: Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)Marcus Deufert (Universitat Leipzig)James Diggle (University of Cambridge)Donald J. Mastronarde (University o...
Poetes francais du 21eme siecle: entretiens (Chiasma, #41)
by Nathalie Wourm
Poetes francais du 21eme siecle : entretiens est un document unique sur la poesie francaise au tournant du 21eme siecle. Il s'agit d'un recueil de dix-sept entretiens de poetes contemporains, menes par Nathalie Wourm, avec une introduction critique. Poetes francais du 21eme siecle : entretiens represents a unique document on turn of the 21st century French poetry. It is a collection of seventeen interviews of contemporary poets, conducted by Nathalie Wourm, with a critical introduction.
Paradise Lost (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
by John Milton
The luxury of the ancient world is legendary, but the Athenian reputation is sober because this wealthy, successful city-state spent all its money on the conspicuous consumption of ephemeral things. Their consuming passions for food, wine and sex drove their society, as well as generating the rich web of privilege, transgression, guilt and taboo for which they are remembered today. Using pamphlets, comic satires, forensic speeches - from authors as illustrious as Plato and as ignored as Philaeni...
With Sa'di in the Garden or, The Book of Love - Being the "Ishk" or Third Chapter of the "Bostan" of the Persian Poet Sa'di
by Sir Edwin Arnold
Ferdowsi's epic poem Shahnameh is part myth, part history-it begins with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous history. It contains magical birds, and superhuman heroes, and centuries-long battles. Written over 1,000 years ago, it was meant to protect Persian collective memory amdist a turbulent sea cultural storms. Originally written in couplets, the new translation and adaptation by Ahmad Sadri retells the mythological tales in prose format. The spectacular illustrat...
Finalist, Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism Ezra Pound's Cathay (1915) is a masterpiece both of modernism and of world literature. The muscular precision of images that mark Pound's translations helped establish a modern style for American literature, at the same time creating a thirst for classical Chinese poetry in English. Pound's dynamic free-verse translations in a modern idiom formed the basis for T.S. Eliot's famous claim that Pound was the "inventor of Chinese poetry for our time." Yet...
Les Auteurs Latins Expliques d'Apres Une Methode Nouvelle Par Deux Traductions Francaises (Litterature)
The Satires of Lodovico Sergardi (Seventeenth-Century Texts and Studies, #4)
by Ludovico Sergardi
