Product Description: A prize winning author paints a fascinating portrait of one of the 18th-century's most colorful characters: Sir William Hamilton. Hamilton represented the epitome of honorable public service. But he is remembered not as a scholar, diplomat, and connoisseur of culture, but for his part in the most scandalous menage a trois of the century: as the cuckolded husband of Emma Hamilton, mistress of the heroic Lord Nelson...read more

Product Description: Bless the poet for his service to ...the English language and for its double strata where the tongue-stopping dark consonants of Anglo-Saxon can represent the earth even before they refer.""--Hudson Review (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: These texts are stitched through with the vocabulary of excess, of madness, rage...those forces in his own psychology which, very soon, would carry him over the edge-David Constantine. Friedrich Holderlin was one of Europe's greatest poets...read more

Published in concert with the 250th anniversary of Goethe's birth, this selection of great works from the German writer includes The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust, among others.

Product Description: The prevailing mood of 'The Pelts of Wasps' is one of unease, often sad, tinged with pleasure, barbed with pain. The poems hold a worried balance between celebration and anxiety, restraint and longing. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is re-created in these remarkable verse translations. Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) was one of Europe's greatest poets. Constantine's translations make him accessible, even informal...read more

Product Description: The subject of Constantine's fifth book of poems is the enigmatic German Caspar Hauser, who was incarcerated for most of his childhood, released, and then murdered. He appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, able to write his name and say without understanding it one sentence: ""I want to be a rider like my father was...read more

Features parallel German and English texts of eight short stories that range in style from the classical method of Ernst Penzoldt to the montage technique of Alexander Kluge (view table of contents)

Product Description: Este libro constituye una fascinante semblanza del ideal helénico que nos muestra a pensadores y científicos empeñados en crear una cultura occidental europea que pueda inmortalizarse mediante el infatigable dinamismo del espíritu.

Product Description: The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is re-created in these remarkable verse translations. Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) was one of Europe's greatest poets. Constantine's translations make him accessible, even informal...read more

This book, the first new critical biography of Hölderlin to appear in over 50 years, makes a notoriously "difficult" major poet accessible to English-speaking readers, providing a comprehensive discussion of his life and work, and placing him firmly in the context of his times.