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Edmund Keeley (1928–2022) was the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English, emeritus, and professor emeritus of creative writing at Princeton University. Philip Sherrard (1922–1995) was research fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and lecturer in the history of the Orthodox Church at King's College London. George Savidis (1929–1995) was professor of modern Greek at the University of Thessaloniki and George Seferis Visiting...
4) Himnos
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Berceo tradujo tres Himnos del latín: se considera que los dos primeros provienen de la época carolingia: el Veni Creator Spiritus pleno de dulçe lumne, dedicado al Espíritu Santo, y Ave Sancta María estrella de la mar, atribuido a san Bernardo o a Fulberto de Chartres y que gira en torno a la idea de María, como madre universal; y el tercero, Tu Christe que luz eres, que alumnas el dia.
5) The Divine Comedy, III. Paradiso, Volume III. Part 1: 1: Italian Text and Translation; 2: Commentary
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Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Paradiso. This volume consists of the prose translation of Giorgio Petrocchi's Italian text (which faces the translation on each page); its companion volume of commentary is a masterpiece of erudition, offering a wide range of information on such subjects as...
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Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Paradiso. This volume consists of the prose translation of Giorgio Petrocchi's Italian text (which faces the translation on each page); its companion volume of commentary is a masterpiece of erudition, offering a wide range of information on such subjects as...
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Edvard Kocbek was born in 1904, the son of a church organist, in a part of present-day Slovenia that was then in Austria-Hungary. Following the publication in 1934 of his first book of poetry, he published essays that presaged the wartime alliance of this Christian Socialist with the Tito-led partisan resistance. Despite a lengthy postwar publication ban, Kocbek went on to win the Preseren Prize, Slovenia's highest literary award, in 1964. More books...
8) Poemas
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Tirso de Molina, el gran dramaturgo español del Siglo de oro (1579-1648), fue también autor de una sustanciosa obra poética que incluye:
- coplas,
- romances
- y sonetosinscritos en la estética conceptista. La obra poética de Tirso de Molina asocia con ingenio el sentido y la forma de las palabras mediante el empleo de recursos retóricos muy variados.
10) Poemas
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Los Poemas de Baltasar de Alcázar no fueron publicados por el escritor. Por fortuna, el pintor Francisco Pacheco realizó copias del único manuscrito que se conservaba.
Como escritor, demostró un brillante dominio de la métrica. Los temas que caracterizan la obra poética de Alcázar fueron un tanto triviales; por esta razón, a menudo se le etiqueta injustamente al autor como "poeta menor". Estuvo muy influido por los poetas latinos Marcial y...
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Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece.
The Italian text here is in the edition of Giorgio Petrocchi, the leading Italian editor of Dante. Professor Singleton's prose translation, facing the Italian in a line-for-line arrangement on each page, is smooth and literate. The companion volume, the...
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Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is, in the translators' words, "that rarest of phenomena: a serious poet who commands a large audience in her native land." The seventy poems in this bilingual edition are among the largest and most representative offering of her work in English,...
13) True Life: Poems
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A stunning, intimate collection by the late, great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.
...I think I sought wisdom
(without resignation) in poems
and also a certain calm madness.
I found, much later, a moment's joy
and melancholy's dark contentment.
In True Life, the Polish writer Adam Zagajewski, one of the world's most admired and beloved poets, turns his gaze to the past with piercing clarity and a tone of wry, lyrical melancholy. He captures the...
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Es gibt die große Politik, die über das Schicksal von Völkern entscheidet, und es gibt diejenigen, deren Leben davon bestimmt wird. Aus dem abstrakten historischen Ablauf der Ereignisse wird eine erfahrbare Welt, in der sich Menschen zurecht finden müssen auf der Suche nach dem eigenen Glück...
"Rabeninsel", eine deutsch-deutsche Familiengeschichte, beschreibt diese Suche am Beispiel einer Familie, die auseinandergerissen wird und sich wiederfindet....
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The path to Mozart runs through his wife Constanze.
That path was lost until the discovery of a set of travel diaries, which recorded one couple's visit with Constanze and other loved ones following Mozart's death. Those diaries provided a century-old sketch of Mozart, his family, and friends that left readers wanting more. Using the diaries as a framework, All the Scattered Pages provides a provocative dramatization of what may have really transpired...
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Dive into the compelling world of Arrive Dead at the Same Place, a poignant poetry collection by Ken Eaton-Dykes. This anthology bridges the ordinary and the extraordinary, capturing life's diverse tapestry with wit, wisdom, and a touch of cynicism.
Eaton-Dykes' poetry traverses a vast emotional landscape, from reflective musings on war and its indelible impact on society to the humorous absurdities of daily existence. Written in an array of styles,...
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El poema A la entrada del príncipe de Gales en Madrid por marzo del año 1623, de Antonio de Solís, es una loa a la visita del Príncipe de Gales a España en 1623. El viaje tuvo como propósito establecer una alianza mediante un matrimonio con la hija menor de Felipe III, la infanta María Ana. El enlace nunca se celebró. La corona española exigía la conversión del príncipe de Gales al catolicismo. A su regreso a Inglaterra, Carlos exigió...
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Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) - a poet who lived most his life in Lisbon, Portugal, and who died in obscurity there - has in recent years gained international recognition as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Now Richard Zenith has collected in a single volume all the major poetry of one of the most extraordinary poetic talents the century has produced (Microsoft Network's Reading Forum). Fernando Pessoa was as much a creator of...
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Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece.
The Italian text here is in the edition of Giorgio Petrocchi, the leading Italian editor of Dante. Professor Singleton's prose translation, facing the Italian in a line-for-line arrangement on each page, is smooth and literate. The companion volume, the...
20) Poemas
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Como poeta cortesano, fue autor de numerosas canciones; pero lo mas destacable entre los Poemas de Jorge Manrique son sus Coplas, escritas tras la muerte de su padre, Rodrigo, y con motivo de ésta, por lo cual se les llama comúnmente Coplas a la muerte de su padre. En ellas, y superando los tópicos medievales de la poesía dedicada, elogiosa, escrita tras la muerte de personajes célebres, Manrique logra transmitir en sencillos pero hermosos versos...
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