The legendary tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is one of the most famous folk tales in history, with Merlin the Wizard and the virtuous Sir Lancelot being known and loved by young and old alike to this day.
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.
When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding.
Inspired by Rimbaud and Ashbery, the Slovenian poet Toma alamun is now inspiring the younger generation of American poetsand Woods and Chalices will secure his place in the ranks of influential, experimental twenty-first-century writers.
Band 51 des Lessing Jahrbuchs enthalt ein Forum zum Thema Die europaische Aufklarung und die Wahrnehmung auereuropaischer Volker , das insbesondere auf die philosophischen und anthropologischen Hintergrunde der Wahrnehmungsmuster fokussiert.
"Natur" wird um 1800 zu einem zentralen Thema, auf das aus den verschiedensten Perspektiven geblickt wird: naturmagisch, religiös, dämonisch bedrohend, märchenhaft, philosophisch, medizinisch, naturwissenschaftlich etc.
Der vorliegende Band ist den in den homerischen Epen begegnenden Vorbildern, Werten und Normen und deren inhaltlich und sprachlich vielfältiger Darstellung gewidmet.
Edited byRichard Ford and featuring stories by Russell Banks, Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff,Jhumpa Lahiri, JohnCheever, and many others, Blue Collar,White Collar, No Collar is a profound and groundbreaking anthologyexploring resonant themes of employment, service, and daily obligations asunique windows into our culture, our society, and our very humanity.
Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry.
"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.
King Hrothgar of Denmark has a problem: though his land prospers, his great mead-hall is plagued nightly by a horrible beast, Grendel, that pillages and kills his men.
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume II (1914) compiles some of Percy Bysshe Shelley's best-known works as a leading poet, playwright, and political thinker of the nineteenth century.
Dentro de la rica hermandad de las artes en el Siglo de Oro, brilla la colaboración de artista y poetas en defensa de la nobleza de la pintura, en una polémica que mezcla cuestiones estéticas, económicas y sociales.
This new comic-book version of Euripides' classic The Trojan Women follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed.
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.
A hybrid of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience that brings poetry, philosophy and spirituality into an all-inclusive text that's both accessible and enlightening.
Odysseus, the hero of the Trojan War, longs to return home to his kingdom in Ithaca, where a horde of suitors (who believe the long-absent Odysseus to be dead) are courting his beloved wife.
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.
One of Shakespeare's most compelling historical tragedies, Julius Caesar explores the chilling events of political ambition and betrayal leading up to and following the assassination of the infamous Roman emperor.
To Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, and other Elizabethans, the minor epic was an important medium for poetic experimentation, but today, too often separated from the culture that bore it, it is not well understood.
Der wichtigste chinesische Lyriker in einer klugen Auswahl neu übersetztIn der faszinierenden Welt der chinesischen Poesie bildet Li Bo (auch als Li Bai oder Li Tai Bo bekannt) eine der wichtigsten Stimmen.
