Ahead of All Parting
The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell

Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-60161-6 (0-679-60161-9)

The reputation of Rainer Maria Rilke has grown steadily since his death in 1926; today he is widely considered to be the greatest poet of the twentieth century. This Modern Library edition presents Stephen Mitchell's acclaimed translations of Rilke, which have won praise for their recreation of the poet's rich formal... Read more >

Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus

Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47373-8 (0-307-47373-2)

Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial... Read more >

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
A Novel
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 27, 1990
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73245-7 (0-679-73245-4)

This is the definitive, widely acclaimed translation of the major prose work of one of our century's greatest poets--Rilke's only novel, extraordinary for its structural uniqueness and purity of language. Malte Laurids Brigge is a young Danish nobleman and poet living in Paris. Obsessed with death and the reality that lurks... Read more >

Rilke: Poems

Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by J.B. Leishman

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 22, 1996
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-679-45098-6 (0-679-45098-X)

This Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover edition contains poems from The Book of Images; New Poems; Requiem for a Friend; Poems, 1906-1926; French Poems; The Life of Mary; Sonnets to Orpheus; The Duino Elegies; Letters to a Young Poet; and an index of first lines. Read more >

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Edited by Stephen Mitchell
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Introduction by Robert Hass

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 1989
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72201-4 (0-679-72201-7)

"Perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has produced."--Chicago Tribune

"The best single volume edition of Rilke available in English."--Boston Review

"Excellent...it is easy to feel that if Rilke had written in English, he would have written in this English."--The New York Times Book Review Read more >

Rimbaud Complete

Written by Arthur Rimbaud
Edited by Wyatt Mason
Translated by Wyatt Mason
Introduction by Wyatt Mason

Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75770-9 (0-375-75770-8)

Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs is Rimbaud Complete,... Read more >

Rimbaud: Poems

Written by Arthur Rimbaud

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: April 12, 1994
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-679-43321-7 (0-679-43321-X)

This Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover edition contains selections from Rimbaud's work, including over 100 poems, selected prose, "Letter to Paul Demeny, May 15, 1871," and an index of first lines. Read more >

Rossetti: Poems

Written by Christina Rossetti

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: November 2, 1993
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-679-42908-1 (0-679-42908-5)

This Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover edition contains a full selection of Rossetti's work, including her lyric poems, dramatic and narrative poems, rhymes and riddles, sonnet sequences, prayers and meditations, and an index of first lines. Read more >

Rumi

Written by Jalal Al-Din Rumi
Edited by Peter Washington

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-307-26352-0 (0-307-26352-5)

The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences.

Trained in Sufism—a mystic tradition within Islam—Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who... Read more >

If Not, Winter
Fragments of Sappho
Written by Sappho
Translated by Anne Carson

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72451-0 (0-375-72451-6)

Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the... Read more >

The First Poets
Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets
Written by Michael Schmidt

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72525-8 (0-375-72525-3)

When Michael Schmidt’s last book, Lives of the Poets, was published, Mark Strand called it “a tour de force, an astonishing view of the whole of poetry in English, a superb read.” Now Schmidt brings the same erudition, insight, and élan to The First Poets—the story of the ancient Greeks whose... Read more >

Bright Moon, White Clouds
Selected Poems of Li Po
Written by Li Po
Translated by J. P. Seaton

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-746-5 (1-59030-746-1)

Li Po (701-762) is considered one of the greatest poets to live during the Tang dynasty–what was considered to be the golden age for Chinese poetry. He was also the first Chinese poet to become well known in the West, and he greatly influenced many American poets during the twentieth century... Read more >

Cold Mountain Poems
Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih
Written by Han Shan
Translated by J.P. Seaton

Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-905-6 (1-59030-905-7)

Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, T’ang-era rebel poet Han Shan is an icon of Chinese poetry and Zen. He and his sidekick, Shih Te, are known as the laughing, ragged pair who left their poetry on stones, trees, farmhouses, and monastery walls, calling... Read more >

The Anchor Book of Sixteenth Century Verse

Edited by Richard D. Sylvester

Format: eBook, 648 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 978-0-307-82637-4 (0-307-82637-6)

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They Carry a Promise
Selected Poems
Written by Janusz Szuber
Translated by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26753-5 (0-307-26753-9)

This bracing collection marks the first appearance in English of the Polish poet Janusz Szuber, hailed as the greatest discovery in Polish poetry of the late twentieth century when, in his late forties, he began publishing the work he’d been producing for almost thirty years. Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska has called... Read more >

The Aeneid

Written by Virgil
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 16, 1990
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72952-5 (0-679-72952-6)

Translated by Robert Fitzgerald.

"Fitzgerald's is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come."--New York Review of Books

"From the beginning to the end of this English poem...the reader will find the same sure control of... Read more >

The Aeneid of Virgil

Written by Virgil
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum

Format: Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: September 1, 1981
Price: $5.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21041-5 (0-553-21041-6)

Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic... Read more >

Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think

Written by Alexander Vvedensky
Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky
Translated by Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky

Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
Publisher: NYRB Poets
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-630-6 (1-59017-630-8)

“I raise[d] my hand against concepts,” wrote Alexander Vvedensky, “I enacted a poetic critique of reason.” This weirdly and wonderfully philosophical poet was born in 1904, grew up in the midst of war and revolution, and reached his artistic maturity as Stalin was twisting the meaning of words in grotesque and... Read more >

Haiku

Edited by Peter Washington

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4128-2 (1-4000-4128-7)

Simple yet capable of great complexity, the haiku is a tightly structured verse form that has a remarkable power to distill the essence of a moment keenly perceived. For centuries confined to a small literary elite in Japan, the writing of haiku is now practiced all over the world by those... Read more >

Persian Poets

Edited by Peter Washington

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: November 14, 2000
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-375-41126-7 (0-375-41126-7)

The Middle Ages saw an extraordinary flowering of Persian poetry. Though translations began appearing in Europe in the nineteenth century, these remarkable poets--Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Saadi, Sanai, Attar, Hafiz, and Jami--are still being discovered in the West.

The great medieval Persian poets owe much to the mystical Sufi tradition within Islam... Read more >

The Roman Poets
Everyman's Library
Written by Peter Washington

Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: November 11, 1997
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-375-40071-1 (0-375-40071-0)

The urban and pastoral poetry of the Roman republic, and of the empire that succeeded it, was both the culmination of the magnificent classical tradition of the Mediterranean and the seedbed for almost all the subsequent poetic traditions of Western and Central Europe. The stateliness of Virgil’s Eclogues and the grandeur... Read more >

Russian Poets

Edited by Peter Washington

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-307-26974-4 (0-307-26974-4)

Russian poets have always been admired for the lyric and emotional intensity with which they forge private and public experience into verse, and this volume gathers together some of the best-loved, and most powerful and immediate poems from the greatest Russian poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here is the... Read more >