Originally presented as a speech to the German Academy for Language and Poetry on the occasion of Celan’s acceptance of the Georg BΓΌchner Prize for ...
Continue Reading βComposed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar’s great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, ...
Continue Reading βAs civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II), Trilogy’s three long poems rank with T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets and ...
Continue Reading ββTeems with sharp observation, profound moral insight, high satiric wit, and all manner of aesthetic delight.β βThe New York Times Book Review A Penguin Classic ...
Continue Reading βWilliam Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary ...
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