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Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)
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Mitchell writes well; his Tao Te Ching comes across as more poetic than most translations I've read. But while the words are prettier the meaning seems lost at times. I agree with the reviewers on here who criticise Mitchell for paraphrasing ligitimate translations and often missing the point. However, I still feel like his version is worth reading. By... »
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The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
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I suppose that any freshman college student has read some of these Tales. I had a professor who read a few of them to us in the Olde English. It was really fun and you really got a grasp of where the English language was coming from - and poetry.
I went on from my English class and read the whole works. They are good, classic short stories. You a... »
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Essential Rumi
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No translator could do greater justice to the gorgeous simplicity of Rumi's poetry than Coleman Barks has done here. These exquisite renderings of the 13th-century Persian mystic's words into American free verse capture all the "inner searching, the delicacy, and simple groundedness" that characterize Rumi's poetry while remaining faithful to the image... »
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The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
Elizabeth Bishop was vehement about her art--a perfectionist who didn't want to be seen as a "woman poet." In 1977, two years before her death she wrote, ... »
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The Gift
Hafiz, a secret Sufi, came to prominence in his day as a writer of love poems. That love transformed into an all-consuming passion for union with the divi... »
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The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
Robert Fagles's translation is a jaw-droppingly beautiful rendering of Homer's Odyssey, the most accessible and enthralling epic of classical Greec... »
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