Los Loores de nuestra sennora, de Gonzalo de Berceo, dentro de la llamada literatura hagiográfica medieval, tratan sobre la Virgen, la misa y la vida de algunos santos, como Santo Domingo de Silos, San Millán, San Lorenzo, Santa Oria, además de su famoso poema de Alejandro Magno, el Duelo de la Virgen María y el de los Loores de Nuestra Señora.
The Rape of Lucrece - William Shakespeare - The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia.
This first-ever English translation of Nur Baba - a classic of modern Turkish literature written by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu - offers a unique window into Sufi lodges, social dilemmas, and intellectual life in early twentieth-century Istanbul.
This first-ever English translation of Nur Baba - a classic of modern Turkish literature written by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu - offers a unique window into Sufi lodges, social dilemmas, and intellectual life in early twentieth-century Istanbul.
"e;The general end, therefore, of all [The Faerie Queene], is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline: which for that I conceived should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read.
Unavailable for more than 70 years, this early but important work is published for the first time with Tolkien's 'Corrigan' poems and other supporting material, including a prefatory note by Christopher Tolkien.
Ce livre numérique présente "Les Géorgiques: Une célébration de la vie paysanne traditionnelle (L'édition intégrale - 4 tomes)" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée.
Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus--or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven.
A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served as a paradigmatic manual for writers.
This book explores the life and teaching of John of the Cross, the Spanish mystic who remains a major source of Western thought on spirituality, theology and mysticism.
Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception.
Nacidos de una pluma, que no ahorra mirar adentro, los poemas de este libro son un detalle de afectos, también de su falta, y un compendio de tiempos pegados a un alma que ama y sufre sin escalas; lo dice tal como fue su vida, consagrada a los sentimientos.
Este poemario contiene una voz independiente, contemporánea, no encuadrada en las escuelas líricas reconocidas, y que adentrará al lector en un terreno no transitado por la poesía colombiana actual.
En su poemario Trascendencia, Silvestre Santos Pillán nos invita a compartir una creación marcada por un estilo con ribetes surrealistas sobre diversas temáticas de la vida, donde destaca su nostalgia por lo efímera que se nos presenta, así como la llegada de la muerte y la esperanza de la eternidad.
En este primer volumen de la colección La otra palabra, Mariana Gardella Hueso invita a conocer la vida y obra de algunas griegas, filósofas, poetas y oradoras.
Milton's great 17th-century epic draws upon Bible stories and classical mythology to explore the meaning of existence, as understood by people of the Western world.
