Greek Tragedy by Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover ...Show more
As You Like It: Black Penguin Classics by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry
William Shakespeare's exuberant comedy As You Like It is his playful take on the Renaissance tradition of pastoral romance, edited by H.J. Oliver with an introduction by Katherine Duncan-Jones. 'All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players'. When Rosalind is banished by her uncle Du ...Show more
Penguin Book of Russian Poetry by Robert Chandler (Editor, Notes by); Boris Dralyuk (Editor, Notes by); Irina Mashinski (Editor)
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Category: Poetry
An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporari ...Show more
Works and Days by Hesiod; A. E. Stallings (Introduction by, Notes by, Translator)
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Category: Poetry
The ancient Greeks revered Hesiod, believing he had beaten Homer in a singing contest and that after his dead body was thrown to sea, it was brought back by dolphins. His Works and Days is one of the most important early works of Greek poetry. Ostensibly written by the poet to chide his lazy brother, it ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Geoffrey Bownas, Anthony Thwaite and Geoffrey Bownas
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Category: Poetry
Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clich s of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic c ...Show more
Rilke: Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke; J. B. Leishman (Foreword by, Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These poems, selected from Das Buch der Bilder and the two parts of Neue Gedichte, show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in his less mystical period (1900-1908), the poems exhibit Rilke's particular artistic and poetic power. Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most import ...Show more
Selected Poems: W. B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This selection of the works of W B Yeats, includes the final book from the unfairly neglected narrative poem "The Wanderings of Oisin" and a number of lyrics from Yeats' work as poetic dramatist. It breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozen poems in alternative versions; in many ot ...Show more
Selected Poems by Tagore, Rabindranath
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Category: Poetry
"It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances... It soars to the sky with delight." First published 1985. This edition in 2005.
Selected Poems and Letters by Arthur Rimbaud
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A phenomenonally precocious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief five-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of poems that range from the exquisite to the obsce ...Show more
Selected Poems: Baudelaire by Charles Baudelaire; Carol Clark (Editor, Translator, Introduction by, Notes by); Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
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Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
'I have sought forgetful sleep in love; but love is nothing but a mattress of needles'The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal ...Show more
On Love And Barley by Matsuo Basho
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Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer ...Show more
The Eclogues by Virgil
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Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
Taking as his generic model the Greek bucolic poetry of Theocritus, Virgil created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change at Rome in the turbulent period between roughly 44 and 38 BC. Virgil introduced political clamor largely absent from Theocrit ...Show more