Overview :Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonl... Read More
Overview :The Divine Comedy marked nothing less than the arrival of vernacular Italian as a literary language--and Dante's book is still considered It... Read More
Overview :In Beethoven in Denver and Other Poems, Burton Raffel brings a lifetime of artistry to an enchanting and visionary story, followed by a sequ... Read More
Overview :Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, the great twentieth-century Russian poet, was once thought to be buried forever in secret files and condemned to ... Read More
Overview :In this restructured and greatly expanded version of Burton Raffel's out-of-print classic, Poems from the Old English, Raffel and co-editor ... Read More
Overview :No poem in German literature is so well known and studied in Germany and Europe as the 800-year-old Das Nibelungenlied. In the English-speak... Read More
Overview :This book by a well-known translator and critic is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the linguistic and other more technical as... Read More
Overview :Affordable, compact, and authoritative, this one-volume edition of The Annotated Milton encompasses the monumental sweep of John Milton's po... Read More
Overview :A cool sci-fi anthology magazine with short stories from Gordon R. Dickson, George P. Elliott, Winston P. Sanders , R. Bretnor , and Evelyn ... Read More
Overview :The best of American short fictionSpanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories by Washington Irving ... Read More