The vibrant Old Norse poems in this 13th-century collection recapture the ancient oral traditions of the Norsemen. These mythological poems include the Voluspo, one of the...
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Andrew Lang's epic poem about Helen of Troy.
At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, in the London of the late 1300s, a band of men and women from all walks of life have gathered to begin a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas...
In less than a year, Lawrence Ferlinghetti won a lifetime achievement award from the Author's Guild, received the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, was elect...
За всеми сюжетными хитросплетениями монументального романа Вольфрама фон Эшенбаха, написанного в первом десятилетии XIII века и объединяющего множество сюжетов и историй, ...
A collection of beautiful poems by the preeminent Canadian poet. In his time, he was arguably Canada's best known poet, and was dubbed by some the "unofficial poet laureat...
This collection of works by Sir Philip Sidney includes Defence of Poesie, the most entertaining and penetrating critical essay of the period. Sidney's extraordinary origin...
For those who are familiar with Yeats' poetry, particulary his beloved early poems like "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," reading "Rosa Alchemica" is an experience of joy. Cal...
Arranged in chronological sequence, The Secret Rose offers a glimpse of all Yeats' styles-beginning with his youthful romantic idealism and ending with his more outspoken,...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 'one of our ageless radicals and truebards', has gathered four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman's voice, including more than fifty pages...
William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world.
This selection was commissioned...
This volume brings together all of Berryman’s poetry, except for his epic The Dream Songs, ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to those written in the last m...
One of the greatest English poets of the mid-seventeenth century, Richard Crashaw is still widely neglected and misunderstood. Published to celebrate the 400th anniversary...
Written in the early thirteenth century and universally considered a major work of European literature, Lancelot greatly influenced Malory, Tennyson, T.H. White and others...
This is a new translation into contemporary English of one of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages. Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid pictu...
W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with...
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed "The Narrow Road to the Deep North"...
Guillaume, au retour de la chasse, apprend que le roi Louis a, en son absence, distribué les fiefs à son entourage et l'a oublié. Il rappelle au roi les services rendus et...
Chrétien de Troyes invente dans Yvain ou le chevalier au lion un nouveau mythe du héros accordé au monde courtois du XIIe siècle. Yvain y entreprend une quête qui le mène ...
Вершиной творчества Торквато Тассо (1544–1595), одного из величайших итальянских поэтов, принято считать «Освобожденный Иерусалим», поэтическую эпопею о Первом крестовом п...