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A selection of aphorisms from notebooks: 1980-2009.

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Translated from the Anglo-Saxon of the Exeter Book.

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A modernized version or translation, retaining the alliterative style, and close to the original, but eliminating archaisms which would require explanatory notes....

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Part I Part II Part III Part IV

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A translation of his brilliant lecture on artistic inspiration and creation.

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A tragic Poem in Three Acts and Six Scenes, 1934.

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Modern translation of some of Lorca's work, including Casida of the Recumbent Woman.

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The Ballad of the Salt-Water Encounter From Moon Songs Dream Wish The Little Ballad of the Three Rivers Paso (The Images of the Passion) The Dawn A Singing Casida of the Recumbent Woman Gacela of the Flight Night of Insomniac Love Gacela of the Terrible Presence Sonnet of the Wreath of Roses The Poet asks his Love to write Song Pueblo Landscape The Prisoner Remanso, Final Song Index of First Lines...

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Modern translations of Lorca's works, including Romance Sonámbulo and The Unfaithful Wife.

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Ballad of the Small Plaza. Song of the Rider It’s True. Song of the Barren Orange Tree. The Moon Wakes. Farewell Romance de la Luna, Luna Romance Sonámbulo The Unfaithful Wife Gacela of Unexpected Love Casida de la Rosa Casida of the Dark Doves ‘Ay voz secreta del amor oscuro!’ Every Song...

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Further Selected Poems by this great Spanish poet, including his elegy for Lorca.

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Dedication (from The Man Watching, 1939) ‘Silence of metal sad and sonorous’ ‘My name is earth though I’m named Miguel’ Elegy for Federico García Lorca The Winds of the People The Olive Harvesters Song of the Soldier Husband Letter Last Song Each Time I Pass Carry Me to the Graveyard Grasses, Nettles Wretched Wars Lullaby of the Onion The Last Corner Casida of the Thirsty Man To Smile with the Sad Joy of the Olive-Tree Index of First Lines...

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Twenty poems of Jorge Luis Borges.

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A Patio Simplicity Limits A Rose and Milton Readers A Milonga for Manuel Flores New England 1967 The Suicide Things To the Nightingale The Moon Remorse Alhambra Things That Might Have Been Inferno V:129 The Just Shinto The Sum Elegy for a Park Borges and I Index of First Lines...

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Thirty-six selected poems including a new translation of 'Donna me prega'.

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‘Fresca rosa novella’ Fresh new rose ‘Avete ’n vo’ li fior’ e la verdura’ You have, in you, the leaves and flowers ‘Biltà di donna e di saccente core’ A woman’s charms, her perceptive heart ‘Chi è questa che vèn, ch’ogn’om la mira’ Who is this that comes and all admire her, ‘Li mie' foll' occhi, che prima guardaro’ My lovesick eyes that first gazed ‘Deh, spiriti miei, quando mi vedete’ Ah, my spirit, when you see me ‘L’anima mia vilment’ è sbigotita’ My spirit is so vilely distressed ‘Tu m'hai sì piena di dolor la mente’ You have filled my mind with such distress ‘Perché non fuoro a me gli occhi dispenti’ Why were my eyes not quenched, ‘Se Mercé fosse amica a’ miei disiri’ If Mercy were the friend of my desires, ‘A me stesso di me pietate vène’ Pity for myself, from my self again, ‘S’io prego questa donna che Pietate’ If I should beg this lady that true pity ‘O tu, che porti nelli occhi sovente’ O you who often bear Love in your eyes ‘O donna mia, non vedestù colui’ O, my lady, have you not seen One ‘Io vidi li occhi dove Amor si mise’ I saw the eyes where Love resides, ‘Un amoroso sguardo spiritale’ A...

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The drama and tragedy of King Oedipus.

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A new translation of this little-known play.

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A fine new translation of this fascinating play.

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A modernized translation of one of Geoffrey Chaucer's poems.

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Modernized translation of one of Geoffrey Chaucer's earlier works.

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The Taoist Classic text.

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A complete verse translation of Faust Parts I & II with stage instructions and line numbers.

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Part I: Preliminaries (Dedication, Prelude, Prologue) Scenes I-III (Night, City-Gate, Study) Scenes IV-VI (Study, Auerbach's Cellar, Witches' Kitchen) Scenes VII-XV (Street, Evening, Promenade, Neighbour's House, Street, Garden, Arbour, Forest, Gretchen's Room) Scenes XVI-XXV (Martha's Garden, Fountain, Tower, Night, Cathedral, Walpurgis Night, Oberon and Titania, Dreary Day, Night, Dungeon) Part II: Act I Scenes I-VII (Landscape, Castle, Hall, Pleasure-Garden, Gallery, Brightly-Lit Halls, Hall of the Knights) Act II Scenes I-IV (Chamber, Laboratory, Classical Walpurgis Night, Upper Peneus River) Act II Scenes V-VI (Aegean Coves, Telchines of Rhodes) Act III Scenes I-II (Menelaus' Palace, Castle Court) Act IV Scenes I-III (Mountains, Headland:Battle, Emperor's Tent) Act V Scenes I-VII (Country, Garden, Palace, Night, Midnight, Outer Court, Mountain:Forest:Rock:Desert)...

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A new translation from the Old English.

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Part I Prologue and Sections: I-IV Lines 1-319 Part II Sections: V-IX Lines 320-661 Part III Sections: X-XV Lines 662-1049 Part IV Sections: XVI-XX Lines 1050-1382 Part V Sections: XXI-XXVI Lines 1383-1816 Part VI Sections: XXVII-XXXI Lines 1817-2220 Part VII Sections: XXXII-XXXV Lines 2221-2601 Part VIII Sections: XXXVI-XXXVIII Lines 2602-2820 Part IX Sections: XXXIX-XLIII Lines 2821-3182...

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Han-shan, the Master of Cold Mountain, and his friend Shi-te, lived in the late-eighth to early-ninth century AD, in the sacred T’ien-t’ai Mountains of Chekiang Province, south of the bay of Hangchow. The two laughing friends, holding hands, come and go, but mostly go, dashing into the wild, careless of others’ reality, secure in their own. As Han-shan himself says, his Zen is not in the poems. Zen is in the mind....

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The T’ang Dynasty and the Tao. A study of Taoism and the history of T’ang China, with biographies of the poets Wang Wei, Li Po, and Tu Fu, and new translations of their poetry....