"So full was I of slumber at the moment
in which I had abandoned the true way . . .

"O Muses, O high genius, now assist me!
O memory, that didst write down what I saw,
. . . thy nobility shall be manifest!"

Although chiefly... [More...]

Since 1961, this "Odyssey" has sold more than two million copies and is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. 24 illustrations. Map. Glossary.

Fagles presents his universally acclaimed modern verse translation of the world's greatest war story in an exquisite edition with French flaps, designed as a companion volume to "The Odyssey".

Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero  Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired  writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus  survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops  and the isle of... [More...]

Renowned poet and critic James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation of Dante's "The Divine Comedy."

For the first time, John Ciardi's translations of Dante's three soaring canticles have been gathered together in a single volume.

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The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with... [More...]

At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them... [More...]

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young, unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text in this volume that continues to inspire lovers... [More...]