Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar’s great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, ...
Continue Reading ββTeems with sharp observation, profound moral insight, high satiric wit, and all manner of aesthetic delight.β βThe New York Times Book Review A Penguin Classic ...
Continue Reading βΒ Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene, this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one ...
Continue Reading βIt may be the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English ...
Continue Reading ββI sing of arms and the man . . . β So begins the Aeneid, greatest of Western epic poems. Virgilβs story of the journey ...
Continue Reading βNonnos of Panopolis in Egypt, who lived in the fifth century of our era, composed the last great epic poem of antiquity. The Dionysiaca, in ...
Continue Reading βHesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but ...
Continue Reading βRobert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ...
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