18 books like Libro de buen amor
Poema de mio Cid
El *Poema de mio Cid*, o *Cantar de mio Cid,* es un cantar de gesta anónimo que relata hazañas heroicas inspiradas libremente en los últimos años de la vida del caballero castellano Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar el Campeador. La versión conservada fue compuesta, según la mayoría de la crítica actual, alrededor del año 1200.
Se trata de la primera obra poética extensa de la literatura española y el…
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Poet in New York
Bilingual edition presenting Lorca's reaction to the American metropolis.
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Poems
The work of Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet, has long been admired for its emotional intensity and metaphorical brilliance. Few poets take us more directly and memorably to what Lorca described as "the dark root of the scream," the terrain of the duende, where inspiration delivers a new poetic reality and "intelligence" discovers its limitations.
For many years, until the…
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Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
*Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada* es una de las obras más célebres del poeta chileno Pablo Neruda. Publicado en junio de 1924, el poemario lanzó a su autor a la fama con apenas 19 años de edad, y es una de las obras literarias de mayor renombre del siglo XX en el idioma español. Audazmente metafórica y sensual, esta colección yuxtapone la pasión juvenil con la desolación del…
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Poems
The object of this volume is to place before the general reader our two early poetic masterpieces - The Canterbury Tales and The Faerie Queen to do so in a way that will render their "popular perusal" easy in a time of little leisure and unbounded temptations to intellectual languor and, on the same conditions, to present a liberal and fairly representative selection from the less important and…
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Parzival
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Troilus and Criseyde
A 1932 translation into modern English of a text written by Chaucer in c.1385, the story being set in Classical Antiquity around 800 B.C. and being a love story concerning its two principal characters, the Trojan soldier Troilus and his Greek paramour, Cressida, set during the ten years of the Trojan War between Greece and the city state of Troy. The story is based on Classical sources,…
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Piers Plowman
A translation of the 14th century poem, which offers a picture of society in the late Middle Ages on the threshold of the early modern world.
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Roman de la Rose
Many English-speaking readers of the Roman de la rose, the famous dream allegory of the thirteenth century, have come to rely on Charles Dahlberg's elegant and precise translation of the Old French text. His line-by-line rendering in contemporary English is available again, this time in a third edition with an updated critical apparatus.
Readers at all levels can continue to deepen their…
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Les contemplations
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Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters,  Charlotte,  Emily and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the…
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The Complete Poetical Works
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Immortality
Immortality
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Pearl
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Il purgatorio
Com’ io l’ho tratto, saria lungo a dirti;
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Trionfo della morte
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Proserpine & Midas
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Diana
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