Overview :HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of j... Read More
Overview :Navigating the uncertainty of a divided China wracked by warfare and corruption, Tao Yuanming's poetry--expertly translated by Red Pine--cho... Read More
Overview :"Halfway tree. The journey of our life found me / there at midnight in a ramshackle state." So begins Lorna Goodison's astonishing new trans... Read More
Overview :Aeneas appears in The Illiad in vague snatches and starts as a traveling warrior of great piety who was loosely connected to the foundation ... Read More
Overview :Hafiz is the preeminent poet of Persian Sufism and one of the great poets of world literature. The Green Sea of Heaven is regarded as the fi... Read More
Overview :The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world's first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian "Helle's transla... Read More
Overview :Robert Graves's dynamic retelling of Homer's powerful epic poem This edition of Homer 's Iliad, retold with authority and grace by the incom... Read More
Overview :From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of... Read More
Overview :A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil's Aeneid restores the epic's spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the corne... Read More
Overview :"Alexander's translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful and] ...communicates the poem with... Read More
Overview :Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a ... Read More
Overview :Translated by Anthony EsolenIllustrations by Gustave Dor A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a substant... Read More
Overview :The first new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica since the 1950s Now in a riveting new verse translation, Jason and the Argonau... Read More
Overview :Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first collection of original work since Float (2016). Published here in a stunning edition with images created ... Read More
Overview :Anger be now your song, immortal one, Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter lossand crowded brave so... Read More
Overview :Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining.... Read More
Overview :Sappho's thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years--certainly a record for poetry of any kind--and love... Read More
Overview :Horace (65-8 B.C.) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European lite... Read More
Overview :"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English,... Read More