Elegies of Love (Ovid)(Paperback)

Elegies of Love (Ovid)(Paperback)

Near the end of his life, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) began creating astonishingly an improvisatory and free life drawings. First published in a very limited edition in 1939, 31 of these drawings are paired here with selected Love Elegies from Ovid, one of Rodin's favorite authors. With Christopher

Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid: A Selection of Love Poetry(Paperback / softback)

The Art of Love (Ovid)(Paperback)

' . . . Humphries has rendered (Ovid's) love poetry with conspicuous success into English which is neither obtrusively colloquial nor awkwardly antique.' --Virginia Quarterly

The Love Poems (Ovid)(Paperback)

Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining. In this volume he has included the brilliant version of the Art of Love by Moore, published more than fifty years ago and still unequalled; the small

Field Work (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of elegies and love poems, and a short sonnet sequence which concentrates on such themes as: the individual's responsibility for his own choices, the artist's commitment to his vocation, the vulnerability of all in the face of circumstance and

Art of Love (Ovid)(Paperback / softback)

It may have been written in the days of chariot races, gladiators, and emperors, but this new translation of the best teacher in history on the subject of love contains enduringly useful and entertaining adviceAre you a sought-after dreamboat forever turning down invitations from attractive

Heroides (Ovid)(Paperback)

In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. The faithful

New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poems on the City (Kin Ostap)(Paperback)

'New York Elegies offers an astonishing richness of poems born out of the encounter between the city and several outstanding Ukrainian poets. It also provides a historical context for their voices and locates them in the Ukrainian literary tradition. An excellent book for poetry lovers, New York

15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid (Various Various)(Paperback)

Two thousand years ago, the Roman poet Ovid gave voice to a group of inspirational women - queens, sorcerers, pioneers, poets and politicians - in a series of fictional letters called The Heroines. They were the women left in the wake of those swaggering heroes of classical mythology: Theseus,

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Paperback)

Mary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature 'The most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's).' -Ezra Pound Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Paperback / softback)

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Paperback)

Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's style, and its modern idiom offers a fresh

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Paperback)

Ovid's sensuous and witty poem, in an accessible translation by David Raeburn In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation--often as a result of love or lust--where men and women find themselves magically changed into

Elegies (Dunn Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1985, these poems were written after the death of Douglas Dunn's first wife in March

After Diana: Irreverent Elegies (Merck Mandy)(Paperback)

The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was met by the deepest mourning of the twentieth century. Two and a half billion people worldwide watched the funeral on television, floral tributes flooded London's royal parks and sprung up, too, in small towns in Texas, conspiracy theories ricocheted around

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Paperback)

Ovid's epic poem--whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages--is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. The text is

Erotic Poems (Ovid)(Paperback / softback)

This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Paperback / softback)

In 'The Metamorphoses', Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme of transformation. This is Arthur Golding's 16th-century translation of the

Completing the Circle (Stevenson Anne)(Paperback)

Anne Stevenson's Completing the Circle is a swansong collection of moving elegies and celebrations written in her 80s during the early decades of what she calls in her preface, 'a newly transformed, already terrifying century'. Most of these poems look back on her past from 'the viewpoint of a

Metamorphoses: The New, Annotated Edition (Ovid)(Paperback)

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before--sensuous, dangerously witty, audacious--from the fall of Troy

Metamorphoses: A New Translation (Ovid)(Paperback)

Ovid's epic poem--whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages--is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. Charles Martin

Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature (Feeney Denis)(Paperback)

A History Today Best Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon today that the birth of Latin literature seems inevitable. Yet, Denis Feeney boldly argues, the

Daybreak: New and Selected Poems (Malroux Claire)(Paperback)

A bilingual collection of poetry, from elegies to poem memoirs, by a revered French master. For more than four decades Claire Malroux has forged a unique path in contemporary French poetry, informed by the French tradition, by poets such as Yves Bonnefoy and Mallarm , and, more unusually, by the

Duino Elegies: A New and Complete Translation (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)