Inferno
Written by Dante
Edited by Matthew Pearl
Translated by Henry W. Longfellow
Introduction by Lino Pertile
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $13.00
In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of
Inferno and thus introduced Dante’s literary genius to the New World. In the
Inferno, the spirit of the classical poet Virgil leads Dante through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage of his journey toward Heaven. Along the...
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The Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $17.00
Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language–and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language...
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The Colossus
and Other Poems
Written by Sylvia Plath
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2011
Price: $9.99
With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy...
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The Colossus
and Other Poems
Written by Sylvia Plath
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: May 19, 1998
Price: $14.00
With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy...
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Nine Horses
Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $14.95
In Nine Horses, Billy Collins, America’s Poet Laureate for 2001–2003, continues his delicate negotiation between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac. The poems in this collection reach dazzling heights while being firmly grounded in the everyday. Traveling by train, lying on a beach, and listening to jazz...
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Sailing Alone Around the Room
New and Selected Poems
Written by Billy Collins
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2011
Price: $13.99
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections
The Apple That Astonished Paris,
Questions About Angels,
The Art of Drowning, and
Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic...
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Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf
Zen Poems of Ryokan
Translated by John Stevens
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $16.95
The Japanese poet-recluse Ryokan (17581831) is one of the most beloved figures of Asian literature, renowned for his beautiful verse, exquisite calligraphy, and eccentric character. Deceptively simple, Ryokan's poems transcend artifice, presenting spontaneous expressions of pure Zen spirit. Like his contemporary Thoreau, Ryokan celebrates nature and the natural life, but his...
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Plath: Poems
Written by Sylvia Plath
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 13, 1998
Price: $13.50
A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally frank self-exposure and emotional immediacy, Plath's poems, from "Lady Lazarus" to "Daddy," have had an enduring influence on...
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Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats
Written by John Keats
Introduction by Edward Hirsch
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $16.00
'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic
Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a...
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Paradiso
Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander
Format: Trade Paperback, 1024 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $19.95
With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the
Inferno and
Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar...
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