Titoli in Temi e stili

Stanley Lombardo narrates the audiobook edition of his new verse rendering of the great Babylonian epic that includes material from the recently discovered “monkey tablet...

"Non di sola ragione" è un'istantanea dell'inizio di un percorso di rinascita poetica e spirituale. Un viaggio esoterico che parte dal buio, dalle caverne e dal gelo e arriva alla natura, al mondo, alla luce che si staglia oltre ogni confine.

In the second book of Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at the threshold of heaven, has its terraces, each representing one of the seven mortal sins. With Virgil again as his guide, Dante climbs the mountain; the poet shows us, on its slopes, those whose lives were variously governed by pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust.

New Hampshire features Frost's meditations on rural life, love, and death, delivered in the voice of a soft-spoken New Englander. Critics have long marveled at the poet's gift for capturing the speech of the region's natives and his realistic evocations of the area's landscapes. This compilation, first published in 1923, earned Frost the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes and includes several of his best-known poems: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Nothing Gold Can Stay", and "Fire and Ice".

The Song of Roland is acknowledged today as the first masterpiece of French vernacular literature and one of the world’s greatest epic poems. Written down around the year 1090, The Song of Roland finely crafted verses tell of the betrayal and defeat of Charlemagne’s beloved nephew at the Pass of Roncevaux in the Pyrenees and of the revenge subsequently sought on his behalf.

Discover the beauty and clarity of life's final moments through Japan's haunting tradition of jisei—poems written at the edge of death. This moving collection brings together hundreds of translated death poems by Zen monks, haiku poets, and samurai warriors—many appearing in English for the first time. Compiled by renowned scholar Yoel Hoffmann, Japanese Death Poems offers more than exquisite verse: it explores Japan's deep-rooted cultural approach to mortality, impermanence, and spiritual release.

La prefazione illumina sulle intenzioni dell'autore e sul significato dell’opera: «Crescano e fioriscano intorno all’antica tomba della mia giovane madre myricae autunnali […] Mettano queste poesie i loro rosei calicetti intorno alla memoria di mia madre, di mia madre che fu così umile, e pur così forte, sebbene al dolore non sapesse resistere se non più di un anno. Io sento che a lei devo la mia abitudine contemplativa cioè, qual ch’ella sia, la mia attitudine poetica.

Most of us continue to be bonded to the people who hurt us, waiting for them to give us closure, to see us as worthy of their change or remorse, and to apologize. True healing begins when you stop giving the one who broke you the pen that writes the story of how you heal. Instead, you decide to...

Yogananda said Whispers from Eternity was one his favorite pieces of writing. He urged his followers to read and listen to it when he was gone from this world in order to reconnect with him in the dream world. In it he urges his students to demand when praying and live the prayer as if already realized. So in some ways Whispers From Eternity are his lessons in prayer as he share his own sacred prayers.

Read by author amanda lovelace herself, you are your own fairy tale: the audiobook collection features the three enchanting poetry books that round out the collection: break your glass slippers, shine your icy crown, and unlock your storybook heart. you are your own fairy tale is accompanied by music and includes a bonus interview between lovelace and her spouse, parker lee.

Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only a human creation but a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In The Art of Biblical Poetry, his companion to the seminal The Art of Biblical Narrative, Alter takes his analysis beyond narrative craft to investigate the use of Hebrew poetry in the Bible. 

At dusk on the eve of Good Friday, Dante and Virgil embark on a journey that will lead Dante to Heaven where a contentment with God will be found and his beloved Beatrice awaits. But first, they must pass through the Gate of Hell and enter the underground world of sinners. The living man and his...

Сколько слов, стихов, песен сложено о любви! Чувстве, которое близко людям всех поколений, чувстве, которое будоражит кровь и разум, чувстве, которое рождает потрясающие по своей силе строки и метафоры... Любовная лирика – пожалуй, один из самых красивых жанров, по сути это сама жизнь, переданная автором в образах и строфах. Именно со стихотворений о любви чаще всего начинается творческий путь поэта, становление его рифмы и слога. XIX–XX вв. подарил нам прекрасные образцы любовной лирики: стихотворения М. Лермонтова и Ф. Тютчева, А. Блока и К. Бальмонта, М. Цветаевой и А. Ахматовой и многих других.

Bühne Fry für die großartigste Geschichte der Welt! Es ist die größte Geschichte von Heldentum und Hass, Liebe und Leiden, Rache und Reue, Verlangen und Verzweiflung, die sich die Menschheit je erzählt hat: Der Kampf um das legendäre Troja, das für Götter und Menschen gleichermaßen Segen und Fluch war und zum Schauplatz alter Fehden, sagenhafter Herausforderungen und verwickelter Intrigen wurde. Es sind jene menschlichen Leidenschaften, blutig in den Sand einer fernen Küste geschrieben, die heute noch zu uns sprechen.

""A gorgeous collection. . . . These poems unplug from TV and social media and the outrage of the moment and turn our attention to the immediate and the everlasting, human intimacy and the power and mystery of nature."" —Tampa Bay Times In this intimate collection, Barbara Kingsolver, beloved...

Brought to you by Penguin. A collection of powerful contemporary poetry exploring themes of masculinity, love, grief and connection, from British poet and viral phenomenon Lucas Jones. 'You're here to make All the wonder make sense You're not the life - You're the living itself' How do you...

Kahlil Gibran was Lebanese by birth but spent a major part of his life in America in the early part of the 20th century. He wrote many collections of stories with a wise or whimsical tone, but none more popular than The Prophet, his first collection, or The Wanderer, his final anthology.

Pablo Neruda fue, en las palabras de Gabriel García Márquez, el "más grande poeta del siglo XX en cualquier idioma." Para Harold Bloom "no admite comparación con ningún otro poeta del hemisferio occidental." Para la mayoría de lectores, que lo han venido leyendo con devoción desde hace casi un siglo, Pablo Neruda es el gran poeta del amor. Esta compilación reúne algunos de sus poemas de amor más sensuales y desesperados.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by award-winning voice actor Martin Jarvis OBE, as well as John Sackville, Maya Saroya and the translator of this edition, David Raeburn. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Denis Feeney. Ovid's sensuous and witty...

Considered by Rumi to be "the master" of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul's search for meaning. He recounts the perilous journey of the world's birds to the faraway peaks of Mount Qaf in search of the mysterious Simorgh, their king. Attar's beguiling anecdotes and humor intermingle the sublime with the mundane, the spiritual with the worldly, while his poem models the soul's escape from the mind's rational embrace.