Scintillata Nee is an extraordinary, experimental volume of verse by young author Cynthia Tenor. While the poems take th......more
The New Life (1294) is a work of verse and prose by Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Composed in the prosimetrum style, The......more
During three feverish weeks in 1922, Rainer Maria Rilke composed the 55 sonnets that constitute Sonnets to Orpheus. Insp......more
The last great literary work of the Middle Ages and the first important book of the Renaissance, Dante s Divine Comedy c......more
The second book in the three-part Divine Comedy finds Dante and his guide, Virgil, halfway between Heaven and Hell. Havi......more
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Redenci n es la ruptura definitiva con los convencionalismos, con lo pol ticamente correcto, con las opiniones de person......more
In these poems, Garc a Lorca universalized the essence of the Roma people from the archetypes of their feelings and thei......more
Berceo translated these three hymns from the original Latin. Many believe the first two are from the Carolingian period.......more
Juan de la Cueva de Garoza (Sevilla, 1543-1612). Espana. Vivio en Cuenca, en Canarias y en Mexico entre 1574 y 1577;a su......more
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Sex and death, rebellion, corruption -- the themes of Charles Baudelaire s sensual poems sparked outrage upon their 1857......more
Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri s poetic maste......more
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This anthology brings together the three major works of the mystic poet San Juan de la Cruz. Many other poets--from Rub ......more
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"Here at last that much suffering reader will find Dante’s greatness manifest, and not his greatness only, but his grace......more
The first and greatest of French literature s epics, this 11th-century tale of romance and heroism embodies all the powe......more
In this celebration of a poet s passionate love for the woman he worshiped from afar, Dante weaves together rapturous so......more
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One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, w......more
Homer s epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to ......more
The ten-page title poem, Miroslav Holub’s longest, is among the major long poems of the second half-century. The theater......more