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"Les Métamorphoses sont composées au début de l'ère chrétienne par le poète latin Ovide, juste avant sa relégation sur les rives de la mer Noire. Ce recueil est constitué d'une multitude de courts récits inspirés des mythologies, des épopées et des tragédies grecques et romaines. Un livre-monde, tour à tour édifiant, galant et burlesque dont la voix inspirée de Michel Vuillermoz, sociétaire de la Comédie-Française, révèle l'esprit et les saveurs." Claude Colombini Frémeaux

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is perhaps the best-known Arthurian romance in the English language. Its story is well-known: New Year celebrations at Camelot are disrupted by the fearsome and strange appearance of the Green Knight who challenges Arthur's court to a game consisting of an exchange of blows; the Green Knight's survival of the beheading that ensues locks Sir Gawain into a commitment to receive a return blow a year later, bound by his honor to fulfill the terms of the game.

Patience is the third of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a 14th century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower, and acknowledged as a minor masterpiece in its own right. The poet's usage of the word patience reflects two broad senses: that of accepting misfortune and submitting to physical or mental suffering, and that of waiting, holding back, and exercising moderation and self-control.

Cleanness is the second of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a 14th century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower. Cleanness tells several stories, all related by theme “ the disastrous consequences of uncleanness, and the good fortune to be had by being clean. The poet carefully constructs a complex accumulation of stories and examples, whose main source is the Old Testament. The three major stories are the Flood, then Sodom and Gomorrah, followed by Belshazzar's Feast.

Pearl is the first of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a 14th century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower. It is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of medieval English literature. In the poem the grief-stricken protagonist describes the loss of a precious pearl in a garden. He falls asleep and in his dream sees a vision of a beautiful Maiden, who through complex imagery is gradually revealed as the pearl, a lost loved one, often interpreted as the Dreamer's young daughter, though never explicitly identified.

Paradiso gives our imagination a hint of the beauty to come, by uncovering the deepest reality of the life we are living now. God is the same, eternity past to eternity future; He is the same God today. The great crescendo that is His beauty, dance, song, joy, holiness, and glory we hear but dimly, as from a distance land; but it undergirds and gives meaning to everything we know and experience.

A collection of 56 Texas sonnets on the nature of Texan peoples and environments past, present, and future. The epic poem "The Genocide of the Wolf" explores the legends and prophecies of the three historic wolf families, from native and Mexican folklore to their war with men over the plains and their current captivity. This audiobook is masterfully narrated by John Mendell, bringing to life the authentic Texan voices that inspired the work, and is thought of as a work of art in itself beyond the underlying poetry.

La Epopeya de Gilgamesh (2500-2000 a. C) es una narración acadia en verso sobre las peripecias del rey Gilgamesh. Está basada en cinco poemas independientes sumerios, que constituyen la obra épica más antigua conocida. Al comienzo, Gilgamesh es el despótico rey de Uruk, cuyos súbditos se quejan a los dioses. Estos atienden el reclamo creando a Enkidu, un hombre destinado a enfrentarse a Gilgamesh. Cuando ambos entraban en combate, en vez de darse muerte se hacen amigos para siempre y emprenden peligrosas aventuras. Como castigo a sus actos, los dioses hacen que Enkidu muera en plena juventud.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The winner of Sweden’s most prestigious literary award makes her American debut with an epic, multigenerational novel-in-verse about two Sámi families and their quest to stay together across a century of migration, violence, and colonial trauma...

Lakota was conceived by Bobby Bridger as a "telling of a telling" of the life of the Lakota holy man, Black Elk. Black Elk shared his vision with John Neihardt, Neihardt shared it with the world, and this ballad honors that lineage through music and storytelling.

In Opened Doors, author Artie Bryant passionately delves into love, pain and the whirlwind of emotions in between through a profound collection of poetry, intricately penned to propel listeners into the author's transparent, visual feast of confessions.

The English Cantos reaches its cosmic conclusion in DoorWay. In the third and final instalment of this Dantean epic, the poet-pilgrim must complete his quest, venturing through a realm of stars, planets, constellations, and Seraphim to come face to face with the living, unknowable God—and discover his true purpose.

Protectress is a hybrid poetry-prose novella offering a risky take on the legend of Medusa. With stunning economy of words and a delicate hand, Protectress provokes us to think about the feminist identity and the power of compassion. Listeners who fell deeply for Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey, Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, Madeleine Miller’s Circe, Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, Maria Dahvana Headley’s translation of Beowulf, and Toby Barlow's Sharp Teeth will find themselves enamoured with Protectress.

In the land of Woodashoodakooda, the Woodashoodakoodans plan their work and work their plan eight days a week. There’s no time for fun and games. The good news is they have friendly, helpful robots to lighten their load. The bad news is that things don't always go as planned. As Woodashoodakooda dangles on the edge of darkness and destruction, the robots lead them on a wild goose chase down an oddly familiar rabbit hole.

ALMUSTAFA, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth. And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month of reaping, he climbed the hill without the city walls and looked seaward; and he beheld his ship coming with the mist. Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul.

Comenzaré ahora a contarles las hazañas de cierto caballero nacido en tierras muy lejanas; el cual pudo cambiar al mundo, mas el destino causóle un magno infortunio. Nuestro héroe dejo de ser humano y puede con los Dioses ser encasillado: !Oh tan grande mi señor¡ Como a pocos el destino te destrozó. Contaré ahora la relación de su fuga, su pasión y el tormentoso dolor que le causó: El planeta tierra, los humanos y su civilización.

In this book-length epic poem set in northern Nigeria, Saddiq Dzukogi blends the personal with the mythical, part prayer and part praise song, expanding the griot tradition of Bakandamiya, a poetic form from northern Nigeria popularized by Mamman Shata.

Chef-d’œuvre épique du XVIIe siècle, Le Paradis Perdu de John Milton déploie, en vers amples et solennels, une méditation vertigineuse sur la tentation, le péché et la rédemption. À l’échelle du cosmos comme au cœur de l’âme, la parole poétique scrute la grandeur et la fragilité humaines, entre épreuve, faute et espérance.

رقْمِك الأوّل.. معَ العالمْ.. رِفيعْ صَعْب.. ما تِرْضيك.. غير.. الأوّلَهْ تِشْهد.. الدّنْيا وعَالمْها ..الْوسيعْ أنتَ.. حَلاّل.. الْأمُور.. المُعضِلَهْ قَلْب أبو خالدْ وطنْ ضَمّ الْجِميعْ هذيَ القصّهْ وكلّ المسْألَهْ النّوايا البِيض تبْقى ما تِضيعْ ربّنا إنْ حَبّ عَبْدهْ كَمّلَهْ يا كَفو.. يتْبَع كَفو.. فِكْرِكْ بِديعْ يِخْترِقْ عقْل الْخِصيم.. وْيذْهلِهْ أشْهد إنّك للْوطَن سَدٍّ.. مِنيعْ مِبْهر.. الْعالَم.. وهَذيْ.. مَرْجَلَهْ وأشْهد إنّهْ مِن عَصَى شورِكْ يِضيعْ ما ربَحْ.. غير.. الهَزَلْ.. والْبَلْبلَهْ مِن خُطاك.. القاحِلَهْ تِنْبِتْ.. رِبيعْ أنتَ.. رَحمةْ.. مِن إلهي.. مُرسَلَةْ بِكْ إماراتيْ غَدَتْ عِشْق الجميعْ يا مُهنْدسْهَا.. ورَاعي.. الأوّلَهْ

À l’arrière-saison, un chevalier quitte sa maison, seul, en proie aux pensées. La nature se défait—feuilles, fleurs, odeurs—tout tend à froideur et à neige. À l’écoute d’un propos de vérité, il mesure l’enfance passée, la jeunesse dépensée, l’honneur et la grâce divine. Composé à l’ombre d’un deuil—la mort du duc de Bourgogne, trépassé devant Nancy en Lorraine—ce poème méditatif interroge la gloire qui s’éteint, la vanité des choses et la constance des âmes. Une élégie chevaleresque, grave et sobre, où le temps et la mémoire conduisent vers une ferme résolution.