Edmund Spenser Penguin Classics Retail Price: $21.00 Sale Price: $14.49 You Save: $6.51
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: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 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.
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: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.49 You Save: $3.51
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.
Brian Stone Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
In a very full selection about half the space is devoted to short poems; religious and secular lyrics as well as moral, political, polemical and comic verse. The other half is taken up with short narrative poems, among them some ... more.
Pindar Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
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 Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 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 Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
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: $13.50 Sale Price: $10.49 You Save: $3.01
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.
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 Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: $13.50 Sale Price: $10.49 You Save: $3.01
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: $13.50 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $2.51
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.
Dante Alighieri Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $12.00
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.
Robert Frost Random House, Inc Retail Price: $13.50 Sale Price: $10.49 You Save: $3.01
Robert Frost (1874-1963) described himself as having 'a lover's quarrel with the world,' and to this quarrel he brought a poetic consciousness and craft as powerful as any in the history of literature. His lyrics, dramatic monologues, and n ... more.
Various Authors Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $14.99 You Save: $5.01
Daniel Karlin's selection of poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria gives pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti but also offers generous selections from other ... more.
Emily Bronte, Peter Washington Random House, Inc Retail Price: $13.50 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $2.51
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Bronte contains poems that demonstrate a sensibility elem ... more.
Alexander Alexander Penguin Classics Retail Price: $11.00
Beowulf stands at the head of English literature; a poem of historical interest and epic scope. Although the first manuscript of Beowulf dates from around the year 1000 CE, it is thought that the poem existed in its ... more.
W.H. Auden Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $14.99 You Save: $5.01
This collection, edited and introduced by W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, presents the greatest of the Romantics in all the fullness and ardor of their vision, including Williams Blake, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleri ... more.
John Milton Random House, Inc Retail Price: $13.50 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $2.51
John Milton (1608-1674) was a peerless classical scholar, a radical nonconformist deeply involved in the great events of his time, and one of the most original and enduring poets the world has ever known. His ... more.
William Blake Random House, Inc Retail Price: $26.00 Sale Price: $16.99 You Save: $9.01
Since it was first published in 1965, David V. Erdman's edition has been widely hailed as easily the best available text of Blake's poetry and prose. Comparing it to other Blake texts, Mic ... more.
William Shakespeare Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $5.95 Sale Price: $5.49 You Save: $0.46
This Signet Classic Shakespeare contains an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world and theater by Sylvan Barnet. Special introduction to The Sonnets, by W.H. Auden. Facsimiles of the 1609 quarto edit ... more.
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