age ~70
from Hudson, FL
The deeply resonant love story of Sir Lancelot and King Arthur's wife, Queen Guenevere, has had enduring appeal ever since it was invented in the 12th-century by the French writer ChrÃtien de Troyes. The protagonists became a model of ill-fated adulterers whose irresistible love led not only themsel...
Author
Samuel N. Rosenberg, Patricia Terry
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Publisher
David R Godine
ISBN #
1567923240
EAN Code
9781567923247
ISBN #
3
The author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century, Le Roman de la Rose or Guillaume de Dole and L'Escoufle (The Kite), as well as Le Lai de l'Ombre, Jean Renart is today recognized as the most accomplished practitioner of the "realistic romance" in Old French literature.
Author
Jean Renart
Binding
Paperback
Pages
136
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN #
0812213882
EAN Code
9780812213881
ISBN #
7
Capital of Pain, is considered one of the key texts of surrealism. This is the first new translation into English of this work in over 30 years and the only edition available in the English language. This edition presents the text in its entirety in a bilingual format and includes an extensive essay...
Author
Paul Eluard
Binding
Paperback
Pages
280
Publisher
Commonwealth Books, Black Widow
ISBN #
0976844966
EAN Code
9780976844969
ISBN #
6
Poet Jules Laforgue (1860-1887) is considered one of the creators of modernism: part-symbolist, part post-impressionist, he was one of the first poets to write in free verse. He heavily influenced such modern poets as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. This is a completely revised and greatly augmented vers...
Author
Jules Laforgue
Binding
Paperback
Pages
255
Publisher
Commonwealth Books, Black Widow
ISBN #
0981808859
EAN Code
9780981808857
ISBN #
4
Renard the Fox is the first modern translation into English of one of the most important and influential medieval books. Valued for its comic spirit, its high literary quality, and its clever satire of feudal society, the tale uses animals to represent the members of various classes. This lively and...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
192
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN #
0520076842
EAN Code
9780520076846
ISBN #
2
The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the Codex Regius.The poems are ...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
304
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN #
0812282205
EAN Code
9780812282207
ISBN #
1
Library of Liberal Arts title.
Author
Patricia Terry
Binding
Paperback
Pages
148
Publisher
Pearson
ISBN #
0024198358
EAN Code
9780024198358
ISBN #
8