Letters to a Young Poet is a classic that should be required reading for anyone who dreams of expressing themselves creatively.

Readers at all levels can continue to deepen their understanding of this rich tale about the Lover and his quest--against the admonishments of Reason and the obstacles set by Jealousy and Resistance--to pluck the fair Rose in the Enchanted ...

The Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton's Satan is so seductive.

The first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of Rumi's magnum opus, The Masnavi, into English.

This revised edition has been meticulously re-edited by Christopher MacGowan, who has supplied a wealth of notes and explanatory material.

This volume collects for the first time the works--articles, M.A. thesis, dissertations, and journal extracts--of Milman Parry, whose death at thirty-three brought to a precipitous end the career of one of the leading classical scholars of ...

Examines the language of ancient Celtic and Mediterranean poetic myths, probing the role of the all-encompassing female figure, the White Goddess, in the earliest forms of poetry.

Set in sixteenth-century Brazil, this prose-poem is "a passionate tale of doomed love between a beautiful young Tabajara Indian woman, Iracema, and a Portuguese soldier, Martim."--Jacket.

A scholarly edition of the Sixth Book of Virgil's Aeneid translated by Sir John Harington. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.