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“It is incredibly powerful and also very sparse—it has very few words. When I teach it to my students, who are undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania, they open it and say, ‘There are almost no words in this book!’ We try to work together to understand how the poems become so powerful in spite of the fact of their obvious minimalism.” Read more...
Simone White, Literary Scholar
Our most recommended books
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The Aeneid (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
by Virgil -
Staying Alive
by Neil Astley (editor) -
William Wordsworth: The Major Works
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri -
Paradise Lost
by John Milton -
The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson