World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time
This long-awaited, indispensable volume contains more than 1600 poems drawn from dozens of languages and cultures, and spans a period of more than 4000 years from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century. World Poetry encompasses the many worlds of poetry, poetry of all styles, of all eras, of all tongues: from the ancient epic of Gilgamesh and the Pharaoh Akhnaten's Hymn to the Sun to the haiku of Basho and the dazzling imagery of Li Po; from Vedic hymns to Icelandic sagas to the Carmina Burana; from the magnificence of Homer and Dante to the lyricism of Goethe and Verlaine; from the piercing insights of Rilke and Yeats to the r…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Major, John S. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-393-04130-9
- EAN: 9780393041309
- Produktnummer: 8371217
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 1338 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.8 cm x D6.6 cm 1'837 g
- Gewicht: 1837
Über den Autor
Clifton Fadiman is an editor, television personality, and the longest serving judge at Book-of-the-Month Club, member of the advisory board to the Encyclopedia Britannica, and author of many books. John S. Major is an editor at Book-of-the-Month Club and author of ten books about East Asia. Katharine Washburn is an editor and translator. She lives in New York.
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