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Footprints: Poems Selected and Translated by Anthony Mortimer
In poems that took years and sometimes decades to reach a final version, he worked within a limited set of themes and images – high mountains, gloomy lakes, sinister boats, nocturnal ghosts, reflected clouds, dark woods, golden sunsets, lightning, harvesting, lost lovers – to present his own symboli…
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The Testament and Other Poems
A unique edition of The Testament by François Villon in ‘wonderful translations’ (John Banville). Accompanied here by other poems written by one of the most celebrated of French medieval poets. The most celebrated of French medieval poets, François Villon makes poetry out the basest material the raw…
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The Song of Roland
Probably written around three centuries after the events it describes, The Song of Roland is the earliest and finest example of the French chansons de geste – verse epics that celebrated heroic deeds and were sung or recited by wandering minstrels. Presented here along with the original Anglo-Norman…
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Vita Nuova
The Vita Nuova, with its unusual blend of prose and poetry, is universally recognized as Dante’s early masterpiece and provides an indispensable prequel to The Divine Comedy. Set in thirteenth-century Florence, part autobiography and part religious allegory, it traces Dante’s quest to find a poetic…
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The Flowers of Evil: Dual-Language Edition
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire is presented here in a dual-language edition, with extra material, notes and bibliography. Anthony Mortimer, already praised for his virtuoso translations of Petrarch, Dante and Villon, has produced a new version that not only respects the sense and the form…
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Rime (Dual-language edition)
This collection of Dante Alighieri’s lyrics charts his poetic evolution and displays the ground on which his Vita nuova and Divine Comedy developed. Inspired in his early poems by troubadour love poetry, Dante would later come to master all the genres of the time, such as the canzone, the sonnet and…
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Complete Poems
Dante’s best friend and a major exponent of the dolce stil novo, Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting influence upon Italian poetry and is best known to English readers through the essays, translations and adaptations of Ezra Pound. Born from the cultural ferment of thirteenth- century Florence, Caval…
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