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Lives of the Saints

Alice at 80

The Ramayana of Valmiki

The Octaves: Poems

An accomplished poet and a keen observer of the human condition, David Slavitt deploys both skills to create the...... more

La Vita Nuova

Walloomsac: A Roman Fleuve

Shiksa

Slavitt s] sentences are so unburdened by the trivial or any kind of distraction, so transparent, that it would be too...... more

Civil Wars: Poems

Praise for David R. Slavitt Slavitt s touch is light, and he writes beautifully.... His satire is sharp, and he can be...... more

Sonnets and Shorter Poems

In this volume, David R. Slavitt, the distinguished translator and author of more than one hundred works of fiction...... more

Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation

The appearance of David R. Slavitt s translation of Orlando Furioso ( Mad Orlando ), one of the great literary...... more

The Consolation of Philosophy

In this highly praised new translation of Boethius s The Consolation of Philosophy, David R. Slavitt presents a...... more

The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Poems

In The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Poems, veteran poet David R. Slavitt touches on topics from the mundane to the...... more

De Rerum Natura The Nature of Things: A Poetic Translation

R. Slavitt has captured Lucretius s elegance as well as his philosophical profundity in this highly readable translation...... more

Ausonius: Three Amusements

of the Commemorations David Slavitt has added versions of Ausonius s Nuptial Cento, assembled from snippets of...... more

William Henry Harrison And Other Poems

The prodigiously imaginative mind and penetrating wit of David R. Slavitt are on full display in his newest collection...... more

Change Of Address: Poems, New And Selected

Address highlights the magnitude and scope of David Slavitt s poetic achievement. Meditating on both the quotidian and the...... more

Propertius in Love: The Elegies

These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown ... more

Voyage of the Argo: The Argonautica of Gaius Valerius Flaccus

he died before completing it. With The Voyage of the Argo, the acclaimed poet and translator David Slavitt recovers for...... more

Euripides, 4: Ion, Children of Heracles, the Madness of Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Orestes

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classica... more