A startling and gorgeous work by Denmark's most admired poet finally available in English translation.

A novel in verse follows the lives of three women and three men in 1820s Russia.

Césaire's masterpiece that reaches the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.

DANTE THE DIVINE COMEDY Translated by C. H. Sisson With an Introduction and Notes by David Higgins Described variously as the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages and, because of Dante's evangelical purpose, the 'fifth Gospel', the ...

First published in 1857, the book that collected these poems together, Les Fleurs du mal, was an instant sensation—earning Baudelaire plaudits and, simultaneously, disrepute.

Named for the Castle of Duino, on a rocky headland of the Adriatic, the Duino Elegies speaks in a voice that is both intimate and majestic on the mysteries of human life and our attempt, in the words of the translator, 'to use our self ...

It is also in the troubadour song-books that the only substantial collection of medieval lyrics by women is preserved. This book offers a general introduction to the troubadours.

A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, ...

This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students.

Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy.