Poetry in Translation

This selection, in new English translation by Richard F. Hardin, celebrates the comic artist Plautus.

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A new translation of his Classic 19th Century Georgian poem Host and Guest.

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The myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from Colchis.

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Ausonius's celebration of the beauties of the river Moselle.

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A new, English translation of Hesiod's Works and Days, written by the ancient Greek poet around 700 BC.

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A new, English translation of Hesiod's Theogony describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods.

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A new, English translation of Hesiod's Shield of Heracles describing the battle between Heracles, his nephew Iolaus and Cycnus, son of the war-god Ares.

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A collection of thirty-three Greek hexameter poems composed in the old Epic style.

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De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of Things is a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism

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Ovid's Medicamina Faciei Femineae - his defence of the use of cosmetics by Roman women. A new, English translation by Christopher Kelk

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Terence's Roman comedy Phormio based on Apollodorus of Carystus's lost work 'The Claimant'.

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Terence's Adelphi - partly adapted from plays by Menander and Diphilus.

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Terence's Andria - adapted from Menander's works Andriam and Perinthiam.

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Terence's Heautontimorumenos - his second or third play, likely an adaption of the Menander play of the same name.

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Terence's Hecyra - likely his second play, based on plays by Apollodorus of Carystus and Menander.

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Terence's Eunuchus - his most successful play during his lifetime, based on a work by Menander.

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Extensive selected poems in verse translation (external links, opening in new tab).

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Selected Poems: Twenty poems of Rafael Alberti (external links, opening in new tab).

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A new, complete, downloadable, English translation, with hyper-linked in-depth name index, and comprehensive notes. A printed book version is also available.

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A new English translation of 'The New Life'.

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Selected Poems from Dante's verse.

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Dante's commentary on three of his canzoni, providing an interesting background to the philosophy of the Divine Comedy.

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René d'Anjou's Le Livre du Coeur d’Amour Épris - an allegorical love quest employing the conventions of Arthurian romance.

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Twenty-Five poems in translation by Innokenty Fyodorovich Annensky - representative of the first wave of Russian Symbolism.

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A selection of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire including poems from Alcools, Vitam Impendere Amori, and The Bestiary.

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The Golden Ass: the transformations of Lucius Apuleius, and the rites of Isis.

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The Satyricon in English translation.

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A new, English translation of the Italian chivalric romance set against the backdrop of the war between Charlemagne's Christian paladins and the invading Saracen army.

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Translations from the medieval text including the material used by Carl Orff in his scenic cantata.

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The charming 13th century French ‘chantefable’.

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A new translation from the Old English.

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Translated from the Anglo-Saxon of the Exeter Book.

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Translated from the Anglo-Saxon of the Exeter Book.

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Including (i) Eighty-eight major poems in verse translation, arranged in roughly chronological order of composition (ii) Voyage to Modernity: a new study of his poetry. (iii) Extracts from his prose.

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Baudelaire’s ‘manifesto’ of Modernity, written in 1860 and published in instalments in Le Figaro in 1863 in a new, downloadable English translation.

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Renaud de Beaujeu's Arthurian romance 'Le Bel Inconnu' (The Fair Unknown, a pseudonym for the male hero).

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Joachim du Bellay's Les Antiquités de Rome.

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From L'Olive augmentée, Les Regrets, and others.

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Selected works of Alexander Blok - representing his personal and intimate poetry from 1908 onwards.

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A new, English translation of the chivalric romance - the continuation of which is Ludovico Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso'.

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Selected Poems: Twenty-one poems of Jorge Luis Borges (external links, opening in new tab).

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André Breton's First Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 in a new translation (external links, opening in new tab).

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The complete unexpurgated poems, with hyper-linked in-depth index.

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Thirty-six selected poems including a new translation of 'Donna me prega'.

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Twenty-five poems of Paul Celan (external links, opening in new tab).

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‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’, and other poems by Alain Chartier in a new, downloadable English translation.

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A new complete translation of his prose Memoirs, Mémoires d’outre-tombe, with an in-depth hyper-linked index.

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Atala: Love and religion in the wilds of America.

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A new translation of his tale of thwarted love set in Moorish Granada.

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A new authoritative translation of Chateaubriand's travel notes Voyage en Italie. Romantic Classicism among the ruins!

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A new authoritative translation of Chateaubriand's Record of a Journey from Paris to Jerusalem and Back (Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem et de Jérusalem à Paris).

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A modernised version or translation, retaining Chaucer's rhyme scheme, and close to the original, but eliminating archaisms which would require explanatory notes.

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A similarly modernised version.

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A similarly modernised version, including: The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, The Legend of Good Women, Selected Shorter Poems - including Merciless Beauty

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An English translation of selected poems from Tristan Corbière's ‘Les Amours Jaunes’, published in 1873

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Corneille's drama, Le Cid, in English verse.

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Seven spiritual poems by San Juan de la Cruz.

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Selected poetry of Eustache Deschamps - pupil and friend of Guillaume de Machaut and diplomatic messenger for Charles V of France.

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Each with a prose equivalent to aid comprehension.

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Twenty-four poems in translation (external links, opening in new tab).

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Sixteen more poems in translation (external links, opening in new tab).

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The 13th century medieval romance in verse translation.

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The Lais of Marie de France - a series of twelve short narrative Breton poems.

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A complete verse translation with stage instructions and line numbers.

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Fifty-four major poems in verse translation.

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Goethe's twenty Roman Elegies, published in German as Römische Elegien.

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Selected Poems. Twenty-six sonnets by Luis de Góngora y Argote.

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Twenty-seven poems.

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A Selection of Poems from his complete works, in verse translation, including Morphine,Der Scheidende,Der Asra, and lyrics from the Buch der Lieder.

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On love and other personal themes.

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By this great Spanish poet, including his elegy for Lorca.

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A new, complete, downloadable, English translation, with hyper-linked in-depth index.

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A new, complete, downloadable, English translation, with hyper-linked in-depth index.

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The four books of Odes complete. The Satires, Epistles, Ars Poetica, Carmen Saeculare and the Epodes.

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A new, complete English translation of Silius Italicus' epic poem about the Second Carthaginian War.

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The Satires. Incisive social analysis from the age of Hadrian.

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The poetry of A. S. Kline - selected from his Collected Works of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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The T’ang Dynasty and the Tao. A study of Taoism and the history of T’ang China, with biographies of the poets Wang Wei, Li Po, and Tu Fu, and new translations of their poetry.

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Biographies of four famous Elizabethans: Essex, Marlowe, Raleigh and Donne, within the context of the history of ideas, with reference to poetry, astrology, history, and mythology including the concept of the Goddess.

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An original essay on Poetic translation.

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A treatise on the term Romanticism as applied to English poetry.

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A commentary on The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and the Continuation by Jean de Meung.

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A critical scene by scene study of Goethe's Faust. The downloads also contain the verse translation of the play, to which the study headings are hyper-linked.

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A canto by canto commentary on the concepts and intentions behind The Divine Comedy.

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A critical study of Ovid's Metamorphoses hyper-linked to the corresponding translation.

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A selection of aphorisms from notebooks: 1980-2009.

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A further selection of aphorisms from notebooks: 2010-2018.

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The Sonnets of Louise Labé in translation.

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An English translation of the 13th century Chansons, Rondeaux and Motets of Adam de la Halle.

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The Taoist Classic text.

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The Complete Canti.

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Theory and Play of the Duende, his lectures on Deep Song, and Lullabies, his radio talk Holy Week in Granada, and his prose Impressions of Granada of 1918.

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His plays Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, and Dona Rosita the Spinster and the Language of Flowers.

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Selected poems of ‘Love and Death’ from the Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director Federico García Lorca.

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The Romance of the Rose (Le Roman de la Rose) - Guillaume de Lorris' dream allegory of courtly love.

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His epic of the Civil War that brought Julius Caesar to power.

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A selection of his major poems.

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The 14th century Motets of Guillaume de Machaut.

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The 14th century Rondeaux & Ballades of Guillaume de Machaut.

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The 14th century Virelais of Guillaume de Machaut.

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The story of Guillaume de Machaut's real or fictional love for, and correspondence with, a young female poet, Péronne d’Armentières.

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Thirty-eight of Stéphane Mallarmé's poems in translation including 'Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard'. The latter comprises the formatted French text, a formatted English translation, and compressed and punctuated texts in both languages to allow rapid grasp of the whole.

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An adaptation of selected fragments written after the death of his young son.

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Twenty-four major Poems in verse translation, including Tristia.

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Forty-four more Poems in verse translation.

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Mandelshtam's manifesto The Morning of Acmeism and his essays on the Word and Culture, François Villon and Dante Alighieri.

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Selected poems of Clément Marot in English translation.

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Selected unexpurgated epigrams.

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Jean de Meung's Continuation - a development of the courtly love poem "The Romance of the Rose" by Guillaume de Lorris.

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Selected Poems by Eugenio Montale (external links, opening in new tab)

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The Manifesto of Jean Moréas, published in the newspaper Le Figaro.

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An extensive selection of his major poems (external links, opening in new tab).

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The medieval verse tale, from the Loire region of France, attributed to Robert d’Orbigny (or d’Orléans).

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One Hundred Selected Ballades and Rondeaux by Charles d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans and Valois.

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A new complete translation and in-depth mythological index. The text is fully hyper-linked to the index, and vice versa. A printed book version is also available.

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The Amores. The early erotic Elegies, mainly addressed to his unknown lover, Corinna.

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Letters from eighteen mythological women to their lovers or ex-lovers.

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The Tristia, Ex Ponto, and Ibis with a hyper-linked in-depth index.

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Ovid's Poem on the Roman Calendar, with a hyper-linked in-depth index

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Twenty-Two Poems in verse translation (external links, opening in new tab).

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The Satires. A fine and distinctive voice from the age of Nero.

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Twenty poems in translation from the Portuguese poet.

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The Complete Canzoniere, and an introductory selection.

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The early love poetry of Christine de Pisan - Rondeaux.

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The early love poetry of Christine de Pisan - The Hundred Ballads (Les Cent Ballades).

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The Love Elegies in translation, with an in-depth index.

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Eugene Onegin in rhyming verse translation.

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Pushkin's epic fairy tale, Ruslan and Ludmila.

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Pushkin's narrative poem about the great flood of St. Petersburg in 1824.

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Selected poems by Salvatore Quasimodo (external links, opening in new tab).

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Twenty further poems by Salvatore Quasimodo (external links, opening in new tab).

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His drama, Andromache, in a new English verse translation.

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His drama, Berenice, in a new English verse translation.

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His drama, Phaedra, in a new English verse translation.

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Selected poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, his Duino Elegies and The Fountain of Joy - a commentary on the Elegies by A. S. Kline.

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Rainer Maria Rilke’s French poems created during the last four years of his life.

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Rilke's letters to a young poet Franz Xaver Kappus, written between 1902 and 1908, in English translation.

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A selection of his poetry including early poems, Les Illuminations and Une Saison En Enfer both complete, and an extract from the 'Voyant' Letter.

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Selected poems, in English verse.

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Cyrano de Bergerac, in English verse.

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Eighteen poems by Umberto Saba (external links, opening in new tab).

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Selected Poems and Fragments: Reconstructed from the source text.

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A selection of the poems from Scève's Délie presented with fifty allegorical woodcuts.

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A new Anthology of 1400 Quotations from the complete works arranged by theme.

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The complete sonnets of Astrophil & Stella, each with a prose equivalent to aid comprehension.

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Fifty selected sonnets by Gaspara Stampa, described as the Sappho of her day.

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Fifty more selected sonnets by Gaspara Stampa.

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His epic of the Seven Against Thebes, which was highly valued by Dante and Chaucer and influenced both Renaissance theatre and epic.

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Strassburg's unfinished Tristan with the concluding Thomas fragments.

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The Twelve Caesars in a new prose translation, with an in-depth hyperlinked index.

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The Agricola and Germania of Publius Cornelius Tacitus.

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The Annals of Publius Cornelius Tacitus.

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The Histories of Publius Cornelius Tacitus.

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These fifty poems were all, at one time or another, set for voice. The poems are sourced from the Rime, unless otherwise indicated.

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A modernised version or translation, retaining the alliterative style, and close to the original, but eliminating archaisms which would require explanatory notes.

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The complete poems of Tibullus and of Sulpicia.

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Sixty poems of the Troubadours translated from the Occitan. The translations are close to the originals in content, rhyme-scheme and rhythm. Included are translations of poems by Guillaume de Poitiers, Jaufre Rudel, Beatritz de Dia, Bernart de Ventadorn, Arnaut Daniel, Peire Vidal, Bertran de Born, Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, Guillem de Cabestan, Sordello, and others.

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Chrétien de Troyes' Arthurian Romances including Érec and Énide, Cligès, Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart and Perceval, the Story of the Grail.

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Twenty-Four Poems in verse translation.

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Marina Tsvetaeva's poems published in 1922 Berlin after her flight from the Soviet regime in Moscow.

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A translation of twenty more poems by the noted Russian poetess, Marina Tsvetaeva.

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Translations of poems in the European Languages from: Sappho, Catullus, Dante, Petrarch, Goethe, Leopardi, Pushkin, Heine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Mandelstam and Machado.

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A selection of poems from Early France. Including translations of poems by Marie de France, Arnaut Daniel, Bertran de Born, Thibaut IV Roi de Navarre, Guillaume de Machaut, Eustace Deschamps, Christine de Pisan, and Charles d'Orléans.

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A selection of poems from Early and Renaissance Italy. Including translations of poems by Guido Cavalcanti, Lorenzo de Medici, Poliziano, Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna, Gaspara Stampa, and Tasso.

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Sixty-eight poems translated from the Russian including poems by Pushkin, Blok, Akhmatova, and Mandelstam.

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Selected Poems from the French 19th century including poems by Victor Hugo, Gérard de Nerval, Alfred de Musset, Théophile Gautier, Leconte de Lisle, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Jules Laforgue and Guillaume Apollinaire.

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Selected Poems from the French early to mid-20th century including poems by Apollinaire, Supervielle, Breton, Tzara, Eluard, Artaud, Aragon, Desnos, Prévert, Ponge, Char, and others (external links, opening in new tab).

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Forty-nine poems from the early 20th Century by Umberto Saba, Dino Campana, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Salvatore Quasimodo, and Eugenio Montale (external links, opening in new tab).

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A personal selection of seventy-three poems by Paul Verlaine.

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Further poems in translation.

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An English translation of Paul Verlaine's ‘Accursed’ Poets (Les Poètes Maudits), first published in 1884.

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Selected poems in verse translation, including Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis, Les Regrets de la Belle Heaulmière, and Ballade des Pendus.

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The Eclogues: The pastoral poems.
The Georgics: The poetic treatise on farming in four books

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The Aeneid: The epic poem of Aeneas of Troy.

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Don Juan Tenorio, in English verse, with parallel Spanish text and line numbers (translated in collaboration with Nancy Mayberry).

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An original essay on the teachings of the Hellenistic philosopher Epicurus (born ca. 341 BC).

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An original essay offering a novel interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid as a Trojan Horse for Augustus - ostensibly a glorification but in fact critical of the emperor.

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An acting version of Seneca's Roman tragedy depicting the revenge of Atreus, king of Argos, on his brother Thyestes.

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An acting version of Seneca's Roman tragedy depicting the the murder of king Agamemnon at the hands of his wife Clytaemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

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View X. Z. Shao's blog - 'A Poetic Voice From China', or a selection of poems.

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Agamemnon, Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers), and Eumenides.

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Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliant Maidens, and Prometheus Bound.

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Clouds, Frogs and The Birds.

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Lysistrata, Women in Parliament and Women at the Festival.

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Peace, Knights and Wasps.

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Bacchae, Alcestis, Andromache, and Suppliant Women.

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Iphigeneia in Aulis, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Elektra, and Hekabe.

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Medea, Herakleidae, Herakles, and Hippolytus.

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Helen, Phoenician Women, Ion, and Cyclops.

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Trojan Women, Orestes and Rhesus.

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Sappho: Selected Poems.

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Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone.

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Philoktetes, Ajax, Women of Trachis, and Elektra.

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Aristophanes' Wealth and Acharnians: also includes Menander's The Grouch.

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A selection of poetry by Anacreon and others.

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A personal selection of links to texts at Project Gutenberg, as a tribute to Michael S. Hart (1947-2011) inventor of the e-book.

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