Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> European - General

Maksym Rylsky (1895-1964) is one of the most outstanding Ukrainian poets of the the 20^th century and master of the genres of the modern sonnet and the long narrative poem. He was closely associated with the Neoclassicist group of Ukrainian poets, who employed traditional poetic forms with rhyme and meter, wrote in a clear and accessible contemporary idiom, and often referenced Ancient Greek and Roman mythology as well as numerous other authors from world literature in their poetry. Rylsky was also a prolific translator from English, French, German, and Polish as well as a...

"It would be hard to imagine Russian poetry in the last half century without Lydia Grigorieva," writeseminent Russian poet and critic Konstantin Kedrov. Grigorieva is a uniquely individual voice, bucking the trends of modernist poetry to create her own distinctive and beguiling body of poetry.

Her work draws on her own remarkable life to create startlingly arresting images and metaphors, full of beauty and power, from her series that emerged from her Arctic childhood, to the troubles that beset Ukraine. Her range of influences is wide, and Beethoven, Freud, Sylvia Plath and Byron...

Essays on the most celebrated Italian poet by eminent poets
of the twentieth century

"Perhaps confessions by poets, of what Dante has meant to them, may even contribute something to the appreciation of Dante himself."
-T. S. Eliot

The great fourteenth-century poet has been an unequaled influence on many writers in the twentieth century, whose "confessions" may well foster a deeper appreciation of Dante. Previously published essays by some of this century's most renowned poets-Pound, Eliot, Mandelstam, Robert Fitzgerald, Borges, Merrill, Montale, Lowell,...

Das Buch bietet eine gut lesbare und methodisch aktuelle Einfuhrung in die Heldendichtung der germanischsprachigen Literaturen des Mittelalters, von ihren Anfangen im 8. Jahrhundert bis zu ihrem Ausklang im 16. Jahrhundert. Im Gegensatz zu fruheren Einfuhrungen dieser Art wird hier nicht stoffgeschichtlich vorgegangen. Im Zentrum stehen vielmehr die Texte selbst, die nach chronologischen und geographischen Kriterien gruppiert und einzeln vorgestellt und besprochen werden. Es soll dadurch das sich wandelnde Interesse in den Vordergrund treten, dass man in je unterschiedlichen...

For the first time, this volume presents a German translation of the Old French heroic epic Aliscans, which served as a model for Wolfram von Eschenbach's novel Willehalm. The primary source for the text is the edition based on the Venetian manuscript M (Holtus 1985). Students of German Studies will thus be able to compare the two texts and study both their affinities as well as the completely new form and interpretation presented by Wolfram.