Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Medieval

What do a weak lion king, a grief-stricken rooster, a dim-witted bear, and one really angry wolf have in common? The answer is they ve all been had by one sly fox named Reynard. Originally bursting forth from Europe in the twelfth century, Reynard the Fox a classic trickster narrative centered on a wily and gleefully amoral fox and his numerous victims in the animal kingdom anticipated both Tex Avery and The Prince by showing that it s better to be clever than virtuous. However, where The Prince taught kings how to manipulate their subjects, Reynard the...

The Poetic Edda

"A Collection of Norse Poems"

Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and Notes

By Henry Adams Bellows

Two Volumes in One

American Scandinavian Foundation

The Poetic Edda is the modern attribution for an unnamed collection of Old Norse poems. Several versions exist, all consisting primarily of text from the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript known as the Codex Regius. The Codex Regius is arguably the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, and from the early 19th century onwards has had a powerful influence on later...

Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova is his 'Book of Memory', the poetic account of his love for Beatrice Portinari. It is one of the great poetry books of love in world literature.

The Vita Nuova or New Life draws on (and is part of) the dolce stil novo, the 'sweet style' of Italian poets such as Guido Cavalcanti, Guido Guinicelli, Cino da Pistoia and other stilnovisti.

Dante was an admirer of love poetry (he praised Arnaut Daniel in the Divina Commedia). Among the influences...

From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of Eve, who carries "a sumptuous secret in her hands / And a tempting truth hidden in her heart," to the trust of Noah who builds "a sea-floater, a wave-walking / Ocean-home with rooms for all creatures," the world of the Anglo-Saxon poets is a place of harshness, beauty, and wonder.

Now for the...

This classic poetry, written in 1789, was originally hand colored on each page and is reproduced here in full color for a visually rich experience.

Songs includes his most famous poem, -Tiger Tiger burning bright, In the forests of the night, - and many others. Interesting to read, and unique to Blake's poetry in this collection, are that the poems of Innocence are often counter poised with the poems of Experience.

This book of poetry is provided to the reader in a slim volume with the full color...

Unabridged, full color value reproduction of Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake. This classic poetry, written in 1789, was originally hand colored on each page and is reproduced here in full color for a visually rich experience.

Songs includes his most famous poem, -Tiger Tiger burning bright, In the forests of the night, - and many others. Interesting to read, and unique to Blake's poetry in this collection, are that the poems of Innocence are often counter poised with...