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ISBN: 9780195306392 - Gemstone of Paradise The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival Gemstone of Paradise The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival
RONALD, MURPHY G

ISBN10: 9780198041832  ISBN13: 9780198041832
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
In his Middle High German romance Parzival (c. 1210), Wolfram von Eschenbach depicts the Holy Grail not as a cup, but as a gemstone. G. Ronald Murphy seeks to illuminate this mystery and to enable a far better appreciation of Wolfram's insight... More

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ISBN: 9780140446241 - Selected Poems Selected Poems
Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre

ISBN10: 9780141960906  ISBN13: 9780141960906
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves... More

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ISBN: 9780241144732 - Across the Land and the Water Across the Land and the Water
Sebald, W G G

ISBN10: 9780141932231  ISBN13: 9780141932231
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
When W.G. Sebald died in 2001, he was internationally acknowledged as one of the most important German writers of our era. Now, thanks to Iain Galbraith's vibrant translations, the full breadth of his poetry is available in English for the first... More

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ISBN: 9781906614096 - Selected Poems Selected Poems
Pessoa, Fernando

ISBN10: 9780141961354  ISBN13: 9780141961354
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express great swarms of thought and feeling. More

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ISBN: 9780199233366 - Poetry and Parental Bereavement in Early Modern Lutheran Germany Poetry and Parental Bereavement in Early Modern Lutheran Germany
ANNA, LINTON

ISBN10: 9780191552779  ISBN13: 9780191552779
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
This study of Lutheran funeral booklets - verse written to console bereaved parents - adds to our understanding of the genre, which has not been fully explored as literature or for what it reveals about the depiction of children or parent... More

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ISBN: 9781403970435 - Comic Provocations Comic Provocations

ISBN10: 9780230601178  ISBN13: 9780230601178
Publisher: Palgrave Trade
Format: Electronic Book

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ISBN: 9780140424775 - Yevtushenko: Selected Poems Yevtushenko: Selected Poems
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

ISBN10: 9780141920900  ISBN13: 9780141920900
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. Zima Junction... More

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ISBN: 9780140442304 - Romance of Tristan Romance of Tristan
Beroul

ISBN10: 9780141913858  ISBN13: 9780141913858
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
One of the earliest extant versions of the Tristan and Yseut story, Beroul's French manuscript of The Romance of Tristan dates back to the middle of the twelfth century. It recounts the legend of Tristan, nephew of King Mark of Cornwall... More

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ISBN: 9780140424164 - Selected Poems and Fragments Selected Poems and Fragments
lderlin, Friedrich H

ISBN10: 9780141962184  ISBN13: 9780141962184
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
Friedrich Hlderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europes supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily... More

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ISBN: 9780199535354 - Liberation of Jerusalem Liberation of Jerusalem
TORQUATO, TASSO

ISBN10: 9780191567582  ISBN13: 9780191567582
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Tasso's epic poem concerns the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099, and combines the theme of war with romantic and magical tales of love between pagan and Christian. This is the first modern translation that faithfully reflects the... More