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Purgatorio
ISBN: 9780140448962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The second volume of Dante's epic, printed with the original Italian and Robin Kirkpatrick's sublime translation
Climbing out of Hell, Dante in the Purgatorio reaches an island set in the southern ocean. This is Mount Purgatory, where he encounters the penitents who heroically endure their sufferings and speak of their time on Earth. Strange and fresh at every turn, Dante's narrative evokes the mountain landscape in terms of intense physical sensation, right up to the summit. There, before rising to heaven, he enters the Earthly Paradise, where he is movingly reunited with... The second volume of Dante's epic, printed with the original Italian and Robin Kirkpatrick's sublime translation
Climbing out of Hell, Dan... |
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Paradiso
ISBN: 9780140448979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The radiant climax to Dante's awe-inspiring epic, in a definitive new translation
Having plunged to the utmost depths of Hell and climbed Mount Purgatory in the first two parts of The Divine Comedy, Dante now ascends to Heaven, guided by his beloved Beatrice, to continue his search for God. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise, he grows ever closer to experiencing divine love in the overwhelming presence of the deity. Examining eternal questions of faith, desire, and enlightenment, Dante exercised all of his learning and wit, wrath and tenderness in his creation... The radiant climax to Dante's awe-inspiring epic, in a definitive new translation
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The Bhagavad Gita
ISBN: 9780140449181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 85 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The eighteen chapters of The Bhagavad Gita (c. 500 b.c.), the glory of Sanskrit literature, encompass the whole spiritual struggle of a human soul. Its three central themes--love, light, and life--arise from the symphonic vision of God in all things and of all things in God.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide... The eighteen chapters of The Bhagavad Gita (c. 500 b.c.), the glory of Sanskrit literature, encompass the whole spiritual struggle of a human s...
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46,12 |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
ISBN: 9780140449198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literature
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh s adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties of kings, theEpic of Gilgameshis, above... Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literature
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Poems and Letters : Selections, with the 1550 Vasari Life
ISBN: 9780140449563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet. The verses collected here are primarily devoted to love and religion. Intense and passionate, the love poems focus on two figures: Tommaso de Cavalieri and Vittoria Colonna; with the sonnets and madrigals dedicated to de Cavalieri revealing a highly charged, homoerotic fervour - previously obscured in the original versions. Michelangelo's later religious poetry moves away from his earlier wordly concerns, while his...
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a pr...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780140449884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The poems of Rabindranath Tagore are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between God and the world, the eternal and transient, and with the paradox of an endlessly changing universe that is in tune with unchanging harmonies. Poems such as "Earth" and "In the Eyes of a Peacock" present a picture of natural processes unaffected by human concerns, while others, as in "Recovery - 14," convey the poet's bewilderment about his place in the...
The poems of Rabindranath Tagore are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human ...
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The Satires of Horace and Persius
ISBN: 9780140455083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Inspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert Frost, the writings of Horace and Persius have had a powerful influence on later Western literature. The Satires of Persius are highly idiosyncratic, containing a courageous attack on the poetry and morals of his wealthy contemporaries even the ruling emperor, Nero. The Satires of Horace, written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus s regime, provide an amusing treatment of men s perennial enslavement to money, power, glory, and sex. Epistles I, addressed to the poet s...
Inspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert Frost, the writings of Horace and Persius have had a powerful influence o...
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55,70 |
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La Fontaine Selected Fables
ISBN: 9780140455243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of the world's most beloved fables Jean de la Fontaine popularized some of our most loved proverbial tales, including "The Hare and the Tortoise" and "The Hen Who Laid Golden Eggs," transforming the world's great fables into charming works of astonishing originality, wit, and verve. James Michie's earthy translations capture the friendly brio, nimble comedy, and jaunty wisdom of the original. Black-and-white line drawings by J. J. Grandville introduce each fable. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the...
A collection of the world's most beloved fables Jean de la Fontaine popularized some of our most loved proverbial tales, including "The Har...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780140585537 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the early virtuosity of Some Trees and The Tennis Court Oath through the triumphs of The Double Dream of Spring and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror to the latest brilliance of A Wave each new collection of John Ashbery s verse has broken new ground.
Now, from the whole range of a lifetime s work, Ashbery has chosen his own selection of 138 poems, including short lyrics, haiku, prose poems, and many of his major long poems. Seeing these great works together in one volume, readers will be able to savor a... From the early virtuosity of Some Trees and The Tennis Court Oath through the triumphs of The Double Dream of Spring and the Puli...
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99,92 |
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The Penguin Book Of Spanish Verse
ISBN: 9780140585704 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Poems in the original Spanish are accompanied by English translations and represent each period of Spanish literature.
Poems in the original Spanish are accompanied by English translations and represent each period of Spanish literature.
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98,10 |
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Contemporary American Poetry: Revised and Expanded Second Edition
ISBN: 9780140586183 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Within the pages of this anthology, now in its second edition, you ll find 39 American poets from across the twentieth century. In his introduction, editor and Guggenheim fellow Donald Hall, describes the face of American poetry as "subjective." The American poem reveals through images not particular pain, but general subjective life . . . The poet uses fantasy and distortion to express feeling. "
Within the pages of this anthology, now in its second edition, you ll find 39 American poets from across the twentieth century. In his introduction, e...
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Velocities: New and Selected Poems 1966-1992
ISBN: 9780140586510 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Stephen Dobyns is one of the very finest poets writing in America today. His poems are brave, ravenous, intensely moving, and utterly his own. Thomas Lux
Velocities presents a selection of poems spanning more than twenty-five years in the career of Stephen Dobyns, one of the finest and most original poets of our age. This volume brings together new poems and a generous selection of work from Dobyns s seven previously published collections." Stephen Dobyns is one of the very finest poets writing in America today. His poems are brave, ravenous, intensely moving, and utterly his own. Thomas ...
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Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780140586954 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Carroll, a diarist and rock performer, is best known for his coming-of-age memoir The Basketball Diaries, which became an instant classic when it was first published in 1978 and then a national bestseller when a film version of the book was released in 1995. Carroll initially made his reputation as a poet, and has won acclaim and comparisons to everyone from Rimbaud to Frank O'Hara for his delicate yet hallucinatory imagery.
This volume of poetry collects selections from Jim Carroll's Living at the Movies, which was published in 1973 when he was twenty-two, and The Book... Carroll, a diarist and rock performer, is best known for his coming-of-age memoir The Basketball Diaries, which became an instant classic when ...
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Sentinel and Other Poems
ISBN: 9780140586985 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Book of Blues
ISBN: 9780140587005 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect in Mexico City Blues, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the...
Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In thes...
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Nerve Storm
ISBN: 9780140587036 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Kill or Cure
ISBN: 9780140587081 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Kill Or Cure, a bold prescriptive for these apocalyptic days, brings together substantial new work as well as the best of Anne Waldman's previously uncollected poetry. It includes credos, manifestos, dreams, homages to literary predecessors, Shaman Hisses You Slide Back Into The Night (the journal poem written during Bob Dylan's historic Rolling Thunder Revue), witty political diatribes, travel vignettes, incantations, and a new section of the ongoing epic poem Iovis, a powerful meditation on male energy."
Kill Or Cure, a bold prescriptive for these apocalyptic days, brings together substantial new work as well as the best of Anne Waldman's previously un...
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Selected Poems: Volume 2
ISBN: 9780140587210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Though universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This new bilingual selection brings together some two hundred poems--the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, including scores of poems never previously translated. Edited by Alexander Coleman, the selection draws from a lifetime's work--from Borges' first published volume of verse, Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923), to his final work, Los Conjurados, published just a year before his death in 1986. Throughout this unique collection the...
Though universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This new bilingual sele...
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Loba
ISBN: 9780140587524 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Loba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for the first time in its completed form with new material, Loba, "she-wolf" in Spanish explores the wilderness at the heart of experience, through the archetype of the wolf goddess, elemental symbol of complete self-acceptance.
Loba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's Howl w...
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92,23 |
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Ranking the Wishes
ISBN: 9780140587791 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In his seventh book, poet Carl Dennis explores the ways in which our wishes define who we are. Showing how wishes are essential to giving shape and direction to the moment, these poems address the broad spectrum of wishing with moving clarity through a rich variety of genres elegy, advice, meditation, warning, consolation, and prophecy.
In his seventh book, poet Carl Dennis explores the ways in which our wishes define who we are. Showing how wishes are essential to giving shape and di...
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92,23 |