Canciones y decires es una colección de poemas breves, compuestos de versos cortos en los que se narra con estilo cortesano el encuentro de un caballero con una pastora a la que corteja.
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.
"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.
The first volume in a three-volume set, this is a study of the rise of Persian Sufi spirituality and literature in Islam during the first six Muslim centuries.
How the Ottomans refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authorityThe medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed's political authority.
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.
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.
