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This small book contains an engaging spread of rhymes and poems; humorous, romantic or based around historical events.
The opening twenty-eight translations of early Dutch poetry are the most well-known of that language and period. The originals were written in a straightforward and unembellished style, making attractive yet metred translation not too tricky.
The fourteen Norwegian pieces are from the nineteenth century. Their Lutheran adumbrations...
82) Poemas
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Félix Lope de Vega escribió una poesía ardiente, vital y en cierto modo desenfadada. Dedicó gran parte de su vida en la composición poética aunque sea más conocido como dramaturgo. Se conservan, entre otros, un total de tres mil sonetos. Su creación lírica es especialmente intensa a partir de 1580 por su rivalidad con Luis de Góngora, momento en el que abandonará el soneto para volver a la métrica puramente española, es decir, el octosílabo....
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The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great adventure novels of all time. But the author, Alexandre Dumas, also adapted his novel into four riveting plays. Part Three: The Rise of Monte Cristo is set two decades after Edmond Dantès has been unjustly imprisoned in the Château d'If. Edmond has made himself into the Count of Monte Cristo, and he now sets out to gain his revenge upon the three men who shangaied him into 14 years of prison. First on...
84) Poemas
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Los Poemas de Baltasar de Alcázar no fueron publicados por el escritor. Por fortuna, el pintor Francisco Pacheco realizó copias del único manuscrito que se conservaba.
Como escritor, demostró un brillante dominio de la métrica. Los temas que caracterizan la obra poética de Alcázar fueron un tanto triviales; por esta razón, a menudo se le etiqueta injustamente al autor como "poeta menor". Estuvo muy influido por los poetas latinos Marcial y...
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The Count of Monte Cristo, one of the greatest adventure novels of all time, has been converted by the author into a series of four plays. In PART TWO, Edmond Dantes has escaped from the dreaded prison island of d'If after 14 years of captivity. He seeks out the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo described to him by the Abbe Faria, and assumes the identity of the priest Busoni. Then he begins his odyssey of revenge, tracking down Caderousse and his...
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"Within the tradition of polished verse, Mirela Roznoveanu has accomplished an astonishing marriage of Romantic elements.The elegance of Brecht and Rilke converses with the occasional surrealism of Rimbaud, flavored by a Baudelairian melancholy which moves the reader between the streets of New York City and ancient landscapes both historical and mythological.A good portion of the text is translated from the Romanian, and these especially seem masterfully...
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I write for pleasure and when I feel strongly about something I find it much easier to be articulate writing my feelings down than trying to explain myself vocally. Some of the poems I wrote when my marriage broke down after twenty years are quite dark and depressing, but there is always the golden thread of hope running through which lifts the spirit at the end. It would be nice to think that readers of my work could relate to some of my sentiments,...
88) Monet
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Monet's gift was to show the world a different way of seeing and interpreting everything around us. He brought his canvases to life with dabs and swoops of color put together to give an impression of the scene. He is the ultimate Impressionist: not only did one of his paintings inspire the label "Impressionist" and so name one of the greatest art movements of all time, but he was its leader, whose work changed the way that artists represented nature,...
89) Raptors
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With tragicomic bravado and psychological insight, this collection paints a turbulent portrait of a father and his family, creating a poetic sequence that has the scope of a novel and stretches the sense of what is possible in poetry. Each poem is presented as an improvisation on the theme of the father, forming a picture of a family held hostage by the mood swings and histrionics of this patriarch. Combining intense speed and surprise with moments...
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Edvard Kocbek was born in 1904, the son of a church organist, in a part of present-day Slovenia that was then in Austria-Hungary. Following the publication in 1934 of his first book of poetry, he published essays that presaged the wartime alliance of this Christian Socialist with the Tito-led partisan resistance. Despite a lengthy postwar publication ban, Kocbek went on to win the Preseren Prize, Slovenia's highest literary award, in 1964. More books...
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French dramatist Adolphe d'Ennery (1811-1899) follows the Faust story originally developed by Goethe, but with a leavening of humor that the German playwright lacked. Especially entertaining is the character of the female demon Sulphurine, who's created by Faust's servant Wagner to be his slave. Needless to say, this she-devil is no one's mistress! Faust initially repels the advances of Mephistopheles, but suddenly finds himself in love with the young...
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OLYMPIAS is one of Voltaire's most powerful tragedies. It's based on the suspicion that King Alexander the Great was poisoned, and left an infant daughter, Olympias, by his Persian wife Statira, daughter of the last Persian king. Olympias was raised by Cassander, son of King Antipater of Macedon, who's also tried to murder Statira (although she survived, unbeknownst to him). Now Cassader has succeeded his father as King, but is riddled with guilt...
94) Poemas
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Tirso de Molina, el gran dramaturgo español del Siglo de oro (1579-1648), fue también autor de una sustanciosa obra poética que incluye:
- coplas,
- romances
- y sonetosinscritos en la estética conceptista. La obra poética de Tirso de Molina asocia con ingenio el sentido y la forma de las palabras mediante el empleo de recursos retóricos muy variados.
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El soneto nació en Sicilia hacia el siglo XIII y adquirió su importancia con Dante Alighieri y, muy principalmente, con el Cancionero de Francisco Petrarca (1304-1374) que fue admirado en toda Europa. La historia del soneto puede contarse con cierta continuidad en la poesía francesa, en la portuguesa, en la inglesa, en la alemana y en la castellana desde el siglo XVI. El auge del soneto en nuestra lengua coincide con los siglos de oro de la poesía...
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¿Has sentido alguna vez un anhelo desesperado por algo o por alguien? Quizás no siempre sabemos lo que deseamos, a pesar de que la sensación sea ensordecedoramente fuerte, así es como siente Gabriel, y como el artista joven, muy atractivo y demasiado inquieto que es, ignora ese sentimiento y se va a una aldea desierta en Ludvika para desarrollar una idea de trabajo. Bueno, nada resultará como lo piensa, de repente, él es una de las piezas de...
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Classical archaeology was long equated to ancient art history. Today these fields find themselves at a major crossroads. The influence on them-from the discipline of anthropology-has increased substantially in the past 15 years, adding to the ways in which scholars can study the Roman past. The classical archaeologist of the 21st century is likely to be versed in Greek and Latin, computer technology, ancient history, great monuments, various hard...
98) My Poems
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Author Oskar Klausenstocks life has been marked with experiences that have been turbulent, unsteady, and, in some cases, outright violent. He was an only child who was often shifted from parent to parent and home to home, including those of his grandparents. He lived in both small towns and cities, with limited educational opportunities. He endured the brutality of World War II and was incarcerated in multiple Nazi concentration camps; at the wars...
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Victoria Sultana, a respected religious woman on the island of Malta, begins to suffer inexplicably from the same holy wounds as Jesus Christ. On what Victoria assumes to be an ordinary Friday in May of 2010, she experiences the entirety of the Passion of the Christ and dies. Soon, her husband, family and friends are on television singing her praises, claiming that she was nothing short of a saint walking amongst us, but could there be more to her...
100) Bright Scythe
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Known for sharp imagery, startling metaphors and deceptively simple diction, Tomas Tranströmer's luminous poems offer mysterious glimpses into the deepest facets of humanity, often through the lens of the natural world. These new translations by Patty Crane, presented side by side with the original Swedish, are tautly rendered and elegantly cadenced. They are also deeply informed by Crane's personal relationship with the poet and his wife during...
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