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This book positions Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poe......more

A sweeping anthology of classical Japanese poetry, including poems about love, war, trees and mountains, everyday life, ......more

An ancient Greek guide to the heavens, translated in a new accessible modern English edition. A poetic guide to the heav......more

In A Bird Called Elaeus, poet and translator David Constantine presents a selection of poems from The Greek Anthology, a......more

A sequel to Dante’s Inferno (Carcanet, 2014), where Dante was relocated to the University of Essex, here the action shif......more

When Michael Palma’s translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commenta......more

The mysterious tale of a great leader, martyred for her cause, and often regarded as a woman beyond her time. Patron sai......more

A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt In the poems of Fate the......more

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This striking hardback edition presents Homer’s legendary epic, The Odyssey, with striking gold cover embossing and sten......more

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Elisa Gonzalez’s thrilling debut makes one "feel as if poems have never before been written" (Louise Glück). Grand Tour,......more

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Virgil remains one of the most important poets in the history of literature. This emerges in the rich translation histor......more

Penned in the early 14th century, this epic poem is an extraordinary journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Dant......more

A new translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and friendship, bringing Tiruvalluvar’s poetry an......more

A coy tease, enchantress, adulteress, irresponsible mother, hard-hearted wife--such are the possible images of Penelope ......more

In this collected volume, members of the Kalīla and Dimna project discuss, from different perspectives, a core aspect of......more

This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original contex......more

The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical langu......more

Bringing the work of a highly influential medieval French writer to English-speaking audiences for the first time This b......more

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Nahj al-Balāghah, the celebrated compendium of orations, letters, and sayings of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/661) compiled......more

Hopeful, passionate, and full of sharp discoveries about the dangers of the world, Fire on a Circle is an exploration of......more

This new translation of Pindar’s songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility in or......more

First published in 1988, Priapea is a collection of eighty Latin epigrams, English translated, that make up the corpus P......more

FOR children who grew up in France before the Second World War, memorizing the fables of the 17th century poet Jean de L......more

This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spol......more

The greatest single narration of what the mythic world of antiquity looked, thought, and felt like at its climax in a st......more

No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton’s sublimity has ......more

Brilliant new poems attending to the continuity of history and geography from accomplished poet Joe Safdie. In his excit......more

Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless story of ......more

Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless story of ......more

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural qual......more

Leeds Medieval Studies is an international, refereed journal based in the University of Leeds Institute for Medieval Stu......more

The Odyssey was originally composed in Homeric Greek around the 8th or 7th century BC and, by the mid-6th century BC, ha......more

Augustan love elegy represents one of the most important and most distinctive Roman contributions to European and world ......more

RITONA is pleased to announce the publication of And If I Go With Child?: Re-imagining the Mysteries of Tam Lin, by poet......more

The third and final book of Ovid’s love elegies is a complex farewell to the genre. It begins, programmatically, with Ov......more

The Poetry of Ennodius offers the first translation into English verse of the entire eclectic corpus of sacred and secul......more

Odyssey is perhaps the greatest adventure story ever told, but it is more even than that. It is the story of a man’s hom......more

Acclaimed for centuries as the "Father of English Literature," Geoffrey Chaucer enjoys widespread and effusive praise fo......more

Classical-style poetry in modern China and other Sinitic-speaking localities is attracting greater attention with the re......more

Leeds Medieval Studies is an international, refereed journal based in the University of Leeds Institute for Medieval Stu......more

"Sappho and Phaon" by Mary Robinson is a poignant sonnet sequence that breathes life into the legendary tale of the anci......more

The Liber de duobus monachis, a late example of the creative Latin surge of the long twelfth century, has lain undetecte......more

The Latin Poems of Manilius Cabacius Rallus of Sparta presents the poetic oeuvre of a forgotten poet of Renaissance Rome......more

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A major new interpretation of Vergil’s epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric hero Thi......more

Catullus was undoubtedly one of the most intimate, witty, vivid, and tender poets of antiquity. Perhaps his greatest gif......more

"It is a story known around the world. Born of an Arabic tale, it has been interpreted hundreds of times in Persian, Tur......more

Seven Poems and a Fragment, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human hist......more

Virgil’s Eclogues are a fundamental text of Western literature that served as a model for the nascent poetry of the Augu......more

Published in 1789, this collection of poems by William Blake (1757-1827) has the poet’s own etchings as illustrations. I......more

This volume, the 37th year of published proceedings, contains five papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area ......more

Published in 1789, this collection of poems by William Blake (1757-1827) has the poet’s own etchings as illustrations. I......more

Winner of the 2023 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award The first female translator of the e......more

Didymus of Alexandria (also known as Chalcenterus, ’bronze-guts’, for his outstanding ability to ’digest’ and rework the......more

This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid’s diverse œuvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded ......more

Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories presents a unique form of creative scholarship. It employs Dante’s late medieval take ......more

Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories presents a unique form of creative scholarship. It employs Dante’s late medieval take ......more

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at......more

During the latter phases of Covid, Isobel Williams completed her celebrated translations of the polyamorous ancient Roma......more

The Iliad reveals a traditional oral poetic style, but many researchers believe that the poem cannot be treated as solel......more

"A collection of poems by Tao Yuanming, translated by Red Pine who is also known as Bill Porter"--...more

The classic medieval tale that brings romance, chivalry and adventure to the modern reader, and inspired the powerful 20......more

Here is the great medieval German poem, the Nibelungenlied, derived from ancient Germanic legend, as translated by Alice......more

This volume offers for the first time in any language a translation of the poetic corpus of Alcuin of York (c. 735-804),......more

Born in the fourth generation of a Cutchi Memon family in Kochi Kerala Iqbal Ismail Sait adopting a Pseudonym GHALIB SUL......more

The Fozu tongji by Zhipan (ca. 1220-1275) is a key text of Chinese Buddhist historiography. The core of the work is form......more

Edition and translation of this important genre of Old Welsh poetry. The "Stanzas of the Graves" or "Graves of the Warri......more

The poet Kabir, a selection from whose songs is here for the first time offered to English readers, is one of the most i......more

A priceless collection of Kahlil Gibran most notable works including 37 original illustrations. Books included in this c......more