Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Paul Blackburn
4.21
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
It was out of medieval Provence—Proensa—that the ethos of courtly love emerged, and it was in the p…
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1. رباعيات خيام
By: محمدعلی فروغی , Omar Khayyám , None
4.17
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, Khayyam as a poet possesses a singular originality. His … read more
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- poetry
- medieval
"فعاشر الناس على ريبة .. منهم ولا تكثر منَ الأصدقاء"-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام
"Now the New Year reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires."-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام
"Ah, my Belovéd, fill the cup that clears To-day of past Regret and future Fears."-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام
"The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one."-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام
2. The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor
4.26
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
In the winter of 1933 eighteen-year-old Patrick (“Paddy”) Leigh Fermor set out to walk across Europ… read more
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"A shadow appeared on the awnings further up the land, gliding across each rectangle of canvas towards my table, sinking in the sag, rising again at the edge, and moving on to the next with a flicker …"-Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
3. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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- poetry
"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
4. The Marquise of O— and Other Stories
By: Heinrich von Kleist , None , Nigel Reeves
3.54
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baff… read more
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"In M---, an important town in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise of O---, a lady of unblemished reputation and the mother of several well-brought-up children, inserted the following announcement in…"-Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O— and Other Stories
5. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
By: Herman Melville , Maurice Sendak , Hershel Parker
3.63
Format: 495 pages, Hardcover
Initially dismissed as "a dead failure" and "a bad book," and declined by Melville's British publis… read more
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"Life is governed by chance, not wisdom."-Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
"Eternally inexorable and unconcerned is Fate, a mere heartless trader in men’s joys and woes."-Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
"For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these …"-Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
"for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that onc…"-Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
6. The Sorrows of Young Werther
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more
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7. Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland
By: Friedrich Hölderlin
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Die schonste Dichtung deutscher Sprache ist Holderlins 'Hyperion' vielfach genannt worden, ein unub… read more
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- poetry
8. Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
By: Ezra Pound
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very larg… read more
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- poetry
9. Vita Nuova
By: Dante Alighieri , Mark Musa
3.89
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Vita Nuova(1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in … read more
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- poetry
10. Sappho: A New Translation
By: Sappho , Dudley Fitts , Mary Barnard
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively … read more
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- poetry
11. Meditations
By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay
3.75
Format: 148 pages,
Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more
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12. French Symbolist Poetry
By: Carlyle Ferren Macintyre
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
Any attempt to define the Symbolist movement and its influence inevitably loses itself in a welter … read more
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- poetry
- france
13. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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14. Narcissus and Goldmund
By: Hermann Hesse , Ursule Molinaro
4.05
Format: 336 pages,
Narcissus and Goldmundtells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposi… read more
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15. C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
By: Constantinos P. Cavafy , Edmund Keeley , Philip Sherrard , George Savidis
4.38
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
C. P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of hi… read more
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- poetry
"Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·"-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
"Η Ιθάκη σ’ έδωσε τ’ ωραίο ταξείδι. Χωρίς αυτήν δεν θάβγαινες στον δρόμο."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
"Vuelve a menudo y tómame, en la noche, cuando los labios y la piel recuerdan..."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
"Aunque sea con engaños, que me ilusione ahora: pero que no sienta el vacío de mi vida. (Septiembre de 1903)"-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
16. Selected Poems
By: John Ashbery
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the early virtuosity of Some Treesand The Tennis Court Oaththrough the triumphs of the Pulitze… read more
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17. Duino Elegies
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , David Young
4.14
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this … read more
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18. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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- poetry
"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
19. Against Interpretation and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more
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20. The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
By: Walter Pater
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
'To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.' The Re… read more
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21. Tristan: With the Tristran of Thomas
By: A.T. Hatto , Gottfried von Strassburg , None
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Gottfried's version of this legendary romance--in which Tristan and Isolde chance to drink a magic … read more
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22. Eugene Onegin
By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more
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- poetry
"He's happy now, he's almost sane."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
23. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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24. White Noise
By: Don DeLillo
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more
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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
25. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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26. The Saga of Grettir the Strong
By: Anonymous , Bernard Scudder
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong … read more
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27. Elective Affinities
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , David Constantine , None
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Elective Affinitieswas written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary gia… read more
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28. Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Paul Blackburn
4.21
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
It was out of medieval Provence—Proensa—that the ethos of courtly love emerged, and it was in the p… read more
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- medieval
- france
