Resultaten (6)
Metamorphoses
2004 || Paperback || Ovid || Penguin
Ovid's witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars.
Omeros
2002 || Paperback || Derek Walcott Estate || Faber & Faber
Features a poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, this book charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement - and unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.
morgen verzonden
Behind the glass / Druk 2
2024 || Paperback || Brian Sheldon || Brave New Books
Loneliness, pain, love and something more than understanding yourself. In poetry, as a woman sees.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
2024 || Paperback || Anonymous Anonymous || Penguin Books Ltd
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic. The story tells of Gilgamesh's adventures with the wild man Enkidu. This text is translated by Andrew George.
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot
Faber Modern Classics
2015 || Paperback || T. S. Eliot || Faber & Faber
T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude.
Voted as Britain's favourite poet in a 2009 BBC poll, Eliot selected and designed this collection himself in 1954 as an introduction to his work for new readers. Containing 'The Waste Land' and 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', Selected Poems is the perfect way to begin with ...
Song of Myself
2015 || Paperback || Walt Whitman || Vintage Publishing
Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)Abundant, ecstatic, generous, courageous - this is the first American epic poem, a celebration of selfhood and a catalogue of nineteenth-century American life of all ages and races.