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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-28 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
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Language: en
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Using the poet's native Italian landscapes, Gilbert Highet recreates these poets in situ to evoke the essence of their work. His translations summon a land ench
Language: en
Pages: 290
Pages: 290
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-16 - Publisher: New York Review of Books
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his deli
Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Walker Illustrated Classics
A collection of favorite poems by such writers as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Edward Lear, Walt Whitman, and Langston Hughes, with portraits of the po
Language: en
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-11 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
The Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BCE produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. This new poetic translation