Ovid's Poetry of Exile

Ovid

• Paperback | Engels
• Someone clever, passionate, and heartbroken comes very near us, and I think it is Ovid. I found it impossible to stop reading these poems. And poems t... Lees meer

PS3569.L3

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels | Poetry
• PS3569.L3, David R. Slavitt's sixtieth book, is a collection of poems, translations, imitations, parodies, jeux de mots, and jeux d'esprit--work that ... Lees meer

The Theban Plays of Sophocles

Sophocles

• Paperback | Engels | Yale New Classics
• A new and welcome translation of Sophocles' great Oedipus cycle, by one of the distinguished translators of our era In this needed and highly anticipa... Lees meer

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius

• Paperback | Engels
• In this highly praised new translation of Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy , David R. Slavitt presents a graceful, accessible, and modern vers... Lees meer

The Carnivore

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Poetry
• Directly or obliquely, while reading Gibbon or shopping for toys at F. A. O. Schwarz, Slavitt addresses, invokes, or simply enjoys the civilization th... Lees meer

Aeschylus, 1

• Paperback | Engels | Penn Greek Drama | nr. 1
• The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr play... Lees meer

The Book of the Twelve Prophets

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is a glittering new translation of the portion of the Hebrew Bible known as the Book of the Twelve Prophets, or the Twelve "Minor" Prophets. In t... Lees meer

Seneca

Seneca

• Paperback | Engels | Seneca (Hardcover) | nr. 2
• Plays and translators: Octavia, Kelly Cherry * Hercules Oetaeus, Stephen Sandy * Oedipus, Rachel Hadas * The Phoenician Women, David Slavitt * Hercule... Lees meer

Orlando Furioso

Ludovico Ariosto

• Paperback | Engels
• The appearance of David R. Slavitt's translation of Orlando Furioso ("Mad Orlando"), one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissance... Lees meer

The Duke's Man

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• Historical fiction has long ranked somewhere just above romance novels and mysteries in the great chain of literary respectability, yet as David Slavi... Lees meer

The Rig Veda

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• The Vedas are ancient books of hymns. There are four-the Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda-and they are the primary texts of Hinduism. ... Lees meer

The Gnat and Other Minor Poems of Virgil

Virgil

• Hardcover | Engels
• These delightful poems--by turns whimsical, beautiful, and vulgar--seem to have primarily survived because they were attributed to Virgil. But in Davi... Lees meer

Short Stories Are Not Real Life

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Literary Studies
• In these fourteen beautifully crafted stories David R. Slavitt shows his mastery of the form. Elegant, spare, sometimes funny, sometimes elegiac--this... Lees meer

Day Sailing

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Poetry
• This volume of poetry illustrates a new side of the author of The Carnivore and Suits for the Dead . The wit, the toughness, the shining lyric clarity... Lees meer

Re Verse

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• David R. Slavitt will tell you that he does not believe in literary criticism so much as in "remarks," which are more portable and, often, more enligh... Lees meer

Dwindling

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• Dwindling is a virtuoso work by the author of more than a hundred acclaimed works of fiction, drama, poetry, and translation. In this remarkable novel... Lees meer

The Poem of Queen Esther

Joao Pinto Delgado

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is a translation of a Spanish poem by João Pinto Delgado ( c. 1585-1653) that is based on the biblical book of Esther. His choice of subject here... Lees meer

Epic and Epigram

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• David R. Slavitt's affectionate translations of epigrams by sixteenth-century Welsh academic John Owen transmute a careful selection of the writer's w... Lees meer

Vidui

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• Fiction. Jewish Studies. A version of Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich, except that it is contemporary, Jewish, and (therefore?) often funny. Tolstoy wa... Lees meer

Aristophanes, 1

• Paperback | Engels | Penn Greek Drama
• The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr play... Lees meer

Opus Posthumous and Other Poems

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• As he enters his sixth decade of publishing poetry, David R. Slavitt remains a determined wildcatter who ranges as far as he thinks necessary to drill... Lees meer

The Lays of Marie de France

• Paperback | Engels | Mingling Voices
• The twelve "lays" of the mysterious medieval poet Marie de France are here presented in sprightly English verse by poet and translator David R. Slavit... Lees meer

Equinox and Other Poems

David R Slavitt

• Paperback | Engels
• In his newest volume of verse, David R. Slavitt offers some of his finest poetry to date. Equinox is a collection of twenty-five poems on various subj... Lees meer

de Rerum Natura, the Nature of Things

Lucretius

• Paperback | Engels
• This elegant new translation at last restores the poetry to one of the greatest and most influential poems in the Western tradition. De Rerum Natura i... Lees meer