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Chinese English
French
Georgian (Kartuli) German
Greek
(Ancient) Italian Latin Russian Spanish
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Original Poetry
(A. S. Kline):
Collections of original poetry in the
mainstream European tradition, in order of composition.
1. Perspectives. 2.
From the Mountain.
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3. Looking Back At Earth. 4.
Nature and Spirit.
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5. The Presence of Light.
6. The Singing Of The Real World.
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7. Values.
8. The Gate Of Grass.
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No Roots Except In Air. 10.
Entangled Clouds.
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11. Slipping By. 12.
The Other Side of Silence.
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13. Poetry, Charity.
14. Voiceless Banners Blowing.
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15. Deep
Fields.
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Translations and Critical Works:
Chinese:
Like Water or
Clouds: The Tang Dynasty and the Tao. A study of Taoism and the history
of Tang China, with biographies of the poets Wang Wei, Li Po, and Tu Fu, and new
translations of their poetry.
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Tao Te Ching: The Taoist Classic
text.
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Han-shan:
Words from Cold Mountain. Twenty-seven poems.
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English:
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales:
a modernised version or translation, retaining Chaucer's rhyme scheme, and close
to the original, but eliminating archaisms
which would require explanatory notes.
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Chaucer: Troilus and
Criseyde: a similarly modernised version.
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Chaucer: The Dream Poems and
Other Works: a similarly modernised version, including:
The Book of the Duchess
The House of Fame
The Parliament of Fowls
The Legend of Good Women
Selected Shorter Poems - including
Merciless Beauty
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Donne: The Songs and Sonnets, each with a prose equivalent
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Shakespeare:
A new Anthology of 1400 Quotations from the complete works arranged by theme.
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Sidney: The complete sonnets
of Astrophil & Stella, each with a prose equivalent
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: a modernised version or translation, retaining the alliterative style, and close to the original, but eliminating archaisms which would require explanatory notes.
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Storming Heaven: Biographies of four famous Elizabethans: Essex, Marlowe, Raleigh and Donne, within the context of the history of ideas, with reference to poetry, astrology, history, and mythology including the concept of the Goddess.
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The Compound Ghost: An original essay on Poetic translation.
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The Seafarer: Translated from the Anglo-Saxon of the Exeter Book.
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The Wanderer: Translated from the Anglo-Saxon of the Exeter Book.
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French:
Apollinaire:
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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Aucassin & Nicolette:
The charming 13th century French chantefable.
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Baudelaire:
Eighty-eight major poems in verse translation.
Voyage to Modernity: a study of his poetry. The download file text is hyper-linked to the selection of eighty-eight poems, arranged in roughly chronological order of composition.
Extracts from his prose.
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Breton:
Andr Breton's First Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 in a new translation.
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Chateaubriand:
Chateaubriand's Memoirs: A new complete translation of his prose Memoirs, Mmoires doutre-tombe, with an in-depth hyper-linked index.
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Atala: Love and religion in the wilds of America.
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Ren: A new translation of this key text of French Romanticism. The sequel to Atala.
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The Last of the Abencerrajes: A new translation of his tale of thwarted love set in Moorish Granada.
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Travels in Italy: A new authoritative translation of Chateaubriand's travel notes Voyage en Italie. Romantic Classicism among the ruins!
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Corneille:
His drama, Le Cid, in English verse.
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Du Bellay:
The Ruins of Rome: Joachim Du Bellay's Les Antiquits de Rome.
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Selected Poems: From L'Olive augmente, Les Regrets, and others.
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luard:
Twenty-four poems in translation.
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Sixteen more poems in translation.
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Mallarm:
Thirty-seven poems in translation.
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Un coup de ds jamais nabolira le hasard. The formatted French text, a formatted English translation, and a compressed and punctuated translation to allow rapid grasp of the whole.
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Fragments - Anatole's Tomb. An adaptation of selected fragments written after the death of his young son.
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Racine:
His drama, Phaedra, in a new English verse translation.
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His drama, Andromache, in a new English verse translation.
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Rimbaud:
A selection of his poetry including early poems, Les Illuminations and Une Saison En Enfer both complete, and an extract from the 'Voyant' Letter.
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Ronsard:
Selected poems, in English verse.
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Rostand:
Cyrano de Bergerac, in English verse.
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Verlaine:
Seventy-three poems in translation.
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Villon:
Selected poems in verse translation, including Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis,
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Troubadour Verse:
Sixty poems of the Troubadours translated from the Occitan. The translations are close to the originals in content, rhyme-scheme and rhythm. Included are translations of poems by Guillaume de Poitiers, Jaufre Rudel, Beatritz de Dia, Bernart de Ventadorn, Arnaut Daniel, Peire Vidal, Bertran de Born, Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, Guillem de Cabestan, Sordello, and others.
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Early French Poetry:
A selection of poems from Early France. Including translations of poems by Marie de France, Arnaut Daniel, Bertran de Born, Thibaut IV Roi de Navarre, Guillaume de Machaut, Eustace Deschamps, Christine de Pisan, and Charles d'Orlans.
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French Poetry of the 19th Century
Selected Poems from the French 19th century including poems by Victor Hugo, Grard de Nerval, Alfred de Musset, Thophile Gautier, Leconte de Lisle, Stphane Mallarm, Paul Verlaine, Jules Laforgue and Guillaume Apollinaire.
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French Poetry of the 20th Century
Selected Poems from the French early to mid-20th century including poems by Apollinaire, Supervielle, Breton, Tzara, Eluard, Artaud, Aragon, Desnos, Prvert, Ponge, Char, and others.
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Georgian (Kartuli):
Translated by Lela Jgerenaia
Vazha-Pshavela: