THE WINGED ENERGY OF DELIGHT: Selected Translations
First printing of this collection of Bly's translations of Neruda, Rilke, Basho, Rumi, Horace, and many others.
First printing of this collection of Bly's translations of Neruda, Rilke, Basho, Rumi, Horace, and many others.
First edition of the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning authors fourth book of poetry, the title poem addressing "the power of grief to motivate heroic action" (Morris, 50) — not through victory in battle, but through Achilles's love of Patroclus.
Beautiful Edwardian-era set of the Ancient Greek epic, bound in rich full goatskin by Roger de Coverly and Sons.
Lovely three-volume pocket edition of Dryden's translation of the AENEID, ECOLOGUES, and GEORGICS, printed by the famed Scottish Enlightenment printers, the Foulis brothers.