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The Inferno of Dante by Dante Alighieri Publisher Comments This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney Staff Pick "I resignedly picked it up at last on the tail end of a history binge, telling myself, 'Okay, I'm finally going to slog through it. Just get it over with.' And I discovered all my trepidation had been for naught. This isn't an 'accessible for a scholarly... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Essential Rumi by Rumi From Powells.com "I don't mean to claim a special relationship with Rumi...but a poet of such astonishing range and depth needs many translators and interpreters. Mystical poetry tries to reveal the apple orchard within the mist of language (Rumi's image). I hope these... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Iliad by Homer and Stephen Mitchell Publisher Comments Tolstoy called The Iliad a miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homers story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or written. But until now, even the best English translations... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Canterbury Tales (Modern Library Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucers 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... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Odyssey by Homer and Robert Fitzgerald Publisher Comments The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in a Noonday paperback. Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Machiavelli Publisher Comments Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on statecraft. While Machiavelli was only one of the many Florentine "prophets... (read more) List Price $7.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell Publisher Comments Finally available in paperback comes a brilliant new rendering of the oldest epic in the world by esteemed translator and bestselling author Mitchell.... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Erotic Poems (Penguin Classics) by Ovid Publisher Comments Collection of poems dealing with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, written by the 1st century poet.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Iliad by Homer and Robert Fagles Publisher Comments Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters presents us with his universally acclaimed modern verse translation of the world's greatest war... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Conference of The Birds (Penguin Classics) by Farid Ud Din Attar Publisher Comments The acclaimed translation of a magnificent work of Persian poetry—now updated with new material Composed in the twelfth century in northeastern Iran, Farid Attar’s great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation by Greg (edt) Delanty Publisher Comments Featuring 123 all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celebrated poets--including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Eavan Boland, Richard Wilbur, and many others--"this brilliant anthology infuses new vigor into Old English poetry... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Portable Dante by Dante Publisher Comments Dante Alighieri paved the way for modern literature, while creating verse and prose that remain unparalleled for formal elegance, intellectual depth, and emotional grandeur. The Portable Dante contains complete verse translations of Dante's two... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Odyssey by Homer and Robert Fagles Publisher Comments If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems of Rumi (Dover Thrift Editions) by Jalalu'l-din Rumi Publisher Comments More than 100 stirring, unforgettable lyrics by the great 13th century Sufi teacher and mystical poet include "The Marriage of True Minds," "The Children of Light," "The Man Who Looked Back on His Way to Hell," "The Ascending Soul," "The Pear-Tree... (read more) Your price: $3.50 New - Trade Paper
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Purgatorio #2: The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: Purgatory by Dante About the Author Dante Alighieri was born in 1265. Considered Italy's greatest poet, this scion of a Florentine family mastered in the art of lyric poetry at an early age. His first major work is La Vita Nuova (1292) which is a tribute to Beatrice Portinari, the great... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) by N K Sandars Publisher Comments ‘I am Gilgamesh who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven, I killed the watchman of the cedar forest, I overthrew Humbaba who lived in the forest’ Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington Publisher Comments The collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry known as the Poetic Edda contains the great narratives of the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods. The mythological poems explore the wisdom of the gods... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri and John Ciardi Publisher Comments Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise—the sphere of... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions) by John Milton Publisher Comments 'Gordon Teskey\"s freshly edited text of Milton\"s masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter, importantly, within the limits imposed by Milton\"s... (read more) List Price $23.45 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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