Author: Adrian Poole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Great Britain has a long and grand tradition of poets translating classical authors. Virtually every great poet from Chaucer on has tried his or her hand at translation, with the results often rivalling or even excelling the ancient original. This unique anthology presents the best of these translations, ranging from King Alfred, Alexander Pope, and Ben Jonson, to Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ezra Pound, and Ted Hughes. The book offers a vast array of responses to the song, verse, and drama of ancient Greece and Rome, and to poets themselves as varied as Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, and Juvenal. Organized by classical author and text, the book gathers and juxtaposes English versions, sometimes of the same passage or poem, to dramatize the endless renewal of one great poetic tradition in and through another.
The Oxford Book of Classical Verse
Author: Adrian Poole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Great Britain has a long and grand tradition of poets translating classical authors. Virtually every great poet from Chaucer on has tried his or her hand at translation, with the results often rivalling or even excelling the ancient original. This unique anthology presents the best of these translations, ranging from King Alfred, Alexander Pope, and Ben Jonson, to Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ezra Pound, and Ted Hughes. The book offers a vast array of responses to the song, verse, and drama of ancient Greece and Rome, and to poets themselves as varied as Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, and Juvenal. Organized by classical author and text, the book gathers and juxtaposes English versions, sometimes of the same passage or poem, to dramatize the endless renewal of one great poetic tradition in and through another.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Great Britain has a long and grand tradition of poets translating classical authors. Virtually every great poet from Chaucer on has tried his or her hand at translation, with the results often rivalling or even excelling the ancient original. This unique anthology presents the best of these translations, ranging from King Alfred, Alexander Pope, and Ben Jonson, to Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ezra Pound, and Ted Hughes. The book offers a vast array of responses to the song, verse, and drama of ancient Greece and Rome, and to poets themselves as varied as Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, and Juvenal. Organized by classical author and text, the book gathers and juxtaposes English versions, sometimes of the same passage or poem, to dramatize the endless renewal of one great poetic tradition in and through another.
The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation
Author: Adrian Poole
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Anthology of English poetry from all ages translated from the classics.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Anthology of English poetry from all ages translated from the classics.
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century English Verse
Author: Philip Larkin
Publisher: Oxford Books of Verse
ISBN: 9780198121374
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.
Publisher: Oxford Books of Verse
ISBN: 9780198121374
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.
Golden Verses
Author:
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1585108979
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
An anthology containing fresh and rhythmic translations of the great poets from the Augustan period, Golden Verses covers a broad range of verse with introduction, maps, chronology, glossary, bibliography and notes. Alessi's text is designed specifically for the college market, providing students with access to the thought and context at the roots of our culture. Designed to be read in conjunction with major works of the Augustan AgeāOvid's Metamorphosis and Vergil's Aeneid.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1585108979
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
An anthology containing fresh and rhythmic translations of the great poets from the Augustan period, Golden Verses covers a broad range of verse with introduction, maps, chronology, glossary, bibliography and notes. Alessi's text is designed specifically for the college market, providing students with access to the thought and context at the roots of our culture. Designed to be read in conjunction with major works of the Augustan AgeāOvid's Metamorphosis and Vergil's Aeneid.
The Oxford Book of American Poetry
Author: David Lehman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019516251X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1193
Book Description
Redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019516251X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1193
Book Description
Redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present.
A Book of Love Poetry
Author: Jon Stallworthy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195042320
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Poets through the ages offer interpretations of love's changing moods and forms.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195042320
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Poets through the ages offer interpretations of love's changing moods and forms.
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900
Author: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
The Oxford Book of Children's Poetry
Author: Michael Harrison
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192762764
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
To coincide with the centenary of Oxford Children's Books we are proud to present this definitive new collection. Including all the major children's poets, and with a wonderful range of both classic and modern favourites, this is a book that will be treasured for a lifetime. The poems areenhanced with black and white artwork from a number of top children's illustrators to create a truly special package, which should be on every child's bookshelf.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192762764
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
To coincide with the centenary of Oxford Children's Books we are proud to present this definitive new collection. Including all the major children's poets, and with a wonderful range of both classic and modern favourites, this is a book that will be treasured for a lifetime. The poems areenhanced with black and white artwork from a number of top children's illustrators to create a truly special package, which should be on every child's bookshelf.
The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892-1935
Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The Oxford Book of Essays
Author: John Gross
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199556555
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch--though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin Franklin to John Updike and beyond. This is an anthology that opens with wise words about the nature of truth, and closes with a consideration of the novels of Judith Krantz. Some of the other topics discussed in its pages are anger, pleasure, Gandhi, Beau Brummell, wasps, party-going, gangsters, plumbers, Beethoven, potato crisps, the importance of being the right size, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey. It contains some of the most eloquent writing in English, and some of the most entertaining.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199556555
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch--though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin Franklin to John Updike and beyond. This is an anthology that opens with wise words about the nature of truth, and closes with a consideration of the novels of Judith Krantz. Some of the other topics discussed in its pages are anger, pleasure, Gandhi, Beau Brummell, wasps, party-going, gangsters, plumbers, Beethoven, potato crisps, the importance of being the right size, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey. It contains some of the most eloquent writing in English, and some of the most entertaining.