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After seven centuries, the Divine Comedy reborn... In the follow-up to his 2019 Seamus Heaney Prize-winning debut Unearthly Toys, Ned Denny takes a unique, startling approach to the medieval, quintessential spiritual epic.Book InformationISBN...

Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. A green horse great and tall;A steed full stiff to guide,In broidered bridle allHe worthily bestrides Dating from around 1400 and composed by...

Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world:'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die''Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'His genius is expressed through the...

Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Saga of the Volsungs is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'They summoned their friends, readiedtheir horses, and prepared their...

For thirty-five years American poet Nathaniel Mackey has been writing a long poem of fugitive making like no other: two elegiac, intertwined serial poems-"Song of the Andoumboulou" and "Mu"-that follow a mysterious, migrant "we" through the rhythms and...

War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles, the great warrior champion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking in his tent and refusing to fight, after a row with his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan king Hector kills Achilles' beloved...

Jenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgamesh's city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were allowed to brew beer and keep taverns and women had...

Collector's slipcased edition of the first ever standalone presentation of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881426Author A E StallingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 234g

At last, just in time for his 99th birthday, a powerful overview of one of America's most beloved poets: New Directions is proud to present a swift, terrific chronological selection of Ferlinghetti's poems, spanning more than six decades of work and...

Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope. It tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, who has laid waste to the great hall of the...

One of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain, The Poem of the Cid recounts the adventures of the warlord and nobleman Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar - 'Mio Cid'. A forceful combination of heroic fiction and historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941656280Author Aleksandra M RohdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Dale Street BooksPublisher Dale Street BooksWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm)...

One of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain, "The Song of the Cid" recounts the adventures of the warlord and nobleman Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar both - 'Mio Cid'. A forceful combination of heroic fiction and...

The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur. The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends...

Dick Ringler's deceptively simple translation captures the rhythm, movement, and power of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid modern English style and a relatively spare vocabulary. His generous Introduction, a lively yet masterly guide...

Unavailable for more than 70 years, this early but important work is published for the first time with Tolkien's 'Corrigan' poems and other supporting material, including a prefatory note by Christopher Tolkien. Set 'In Britain's land beyond...

Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel, and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his...

The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father. Kullervo son of...

A thrilling retelling of the Star Wars saga in the style of classic epic poetry "I look not to myself but to the Force, In which all things arise and fall away." Journey to a galaxy far, far away like never before-through lyrical verse and meter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031153Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 1024Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756696Author John KeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Three foundational Roman poets.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with three highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry.Livius Andronicus (born ca. 292 BC) was regarded by the Romans...

From its opening scenes--in which the hero refrains from fighting a duel, then discovers that his horse has been stolen--Book Two of The Faerie Queene redefines the nature of heroism and of chivalry. Its hero is Sir Guyon, the knight of Temperance,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648690504Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 626Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 35mm

While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature.About the AuthorStanley Lombardo is...

The authoritative new translation of the epic Ramayana, as retold by the sixteenth-century poet Tulsidas and cherished by millions to this day. The Epic of Ram presents a new translation of the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas (1543-1623). Written in Avadhi, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783947881Author KabirFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 2mm

A powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society - serf, provincial, aristocrat - in verse which is by turns beautiful, witty, wickedly perceptive and always readable. ...

Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.About the AuthorStanley Lombardo is Professor of Classics, University of Kansas.Sheila Murnaghan is Professor of Classical...

The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. This long poem, composed in what is today Belgium, recounts the relentless persecution of the wolf Ysengrimus by his archenemy Reynard the fox, in...

The first English translation of a Kalmyk epic nearly lost to history. This is the first English translation of Jangar, the heroic epic of the Kalmyk nomads, who are the Western Mongols of Genghis Khan's medieval empire in Europe. Today, Kalmykia is...

Unavailable for more than 70 years, this early but important work is published for the first time with Tolkien's 'Corrigan' poems and other supporting material, including a prefatory note by Christopher Tolkien. Set 'In Britain's land beyond...

The Aeneid - thrilling, terrifying and poignant in equal measure - has inspired centuries of artists, writers and musicians.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789491914041Author David J MelnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint UitgeverijPublisher UitgeverijWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358568127Author HomerImprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Fingerprint! Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957116020Author Garrett Buhl RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Poet in the ParkPublisher Poet in the ParkWeight(grams) 685g

Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun. In the Lay of the Voelsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fafnir, most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540986Author Lewis TurcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...