Geoffrey Chaucer Penguin Classics Retail Price: 16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
The tragedy of Troilus and Criseyde is one of the greatest narrative poems in English literature. Set during the siege of Troy, it tells how the young knight Troilus, son of King Priam, falls in love with Criseyde, a beautif ... more.
Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Nevill Coghill Penguin Classics Retail Price: 10.00 Sale Price: $7.99 You Save: $2.01
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling compet ... more.
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In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also ... more.
George Herbert Penguin Classics Retail Price: 16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments ... more.
N. K. Sandars Penguin Classics Retail Price: 14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Comparable with the Book of Genesis, it opens in watery chaos and sings of the foundations of the world and its centre, the fabulous golden city of Babylon. A hymn of praise in celebration of Marduk, ... more.
John Milton Penguin Classics Retail Price: 15.95 Sale Price: $12.75 You Save: $3.2
Although he wrote Comus and ''Lycids' shortly after leaving Cambridge, Milton devoted much of his adult life - and even sacrificed his eyesight - to defending the cause of Cromwell's Commonwealth. His later poetry, produced after Ch ... more.
Edited by Michael Alexander Penguin Classics Retail Price: 12.95 Sale Price: $10.35 You Save: $2.6
The Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf marks the beginning of the English literature. Eighth-century in origin, composed to be recited aloud, it told its Anglo-Saxon listeners a story of their Scandinavian ancestors ... more.
Edmund Spenser Penguin Classics Retail Price: 19.95 Sale Price: $15.95 You Save: $4
While The Faerie Queene counts as his masterpiece, it is in his shorter poetry that Edmund Spenser showed his supreme versatility and skill as eulogist, satirist, pastoral poet and prophet. The Shepheardes Calendar marks a turning ... more.
Dante Penguin Classics Retail Price: 13.00 Sale Price: $9.99 You Save: $3.01
To the consternation of his more academic admirers who believe LAtin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. T ... more.
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To the consternation of his more academic admirers, who believed Latin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. ... more.
Dante Penguin Classics Retail Price: 13.00 Sale Price: $9.99 You Save: $3.01
Taking two threads of a story which everybody knew and loved, the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, and the story of the lover who has to brave the underworld to find his lost lady. Dante combined them ... more.
Catullus Penguin Classics Retail Price: 13.00 Sale Price: $9.99 You Save: $3.01
Catullus, best remembered for his tempestuous relationship with the norotious Clodia Metelli, was one of the most influential, original and enigmatic of all the Roman poets.
The spearhead of a new poetic movement in the late re ... more.
Pindar Penguin Classics Retail Price: 11.95 Sale Price: $9.55 You Save: $2.4
Arguably the greatest Greek lyric poet, Pindar (518-438 B.C.) was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece - a conservative Boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and a writer on physical prowess whose interest in the Games was largely phi ... more.
Arthur Cooper Penguin Classics Retail Price: 13.00 Sale Price: $9.99 You Save: $3.01
LiPo,a legendary carouser, was the itinerate poet who is unsurpassed in the scope of his fanciful imagination and who soars to sublime heights in his descriptions of natural scenes and powerful emotions. He has been called 'the ... more.
Farid ud-Din Attar Penguin Classics Retail Price: 12.95 Sale Price: $10.35 You Save: $2.6
This is a marvelous allegorical rendering of sufism - the secretive and paradoxical form of Islamic mysticism. Like The Canterbury Tales, The Conference of the Birds consists of a group of stories bound to ... more.
W.H. Auden Random House, Inc Retail Price: 12.50 Sale Price: $8.75 You Save: $3.75
W.H. Auden (1907-1973) is the wittiest, the most urbane, the most civil, companionable, and worldly of English poetry's great twentieth-century masters. He is also, with his exhilerating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing in all ... more.
Virgil Penguin Classics Retail Price: 13.00 Sale Price: $9.99 You Save: $3.01
A eulogy to Italy as the temperate land of perpetual spring, and a celebration of the values of rustic piety, this book is probably the supreme achievement of Latin poetry. ... more.
Virgil Penguin Classics Retail Price: 11.95 Sale Price: $9.55 You Save: $2.4
Virgil's haunting and enigmatic Eclogues provided the inspiration for the whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. Yet despite their rustic setting and the unparalleled beauty of their phrasing, the Eclogues are anything bu ... more.
Dante Penguin Classics Retail Price: 12.00 Sale Price: $9.99 You Save: $2.01
Arguably the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieri's all-encompassing vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife. In the Purgatorio, Dante struggles up the terraces of Mo ... more.
Dante Penguin Classics Retail Price: 13.00 Sale Price: $9.99 You Save: $3.01
This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved B ... more.
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This is one of the finest of epic poems and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain. The hero, El Cid, is a warlord of Herculean stature: superiori to his fellow men in action, of outstanding generalship and courtesy, he is at the ... more.
Translated with an Introduction by Lucien Stryk Penguin Classics Retail Price: 9.95 Sale Price: $7.95 You Save: $2
By combining the ideals of 'karumi'--lightness of touch--and oneness with nature, Basho (1644-94) rose above the artificiality of previous haiku poets to become the new master of the genre. A follo ... more.
Glyn Burgess Penguin Classics Retail Price: 10.00 Sale Price: $7.99 You Save: $2.01
Based on the massacre in 778 of Charlemagne's rearguard at Roncesvalles in northern Spain, The Song of Roland transforms a legendary defeat into an epic clash between Christianity and paganism.
Homer Penguin Classics Retail Price: 13.00 Sale Price: $9.99 You Save: $3.01
Fagles combines his talents as poet and scholar to present this masterful, elegant translation of the stirring story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. The title Iliad, is not an adequate description of the contents of the poem, whi ... more.
John Donne Random House, Inc Retail Price: 12.50 Sale Price: $8.75 You Save: $3.75
John Donne (1572-1631) brought to the famous and famously sensual love poems we know as Songs and Sonnets an intellectual force so powerful that he exploded the traditional love lyrics from within. He brought to his ... more.
Gerard Manley Hopkins Random House, Inc Retail Price: 12.50 Sale Price: $8.75 You Save: $3.75
Gerard manley Hopkins (1844-1889) who was known during his lifetime not as a poet but as a Jesuit priest, combined an intense feeling for nature with an ecstatic awareness of its divine origins. He was also one of English poetr ... more.
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An inspiring anthology that celebrates our nation with more than one hundred of the greatest poems ever written about the landscapes, institutions, and transforming events of America.
Dante Alighieri Penguin Classics Retail Price: 11.00 Sale Price: $8.99 You Save: $2.01
La Vita Nuova marked a turning point in European literature, introducing personal experience into the strict formalism of medieval love poetry. The sequence of poems tells the story of Dante's passion for Beatrice, the beautiful ... more.
Alfred Tennyson Penguin Classics Retail Price: 14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Not since Byron has a poet enjoyed such extraordinary critical and popular success. Modern readers will recognize Tennyson's genius for painting - not pictures - but human thoughts and feelings - in a rich and ... more.
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