Dieter Burdorf 
Hölderlins späte Gedichtfragmente: ‘Unendlicher Deutung voll’ [PDF ebook] 

This book, first published in 1988, compiles 77 songs and ballads (yüeh-fu) of early imperial China (200 BC – AD 300). Each song-text is newly translated and fully annotated and explicated. Dr Birrel …

Follow the curious and free-spirited Mau as he journeys across worlds and muses about interesting characters and situations. From serenading a dinosaur to battling a mighty swordfish, Mau rhymes abou …

Perhaps it had to rain, For the clouds to clear Perhaps I had to fall, To conquer my fear Perhaps the wind had to blow, For the trees to sway Perhaps my heart had to break, For my feet to stand and p …

Storyteller in Times Square opens with a visit to New York and the ruins of the World Trade Center. Thus begins a poetry collection that reflects in subtle and surprising ways the post World War II h …

On Charlie Tyndale’s family tree Are branches bearing, he discovers, Ancestors of the landed gentry Including incestuous lovers;An intrepid adventurer too, With an eye for a collectible, And there’s …

Poems of the Pretentious Minds features a wide array of self-indulgent, darkly comical but heart-wrenching poetry that covers many topics such as love, family, friendship, death, sex addiction, abuse …

On its first appearance English Poetry of the Romantic Period was widely praised as on of the best introductions to the subject. This edition includes updated material in the light of recent work in …

This volume brings together Coward”s celebrated verse, from snappy epigrams to seven-hundred-line short stories such as ”P&O 1930” and ”Not Yet the Dodo”; from moving war-time encounters to sati …

Perhaps no other classical text has proved its versatility so much as Ovid”s epic poem. A staple of undergraduate courses in Classical Studies, Latin, English and Comparative Literature, Metamorphos …

Despite being widely studied on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses the writing of Sylvia Plath has been relatively neglected in relation to the attention given to her life and what drove her …