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Eustache Deschamps studied under the tutelage of Guillaume de
Marchault, traveled in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt-where he was
said to have been made a slave-and eventually become recognized as
one of the great French medieval poets. He was the first writer to
dissociate lyric poetry from its musical setting and his witty
perceptions comment on nearly all aspects of daily life: from
women's underwear to gluttonous diners, from praise of famous
writers to scorn for the unscrupulous of all ranks, from the
delights of youth to the horrors of war. This volume provides
facing-page, dual-language translations of Deschamps engaging,
amusing, and accessible poems, gleaning from the mountains of verse
the poems, gleaning from the mountains of verse the most edifying
and historically relevant. Copious notes, glossaries, and a full
bibliography enhance this elegant translation.
The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations
of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies,
and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the
surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes,
and Menander. This volume includes translations Deborah H. Roberts
(Ion), J. T. Barbarese (Children of Heracles), Katharine Washburn
and David Curzon (The Madness of Heracles), Carolyn Kizer
(Iphigenia in Tauris), and Greg Delanty (Orestes).
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Nil by Mouth (Paperback)
David Curson, Christine Paston; Leslie John Curson
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R145
Discovery Miles 1 450
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Modern Poems on the Bible is a collection of imaginative and
engaging contemporary responses to the Bible. Guided by the classic
rabbinic genre of midrash conceived 1,500 years ago, Curzon chooses
poems from Jewish and non-Jewish writers alike and places them
beside the biblical passages that were their inspiration. Among the
more than 170 poems in this collection are those by some of the
great modern poets, including Yeats, Rilke, Auden and Amichai.
There are also poems by master prose writers: Primo Levi, Jorge
Luis Borges, and D.H. Lawrence, to name a few.
Kamienska came of age during the horrors of the Nazi occupation of
Poland and lived under Communism. These experiences, as well as the
sudden death of her husband, led her to engagement with the Bible
and the great religious thinkers of the 20th century.
Her poems record the struggles of a rational mind with religious
faith, addressing loneliness and uncertainty in a remarkably
direct, unsentimental manner. Her spiritual quest has resulted in
extraordinary poems on Job, other biblical personalities, and
victims of the Holocaust. Other poems explore the meaning of loss,
grief, and human life. Still, her poetry expresses a fundamentally
religious sense of gratitude for her own existence and that of
other human beings, as well as for myriad creatures, such as
hedgehogs, birds and "young leaves willing to open up to the sun."
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Nadine Gordimer
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