The pride o' a' our Scottish plain;Thou gi'es us joy to hear thy strain,(Janet Little, 'An Epistle to Mr Robert Burns')The 18th century saw Scotland become one of the leading …
Elegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies …
'The finest translation in and for our time'(Kevin Crossley-Holland)Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most …
The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some …
The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines …
There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human …
'Live now and listen, do not wait in vainUntil tomorrow; pluck life's rose today.'Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard are two of the major sixteenth-century French poets and …
'Live now and listen, do not wait in vainUntil tomorrow; pluck life's rose today.'Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard are two of the major sixteenth-century French poets and …
No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by …
The Old English literary works traditionally associated with King Alfred are furnished with an array of prologues, epilogues, and other frame texts. These texts give fascinating …
