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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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This volume brings together all of Berryman’s poetry, except for his epic The Dream Songs, ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to those written in the last m...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...
Seine Mutter will nicht, dass er Ritter wird. Der Junge soil nicht kampfen, nie Krieg fiihren. Sie zieht mit ihm in den Wald, wo er unwissend aufwachst, weit weg von der Z...
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...
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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 ...
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