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Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho
Author: Sappho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Aaron Poochigian's lyrical translations preserve the musical style of Sappho's songs. In his introduction he discusses the theories surrounding Sappho's...
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, and framed as a storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury...
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Author: Ocean Vuong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizeWinner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First CollectionA Guardian...
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and...
The Collected Dorothy Parker
Author: Dorothy Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 Shakespeare's most popular play is a story of magic and misunderstanding. Fairies and humans meet, fight and fall in...
Selected Poems: Tennyson
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years in the literary career of one of the nineteenth...
The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden
Author: Richard Stokes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 An anthology of some of the greatest poetry in the English language Poetry and music have been associated with...
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The poems are presented in stunning modern translations by Robert Chandler and many others, with individual introductions to each...
Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 R.H. Sin's second volume continues the passion and vigor of his previous publication. His stanzas inspire strength through the...
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
Author: Adonis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The landmark poetry collection that transformed 20th-century Arabic poetry, in a brilliant new translation by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan...
Arthurian Romances
Author: Chretien Troyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chretien...
Selected Poetry
Author: Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in penguin classics and replaces Luke's own 1964 prose...
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry
Author: Jonathan Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1056 The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of...