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"A rat climbs onto the desk of a bored office worker. A family dog never stops coming back to life. Every prisoner on earth is freed. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him. A baby is born transparent. James Tate's work, filled with unexpected turns and deadpan exaggeration, 'fanciful and grave, mundane and transcendent' (New York Times), has been among the most defining and significant of our time. In his last collection, written...
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Including contributions by W. H. Auden - Elizabeth Bishop - John Cheever - Janet Flanner - John Hersey - Langston Hughes - Shirley Jackson - A. J. Liebling - William Maxwell - Carson McCullers - Joseph Mitchell - Vladimir Nabokov - Ogden Nash - John O'Hara - George Orwell - V. S. Pritchett - Lillian Ross - Stephen Spender - Lionel Trilling - Rebecca West - E. B. White - Williams Carlos Williams - Edmund Wilson And featuring new perspectives by Joan...
7) The inferno
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Arguably the greatest of poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem's line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically...
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Una antología pensada para acercar a los pequeños lectores la sensibilidad de los grandes poetas: Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca ... Una obra que ya es un clásico; una guía para que los adultos compartan con los niños las voces permanentes de la poesía española.
This is an anthology created to introduce young readers to the feeling of the great poets: Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rafael...
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A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, this is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton's Paradise Lost, and More's Utopia to the great poets and prose writers of the nineteenth century--Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron,...
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Una selección de la gran poesía mexicana de todos los tiempos, que se ha bautizado "noble" porque esta antología reúne las características de la nobleza de ser generosa y brillante. Con ejemplos que van desde la poesía popular y los grandes poetas del siglo XVI, pasando por el clasicismo y el romanticismo hasta llegar a la poesía moderna de nuestros tiempos, esta selección incluye poemas que han sabido perdurar con el paso del tiempo y muestran...
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"Recognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of non-fiction. In Time Come, he selects some of his most powerful prose - book and record reviews published in newspapers and magazines, lectures, obituaries and speeches - for the first time. Written over many decades, it is a body of work that draws creatively...
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