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The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi by Ngugi wa Thiong'o 9781784706784
RRP: €13.08€9.25*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE.* 'One of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Perfect Nine is a glorious epic about the founding of Kenya's Gikuyu people and the ideals of beauty, courage and unity.Gikuyu and... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393417937
€11.26The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Collins Classics) by Jessie Weston 9780008485535
RRP: €3.56€2.78HarperCollins 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... -
James Merrill Poems by James Merrill
RRP: €11.89€8.46James Merrill once called his poetic works 'chronicles of love and loss', and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his life - comic and haunting, exotic and domestic - to shape a compelling, sometimes intensely moving,... -
The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage
RRP: €13.08€8.47By the Poet LaureateThe Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir... -
Seasonal Disturbances by Karen McCarthy Woolf 9781784103361
RRP: €11.89€8.32Second Place winner of the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry. A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Following her groundbreaking 2014 debut An Aviary of Small Birds (`technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak' - Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf... -
The Complete Poems of John Keats by John Keats
RRP: €22.60€15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601081Author John KeatsFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
RRP: €26.18€18.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451208637Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 928Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm) 227mm *... -
B: After Dante by Ned Denny 9781784109592
RRP: €22.60€15.93After 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... -
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Benjamin R. Foster 9780393643985
€20.17This Norton Critical Edition includes: An expanded translation from the Akkadian by Benjamin R. Foster based on new discoveries, adding lines throughout the world's oldest epic masterpiece.Benjamin R. Foster's full introduction and expanded explanatory... -
The Nibelungenlied: With the Klage by William T. Whobrey 9781624666759
RRP: €20.22€16.43Filled with portrayals of deception, love, murder, and revenge-yet defying traditional medieval epic conventions for representing character-the Nibelungenlied is the greatest and most unique epic in Middle High German. The Klage, its consistent companion... -
The Faerie Queene, Book One by Edmund Spenser 9780872208070
RRP: €19.03€15.54Framed in Spenser's distinctive, opulent stanza and in some of the trappings of epic, Book One of Spenser's The Faerie Queene consists of a chivalric romance that has been made to a typical recipe--fierce warres and faithfull loves--but that has been... -
Paradise Lost: Parallel Prose Edition by John Milton 9781554810970
€31.74John Milton's epic story of cosmic rebellion and the beginning of human history has long been considered one of the greatest and most gripping narratives ever written in English. Yet its intensely poetic language, now-antiquated syntax and vocabulary,... -
The Faerie Queene, Book Two by Edmund Spenser 9780872208476
RRP: €17.84€14.64From 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,... -
Ancient Epic by K King 9781118255346
RRP: €30.88€26.89Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica. Provides an accessible introduction to the... -
Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Lord Alfred Tennyson
RRP: €8.32€5.95Tennyson 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... -
Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis 9781784106140
RRP: €15.46€10.64Jenny 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... -
The Popol Vuh by Michael Bazzett 9781571314680
RRP: €15.46€14.71A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018 A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION In the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: "Earth." There are no inhabitants, and no sun--only the broad sky, silent sea, and... -
Iliad - Imperium Press by Homer 9780648690504
RRP: €27.31€20.15Apologies 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 -
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney 9780571230419
RRP: €17.84€11.66Beowulf, 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... -
Fragmentary Republican Latin: Volume VI by Robert Maltby
RRP: €29.69€27.27Three 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... -
Ferlinghetti's Greatest Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
RRP: €15.46€13.76At 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... -
Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
RRP: €16.65€10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971255Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 132mm... -
The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context by Pierre Destree
RRP: €47.59€41.72This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy. It both deals with some old problems raised by the treatise, suggesting possible solutions through contextualization, and also identifies new ways in which... -
The Essential Iliad by Homer 9780872205420
RRP: €14.27€11.33While 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... -
Paradiso by Dante 9781400031153
RRP: €24.99€18.34Apologies 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 *... -
The Solitudes by Luis de Gongora 9780143106722
€12.64An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one if the most acclaimed translators of our time.A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Gongora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic... -
The Essential Homer by Homer 9780872205406
RRP: €22.60€19.15Selections 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... -
Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems by Campbell McGrath
RRP: €20.22€14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062854155Author Campbell McGrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ECCO PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage 9780393334159
RRP: €14.27€12.01One of the founding stories of English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrates the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse who rudely interrupts Camelot's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the... -
Theft of a Tree by Nandi Timmana
RRP: €35.64€27.60A thousand-year-old story of Krishna and his wife Satyabhama retold by the most famous court poet of the Vijayanagara Empire.Legend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed Theft of a Tree, or Parijatapaharanamu, which he... -
Paradise by Dante Alighieri
RRP: €17.84€14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812977264Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm... -
Fantastical Void by Connie Chu 9781717186294
RRP: €11.90€8.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781717186294Author Connie ChuFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Hero Enkidu by Lewis Turco 9781599540986
RRP: €11.90€9.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540986Author Lewis TurcoFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 168g -
Cantar de Mio Cid by Luis Guarner 9788441425279
RRP: €18.98€12.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441425279Author Luis GuarnerFormat PaperbackImprint Edaf AntillasPublisher Edaf AntillasWeight(grams) 272g -
Medium by Johanna Skibsrud 9781771668736
RRP: €18.98€14.13From award-winning writer Johanna Skibsrud, Medium uses language as a bridge across experience, sensibility, and time.These deeply resonant and performative poems share the lives and perspectives of women who - in their roles as biological, physical, or... -
Minute Particulars Writ Large: Spells, Centos, and Lists by Mikhail Horowitz
RRP: €21.36€15.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581772104Author Mikhail HorowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Station Hill Press,U.S.Publisher Station Hill Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 6g -
Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, And The Complete Shorter Poems by John Milton
RRP: €17.84€14.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983715Author John MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice: A Tiny Homeric Epic by A E Stallings 9781589881426
RRP: €24.98€16.02Apologies 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 -
The Wind Among the Reeds by William Butler Yeats 9781513270838
RRP: €5.94€4.81The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) is a collection of poems and plays by W.B. Yeats. Containing many of the poet's early important works, The Wind Among the Reeds provides a rich sampling of Yeats' poems, illuminating his influence on the Celtic Twilight, a...