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The Song of Roland
Anonymous
Mass Market Paperbound - $12.95
The poem's vivid set pieces--the treason of Ganelon, the last stand of Roland at Roncesvals, Charlemagne's campaign of vengeance, and the final act of retribution--are justly famous.
Toldi's Eve
John Arany
Paperback - $38.95
This book collects the epic and narrative poetry of the great 19th century Magyar poet, J?nos Arany. Toldi's Eve is a lengthy epic poem based on Magyar folk legends, telling the story of a 14th century legendary hero. Arany (1817 - 1882), the son of ...
Poetics
Aristotle
Paperback - $18.95
Aristotle's Poetics is one of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history. A penetrating, near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle c ...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : A New Verse Translation
Simon Armitage
Hardcover - $43.95
Following in the tradition of Seamus Heaneys reworking of "Beowulf," Armitage, one of Englands leading poets, has produced a virtuoso new translation of the 600-year-old Arthurian story with both clarity and verve.
Ausonius, I, Poems 1-17
Ausonius
Hardcover - $52.95
Ausonius (Decimus Magnus), ca. AD 310-ca. 395, a doctor's son, was born at Burdigala (Bordeaux). After a good education in grammar and rhetoric and a short period during which he was an advocate, he took to teaching rhetoric in a school which he bega ...