How to Read a Poem

Burton Raffel

• Paperback | Engels
• An introductory text that is both an anthology of over 200 poems and a comprehensive exploration of the form. Over 100 poets featured; those most wide... Lees meer

Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam

• Hardcover | Engels
• Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, the great twentieth-century Russian poet, was once thought to be buried forever in secret files and condemned to oblivion b... Lees meer

Beowulf

• Paperback | Engels | Signet Classics
• Before there was Game of Thrones , there was Beowulf ... SONG OF BATTLE AND KINGS Beowulf is one of the earliest extant poems in a modern European lan... Lees meer

Yvain

Chrétien de Troyes

• Paperback | Engels | Chretien de Troyes Romances S
• A twelfth-century poem by the creator of the Arthurian romance describes the courageous exploits and triumphs of a brave lord who tries to win back hi... Lees meer

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Francois Rabelais

• Paperback | Engels
• Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times-from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts, from satire on religion and education to matter... Lees meer

Selected Poems

Nicolas Boileau Despreaux

• Paperback | Engels
• French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) was by turns venerated (in the eighteenth century) and reviled (in the nineteenth century... Lees meer

Cliges

Chretien De Troyes, Chretien

• Paperback | Engels | Chretien de Troyes Romances S
• In this extraordinarily fine translation of Cligès, the second of five surviving Arthurian poems by twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, Bu... Lees meer

Artists All

Burton Raffel

• Paperback | Engels
• Basic human drives--curiosity, passion, the need to provide shape and structure, the excitement of discovery--underlie all human creativity. Different... Lees meer

Beowulf

Burton Raffel

• Paperback | Engels
• Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as... Lees meer

The Art of Translating Prose

Burton Raffel

• Paperback | Engels
• There has been very little linguistically sound discussion of the differences between poetry and prose, and virtually no discussion of any sort of the... Lees meer

Erec and Enide

Chretien De Troyes

• Paperback | Engels | Chretien de Troyes Romances S
• Erec and Enide, the first of five surviving Arthurian romantic poems by twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, narrates a vivid chapter from ... Lees meer

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

• Paperback | Engels | Signet Classics
• THE INSPIRATION FOR THE UPCOMING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE THE GREEN KNIGHT --STARRING DEV PATEL An epic poem of honor and bravery written by an anonymous ... Lees meer

Lancelot

Chrétien de Troyes

• Paperback | Engels | Chretien de Troyes Romances S
• In this outstanding new translation of Lancelot, Burton Raffel brings to English language readers the fourth of Chrétien's five surviving romantic Art... Lees meer

Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam

• Paperback | Engels
• Burton Raffel (1928-2015) was the author and translator of many books, including his acclaimed translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote and Beowulf by A... Lees meer

Das Nibelungenlied

• Paperback | Engels
• A new verse translation of the great German epic poem that inspired Wagner's Ring Cycle and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings No poem in German... Lees meer

Development of Modern Indonesian Poetry

• Paperback | Engels
• Indonesian poetry, like the country and also the language, is basically a product of this century. Only in the twentieth century have the people of th... Lees meer

The Song of the Cid

• Paperback | Spaans
• From a legendary translator: a magnificent new rendering of Spain's national epic Venture into the heart of Islamic Spain in this vibrant, rollicking ... Lees meer

The Art of Translating Poetry

Burton Raffel

• Paperback | Engels
• This book by a well-known translator and critic is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the linguistic and other more technical aspects of t... Lees meer

La Pell de Brau

Salvador Espriu

• Paperback | Engels
• La pell de brau has been called the most important book to appear in Spain in the 1960s. Grappling with themes of national, racial, and cultural ident... Lees meer

Perceval

Chrétien de Troyes

• Paperback | Engels | Chretien de Troyes Romances S
• One of the most influential storytellers in Western literature, French poet Chrétien de Troyes helped to shape the ever-fascinating legend of King Art... Lees meer