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Stagione di poesia : almanacco del Centro di poesia contemporanea dell'Università degli studi di Bologna (v.1)

Gibellini, Andrea (1965-); Università di Bologna. Centro di poesia contemporanea

2001-

Includes papers presented to the meeting E il tradur m'è dolce in questo mare, Bologna, 1999, and English poems with facing Italian translations.

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To be a poet!

Law, Alice (1886-)

[1928]

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Actes du 8e congrès, Corfou-Kerkyra (Grèce), 1985

Morina, Mimmo (1933-); Organisation mondiale des poètes

[1986]

Cover title. Chiefly in French; some contributions in English, Greek and Spanish.

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Enjoying poetry : A reader's guide

Day Lewis, C (1904-1972); Munford, W A (1911-); National Book League (Great Britain)

1947

"Some books to read," comp. by W. A. Munford in consultation with C. Day Lewis: p. 8-15.

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Inspiration and poetry

Bowra, C M (1898-1971)

1955

Inspiration and poetry -- The Odes of Horace -- "The knight in the tiger's skin." -- Dante and Arnaut Daniel -- The songs of Gil Vicente -- "Samson Agonistes." -- Hölderlin's Hymns -- Pushkin -- Lerm...

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Translata, et epigrammata

Gidley, Lewis (1889)

1848

Text in Latin and Greek.

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Testaman enn metchiss

Virahsawmy, Dev

1999

Short stories and poems, some of which are translations.

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Staying alive : real poems for unreal times

Astley, Neil

2003

Body and soul -- Roads -- Dead or alive -- Bittersweet -- Growing up -- Man and beast -- In and out of love -- My people -- War and peace -- Disappearing acts -- Me, the earth, the universe -- The art...

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English translations from ancient and modern poems (v.1)

1810

Vol.1. Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Dryden's Virgil and Juvenal. Pitt's Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's art of poetry. Francis's Horace. -- vol.2. Rowe's Lucan. Grainger's Tibullus. Fawkes's Theocritu...

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English translations from ancient and modern poems (v.2)

1810

Vol.1. Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Dryden's Virgil and Juvenal. Pitt's Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's art of poetry. Francis's Horace. -- vol.2. Rowe's Lucan. Grainger's Tibullus. Fawkes's Theocritu...

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English translations from ancient and modern poems (v.3)

1810

Vol.1. Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Dryden's Virgil and Juvenal. Pitt's Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's art of poetry. Francis's Horace. -- vol.2. Rowe's Lucan. Grainger's Tibullus. Fawkes's Theocritu...

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