award-winning poet W. S. Merwin on facing pages. - Includes twelve sketches by Pablo Picasso - New introduction by Cristina Garc a...... more

reverence for the original. --The New York Times W.S. Merwin s rendition of the Purgatorio is considered a pinnacle and...... more

An unabridged edition to include all 8 Books with maps from the translations of W.A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn - The...... more

FRIEDRICH HEGEL (1770-1831), this 1896 translation by SAMUEL WATERS DYDE (b. 1862) of the philosopher s great 1821 work offers a...... more

A bilingual edition celebrating the centennial of Follain’s birth, translated by one of America’s great poets....... more

crusading spirit and fortified by national and religious propaganda. This edition features W. S. Merwin s glowing, lyrical...... more

century, she contrasts the different cultural perceptions of pain in each period, as well as the medical theories advanced to...... more

King’s daughter and a one-time hostage of Rome, is now a foster child of a noble Roman household. She is also a Christian...... more

conspires to kill as an interloper the very son she has despaired of finding. After mother and son both try to kill each other...... more

accurate account of the 1431 Inquisition-style trial that culminated in Joan s death. Conducted in Rouen by two judges, a...... more

spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin s incomparable translation faces the...... more

Brown and W. S. Merwin, one of contemporary America s finest poets and translators. It also includes Mandelstam s...... more

co-translator W.S. Merwin sets the stage for 130 poems and six letters to the Emperor that combine delicacy and lightness with...... more

expressing--this moment’s experience, bare facts, simple observations, elegant statements of ’thus-ness.’"--Inquiring Mind "Having W.S...... more

"Mr. Merwin is an undisputed master."--The New York Times "This collection of W. S. Merwin’s translations is a deeply...... more

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by W. S. Di Piero. NIGHT OF SHOOTING STARS is the definitive...... more

When W.S. Merwin was a young poet, Ezra Pound advised him to read the seeds of poetry, not the twigs. As the ballads...... more

The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qab. A unique collection from the pen of the Arab world s most renowned and...... more

Lucid and immediate Zenlike aphroisms translated from Spanish by one of America’s great poets....... more

Among the most influential parts of the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) were his ethics, his theory of the state...... more

An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge. Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-7... more

appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip’s death in 336, Aristotle became...... more

appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip’s death in 336, Aristotle became...... more