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

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

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

Poems from the Diwan

Yehuda Halevi

• Paperback | Engels | Poetica
• 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

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

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

Turning-Point

Rainer Maria Rilke

• Paperback | Frans | Poetica
• While Rilke has been perhaps more widely translated into English than any other modern poet, the emphasis has always been on 'major works' - the New P... 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

Petrarch

Francesco Petrarch

• Paperback | Engels | Poetica
• 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