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Essential Odyssey
By: Homer; Lombardo, Stanley; Murnaghan, Sheila
Published by: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo’s translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages.
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Price: $7.95
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Classic Love Poems
By: Shakespeare, William; Wordsworth, William; Browning, Robert
Published by: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Of all the stimuli that have inspired poets over the centuries, love in all its guises has been an unceasingly rich and varied source of powerful, romantic and exquisite verse.
Love poems have retained their popularity through the years by expressing eternal and universal emotions. From Chaucer to Coleridge, Shakespeare to Shelley, the same message of love has been put to verse in a myriad of poetic styles.
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Price: $9.99
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Paradise Lost
By: Milton, John
Published by: Joshua James Press
Paradise Lost (1667) is an epic poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books and written in blank verse. A second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (mimicking the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. The poem concerns the Christian story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Summary from www.wikipedia.org
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Beowulf
By: Ringler, Dick
Published by: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Dick Ringler's deceptively simple translation captures the rhythm, movement, and power of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid modern English style and a relatively spare vocabulary.
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Beowulf
By: Gummere (trans.)
Published by: The Floating Press
Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship. This work of Anglo-Saxon literature dates to between the 8th and the 11th century, the only surviving European manuscript dating to circa 1010. At 3183 lines, it is notable for its length. It has risen to national epic status in England. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, battles three antagonists: Grendel, who is attacking the Danish mead hall called Heorot and its inhabitants; Grendel's mother; and, later in life after returning to Geatland (modern southern Sweden) and becoming a king, an unnamed dragon. He is mortally wounded in the final battle, and after his death he is buried in a barrow in Geatland by his retainers. [Adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf under the terms of the GNU-FDL]
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Description in classical Arabic poetry
By: Motoyoshi Sumi, A.
Published by: Koninklijke Brill NV
This work deals with "wasf" or description which is one of the salient characteristics of the "qasidah" (classical Arabic poetry) tradition. It examines descriptive passages in a selected group of Arabic "qasidah" from different ages, with the motifs of horses, and bees and honey-gathering.
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Price: $114.00
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Companion to Chaucer
By: Brown, Peter (ed.)
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.
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Concise Companion to Chaucer
By: Saunders, Corinne (ed.)
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
This concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer’s major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally.:.; Opens with a general introductory section discussing London life and politics, books and authority, manuscripts and readers.; Subsequent sections focus on Chaucer’s major works – the dream visions, Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales .; Essays highlight the key religious, political and intellectual contexts for each major work.; Also covers important general topics, including: medieval literary genres; dream theory; the Church; gender and sexuality; and reading Chaucer aloud.; Designed so that each contextual essay can be read alongside one of Chaucer’s major works.
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Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness
By: Suzuki, Shunryu; Weitsman, Mel.; Wenger, Michael,; Shih-tou,
Published by: University of California Press
The "Sandokai" - a poem by the 8th-century Zen master Sekito Kisen (Ch. Shitou Xiqian) - is the subject of these lectures. Given in 1970 at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the lectures are an example of a Zen teacher in his prime elucidating a venerated, ancient, and difficult work to his Western students.
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Brill's companion to Ovid
By: Weiden Boyd, B. (ed.)
Published by: Koninklijke Brill NV
This volume on the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE - 17 CE) contains articles by 14 international scholars. Contributions cover a wide range of topics, including a biographical essay, a survey of the major manuscripts and textual traditions, and a comprehensive discussion of Ovid's style
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Price: $286.00
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