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Georgics
By Virgil.
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The World Shared
By Piotr Florczyk, Boris Dralyuk, Dariusz Sosnicki. 2014
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General non-fiction, Poetry, Customs and cultures
Dariusz Sosnicki's poems open our eyes to the sublime just beneath the surface of the mundane: a train carrying children…
away from their parents for summer vacation turns into a ravenous monster; a meal at a Chinese restaurant inspires a surreal journey through the zodiac; a malfunctioning printer is a reminder of the ghosts that haunt us no matter where we find ourselves.Among the perpetrators and victims,buzzed or wasted to the bone,gliding without their blinkers onin the ruts of the national fate--they're not at home.Dariusz Sosnicki is an award-winning poet, essayist, and editor in Poland.Odes: With Carmen Saeculare
By Horace, Stanley Lombardo, Anthony Corbeill. 2018
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Ancient history, Anthologies, Poetry
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Horace's Odes enjoys a long tradition of translation into English, most famously in versions that seek to replicate the quantitative…
rhythms of the Latin verse in rhymed quatrains. Stanley Lombardo, one of our preeminent translators of classical literature, now gives us a Horace for our own day that focuses on the dynamics, sense, and tone of the Odes, while still respecting its architectonic qualities. In addition to notes on each of the odes, Anthony Corbeill offers an Introduction that sketches the poet's tumultuous political and literary careers, highlights the Odes' intricate construction and thematic breadth, and identifies some qualities of this work that shed light on a disputed question in its reception: Are these poems or lyrics? This dual-language edition will prove a boon to students of classical civilization, Roman literature, and lovers of one of the great masters of Latin verse.Aeneid
By Virgil.
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