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Erotic Poems

10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

£8.99 10 Jul 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Editorial censorship has long obscured Goethe's Roman Elegies, which were inspired by Goethe's sexual liberation in Italy and his love for the woman he took as his unofficial wife on his return to Germany. They are here presented as Goethe boldly conceived them, together with the long-supressed narrative poem known as The Diary. Completing the edition is a selection from Goethe's more light-hearted and much censored cycle of erotica, the Venetian Epigrams. An illuminating Introduction by Hans Vaget provides the background to these poems, as well as showing some of the profound and little-known connections between them.

Sonnets

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mallarme, Stephane

£9.95 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Shearsman Books

Spanish Ballads

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Merwin, W. S.

£7.69 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Copper Canyon Press

Jacques Vache and the Roots of Surrealism: Including Vache's War Letters & Other Writings

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rosemont, Franklin Vache, Jacques

£10.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Charles H Kerr

C. P. Cavafy: Selected Poems

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Cavafy, Constantine P.

£9.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Penguin Books

C P Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and dramatic retellings of his native Alexandria's ancient past. This work includes his poems such as "Anna Comnena" and "You did not understand".

Arthur Rimbaud

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Complete Works

By Arthur Rimbaud

£8.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Brings together Arthur Rimbaud's poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat," "The Orphans' New Year", "After the Flood", and "A Season in Hell". This book is divided into eight 'seasons' including - Childhood, The Open Road, War, The Tormented Heart, The Visionary, and The Damned Soul - that reflect the facets of Rimbaud's life.

Fables

27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jean de La Fontaine

£7.99 27 Jun 2008 Paperback Hesperus Press Ltd

A collection of poems that retell some of the world's well-known fables including 'The Ant and the Grasshopper', 'The Hare and the Tortoise' and 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse'.

French Women Poets of Nine Centuries

27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Distaff and the Pen

£56.50 27 Jun 2008 Hardback Johns Hopkins University Press

With original texts and translations on facing pages, this collection of works by French-speaking women poets contains over 600 poems from 54 different pens, from the twelfth century Marie de France through Albertine Sarrazin, who died in 1967. It provides a window into the development and evolution of French poetry from the Middle Ages onwards.

Selected Writings

27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Bilingual Edition

By Marguerite De Navarre

£14.50 27 Jun 2008 Paperback The University of Chicago Press

Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was the sister and wife to kings and a pivotal influence in sixteenth-century France. This book contains sampling of Marguerite's varied works: from verse letters and fables to mythological-pastoral tales, from spiritual songs to a selection of novellas.

Selected Writings

27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Bilingual Edition

By Marguerite De Navarre

£35.00 27 Jun 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Yevtushenko: Selected Poems

26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

£8.99 26 Jun 2008 Paperback Penguin Books Ltd

A selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko that includes: "Zima Junction", "Waking", "Birthday", "Encounter", "The Companion", "Party Card" and "Babiy Yar".

Orlando Furioso

12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ludovico Ariosto

£11.99 12 Jun 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

From the Interior

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems from 1995-2005

By Petr Borkovec

£9.99 01 Jun 2008 Paperback Poetry Wales Press

Birdsong on the Seabed

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Shvarts, Elena

£9.95 01 Jun 2008 Paperback Bloodaxe Books

Presents a selection of Elena Shvarts' poetry. This book includes a bilingual Russian-English selection.

The Russian Version: Selected Poems of Elena Fanailova

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Fanailova, Elena

£8.21 01 Jun 2008 Paperback Zephyr Press (AZ)

From Plato to Lancelot: A Preface to Chretien de Troyes

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Murray, Sarah-Jane K. Murray, K. Sarah-Jane

£14.81 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Syracuse University Press

Petrarch in Romantic England

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Zuccato, Edoardo

£50.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Palgrave MacMillan

The Petrarchan revival in Romantic England was a phenomenon which involved a number of scholars, translators and poets. This book analyses the way Petrarch was read and re-written by Romantic figures. It presents the history of the Romantic-era sonnet and offers an understanding of English Romantic poetry.

Canti

30 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Giacomo Leopardi

£8.99 30 May 2008 Paperback Oneworld Classics Ltd

Presented in a dual-language edition, this is an anatomy of man's unhappiness on earth.

Fables

30 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jean de La Fontaine

£7.99 30 May 2008 Paperback Hesperus Press Ltd

A collection of poems that retell some of the world's well-known fables including 'The Ant and the Grasshopper', 'The Hare and the Tortoise' and 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse'.

French Women Poets of Nine Centuries

30 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Distaff and the Pen

£56.50 30 May 2008 Hardback Johns Hopkins University Press

Collected Poems 1944-1969 (v. 1)

29 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Nelly Sachs

£8.99 29 May 2008 Paperback Green Integer

Nobel Prize-winning poet Nelly Sachs escaped Nazi Germany to Sweden, where she wrote these and other brilliant poems as a "mute outcry" to the Holocaust.

Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation

21 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Abigail Brundin

£55.00 21 May 2008 Hardback Ashgate Publishing Group

Vittoria Colonna was one of the best known and highly celebrated female poets of the Italian Renaissance. This book examines the manner in which Colonna's poetry came to fulfil a specifically reformist spiritual imperative, acting as a tool for disseminating an evangelical message to a wide audience reading vernacular literature.

French Women Poets of Nine Centuries

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Distaff and the Pen

£56.50 02 May 2008 Hardback Johns Hopkins University Press

Petrarch in Romantic England

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Edoardo Zuccato

£50.00 02 May 2008 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

The Technological Unconscious in German Modernist Literature: Nature in Rilke, Benn, Brecht, and Dablin

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Nature in Rilke, Benn, Brecht, and Doblin

By Powell, Larson

£35.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Camden House (NY)

The term "the Technological Unconscious" refers both to the intersection between psychoanalysis and theories of modernism and to the philosophical mediation between history and nature, a motif important from Kant to Adorno. This book's four chapters center on the representation of nature in German prose and poetry from the years 1900 to 1945.

A Garden of Impressionist Verse: Nineteenth-Century French Poetry

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£8.21 01 May 2008 Hardback Chicago Review Press

Illustrated with classic Impressionist paintings, this beautiful anthology features verses by Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, Paul Verlaine, and Victor Hugo. Perfect for Francophiles and poetry lovers alike, each poem is presented in the original French side-by-side with English translations. Peppered throughout with works by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, and Sisley, the collection also includes brief biographies of the poets and historical background on the art, making it a perfect introduction to the literary and artistic traditions of 19th-century France.

Weekly Meditations: Rudolf Steiner's the Calendar of the Soul with Reflections

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Scala, Patsy

£6.59 01 May 2008 Paperback Steinerbooks

In this beautiful book of meditations, Patsy Scala combine Rudolf Steiners weekly verses with simple reflective meditations. She brings a deep study of Anthroposophy together with twenty years of work with the Unity School of Christianity and the teachings of Charles Filmore to bear on the ways in which we can enhance our soul moods as they change and unfold through the cycle of the year.

Inverse 2007: Italian Poets in Translation

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Antomarini, Brunella Cocciolillo, Berenice Filardi, Rosa

£16.48 01 May 2008 Paperback University of Delaware Press

Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation

28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Abigail Brundin

£55.00 28 Apr 2008 Hardback Ashgate Publishing Group

The Art of Poetry and Lutrin

25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Nicolas Boileau

£10.99 25 Apr 2008 Paperback Oneworld Classics Ltd

Following on the footsteps of Horace's "Ars Poetica", this book lays down, in four books dealing with different forms and genres of poetry, the codes and rules for good versification.

Collected Poems 1944-1969 (v. 1)

24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Nelly Sachs

£8.99 24 Apr 2008 Paperback Green Integer

Nobel Prize-winning poet Nelly Sachs escaped Nazi Germany to Sweden, where she wrote these and other brilliant poems as a "mute outcry" to the Holocaust.

Inferno

17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Alighieri Dante

£8.99 17 Apr 2008 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

Includes explanatory annotations, an introduction by Giuseppe Mazzotta, a Translator's Note and the Plan of Dante's Hell, which help students understand Dante's work. This edition includes twelve interpretations along with a chronology and bibliography.

The Ancient Flame

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Dante and the Poets

By Winthrop Wetherbee

£23.95 15 Apr 2008 Paperback University of Notre Dame Press

While the structure and themes of the "Divine Comedy" are defined by the narrative of a spiritual pilgrimage guided by Christian truth, this work reveals that Dante's engagement with the great Latin poets Vergil, Ovid, Lucan, and Statius constitutes a complementary narrative centered on psychological and artistic self-discovery.

Poetry and Parental Bereavement in Early Modern Lutheran Germany

10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Anna Linton

£55.00 10 Apr 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

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-child relationships in early modern Europe.

Come, Come-My Boiling Blood: The Complete Poems of Jos Mart

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marti, Jose Mart, Jos

£10.99 01 Apr 2008 Paperback Curbstone Press

Despair Has Wings

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Selected Poems

By Jouve, Pierre Jean

£10.95 01 Apr 2008 Paperback Enitharmon Press

Elementary Morality

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Queneau, Raymond

£14.95 01 Apr 2008 Paperback Carcanet Press Ltd.

Features poems written by a surrealist, translated into English from the original French.

New European Poets

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Miller, Wayne Prufer, Kevin

£9.89 01 Apr 2008 Paperback Graywolf Press

In compiling this landmark anthology, Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer enlisted twenty-four regional editors to select 290 poets, whose writing was first published after 1970. These poets are from every country in Europe, and many of them are published here for the first time in English and in the United States. Poetry translated from more than forty languages is represented, including French, German, Italian and Spanish, and more regional languages such as Basque, Irish Gaelic, and Sami. Nearly 200 translators - among them John Ashbery, Marilyn Hacker, Michael Hamburger, Siri Hustvedt, Paul Muldoon, Charles Simic, and Derek Walcott - have contributed English versions of more than 400 poems gathered here.

The range of styles in New European Poems is exhilarating - from the lyric intimacy of Portuguese poet Rosa Alice Branco to the profane prose poems of Romanian poet Radu Andriescu, from the surrealist bravado of Czech poet Sylva Fischerova to the survivor's cry of Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya.

From Plato to Lancelot: A Preface to Chretien de Troyes

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Murray, Sarah-Jane K. Murray, K. Sarah-Jane

£14.81 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Syracuse University Press

Tartuffe: A New Verse Translation

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Moliere

£6.87 01 Apr 2008 Paperback W. W. Norton & Company

Dante's Inferno

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Verse Translation

By Dante Alighieri

£15.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback MacMillan UK

An English translation of the "Inferno," Dante's Italian poem.

Yellow Studio

27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephen Romer

£9.95 27 Mar 2008 Paperback Carcanet Press Ltd

A book of poems that ranges from erotic intensity to rueful satire.

Selected Poems

27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Charlotte Mew

£9.95 27 Mar 2008 Paperback Carcanet Press Ltd

A selection of the startling and beautiful poems of Charlotte Mew.

The Selected Poems of Cavafy

27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Constantine P. Cavafy

£9.99 27 Mar 2008 Paperback Penguin Books Ltd

Inferno

20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Alighieri Dante

£8.99 20 Mar 2008 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

Fleurs Du Mal

01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Baudelaire, Charles P.

£13.95 01 Mar 2008 Paperback David R. Godine Publisher

Presents the first American translation of the complete text of Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork and includes the complete original French texts for easy comparison.

Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grunbein, Brodsky

01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Celan, Grunbein, Brodsky

By Eskin, Michael

£40.95 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Stanford University Press

Presents the interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of three poets: the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920-1970); the Leningrad native, US poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996); and, Germany's premier contemporary poet, Durs Grunbein (born 1962).

Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology

01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hofmann, Michael

£13.74 01 Mar 2008 Paperback Farrar Straus Giroux

This groundbreaking anthology will serve as the standard for years to come. Editor Michael Hofmann has assembled brilliant translations of the major German poets, from Rilke and Brecht to Durs Grunbein and Jan Wagner, in an approachable, readable, and endlessly interesting collection. Here we find poetry as a living counter-force to socio-political reality; poetry of dissent and fear and protest; poetry of private griefs and musics. From the subtlety and elegance of Brecht, to the extraordinary jargon-glooms of Gottfried Benn, to the oblique and straightforward responses to the country's villainous history, to the bitter, cleansed, and haunted poetry of the postwar years, the anthology ends with a reunified country looking at itself and its neighbors in new ways. This is an essential and timely collection of verse from a tumultuous, violent, tragic, and hopeful century, written in the language of those who were at the heart of the matter.

Poems

01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hesse, Hermann

£14.00 01 Mar 2008 Paperback Farrar Straus Giroux

Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels "Steppenwolf "and "Siddhartha," among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume--filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons--that is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse's novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own, a sense of longing for love and for home that is both deceptively simple and deeply moving.

In Praise of the Unfinished: Selected Poems

01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hartwig, Julia

£13.74 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Knopf Publishing Group

Selected Poetry and Prose

23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Bilingual Edition

By Chiara Matraini

£31.00 23 Feb 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Chiara Matraini was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch. She excelled in a number of literary genres - poetry, religious meditation, discourse, and dialogue. This book is a collection of her erotic love poetry and poems on spiritual salvation.

Inferno

21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Alighieri Dante

£8.99 21 Feb 2008 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

Selected Poems and Translations

21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Bilingual Edition

By Madeleine de l'Aubespine

£26.00 21 Feb 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Madeleine de l'Aubespine penned beautiful love poems to the famous women of her day. This book features sonnets as well as reproductions of l'Aubespine's poetic translations of "Ovid and Ariosto", useful for students and scholars in literature, history, and women's studies.

Spanish Poets of the Golden Age, in Contemporary English Translations

15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Tony Frazer

£9.95 15 Feb 2008 Paperback Shearsman Books

An anthology which includes works by several of the poets of the Spanish rennaissance and "siglo de oro": Boscan, Garcilaso de la Vega, Montemayor, Cervantes, the Argensolas, Gongora, Quevedo and others. It features translators who are 16th and 17th century British poets: Yong, Sidney, Shelton, Fanshawe, Stanley, Dummmond and Ayres.

The God-Madness

01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Da Todi, Jacopone

£8.00 01 Feb 2008 Paperback Dedalus Press

Considered a pioneer in Italian theater, Jacopone is probably nowadays best known as the author of religious poems, typified by their flamboyant and, sometimes, heartbreaking drama. He was filled with the conviction that God extravagantly loves sinful humans.

The Girl Behind the Curtains: Anne Frank Within

01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Horigan Julia

£4.94 01 Feb 2008 Paperback Tate Publishing & Enterprises

In The Girl Behind the Curtains Julia Horigan uses her imagination and the language of poetry to recreate Anne Franks life in Nazi-controlled Amsterdam. Poem after poem takes the reader inside Franks mind as she discusses Hitler budding adolescence ice cream parlors the Keystone Kops luna moths and first kisses. The poems seem as though Anne wrote them herself. Based on entries from Anne Franks diary and historical accounts of her short life they engage and haunt in ways that complement the original diary causing us to question yet again prejudice subjugation violence and the unspeakable horrors of war. This work with its historical notes is a powerful teaching tool.

Sonnets to Orpheus

01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rainer Maria Rilke

£8.00 01 Feb 2008 Hardback University of Scranton Press,U.S.

Provides a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus" and situates the poems in a philosophical context. This work aims to bridge the gap between the romantic and the modern and guides the reader through various insights to be found in Rilke's sonnets.

Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems

01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jebeleanu, Eugen

£8.24 01 Feb 2008 Paperback Coffee House Press

These spare and allegorical later poems of Romania's great poet, Eugen Jebeleanu (19111991), are deeply moving expressions of collective and personal guilt from an artist whose early participation in and later disillusionment with the regime lend his work a particular, searing authenticity. Appearing in English for the first time, these profoundly unsentimental poems are politically and artistically significant lyric testimonies.

Blood and Feathers

01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Prevert, Jacques Prevert, Jaques

£8.21 01 Feb 2008 Paperback Moyer Bell

Jacques Prevert's poems have impressed generations of both young and old readers. This new edition has been revised and expanded to include four new poems. Prevert is the quintessential French romantic without being cloying or melodramatic. He did write the screenplay to one of the classic romantic films, Les Enfants du Paradis. He uses a vast array of literary allusions, memories of the Resistance and dazzling puns but the writing remains simple, direct and unpretentious. Prevert's lyricism, wit and satire are to be savored. His work has inspired such singers as Yves Montand. Many of his poems have become the lyrics of songs.

The Flowers of Evil

01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Baudelaire, Charles

£9.31 01 Feb 2008 Paperback Wesleyan Publishing House

The Collected Poems: 1956-1998

01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Herbert, Zbigniew

£9.31 01 Feb 2008 Paperback Ecco

Elementary Morality

31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Raymond Queneau

£14.95 31 Jan 2008 Paperback Carcanet Press Ltd

Features poems written by a surrealist, translated into English from the original French.

Selected Poetry and Prose

26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Bilingual Edition

By Chiara Matraini

£12.50 26 Jan 2008 Paperback The University of Chicago Press

Selected Poetry and Prose

26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Bilingual Edition

By Chiara Matraini

£31.00 26 Jan 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Inferno

24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Alighieri Dante

£8.99 24 Jan 2008 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

Selected Poems and Translations

24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Bilingual Edition

By Madeleine de l'Aubespine

£26.00 24 Jan 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

The Golden Age

15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems of the Spanish Renaissance

By Edith Grossman

£8.99 15 Jan 2008 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

A collection of poems about the Spanish Renaissance.

Come, Come-My Boiling Blood: The Complete Poems of Jos Mart

01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marti, Jose Mart, Jos

£10.99 01 Jan 2008 Paperback Curbstone Press

Sonnets to Orpheus

01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rilke, Rainer Maria

£9.00 01 Jan 2008 Hardback University of Scranton Press

Michelangelo: Poems and Letters: Selections, with 1550 Vasari Life

01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Selections, with the 1550 Vasari Life

By Buonarroti, Michelangelo

£10.99 01 Jan 2008 Paperback Penguin Books

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet. This is a collection of verses which are devoted to love and religion.

Rules for the Endgame

30 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The World of the "Nibelungenlied"

By Jan-Dirk Muller

£46.50 30 Dec 2007 Hardback Johns Hopkins University Press

Argues that the literary reception of the "Nibelungenlied" was problematic long before twentieth century. This book uncovers heterogeneous cultural context from which the poem emerged. It challenges scholarly readers to move beyond modern methods of criticism and analysis, and to look for other possibilities and methods of interpretation.

Selected Poems and Translations

27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A Bilingual Edition

By Madeleine de l'Aubespine

£31.50 27 Dec 2007 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

The Canon

25 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The Original One Hundred and Fifty-Four Poems

By Constantine P. Cavafy

£16.95 25 Dec 2007 Paperback Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies

Cavafy was a poet of Alexandria, the city of his birth and his home throughout his adult life. This volume of 154 poems presents the entire body of work by Contantine Cavafy, considered a master of modern Greek poetry.

Marie de France and the Poetics of Memory

15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Logan E. Whalen

£39.50 15 Dec 2007 Hardback The Catholic University of America Press

Presents the rhetorical use of description and memory in the works of Marie de France, the first woman to compose literary texts in French. This book discusses Marie's literary plan in light of classical rhetoric and the art of inventio, or literary topical invention, that developed in the Middle Ages.

Collected Poems 1944-1969 (v. 1)

13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Nelly Sachs

£899.00 13 Dec 2007 Paperback Green Integer

Nobel Prize-winning poet Nelly Sachs escaped Nazi Germany to Sweden, where she wrote these and other brilliant poems as a "mute outcry" to the Holocaust.

Come, Come-My Boiling Blood: The Complete Poems of Jos Mart

01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Marti, Jose Mart, Jos

£10.99 01 Dec 2007 Paperback Curbstone Press

Selected Poetry and Prose

01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A Bilingual Edition

By Chiara Matraini

£15.00 01 Dec 2007 Paperback The University of Chicago Press

Selected Poetry and Prose

01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A Bilingual Edition

By Chiara Matraini

£38.00 01 Dec 2007 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Dante and Difference

29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Writing in the 'Commedia'

By Jeremy Tambling

£22.99 29 Nov 2007 Paperback Cambridge University Press

This book presents an interesting approach to Dante's Divine Comedy, drawing on medieval theories of reading and understanding a text.

Inferno

29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Alighieri Dante

£8.99 29 Nov 2007 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

Selected Poems and Translations

29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A Bilingual Edition

By Madeleine de l'Aubespine

£10.00 29 Nov 2007 Paperback The University of Chicago Press

Inferno

01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Alighieri Dante

£8.99 01 Nov 2007 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

Selected Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition

01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A Bilingual Edition

By Matraini, Chiara

£15.00 01 Nov 2007 Paperback University of Chicago Press

Selected Poems and Translations

01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A Bilingual Edition

By Madeleine de l'Aubespine

£31.50 01 Nov 2007 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Rules for the Endgame

30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The World of the "Nibelungenlied"

By Jan-Dirk Muller

£46.50 30 Oct 2007 Hardback Johns Hopkins University Press

Canti

26 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Giacomo Leopardi

£8.99 26 Oct 2007 Paperback Oneworld Classics Ltd

Presented in a dual-language edition, this is an anatomy of man's unhappiness on earth.

Salt on the Eye

15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Selected Poems

By Hanne Bramness

£9.95 15 Oct 2007 Paperback Shearsman Books

A selection of work in English by one of the leading poets of her generation in Norway, author of eight collections in norwegian, two of them for children.

Strange Words

15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Retelling and Reception in the Medieval Roland Textual Tradition

By Margaret Burland

£24.95 15 Oct 2007 Paperback University of Notre Dame Press

Offers separate but interrelated close readings of four medieval Roland texts in French and Occitan, paying attention to scenes in which the speeches of various characters perform or mirror narrative functions. This book focuses on discourse and narrative within the fictional universe. It compares multiple medieval Roland texts.

The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors

01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Nielsen, Carsten Ren'

£7.69 01 Oct 2007 Paperback New Issues Poetry Press

Traumatic Verses: On Poetry in German from the Concentration Camps, 1933-1945

01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

On Poetry in German from the Concentration Camps, 1933-1945

By Nader, Andres Jose

£45.00 01 Oct 2007 Hardback Camden House (NY)

Includes readings of - and the stories behind - poems that are documents of the Holocaust. This work discusses their significance for aesthetic theory and for research on the camps. It also tells the stories behind the composition and preservation of these poems and the history of their publication since 1945.

A Bouquet of Satire, Wisdom, and History: An Anthology of Latin Verse from Twelfth-Century France in Houghton Library

01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

An Anthology of Latin Verse from Twelfth-Century France in Houghton Library

By Balint, Bridget K.

£22.95 01 Oct 2007 Hardback Houghton Library

The Drug of Art: Selected Poems

01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Blatny, Ivan

£8.24 01 Oct 2007 Paperback Ugly Duckling Presse

"The verses and fate of the poet Ivan Blatny . . . complete the fate of Czech literature, which transcended the borders of the nation, often struggling for survival."-Vaclav Havel

??Lost to the world for twenty-five years, Ivan Blatny was, according to the Czech Ministry of Culture, "one of the most significant Czech poets of the twentieth century." Blatny fled Czechoslovakia after the Communist coup in 1948, but didn't cope well with exile. This volume spans fifty years of his career and is notable for being the first major collection of Blatny's work in English, including his multi-lingual poems written in English mental hospitals.

Rules for the Endgame: The World of the Nibelungenlied

01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The World of the "Nibelungenlied"

By Muller, Jan-Dirk

£46.50 01 Oct 2007 Hardback Johns Hopkins University Press

Strange Words: Retelling and Reception in the Medieval Roland Textual Tradition

01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Retelling and Reception in the Medieval Roland Textual Tradition

By Burland, Margaret

£24.95 01 Oct 2007 Paperback University of Notre Dame Press

Charlestown Blues: Selected Poems

01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Selected Poems

By Goffette, Guy

£15.00 01 Oct 2007 Hardback University of Chicago Press

Erotic and urbane, distinguished by formal skill yet marked by the subtlest shades of feeling, Guy Goffette's lyrical poems pay homage to both Verlaine and Rimbaud, whom he counts as his important forebears. This title includes a selection of Goffette's poems, all centering around the notion of "blue" - the color and the emotion.

Canti

28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Giacomo Leopardi

£8.99 28 Sep 2007 Paperback Oneworld Classics Ltd

Presented in a dual-language edition, this is an anatomy of man's unhappiness on earth.

Medieval Literacy and Textuality in Middle High German

28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Reading and Writing in Albrecht's "Jungerer Titurel"

By Annette Volfing

£40.00 28 Sep 2007 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

States that "Albrecht's Der jungere Titurel" is an intellectually ambitious narrative written ca 1270 as a prequel and sequel to the more famous Arthurian texts by Wolfram von Eschenbach. This monograph addresses the topics of literacy and texuality in order to develop a new line of interpretation for a landmark of Middle High German literature.

Reading Dante

28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The Pursuit of Meaning

By Jesper Hede

£49.00 28 Sep 2007 Hardback Lexington Books,U.S.

Examines the problem of thematic coherence in Dante's "Divina Commedia". The author argues that a systematic parallel reading of the poem's three parts reveals that it is the vision of divine order that provides the poem with its thematic unity.

Inferno

21 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Alighieri Dante

£8.99 21 Sep 2007 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

Charenton

15 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Chus Pato

£9.95 15 Sep 2007 Paperback Shearsman Books

Presents the locale of Weiss' Marat/Sade as a play of shadows, light, beauty and intensity that enacts Galician being and the agonies of its history, and of a woman writer in whom this history is chiselled.

Selected Poems

13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

With Parallel Spanish Text

By Federico Garcia Lorca

£8.99 13 Sep 2007 Paperback Oxford University Press