The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Poems

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• In The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Poems, veteran poet David R. Slavitt touches on topics from the mundane to the mysterious with his signature wit an... Lees meer

Overture

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• While waiting for results from a prostate exam, a writer turns to the example of Marcel Proust and Dr. Ã0/00douard Brissaud, Proust's model for Dr. du... Lees meer

A Gift

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• Epic poem, biography, literary criticism, historical romance--in A Gift, David Slavitt presents the fascinating life of Mozart's librettist, Lorenzo d... Lees meer

Ausonius

• Paperback | Engels
• Ausonius, the most famous of the learned poets active in the second half of the fourth century, was born at Bordeaux and taught school there for 30 ye... Lees meer

The Lays of Marie de France

• Paperback | Engels | Mingling Voices
• The twelve "lays" of the mysterious medieval poet Marie de France are here presented in sprightly English verse by poet and translator David R. Slavit... Lees meer

The Cliff

David R Slavitt

• Hardcover | Engels
• John Smith is an imminent historian, secure in his well-paid position as an endowed professor at a major university. Any day he expects a favorable re... Lees meer

Crossroads

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• In his twelfth book of original verse David R. Slavitt leads us to a crossroads where terror, loneliness, and despair are transfigured by love and art... Lees meer

Choruses from the Lost Plays of Sophocles

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• Taking the general subject of most of the 110 lost plays of Sophocles from their titles, renowned poet & translator David Slavitt improvises 'translat... Lees meer

de Rerum Natura, the Nature of Things

Lucretius

• Paperback | Engels
• This elegant new translation at last restores the poetry to one of the greatest and most influential poems in the Western tradition. De Rerum Natura i... Lees meer

La Vita Nuova

Dante Alighieri

• Paperback | Engels
• La Vita Nuova (1292-94) has many aspects. Dante's libello, or "little book," is most obviously a book about love. In a sequence of thirty-one poems, t... Lees meer

Epic and Epigram

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• David R. Slavitt's affectionate translations of epigrams by sixteenth-century Welsh academic John Owen transmute a careful selection of the writer's w... Lees meer

Dwindling

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• Dwindling is a virtuoso work by the author of more than a hundred acclaimed works of fiction, drama, poetry, and translation. In this remarkable novel... Lees meer

Walloomsac

Anna Faktorovich, David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• If a novel is a work of prose of some length, this is a novel--but different in that it is more like life, which has no plots and does not reward virt... Lees meer

The Book of the Twelve Prophets

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is a glittering new translation of the portion of the Hebrew Bible known as the Book of the Twelve Prophets, or the Twelve "Minor" Prophets. In t... Lees meer

The Crooning Wind

• Paperback | Engels
• Three mysterious Greenlandic poets are translated for the first time into English by David R. Slavitt--a poet and novelist as well as a prodigious tra... Lees meer

Aeschylus, 1

• Paperback | Engels | Penn Greek Drama | nr. 1
• The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr play... Lees meer

The Rig Veda

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• The Vedas are ancient books of hymns. There are four-the Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda-and they are the primary texts of Hinduism. ... Lees meer

Opus Posthumous and Other Poems

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• As he enters his sixth decade of publishing poetry, David R. Slavitt remains a determined wildcatter who ranges as far as he thinks necessary to drill... Lees meer

Civil Wars

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels | Sea Cliff Fund
• Praise for David R. Slavitt "Slavitt's touch is light, and he writes beautifully.... His satire is sharp, and he can be wildly funny."-- New York Time... Lees meer

Short Stories Are Not Real Life

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• In these fourteen beautifully crafted stories David R. Slavitt shows his mastery of the form. Elegant, spare, sometimes funny, sometimes elegiac--this... Lees meer

William Henry Harrison and Other Poems

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• The prodigiously imaginative mind and penetrating wit of David R. Slavitt are on full display in his newest collection of poetry that is perhaps his m... Lees meer

Equinox and Other Poems

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• In his newest volume of verse, David R. Slavitt offers some of his finest poetry to date. Equinox is a collection of twenty-five poems on various subj... Lees meer

Propertius in Love

Sextus Propertius

• Paperback | Engels
• These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's... Lees meer

Day Sailing

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Poetry
• This volume of poetry illustrates a new side of the author of The Carnivore and Suits for the Dead . The wit, the toughness, the shining lyric clarity... Lees meer