Summary: "In Spain in the 1840s, a group of women had begun to publish poetry. Their verse - Romantic, predominantly lyric, and often linked to liberal reform - was novel and controversial because few women had ventured into print. The poets collected in this anthology asserted in different ways their imagination and literary voice." "Anna-Marie Aldaz offers a discussion of Spanish versification as well...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2009

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Summary: "Women poets in nineteenth-century France made important contributions to major stylistic innovations - from the birth of elegiac Romanticism to the inauguration of free verse - and many were prominent in their lifetime. Yet only a few are known today, and nearly all have been unavailable in English translation. Of the fourteen poets of this anthology - the third bilingual volume in the MLA...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2008

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Neruda, Pablo

Summary: This superb bilingual anthology highlights the posthumous legacy of Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, who left a vast body of unpublished work when he died in 1973. Ben Belitt, a distinguished poet in his own right, is widely regarded as the leading translator of Neruda into English. Here he has given us a Neruda as fecund and engaged as ever, ceaselessly spinning the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1988

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Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2000

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Baudelaire, Charles

Summary: A bilingual edition of selected poems of a 19th century French master. In "The cat," one reads in this English version: "Come, cat of mine, perch on my loving breast; / Come, beauty, lie in gentle guise: / Pull in your claws, and let me plunge, possessed, / Into your agate-metal eyes."

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1998

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Aidt, Naja Marie

Summary: "In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's son Carl died at twenty-five years old in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You, Give It Back describes the first year after that devastating phone call, until the shock slowly wears off. It is at once asober account of life after losing a child--showing how grief transforms your relationship to reality, your loved ones, and time--and a book...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2019

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Summary: Parallel Russian and English texts.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bobbs-Merrill 1967

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Summary: A bilingual anthology of short stories that reflect the cultural diversity of the Spanish-speaking world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2013

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Leopardi, Giacomo

Summary: Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways. ... Leopardi's poetry is notoriously difficult to translate, and he has been less well known to English-language readers than his central...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2011

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2004

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Miyazawa, Kenji

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2007

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Kowalsky, Arnold A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. 1999

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Montale, Eugenio

Summary: An English-language translation of works by the late Nobel Prize winner offers insight into his role in influencing Italian poetry and international Modernism, as well as his views on such topics as modernity, fascism, and war.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012

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Horace.

Summary: A new bilingual translation of the works of a Roman poet, with Latin and English versions on facing pages. In Discipline, one reads, "Sweet and proper it is to die for your country / But Death would just as soon come after him / Who runs away."

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1997

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Rilke, Rainer Maria

Summary: Over the last fifteen years, in his two volumes of New Poems as well as in The Book of Images and Uncollected Poems, Edward Snow has emerged as one of Rainer Maria Rilke's most able English-language interpreters. In his translations, Snow adheres faithfully to the intent of Rilke's German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English.

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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2000

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Chretien

Contents: Erec and Enide -- Cliges -- The knight of the cart -- The knight with the lion -- The story of the grail -- Appendix: William of England.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 1993

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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1979

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Ryokan

Summary: Taigu Ryokan (1758-1831) remains one of the most popular figures in Japanese Buddhist history. Despite his religious and artistic sophistication (he excelled in scriptural studies, in calligraphy, and in poetry), Ryokan referred to himself as "Great Fool," refusing to place himself within any established religious institution. In contrast to Zen masters of his time who presided over large...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Hawaiʻi Press 1996

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Voltaire

Summary: In this witty political satire, a gentleman plagued by misfortune clings to the belief that all is for the best. Voltaire mocks the eternal optimist philosophy of his day that proclaimed human and natural disasters part of a larger cosmic plan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Summary: A classic of world literature, Goethe’s Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humor, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text’s varied meter and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles—dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. His rendition of Faust is the first faithful, readable, and elegantly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014

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