The Lamentation of the Dead

Peter Levi

• Paperback | Poetica
• A lecture that discusses the lamentation of the dead in written and oral poetry from Homer and the Bible to recent times, by way of Shakespeare, Milto... Lees meer

Guillaume Apollinaire Selected Poems

Guillaume Apollinaire

• Paperback | Engels | Poetica | nr. 20
• Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet ... Lees meer

Turning-Point

Rainer Maria Rilke

• Paperback | Engels | Poetica
• First published under the title An Unofficial Rilke , Hamburger's translations have been critically acclaimed for their contribution towards a more co... Lees meer

Selected Shorter Poems

Luis De Gongora y Argote

• Paperback | Poetica
• Conveys various qualities of Luis De Gongora's intricate and intriguing poetry. Lees meer

From Russian with Love

Daniel Weissbort

• Paperback | Engels | Poetica
• A major critical-biographical study of one of the most important figures in post-War literature. For many years Daniel Weissbort was associated with t... Lees meer

Sappho Through English Poetry

Sappho

• Paperback | Engels | Poetica | nr. 27
• The poetry of Sappho, who was born around 620 BC and lived on the Greek island of Lesbos, has inspired and fascinated readers and poets for two and a ... Lees meer

Roman Elegies

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

• Paperback | Engels | Poetica
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is mainly known to the English-speaking world as the author of the poetic drama Faust . In Europe - as poet, dr... Lees meer

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

• Paperback | Engels | Poetica | nr. 30
• Dante's masterpiece is a foundation stone of European poetry. It was a profound influence on T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and in our own day has inspire... Lees meer

Fortune's Prisoner

Boethius

• Paperback | Engels | Poetica | nr. 38
• An aristocratic scholar and influential member of the court of Theodoric, Boethius (born about AD 480) was arrested for alleged treason and executed i... Lees meer

Poems from the Diwan

Yehuda Halevi

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• Yehuda Halevi, who wrote both secular and devotional poems, is considered one of the finest poets in post-biblical Hebrew literature. Suffused with wa... Lees meer

Friedrich Holderlin

Friedrich Holderlin

• Paperback | Engels | Poetica
• Michael Hamburger has been translating the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) for over half a century. This lifelong preoccupation culminates i... Lees meer

Distance the Shadows

Victor Hugo

• Paperback | Engels | Poetica | nr. 10
• Victor Hugo, the most prolific and versatile of the French Romantics, is one of the greatest nineteenth-century writers. Partly because of its enormou... Lees meer

Song of Songs

• Paperback | Engels | Poetica
• The extraordinary and long-lived appeal of The Song of Songs lies in its unmatched lyrical beauty and in its supreme evocation of the moods of sexual ... Lees meer

Petrarch

Francesco Petrarch

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• I saw the tracks of angels in the earth, The beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world. The great fourteenth-century poet's lyric and love poems... Lees meer

Letter to Juvenal

Martial

• Hardcover | Poetica
• Martial's name is a byword for caustic and often obscene wit. The fiercest Roman satirist after Juvenal, he was also a poet with a more reflective nat... Lees meer

The Noise Made by Poems

Peter Levi

• Hardcover | Poetica
• Most of what there is to learn about poetry has to be learnt in one's own language. But it is mostly learnt by reading and turning over poems in one's... Lees meer

Selected Poems of Tu Fu

Tu Fu

• Paperback | Engels | Poetica
• Tu Fu (712-770 AD) is China's greatest classical poet. He radically altered the poetry of the High Tang period; in addition to making formal innovatio... Lees meer