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"Palma's wonderfully readable translation comes close to perfection. I'm tempted to call it a miracle."—X. J. Kennedy Unlike every known translator before him, Michael Palma re-creates Dante's masterpiece in all its dimensions, without emphasizing some aspects over others, rendering...

"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition...

This file includes the original (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Inferno) in Italian, plus an English translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. According to Wikipedia: "Durante degli Alighieri ( c.1265 - 1321), commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florentine poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, the...

Más allá de mis canciones es un libro ilustrado que reúne quince letras de canciones, los relatos de las semillas que las inspiraron y tres letras inéditas del cantautor gallego. Más allá de las canciones hay una historia, un momento, una sensación... Aquella tarde que se escapó, el...

An exciting collection of poems by Wislawa Szymborska. When Here was published in Poland, reviewers marveled, “How is it that she keeps getting better?” These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak, are among her greatest ever. Whether...

En estos versos que Joaquín Sabina nos presenta en forma de libro está el ruido de la calle y de la actualidad. Recuperando la mejor tradición satírica española, nos ofrece un retrato punzante, divertido, demoledor y muy personal del mundo de hoy. Joaquín Sabina nos ha regalado su visión...

“Under James’s uncanny touch, seven long centuries drop away, and the great poem is startlingly fresh and new.”—Stephen Greenblatt The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James’s translation—decades in the making—gives us the entire epic as a single,...

En français et en anglais In French & English Les Fleurs du mal (English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The subject matter of these poems deals with themes relating...

Vowing at an early age “to be a poet or nothing at all,” Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of independent study that included literature, philosophy, art, and history. One result of these efforts was a series of novels that became counterculture bibles...

Todo lo que fuimos ahora es polvo es una ventana para ver el mundo desde los ojos de la poesía de Benji Verdes, uno de los exponentes de la nueva generación de poetas que triunfa en las redes sociales. Podríamos querernos en broma, esperando que asome un poco la verdad. Podríamos ser el...

"Não sou nada. Nunca serei nada. Não posso querer ser nada. À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo." Álvaro de Campos foi o heterônimo mais produtivo da obra conhecida de Pessoa. Ao que parece, o poeta muitas vezes o utilizou como um alter ego, além de mero heterônimo....

A masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of...

The collected poems of one of the world's greatest living writers, Tomas Transtromer, available in this comprehensive edition. In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone. Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer...