A woman drowned for loving the wrong man, a Turkish lord cut down in revenge, and a Christian stranger left to live with it: the first of Byron's Turkish tales.
Poetry is the perfect medium to capture the elusive nature of happiness and this beautiful anthology explores happiness in all its forms - whether it be a fleeting moment, the promise of freedom and adventure, surviving adversity or the comfort of nature.
Roger McGough is one of Britain's best loved poets and this collection 'charts [his] passage from youthful exuberance to the wry reflection of his later years.
Ode an einen großen deutschen DichterOb »An die Freude«, »Der Handschuh« oder »Die Kraniche des Ibykus« – hier finden sich die bekanntesten und beliebtesten Gedichte Friedrich Schillers.
This book examines how mysticism can tell us about translation and translation can tell us about mysticism, addressing the ancient but ongoing connections between the art of rendering one text in another language and the art of the ineffable.
Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a masterpiece of chivalric drama.
This book examines how mysticism can tell us about translation and translation can tell us about mysticism, addressing the ancient but ongoing connections between the art of rendering one text in another language and the art of the ineffable.
August Graf von Platen Hallermünde (1797 – 1835) verkörpert wie kaum ein Zweiter in Leben und Werk den Übergang von alter Tradition zu modernen Lebensund Ausdrucksformen.
Tiene adentro algo que brilla es un poema que construye una arqueología del cuerpo: un recorrido por capas de memoria, historia y percepción donde la experiencia íntima se cruza con la tradición visual y literaria.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessings intellektuelle Unruhe erweist sich als Ausdruck einer philosophischen Existenzweise, die sein literarisches Schaffen durchdringt und anleitet.
Kittsteins eingehende Betrachtung von Gedichten vom Minnesang bis in die Moderne zeigt die Vielfalt einer faszinierenden Gattung in ihren kulturgeschichtlichen Kontexten.
La casa de Bernarda Alba (1936) es una de las obras teatrales más conocidas y representadas de Federico García Lorca, y la última que publicó antes de su muerte.
Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chr tien de Troyes.
Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chr tien de Troyes.
Published in 1911, and then expanded and republished in 1922, Mosquito consists of 36 poems ranging in lengths from six lines to over one hundred and fifty.
A COLLECTION, BOTH SPARE AND LUMINOUS, FOR THOSE WELL-VERSED AS WELL AS NEW TO THIS WORLDIn this sincere collection of shers and ghazals, Satya Prabhakar brings to readers the beauty and fiery lyricism of a centuries-old poetic tradition.
Erstmals in der von Goethe gewünschten Anordnung und mit Angaben zur umfangreichen handschriftlichen und gedruckten Überlieferung aller früheren Fassungen seit 1768.
