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In Beethoven in Denver and Other Poems, Burton Raffel (bestselling translator of Beowulf) brings a lifetime of artistry to an enchanting and visionary story, followed by a sequence of jewel-like lyrics.

Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century.

Often called the German lliad, "Das Nibelungenlied" is a heroic epic both national in character and sweeping in scope. The poem moves inexorably from romance through tragedy to holocaust. This translation brings the epic poem to life in English.

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For there is indeed something we can call the spirit of ancient Greece-a carefully tuned voice that speaks out of the grave with astonishing clarity and grace, a distinctive voice that, taken as a whole, is like no other voice that has ever sung on this earth."-BURTON RAFFEL, from his Preface For centuries, the poetry of Homer, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Sappho, and Archilochus has served as one of our primary means of connecting with the wholly...

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Bantam is proud to present all of Milton's English poetry--complete and fully annotated--including "Paradise Lost, " "Paradise Regained, " and "Samson Agonistes." This is the definitive Milton for teachers and students everywhere.

From the early 1800s to the outbreak of World War II, this collection spans more than 100 years of literary history with 33 complete short stories by such timeless masters as Washington Irving, Mark Twain, Jack London, and William Faulkner. Reissue.

Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century.

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE UPCOMING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE THE GREEN KNIGHT-STARRING DEV PATEL!An epic poem of honor and bravery written by an anonymous fourteenth-century poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's masterworks and of the great Old English poems, including Beowulf. It is Christmas in Camelot, and a truly royal feast has been laid out for King Arthur and his knights. And though there is plenty of goo...

Before there was Game of Thrones, there was Beowulf... SONG OF BATTLE AND KINGS Beowulf is one of the earliest extant poems in a modern European language, composed in England before the Norman Conquest. As a social document this great epic poem is invaluable-reflecting a feudal world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory, life and death. As a work of art, it is unique. Beowulf rings with beauty, power, and artistry that have kept it alive ...

AmericaA[a¬a[s war against itself developed slowly, pressing on people in all walks and ways of life. The Bingham familyA[a¬aof New England, then rural New York, then the great city of New YorkA[a¬awas, like everyone else, caught up in deep, churning passions. The Bingham men, as they struggle toward the lives and loves they long for, reach into realms of commerce, politics, diplomacy, journalism. Bingham women, almost too strong for the roles...

An introductory text that is both an anthology of over 200 poems and a comprehensive exploration of the form. Over 100 poets featured, those most widely represented include Blake, Byron, cummings, Dickinson, Donne, Alan Dugan, Frost, Louise Gluck, George Herbert, Keats, Pope, Pound, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Yeats.