Product Description: A new translation of one of the founding texts of French poetry, in a dual language editionThe most celebrated of French medieval poets, François Villon makes poetry out of the basest material—the raw urban life of Paris with its petty officials, students, clergy, tradesmen, pimps, whores, and thieves...read more

Product Description: Universally recognized as Dante's early masterpiece, and including some of his best poetry outside the Divine Comedy, to which it can be regarded as a sort of prequelPart poetical tribute, part autobiography, it traces Dante's passionate love for Beatrice from his first meeting with her as a boy to her premature death at the age of 24 and the psychological and emotional turmoil that this caused him...read more

Product Description: After a long period of neglect, Angelus Silesius (1624-77) is now recognized as the major religious poet of seventeenth-century German literature. A Lutheran converted to Catholicism, he composed close on two thousand scared epigrams that combine the exuberance of the southern baroque with the inwardness of northern mysticism...read more

Cecco Angiolieri found comfort for his bad luck only by pouring venomous scorn upon his miserly parents. This book contains some of his harsh sonnets alongwith the Italian text.

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. This is a collection of verses which are devoted to love and religion.

Product Description: On the occasion of Robert Rehder's seventieth birthday, this Festschrift pays tribute to a forceful and inspiring teacher who is both a poet himself and the author of major studies on Wordsworth and Wallace Stevens. The contributions reflect the range of Rehder's achievement with essays on Wordsworth and his contemporaries, on the American poets who have been at the centre of his teaching (Whitman, Dickinson, William Carlos Williams), and on recent figures such as Thom Gunn, and Seamus Heaney...read more

This is a translation of 60 poems from Petrarch's 'Canzoniere', readable as English verse, but also faithful to Petrarchan technique and structure. The selection includes poetry from the first and second parts of the 'Canzoniere', as well as selections from the public and political poems.