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100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amorby Pablo Neruda, Stephen TapscottISBN 0292760280 (0-292-76028-0)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: '100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor'Book summary:If you've ever wished for a fresh and imaginative way of saying "I love you" to your beloved, peruse Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets. This intimate bilingual collection overflows with the master poet's signature sensuality and inventive imagery. Written in the 1950s for his cherished wife Matilde Urrutia, Neruda's earnest adoration leaps off the page in poem after poem: "Your heart is a clay toy shaped like a dove"; "Your kisses are clusters of fruit, fresh with dew." Thanks to translator Stephen Tapscott, Neruda's dreamy images carry over vividly from the Spanish and dance in the mind for days after they're read.
Neruda pays only loose tribute to the sonnet by employing a 14-line structure for each poem. As he says, his sonnets are made of wood, rather than the "silver, or crystal, or cannonfire" of a more refined sonnet. Neruda's humility is apparent as he refers again and again to the natural landscape of Isla Negra (the Pacific island where he and his wife lived) to describe his simple dedication to Matilde: "...I am like a scorched rock / that suddenly sings when you are near, because it drinks / the water you carry from the forest, in your voice."
Journeying from the erotic celebration of the body to the spiritual depths of eternal union, 100 Love Sonnets shows why "two happy lovers make one bread" and "waking, they leave one sun empty in their bed." [via]
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The Annotated Ancient Marinerby Martin Gardner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gustave DoreISBN 1591021251 (1-59102-125-1)
Hardcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Ancient Mariner'Book summary:Coleridge's greatest work, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is utterly unique, unlike any other ballad. No narrative poem has rivaled it in combining scenes of terror with scenes of incomparable beauty. Although enormously popular in the nineteenth century, it is seldom read or studied today. This annotated version by Martin Gardner will help to renew the appreciation and deepen the understanding of Coleridge's unjustly neglected masterpiece.
Preceding the poem is a biographical sketch of the great poet, which emphasizes those aspects of his many-sided life and personality that have the strongest bearing on the poem, especially on circumstances surrounding its composition. Both the 1798 and 1834 versions of the poem are presented, with notes on words, lines, and stanzas that Coleridge later excised. Following the poem, Gardner summarizes major critical attitudes toward the ballad, discusses possible higher levels of meaning, and closes with questions concerning the poem's much-debated moral.
Many artists have illustrated the Rime, but none as skillfully as Gustave Doré. He was far and away the most popular and prolific book illustrator of all time, and though his work has been out of fashion for some time, it is becoming harder and harder to dismiss him as a mere yeoman illustrator.
Here is your chance to read, or reread, Coleridge's classic Rime, to fully understand it, and to relish Doré's magnificent illustrations. [via]More editions of The Annotated Ancient Mariner:
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Catullusby Douglas F.S. ThomsonISBN 080208592X (0-8020-8592-X)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catullus'Book summary:This work contains a major revision of Douglas Thomson's Catullus: A Critical Edition (1978), with the addition of a full commentary and a wholly new introduction. For the introduction and for each of the poems there is an extensive and current bibliography.
In the introduction, apart from sections on the life of Catullus, on the arrangement of the poems, and on their literary background, there is a lengthy discussion of the history of the text, as well as a review of the progress of Catullan studies from the editio princeps to the present day.
There are about seventy changes from the previous edition in the text of the poems. The critical apparatus has also been extensively revised. In addition, the Table of Manuscripts, which has come to be regarded as standard, has been updated without alteration to the numbering sequence.
Though this is not primarily intended as a 'school edition,' the commentary includes, in addition to critical judgments, translations and interpretations of words and phrases that may help to illuminate readings in the text.
Catullus offers readers a new text of the poems, with a commentary, a codicology of the manuscript tradition, and a thorough review of Catullus scholarship.
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Catullusby G.P. Goold, Gaius Valerius CatullusISBN 0715614355 (0-7156-1435-5)
Hardcover, Duckworth
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Catullusby Gaius Valerius Catullus, Elmer T. MerrillISBN 0674103505 (0-674-10350-5)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Catullus: The Poemsby Kenneth QuinnISBN 1853994979 (1-85399-497-9)
Softcover, Bristol Classical Pr
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Catullus:the Complete Poems for American Readers: The Complete Poems for American Readersby Gaius Valerius Catullus, Reney Myers, Robert J. OrmsbyISBN 0525078150 (0-525-07815-0)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Venerisby Gaius Valerius CatullusISBN 0674990072 (0-674-99007-2)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris'Book summary:Catullus (Gaius Valerius, 8454 BCE), of Verona, went early to Rome, where he associated not only with other literary men from Cisalpine Gaul but also with Cicero and Hortensius. His surviving poems consist of nearly sixty short lyrics, eight longer poems in various metres, and almost fifty epigrams. All exemplify a strict technique of studied composition inherited from early Greek lyric and the poets of Alexandria. In his work we can trace his unhappy love for a woman he calls Lesbia; the death of his brother; his visits to Bithynia; and his emotional friendships and enmities at Rome. For consummate poetic artistry coupled with intensity of feeling Catullus's poems have no rival in Latin literature.
Tibullus (Albius, ca. 5419 BCE), of equestrian rank and a friend of Horace, enjoyed the patronage of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, whom he several times apostrophizes. Three books of elegies have come down to us under his name, of which only the first two are authentic. Book 1 mostly proclaims his love for 'Delia', Book 2 his passion for 'Nemesis'. The third book consists of a miscellany of poems from the archives of Messalla; it is very doubtful whether any come from the pen of Tibullus himself. But a special interest attaches to a group of them which concern a girl called Sulpicia: some of the poems are written by her lover Cerinthus, while others purport to be her own composition.
The Pervigilium Veneris, a poem of not quite a hundred lines celebrating a spring festival in honour of the goddess of love, is remarkable both for its beauty and as the first clear note of romanticism which transformed classical into medieval literature. The manuscripts give no clue to its author, but recent scholarship has made a strong case for attributing it to the early fourth-century poet Tiberianus.
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Cien Sonetos De Amorby Pablo Neruda, Hernan LoyolaISBN 1400099633 (1-4000-9963-3)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Coleridge's Ancient Mariner: An Experimental Edition of Texts and Revisions 1798-1828by Martin WallenISBN 0882681486 (0-88268-148-6)
Softcover, Station Hill Pr
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Complete Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 0316184136 (0-316-18413-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:Emily Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful. Only now is her complete oeuvre--all 1,775 poems--available in its original form, uncorrupted by editorial revision, in one volume. Thomas H. Johnson, a longtime Dickinson scholar, arranged the poems in chronological order as far as could be ascertained (the dates for more than 100 are unknown). This organization allows a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the sometimes-clunky rhyme schemes of her juvenilia, including valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings from her last years. Quite a difference from requisite Dickinson entries in literary anthologies: "There's a certain Slant of light," "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "I taste a liquor never brewed."
The book was compiled from Thomas H. Johnson's hard-to-find variorum from 1955. While some explanatory notes would have been helpful, it's a prodigious collection, showcasing Dickinson's intractable obsession with nature, including death. Poem 1732, which alludes to the deaths of her father and a onetime suitor, illustrates her talent:
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.The musicality of her punctuation and the outright elegance of her style--akin to Christina Rossetti's hymns, although not nearly so religious--rescue the poems from their occasional abstruseness. The Complete Poems is especially refreshing because Dickinson didn't write for publication; only 11 of her verses appeared in magazines during her lifetime, and she had long-resigned herself to anonymity, or a "Barefoot-Rank," as she phrased it. This is the perfect volume for readers wishing to explore the works of one of America's first poets. [via]
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Dickinson: Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 0679429077 (0-679-42907-7)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Edmund Spenser's the Faerie Queene and Other Worksby William GraceISBN 067100512X (0-671-00512-X)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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Edmund Spenser, the Faerie Queeneby Edmund SpenserISBN 0300027060 (0-300-02706-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edmund Spenser, the Faerie Queene'Book summary:This remarkable poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, was Spenser's finest achievement: the first epic poem in modern English, "The Faerie Queene" combines dramatic narratives of chivalrous adventure with exquisite and picturesque episodes of pageantry. [via]
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Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Helen McNeilISBN 0460878956 (0-460-87895-6)
Softcover, Everyman
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Emily Dickinson Poemsby Johanna BrownellISBN 0785812849 (0-7858-1284-9)
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Eugene Oneginby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Tom BeckISBN 1903517281 (1-903517-28-1)
Softcover, Dedalus Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'Book summary:This novel in verse, said to be the parent of all Russian novels, is a tragic story of innocence, love and friendship. Eugene Onegin, an aristocrat, much like Pushkin and his peers in his attitude and habits, is bored. He visits the countryside where the young and passionate Tatyana falls in love with him. In a touching letter she confesses her love but is cruelly rejected. Years later, it is Onegin's turn to be rejected by Tatyana. [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Eugene Onegin: ISBN 0486404234 (0-486-40423-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Eugene Onegin: ISBN 0691019053 (0-691-01905-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr - Eugene Onegin: ISBN 0140443940 (0-14-044394-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Yevgeny Onegin: ISBN 0460875957 (0-460-87595-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Eugene Onegin: ISBN 0670298891 (0-670-29889-1)
Hardcover, Viking Press - Eugene Onegin: ISBN 071007333X (0-7100-7333-X)
Hardcover, Routledge and Kegan Paul - Eugene Onegin: ISBN 0809316307 (0-8093-1630-7)
Hardcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr - Eugene Onegin: ISBN 1903517281 (1-903517-28-1)
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Eugene Oneginby Douglas R. Hofstadter, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0465020941 (0-465-02094-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'Book summary:The supreme poet of the Russian language, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin has had a checkered existence in English. His prose, to be sure, has presented his translators with a less formidable set of hurdles. But Pushkin composed his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, in a 14-line stanza of his own invention, with a slippery rhyme scheme and treacherously foursquare meter (i.e., iambic tetrameter, which tends to sound slightly singsong to English speakers). This has forced most of his translators--from Walter Arndt to James Falen to Charles Johnston--to shortchange form in favor of content. Vladimir Nabokov probably pushed this tendency as far as it could go, transforming Pushkin's poetry into perversely lumpy paragraphs (and enveloping the slim pickings of his translation in a jumbo-sized commentary). But nobody has managed to produce even a halfway-definitive version of Eugene Onegin.
Now Douglas Hofstadter, who's best known for Gödel, Escher, Bach, has taken a shot at it. Certainly he's no stranger to translation theory--his 1997 book, Le Ton Beau de Marot, was a brilliant and unbuttoned meditation on the translator's art, with numerous detours into the hinterlands of cognitive science. Theory and practice are two different matters, however, as Hofstadter is quick to admit: "The thought seemed quite ridiculous: me, with such sparse knowledge of Russian, hoping to clamber up this formidable Everest of translation, a book often said to be next to untranslatable, and square at the center of the inner circle of Russian literature!" Clamber he did, however--and the result is a charming if uneven version of the poem, more beholden to Cole Porter and Ogden Nash than the poet's 19th-century peers. Several of Hofstadter's slangier couplets might have Nabokov spinning in his grave: "Did thus our party boy exhaust / Himself at games, at zero cost?" Still, he manages some of Pushkin's loop-the-loops very nicely:
The air grew warm as days went flying,
Clearly Hofstadter's take on the poem goes heavy on the sizzle and fails to capture much of Pushkin's elegant gravity. Still, it's a welcome addition to the ranks, a handsome present to the poet on the occasion of his 200th birthday--and, rather winningly, a linguistic labor of love. --William Davies [via]
And winter knew to call it quits.
Eugene gave up his versifying,
But not the ghost, and not his wits.
He's lent new life by buds aborning,
And first thing on some clear spring morning
He leaves his cloistered, small château
Where, marmot-like, he'd braved the snow.
Eugene Oneginby Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0691018375 (0-691-01837-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Eugene Oneginby Walter W. Arndt, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0875011063 (0-87501-106-3)
Softcover, Ardis
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'Book summary:This is the widely acclaimed translation of Russian literature's most seminal work. Pushkin's "novel in verse" has influenced Russian prose as well as poetry for more than a century. By turns brilliant, entertaining, romantic and serious, it traces the development of a young Petersburg dandy as he deals with life and love. Influeneced by Byron, Pushkin reveals the nature of his heroes through the emotional colorations found in their witty remarks, nature descriptions, and unexpected actions, all conveyed in stanzas of sonnet length (a form which became known as the Onegin Stanza), faithfully reproduced by Walter Arndt inthis Bollingen Prize translation. [via]
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Eugene Oneginby James E. Falen, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0192824910 (0-19-282491-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Faerie Queeneby A. C. Hamilton, Edmund Spenser, Hiroshi Yamashita, Toshiyuki SuzukiISBN 058209951X (0-582-09951-X)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Faerie Queene'Book summary:Provides full annotation of the text, detailed guidance to critical comment past and present, and a wealth of introductory material setting the poem in its full historical and literary context. [via]
The Faerie Queeneby Edmund SpenserISBN 1840221089 (1-84022-108-9)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Faerie Queene'Book summary:'Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose light Like Phoebus lampe throughout the world doth shine' The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential poems in the English language. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united Arthurian romance and Italian renaissance epic to celebrate the glory of the Virgin Queen. Each book of the poem recounts the quest of a knight to achieve a virtue: the Red Crosse Knight of Holinesse, who must slay a dragon and free himself from the witch Duessa; Sir Guyon, Knight of Temperance, who escapes the Cave of Mammon and destroys Acrasia's Bowre of Bliss; and the lady-knight Britomart's search for her Sir Artegall, revealed to her in an enchanted mirror. Although composed as a moral and political allegory, The Faerie Queene's magical atmosphere captivated the imaginations of later poets from Milton to the Victorians. This edition includes the letter to Raleigh, in which Spenser declares his intentions for his poem, the commendatory verses by Spenser's contemporaries and his dedicatory sonnets to the Elizabethan court, and is supplemented by a table of dates and a glossary. [via]
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Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Faerie Queene: ISBN 0848811771 (0-8488-1177-1)
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The Faerie Queeneby Douglas Brooks-DaviesISBN 0460154435 (0-460-15443-5)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Fairy Queen: A Modernized Selectionby Edmund Spenser, Douglas Brooks-DaviesISBN 0460875728 (0-460-87572-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fairy Queen: A Modernized Selection'Book summary:This study edition, published to commemorate the quatercentenary of the six-book 1596 edition, contains a full, modernized selection from modern England's longest epic poem, as well as a commentary upon it. [via]
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LA Chanson De Roland: Oxford Text and English Translation.by Gerard J. BraultISBN 0271003758 (0-271-00375-8)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Le Chanson De Rolandby JoninISBN 2070371506 (2-07-037150-6)
Softcover, Gallimard
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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Storiesby Tim BurtonISBN 0688156819 (0-688-15681-9)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories'Book summary:This unassuming hardcover in black buckram with a dark lavender title plate is the door into a world of twisted pleasures. Filmmaker Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas) tells 23 winsomely macabre stories about boys and girls who don't fit in. Their bodies are misshapen, their habits are odd, and their parents are appalled by them. But they do try hard to be human, like poor unwanted Mummy Boy, who's "a bundle of gauze": he goes for a walk in the park with his mummy dog. Some kids are having "a birthday party for a Mexican girl." They think Mummy Boy is a piñata: "They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes." For all its simple humor, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a peculiarly disturbing book about the violence that children suffer. It is illustrated in pen and ink, watercolor, and crayon. The themes and imagery are at a young-adult to adult level. [via]
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New and Selected Poemsby Mary OliverISBN 0807068772 (0-8070-6877-2)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New and Selected Poems'Book summary:As Diane Wakoski has noted, the power of Mary Oliver's Frost-influenced pastoral writing is in her ability to cast a spell, to create "the illusion that the natural world is graspable." Oliver's fierce independence, beautiful imagery, and love and knowledge of the natural world are all driven by a searching mind, expressed in poems that make for good company. In Some Questions You Might Ask, Oliver gives us this one to chew over: "Is the soul solid, like iron?/ or is it tender and breakable, like/ the wings of a moth in the beak of an owl?" Highly recommended. [via]
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Hardcover, Beacon Pr - New and Selected Poems: ISBN 0807068195 (0-8070-6819-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - New and Selected Poems: ISBN 0613181336 (0-613-18133-6)
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Poemsby Emily Dickinson, Brenda HillmanISBN 1570620997 (1-57062-099-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Poemsby CatullusISBN 1853267783 (1-85326-778-3)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poems'Book summary:The World Literature series reproduces the greatest books the world over with only the highest production standards. History, philosophy, psychology, political theory, fiction, and ancient texts are now accessible to everyone at an extremely affordable price. [via]
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Poems: Including Varient Readings Critically Compared with All Known Manuscriptsby Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. JohnsonISBN 0674676009 (0-674-67600-9)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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The Poems of Catullusby Charles MartinISBN 0801839262 (0-8018-3926-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Poems of Catullusby Gaius Valerius CatullusISBN 0520050827 (0-520-05082-7)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Poems of Catullusby Peter Green, Gaius Valerius CatullusISBN 0520242645 (0-520-24264-5)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems of Catullus'Book summary:Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E.) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries, including Caesar, Cicero, and Pompey. Catullus's poetry is by turns ribald, lyric, romantic, satirical; sometimes obscene and always intelligent, it offers us vivid pictures of the poet's friends, enemies, and lovers. The verses to his friends are bitchy, funny, and affectionate; those to his enemies are often wonderfully nasty. Many poems brilliantly evoke his passionate affair with Lesbia, often identified as Clodia Metelli, a femme fatale ten years his senior and the smart, adulterous wife of an arrogant aristocrat. Cicero later claimed she poisoned her husband.[via]
This new bilingual translation of Catullus's surviving poems by Peter Green is fresh, bawdy, and utterly engaging. Unlike its predecessors, it adheres to the principle that the rhythm of a poem, whether familiar or not, is among the most crucial elements for its full appreciation. Green provides an essay on the poet's life and literary background, a historical sketch of the politically fraught late Roman Republic in which Catullus lived, copious notes on the poems, a wide-ranging bibliography for further reading, and a full glossary.More editions of The Poems of Catullus:
The Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 0674676017 (0-674-67601-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a drawer, revealed her true self. She did not live in time but in universals--an acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world.
Dickinson died without fame; only a few poems were published in her lifetime. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk--an astonishing body of work, much of which has since appeared in piecemeal editions, sometimes with words altered by editors or publishers according to the fashion of the day.
Now Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by Emily Dickinson--1,789 poems in all, the largest number ever assembled. This reading edition derives from his three-volume work, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (1998), which contains approximately 2,500 sources for the poems. In this one-volume edition, Franklin offers a single reading of each poem--usually the latest version of the entire poem--rendered with Dickinson's spelling, punctuation, and capitalization intact. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition is a milestone in American literary scholarship and an indispensable addition to the personal library of poetry lovers everywhere.
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The Poems Of Emily Dickinson: Reading Editionby Emily Dickinson, R.W. FranklinISBN 0674018249 (0-674-01824-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Editionby Emily Dickinson, R.W. FranklinISBN 067467622X (0-674-67622-X)
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Dickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. Her great legacy was later rescued from her desk drawer--an astonishing body of work revealing her acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world. Her family sought publication of Dickinson's poetry over the years, selecting verses, often altering her words or her punctuation, until, in 1955, the first important attempt was made to collect and publish Dickinson's work, edited by Thomas H. Johnson for the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Now, after many years of preparation by Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, a new comprehensive edition is available. This three-volume work contains 1,789 poems, the largest number ever assembled. The poems, arranged chronologically, based on new dating, are drawn from a range of archives, most frequently from holographs, but also from various secondary sources representing lost manuscripts. The text of each manuscript is rendered individually, including, within the capacity of standard type, Dickinson's spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Franklin gives Dickinson's alternative readings for the poems, her revisions, and the line and page, or column, divisions in the source. Each entry identifies Franklin's editorial emendations and records the publication history, including variants. Fourteen appendices of tables and lists give additional information, including poems attributed to Emily Dickinson. The poems are indexed by numbers from the Johnson edition, as well as by first lines.
Franklin has provided an introduction that serves as a guide to this edition and surveys the history of the editing of Dickinson's poems. His account of how Dickinson conducted her workshop is a reconstruction of a remarkable poetic life.
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Poems Of Love And Hateby Josephine Balmer, CatullusISBN 1852246456 (1-85224-645-6)
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The Rime of the Ancient Marinerby Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gustave DoreISBN 1562650165 (1-56265-016-5)
Hardcover, School of Tomorrow
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The Rime of the Ancient Marinerby David Jones, Thomas DilworthISBN 1904634141 (1-904634-14-1)
Hardcover, Enitharmon Pr
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Selected Poemsby W. H. Auden, Edward MendelsonISBN 0307278085 (0-307-27808-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:This edition presents the original versions of many poems, which Auden revised to conform to his evolving political and literary attitudes later in his career. In this volume, Edward Mendelson has restored the early versions of some thirty poems generally considered to be superior to the later versions, allowing the reader to see the entire range of Auden's work. Selected and edited by Edward Mendelson [via]
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The Song of Rolandby Frederick GoldinISBN 0393090086 (0-393-09008-6)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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The Song of Rolandby Robert HarrisonISBN 0451528573 (0-451-52857-3)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Song of Rolandby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0140440755 (0-14-044075-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Song of Rolandby Glyn S. Burgess, Glyn BurgessISBN 0140445323 (0-14-044532-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Song of Rolandby Leonard Bacon, DoverISBN 0486422402 (0-486-42240-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Song of Roland'Book summary:[via]First and greatest French epic, this 11th-century tale of romance and heroism recounts the adventures of the warrior Roland, nephew to Charlemagne and prince of the Holy Roman Empire. Crystalline translation by Leonard Bacon of a patriotic and poetic story of valor, betrayal, and revenge.More editions of The Song of Roland:
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The Song of Rolandby Patricia TerryISBN 0024198358 (0-02-419835-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Coll Div
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Song of Rolandby Roland De ChansonISBN 0672604760 (0-672-60476-0)
Softcover, Bobbs-Merrill Co
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The Song of Rolandby W.S. MerwinISBN 0375757112 (0-375-75711-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Song of Roland'Book summary:A contemporary prose rendering of the great medieval French epic, The Song of Roland is as canonical and significant as the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf. It extols the chivalric ideals in the France of Charlemagne through the exploits of Charlemagne's nephew, the warrior Roland, who fights bravely to his death in a legendary battle. Against the bloody backdrop of the struggle between Christianity and Islam, The Song of Roland remains a vivid portrayal of medieval life, knightly adventure, and feudal politics. The first great literary works of a culture are its epic chronicles, those that create simple hero-figures about whom the imagination of a nation can crystallize, observed V. S. Pritchett.
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Spenser: The Faerie Qveeneby Edmund Spenser, A. C. Hamilton, Hiroshi Yamashita, Toshiyuki SuzukiISBN 1405832819 (1-4058-3281-9)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Winnie-The-Pooh Calendar 2005: Includes more than 50 full-color stickersby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525472797 (0-525-47279-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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LA Chanson De Rolandby F. WhiteheadISBN 0631003908 (0-631-00390-8)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Evgenii Onegin: Roman V Stikhakhby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, V. F. Khodasevich, Institut mirovoi literatury imeni A.M. Gorkogo, Mstislav Valerianovich DobuzhinskiiISBN 5201133533 (5-201-13353-3)
Hardcover, Nasledie
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