The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition

✍ Dante 📂 Fiction 📅 1999 🏛 Pantheon; Vintage 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB 👁 3 views

"As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful--. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."--*Washington Times* In this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the

Beowulf (Bilingual Edition): A New Verse

Beowulf (Bilingual Edition): A New Verse Translation

✍ Heaney, Seamus 📂 Fiction 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 English ⚖ 252 KB

*New York Times* bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award.Composed toward the end of the first millennium, *Beowulf* is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He

Aeneid Book VI a new verse translation: bilingual edition

✍ Seamus Heaney 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 🌐 en-US ⚖ 62 KB 👁 1 views

**A melancholy masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century** In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the _Aeneid_ , Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In _Stepping Stone

The First Ten Cantos of the Inferno of D

The First Ten Cantos of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri; Newly Translated into English Verse

📂 Article 📅 1843 🏛 University of Northern Iowa 🌐 English ⚖ 413 KB

The Odyssey of Homer: a new verse translation

✍ Homer 📂 Fiction 📅 2005;2003 🏛 Random House Publishing Group;Bantam Dell 🌐 English ⚖ 323 KB 👁 3 views

Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most

The Odyssey of Homer: a new verse translation

✍ Homer 📂 Fiction 📅 2003 🏛 Bantam Dell 🌐 English ⚖ 358 KB 👁 3 views

Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most

The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition

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