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Twenty years have passed since Jean-Baptiste Poncet s daring mission to the remote and exotic court ... more

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literary world considered it a major event when Willard R. Trask’s translation of the complete original text was published in...... more

and religious views and tame his vivid, often racy, style, the literary world considered it a major event when Willard R...... more

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recognized Italian Futurist scholar Willard Bohn, seeks to correct this oversight. It is commonly believed that Futurist poetry...... more

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. But, as Sumner Willard and Charity Cannon Willard show in this faithful English translation, The Book of Deeds of Arms and...... more

, style, the literary world considered it a major event when Willard R. Trask’s translation of the complete original text was...... more