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A selection of poems from Early and Renaissance Italy. Including translations of poems by Guido Cavalcanti, Lorenzo de Medici, Poliziano, Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna, Gaspara Stampa, and Tasso....

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Jacopo Da Lentino (c1200-1250) I have placed my heart in God’s service Pier Della Vigne (1190-1249?) Love in whom I hope and desire, Anonymous Go now my love, goodbye now, Guido Cavalcanti (c1255-1300) You have, in you, the leaves and flowers Who is this that comes and all admire her, Fresh new rose O, my lady, have you not seen One Deep in thoughts of love, I came As I’ve no hope of returning ever, Lapo Gianni (c1250-1328?) The thought my heart nourishes is sweet, Cino Da Pistoia (c1270-1337) In the meadow I gaze at each white flower, I was on the high and blessed hill, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Guido, I wish that Lapo, you, and I, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) Now, my dear lord, you are gone Lorenzo De Medici (1449-1492) How beautiful our Youth is Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) Hear, woods, my words of sweetness I found myself, one morning, maidens, Love, I thank you, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) I have bought you, at no small cost, Love, tell me please, if it’s with my eyes Lady, as one fancies there to be The best of sculptors has not one idea Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) I live upon thi...

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Twenty-Two Poems in verse translation.

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‘February. Take ink and weep,’ ‘Like a brazier’s bronze cinders,’ Winter Sky Spring Swifts ‘My sister – Life’s overflowing today,’ The Weeping Garden Crossed Oars Sparrow Hills The Steppe Storm, Momentary, Forever In the Wood Spasskoe For Anna Akhmatova Winter Nears. Hamlet Storm-Wind Khmel (Hops, and Intoxication) The Earth Winter Night The Wind Snow Is Falling Index by First Line...

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Ovid's guidance to aspiring lovers, in the tricky game of love.

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Voyage to Modernity a critical study of Baudelaire’s poetry.

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I: Introduction: The Invitation To The Voyage II: The Idyll (The Vision of Paradise) III: Voyage to Cythera (The Vision of Venus) IV: The City (The Vision of Hell) V: Voyage to Modernity (The Vision of Limitation) VI: The Poet As Hero (The Vision of Icarus) VII: Twilight (The Vision of Calm)...

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Modern translation of The Tristia, Ex Ponto, and Ibis.

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Tristia : The Early Letters from Tomis AD8-12 Book I Book II Book III Book IV Book V : Ex Ponto : The Later Letters from Tomis AD12-16 Book I Book II Book III Book IV Ibis : Complete The Curse on His Enemy...

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A modernized translation of Chaucer's selected shorter poems, retaining as much of Chaucer's diction and rhymes as possible.

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Truth Nobleness Lack of Steadfastness To Rosamund Fickleness Merciless Beauty

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Twenty-four major Poems in verse translation, including Tristia.

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‘Only to read childrens’ books’ ‘On the pale-blue enamel’ ‘What shall I do with this body they gave me,’ ‘A speechless sadness’ ‘There is no need for words’ Silentium.. The Shell ‘Orioles are in the woods, and in tonic verse’ ‘Nature –is Rome, and mirrored there.’ ‘Insomnia. Homer. Taut canvas.’ ‘Herds of horses whinny and graze’ ‘In transparent Petropolis we will leave only bone’ ‘From a Fearful height, a wandering light’ ‘Brothers, let us glorify freedom’s twilight’ – The Age. ‘This night is irredeemable.’ Tristia. ‘Sisters – Heaviness and Tenderness – you look the same’ ‘I don’t remember the word I wished to say.’ ‘For joy’s sake, from my hands,’ ‘The ranks of human heads dwindle: they’re far away.’ ‘Your thin shoulders whips will redden’ ‘This is what I most want’ ‘A flame is in my blood’...

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Sixty-eight poems translated from Russian including poems by Pushkin, Blok, Akhmatova, and Mandelstam.

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Translator’s Note Aleksándr Sumarókov (1718-1777) Gavriíl Derzhávin (1743-1816) Vasíly Zhukóvsky (1783-1852) Konstantín Bátyushkov (1787-1855) Aleksándr Púshkin (1799-1837) Fëdor Tyútchev (1803-1873) Mikhaíl Lérmontov (1814-1841) Count Alekséy Tolstoy (1817-1875) Afanásy Fet (1820-1892) Innokénty Ánnensky (1856-1909) Konstantín Bál´mont (1867-1943) Mikhaíl Kuzmín (1875-1936) Aleksándr Blok (1880-1921) Nikolay Gumilev (1886-1921) Anna Akhmátova (1889-1966) Borís Pasternák (1890-1960) Osip Mandel´shtám (1891-1938) Marína Tsvetáeva (1892-1941)...

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Selected Poems from Dante's verse.

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‘Guido, i’ vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io’ Guido, I wish that Lapo, you, and I, ‘Voi che savete ragionar d’Amore’ You who know the languages of Love, ‘Io son venuto al punto de la rota’ I have reached that point of the circuit ‘Al poco giorno e al gran cerchio d’ombra’ - Sestina I have come, alas, to the great circle of shadow, ‘Amor, tu vedi ben che questa donna’ – Double Sestina Love you may see how truly this lady ‘Così nel mio parlar voglio esser aspro’ I wish my speech to be as harsh ‘A ciascun’alma presa e gentil core’ To every single gentle heart and loving, ‘Spesse fiate vegnonmi a la mente’ Frequently I muse within my mind ‘Amore e ‘l cor gentil sono una cosa’ Love and the gentle heart are one thing, ‘Io mi senti’ svegliar dentro a lo core’ Within my heart I felt the sudden stir ‘Gentil pensero che parla di vui’ There is a gentle thought that often springs ‘Di donne io vidi una gentile schiera’ Of ladies I saw a noble gathering, ‘Onde venite voi così pensose?’ Where are you coming from so pensively? ‘De gli occhi de la mia donna si move’ From my lady’s eyes there glows ‘Ne le man vostre, gentil donna...

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Forty-four more Poems in verse translation.

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‘The sound, muffled, cautious’ ‘From the pool of light, suddenly,’ ‘The freshly cut ears’ ‘More sluggish the snowy hive,’ ‘Ears stretch sensitive sails,’ ‘Like a sudden cloud’s shadow,’ ‘From a swamp, evil, viscous,’ ‘How slow the horses go,’ ‘Light sheds its meagre ray’ ‘A troubled sigh of leaves’ ‘I hate the starlight,’ The Casino ‘Poisoned grain: exhausted air.’ Akhmatova ‘Horses’ hooves clattering there,’ ‘By candlelight it’s sweet to dream’ ‘Not crediting the miracle of re-birth,’ ‘The stream of golden honey pouring viscous,’ ‘Still far away are Spring’s’ ‘When Psyche-Life goes down to the darkness,’ ‘Because I could not keep hold of your arms,’ ‘Stamping on the tender meadow, I leapt’ ‘We shall meet again in Petersburg,’ ‘In the yard, I was washing, at night – ’ ‘Exhaustion’s rosy foam on his fleshy lips,’ Self-Portrait ‘I was only bound childishly to the world of power,’ ‘For the future ages’ resounding glory,’ ‘We live, not sensing our own country beneath us,’ Black Earth (Chernozem) ‘Today makes no sense to me,’ ‘I shall perform a smoky rite:’ ‘Like a belated gift,’ ‘I’m still alive: I’m sti...

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Sixteen more poems in translation.

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The Word Your Orange Hair in the Void of the World Nusch Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal ‘You Rise the Water Unfolds’ I Only Wish to Love You The World is Blue As an Orange We Have Created the Night Even When We Sleep To Marc Chagall Air Vif Certitude We two ‘At Dawn I Love You’ ‘She Looks Into Me…’ A Single Smile Index of First Lines...

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Translated from the Anglo-Saxon of the Exeter Book.

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Translations from the medieval text including the material used by Carl Orff in his scenic cantata.

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‘O Fortuna’ – CB17 O Fortuna ‘Fortune plango vulnera – CB16 From Fortune’s wound I’m weeping where ‘Veris leta facies’ – CB138 Now the happy face of spring ‘Omnia sol temperat’ – CB136 Sunlight warms all the fields ‘Ecce gratum’ – CB143 Now, the pleasing ‘Floret silva nobilis’ – CB149 The lordly woods are all ablaze ‘Chramer, gip die varwe mier’ - From CB16* Pedlar, give to me some rouge ‘Swaz hie gat umbe’ - CB167a Those who are dancing ‘Chume, chume, geselle min’ - CB 174a Come, come, oh love of mine, ‘Uvere div werlt alle min’ – CB145a Were the whole world mine ‘Estuans intrinsicus’ – CB191 Burning, here inside, ‘Olim lacus colueram’ – CB 130 Once the lakes I swam upon, ‘Ego sum abbas Cucaniensis’ – CB222 The Abbot of Cockaigne I am, and this ‘In taberna quando sumus’ – CB196 When we’re in the tavern there, ‘Amor volat undique’ – CB87 Love rules all things, ‘Doleo, quod nimium’ – CB118 I mourn the vast extent ‘Stetit Puella’ – CB177 And there the girl stood, ‘O mi dilectissima!’ – CB180 Oh, all my supreme delight! ‘Si puer cum puellula’ – CB183 If a lad and his sweet lover ‘Veni, veni, veni...

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His drama, Phaedra, in a new English verse translation.

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Act I Act II Act III Act IV Act V

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An adaptation of selected fragments written after the death of Stéphane Mallarmé's young son.

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The ten bucolic poems freely imitating Theocritus' Idylls, and creating a pastoral world of love and song.

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A modern translation of some of Lorca's works, including Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías.

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Singing Cafè The Guitar Journey Lola Malagueña Sonnet Serenata Preciosa and the Breeze The Quarrel The Gypsy Nun Ballad of the Black Sorrow Saint Gabriel Saint Michael Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard Thamar and Amnon Sound of the Cuban Negroes Madrigal for the City of Santiago Nocturne of the Drowned Youth Dance of the Santiago Moon Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint Wounds of Love The Beloved Sleeps on the Breast of the Poet Two Laws Sonnet Night-Song of the Andalusian Sailors Index of First Lines...

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A new complete translation and in-depth mythological index.

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Book I (Chaos, Four Ages, Flood, Daphne, Io, Syrinx, Phaethon) Book II (Phaethon’s fall, Callisto, Coronis, Aglauros, Europa) Book III (Cadmus, Actaeon, Semele, Tiresias, Narcissus, Pentheus) Book IV (Pyramus, Leucothoe, Salmacis, Ino, Cadmus, Perseus) Book V (Perseus, Calliope, Proserpine, Arethusa, The Pierides) Book VI (Arachne, Niobe, Marsyas, Procne, Philomela, Boreas) Book VII (Jason, Medea, Minos, The Plague, Myrmidons, Procris) Book VIII (Scylla, Daedalus, Icarus, Meleager, Philemon and Baucis) Book IX (Hercules, Alcmene, Iole, Galanthis, Dryope,Byblis, Iphis) Book X (Orpheus, Pygmalion, Myrrha, Venus and Adonis, Atalanta) Book XI (Death of Orpheus, Midas, Peleus, Ceyx, Alcyone, Aesacus) Book XII (Rumour, Cycnus, Caeneus, Lapiths and Centaurs, Achilles) Book XIII (Ajax, Ulysses, Polyxena, Hecuba, Memnon, Galatea, Glaucus) Book XIV (Scylla, Sibyl, Polyphemus, Circe, Picus, Pomona, Romulus) Book XV (Pythagoras, Hippolytus, Cipus, Aesculapius, The Caesars)...

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A selection of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire including poems from Alcools, Vitam Impendere Amori, and The Bestiary complete with the Raoul Dufy woodcuts....

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The Mirabeau Bridge Twilight Clotilde The White Snow The Farewell Acrobats The Bells The Gypsy The Sign One Evening Moonlight Autumn Ill Hotels Hunting Horns Vitam Impendere Amori The Bestiary: or Orpheus’s Procession Apollinaire’s Notes to the Bestiary Index of First Lines...

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A radio talk, given on the 5th April 1936