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Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition

10 best books like Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition (Victor Hugo): Les Fleurs du Mal, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, Vita Nuova, Idylls, The Odes, The Enneads, Paradiso, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, Selected Poems, Selected Poems

Les Fleurs du Mal
AuthorCharles Baudelaire
ISBN0879234628
After reading Baudelaire, I suddenly find myself wanting to smoke cigarettes and say very cynical things while donning a trendy haircut. Plus, if I didn't read Baudelaire, how could I possibly carry on conversations with pretentious art students?

In all seriousness, though, I wish my French...
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
AuthorAlbert Camus
One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan, and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide: the question of living or not living in an absurd universe devoid of order or meaning....
Vita Nuova
AuthorDante Alighieri
ISBN0192839357
Vita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in the first of his major writings are linked by a lyrical prose narrative celebrating and debating the subject of love. Composed upon Dante's meeting with Beatrice and the "Lord of Love," it is a love story...
Idylls
AuthorTheocritus
ISBN0192839845
A key figure in the development of Western literature, the Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse, was the inventor of "bucolic" or pastoral poetry in the first half of the third century BC. These vignettes of country life, which center on competitions of song and love are the foundational poems of the western...
The Odes
AuthorPindar
'What Pindar catches is the joy beyond ordinary emotions as it transcends and transforms them' —C. M. Bowra

Arguably the greatest Greek lyric poet, Pindar (518-438 B.C.) was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece—a conservative Boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and...
The Enneads
AuthorPlotinus
I suppose, once again, I will prove my Platonist sympathies by reviewing this book so positively. It's not that I am always in agreement with Plotinus (I'll follow this up below), but this is such an influential and foundational work of Philosophy and Neo-Platonism that I really can't give it a lower...
Paradiso
AuthorDante Alighieri
ISBN0140441050
Dorothy L. Sayers's landmark translation follows Dante's terza rima stanza's and brings his poetry vividly to life. Her work was completed after her death by Barbara Reynolds, who provides a foreword on the importance of the translation and an introduction on Dante's view of Heaven. This edition...
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
AuthorM.H. Abrams
ISBN0195014715
It's the first time I've had this reaction when reading an 'academic' book: awe and envy. I usually have 2 stock reactions: 1. interesting, but the author's argument was screwed in A and B manner and 2. how did this guy even get his phd?! in a cereal box!?

M.H. Abrams is too good to be anywhere near...
Selected Poems
AuthorGiuseppe Ungaretti
ISBN0374528926
A major new translation of one of Italy's greatest modern poets

Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was a pioneer of the Modernist movement in Italian poetry and is widely regarded as one of the leading Italian poets of the twentieth century. His verse is renowned and loved for its powerful insight...
Selected Poems
AuthorPaul Verlaine
ISBN0520012984
Like a loud flight of birds, dark complexity,
All my memories beating down on me,
Beating down through the yellow foliage
Of my heart’s bent alder-trunk, its gaze
Silvered violet in the lake of Regret,
Whose melancholy is still flowing yet,
Beat down, and then the evil murmur
That...
Purgatorio
AuthorDante Alighieri
ISBN0195087453
This is a great book, but does require the notes to make any sense of it. Hundreds of characters from Danté's Italy not to mention host of mythological and Biblical ones tended to distract me just reading the poetry and appreciating Dante's wonderful descriptions. I have to stop at the end of each chapter...
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