 | Paradise Lost: The Novel: Based Upon The Epic Poem By John Milton
Publication Date: October 18, 2008THE DEFINITIVE PROSE VERSION OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST EPIC POEM! John Milton's PARADISE LOST: A monumental epic of warring angels, Satan, Heaven, Hell, and the ultimate tragic love story of Adam and Eve—reworked for the modern reader. "Lanzara paraphrases the original text very closely; this novel version seeks to overcome the anxieties of those intimidated by [the poem's] complex language." - The English Association, The University of Leicester"An ambitious and intriguing undertaking." - Society for Values in Higher Education"Readers will imme...
 |  | Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs
Release Date: November 10, 2009This little book contains the wisdom of the ages, and is guaranteed to produce a smile of appreciation at the sheer sense of the proverbs you will find inside. From advice you wish your mother had given you, to things you probably suspected, but had never put into words, Lifelines is a book to be read, absorbed and treasured.—Pearl Cleage, New York Times best selling author of What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day This illustrated treasury of proverbs unites the timeless wisdom of Black communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, while spe...
|  | The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy (American Academy of Religion Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)
Publication Date: October 13, 2008Dante's metaphysics--his understanding of reality--is very different from our own. To present Dante's ideas about the cosmos, or God, or salvation, or history, or poetry within the context of post-Enlightenment presuppositions, as is usually done, is thus to capture only imperfectly the essence of those ideas. The recovery of Dante's metaphysics is essential, argues Christian Moevs, if we are to resolve what has been called "the central problem in the interpretation of the Comedy ." That problem is what to make of the Comedy 's claim to the "status of revela...
|  | Beginning: Encouragement at the Start of Something New
Publication Date: September 1, 2002Our lives are filled with beginnings.A wedding. A birth. A graduation. A new job. Retirement. Starting a diet. Stopping smoking. Losing someone we love. Being single again. The dawn of each new day.At times like these, when we may need encouragement or deserve congratulations, there is joy in knowing that "This is the Beginning!"Warren Hanson is the author and illustrator of such well-known books as "The Next Place" and "Older Love." He has illustrated Tom Hegg's beloved "Christmas Tea" and "Peef" books, as well as Richard Jorgensen's "Reading With Dad," an...
|  | Reader: Modern Hebrew Prose and Poetry
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|  | Hafiz: The Scent of Light
Publication Date: March 2002In modern day Persia, the 14thcentury poet Hafiz remains the most treasured voice of his homeland-a place where his work outsells Rumi, and even the Koran. Yet only recently have Westerners come to know this wild Sufi mystic's astonishing verses on love and spiritual longing. Now, with Hafiz: The Scent of Light, listeners join Daniel Ladinsky-the acclaimed translator of The Gift-to revel in more than 30 of Hafiz' most stirring works. Offered here in the manner that Hafiz composed them, spoken or sung spontaneously amid companions and inspired music, each of these ...
|  | Book of Hours: Prayers to the God
Publication Date: October 8, 2002He is the Lord of the Wild, the Great Father, the Divine Son, the Beloved Consort . . . the God is the masculine principle of the universe. In order to seek and find balance in our lives, we must first find it in our spirituality. Balance exists with the Goddess and the God--both are necessary, for with the balance created by their cosmic union comes wholeness and holiness. Book of Hours: Prayers to the God is a companion to Book of Hours: Prayers to the Goddess. The two can be used together, or this book can stand alone if you prefer to focus on the God in y...
|  | Great Poets : Emily Dickinson
Publication Date: February 5, 2008| Series: Great Poets Though principally known as the miniaturist in American poetry, Emily Dickinson produced a remarkably wide body of work - some concentrating on acute observations and some on bons mots. Full of wit and sensitivity, she generally appears in anthologies but this generous collection shows that she is a poet to be taken seriously. ...
|  | El profeta
Release Date: January 26, 1999| Series: Vintage Espanol La obra maestra de Kahlil Gibrán es uno de los más queridos clásicos de nuestra época, un repositorio rico en sabiduría y alegría que ha inspirado a generaciones de lectores. Con poesía frugal y bellamente resonante, El profeta ofrece inolvidables palabras de esperanza y consolación sobre los temas del nacimiento, del amor, del matrimonio, de la muerte y de los otros hitos de la vida.Desde su publicación hace más de setenta años, El profeta ha sido traducido a más de veinte idi...
|  | Ovid's Fasti: Roman Holidays
Release Date: April 22, 1995"In her extended introduction, Nagle offers illuminating information and commentary... This verse translation, internally glossed for clarification, is as accurate as modern English will allow.... Highly recommended." —Choice"An excellent rendition in English of Ovid's poetic calendar of the Roman religious year, with an original introduction and useful notes as well as a glossary... The translation is elegant and geared to the modern reader." —The Journal of Indo-European StudiesThis elegant translation brings Ovid's poetic calendar of the Roman rel...
|  | Eliza R Snow: The Complete Poetry (Documents in Latter-Day Saint History)
Publication Date: August 31, 2009| Series: Documents in Latter-Day Saint History Edited by Jill Mulvay Derr and Karen Lynn Davidson BYU StudiesMormon Studies/Poetry Eliza R. Snow first published her poetry pseudonymously inan Ohio newspaper in 1825, when she was twenty-one. Her last poem was publishedin 1887, when she was eighty-three. In the intervening sixty-two years she wrotemore than 500 poems. Her early work covered such various topics as the fight forGreek independence, the plight of the American Indian, and the deaths of ThomasJefferson and John Adams on the fiftieth anniversary of t...
|  | Rumi Birdsong: Fifty-Three Short Poems
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|  | The Singer Trilogy: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict
Publication Date: September 10, 2009Hundreds of thousands have thrilled to this extraordinary retelling of a life unmatched in human history. Through the story of the Singer, his Star-Song and his battles with the World Hater, Calvin Miller has created a book full of life. Now, in one volume, you will find a powerful tale of incarnation and redemption. ...
|  | Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration (South Asia Across the Disciplines)
Publication Date: March 30, 2010| Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines Beginning in the sixth century C.E. and continuing for more than a thousand years, an extraordinary poetic practice was the trademark of a major literary movement in South Asia. Authors invented a special language to depict both the apparent and hidden sides of disguised or dual characters, and then used it to narrate India's major epics, theRamayana and theMahabharata, simultaneously.Originally produced in Sanskrit, these dual narratives eventually worked their way into regional languages, especially Telugu and Tami...
|  | Strands of Eternity
Publication Date: November 23, 2004| ISBN-10: 1883725100 | ISBN-13: 978-1883725105| Edition: 1st Strands of Eternity is a collection of some of the most inspiring sutras, poems and mystical discourses ever brought forth by Vasant Lad. Derived from the deep spiritual well of Vedic wisdom, every page provides a catalyst for a shift in consciousness. Whether you read a passage as a prelude to deepen your meditation or to reconnect you with the perfection of all that is, this book will guide you to the dimension of reality where the answers to Life's greatest secrets are held. ...
|  | Mencius (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: October 30, 1970| ISBN-10: 0140442286 | ISBN-13: 978-0140442281The Confucian philosopher, Mencius (c.371-288 BC) explicated his master's moral principles and reinterpreted them for the harsh conditions of the 4th century BC, when they were threatened by the aggressive and amoral doctrines of legalism. With its stress on the "thinking heart" (or individual conscience), "Mencius" is a defence of morality in private and public life. ...
|  | Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Publication Date: November 12, 2002| Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series Best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, her Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative on nature and eternity, Annie Dillard writes fiction and nonfiction, as well as poetry, that explore abstract and sensory phenomena, the role of the artist in society and the creative process. The poems gathered in Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, first published in 1974, show us that the concerns of the author have not changed since she was in her twenties. Hers is a poetry of fact -- of science and nature, eternity and time, and how we know what we kno...
|  | Lao-tzu's Taoteching: with Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years
Publication Date: April 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 1562790854 | ISBN-13: 978-1562790851| Edition: 1ST Red Pine's translation of the most revered of Chinese texts corrects errors in previous interpretations, truly breathes new poetic life into the English version, and includes selected commentaries-judged by Chinese scholars to be essential to understanding the wisdom of Taoism. Pine incorporates the commentaries of emperors and prime ministers, Taoist monks and nuns, Buddhist priests, poets, scholars, and the country's most famous philosophers of the past 2,000 years. This marks the first time th...
|  | Whispers From Eternity
Publication Date: September 14, 1929This beautiful book opens a mystical window on the devotional experience of ecstasy. Sharing soul-awakening prayers and affirmations born directly of his high personal state of God-communion, the celebrated author of Autobiography of a Yogi shows readers how to achieve their own ecstatic perception of the Divine. Yogananda said, "Let every beat of my heart be a new word in my endless love lyric to Thee. May every sound from my lips carry secret vibrations of Thy voice. Let my every thought be bliss-saturated with Thy presence." This new edition f...
|  | Chasing Away the Clouds: Words of Encouragement That Will Help You Through Any Hard Times and Bring More Happiness to Your Life (Self-Help)
Publication Date: January 1998| Series: Self-Help "A thought-provoking blend of gentle understanding, tender loving care, and very good advice.""This book doesn’t just tell you that you're on your way to a brighter day; it holds your hand and takes you there."Books this special don't come along very often. In a voice that is both understanding and inspirational, Pagels helps readers find their way through the hard times that arise -- in the lives of us all -- and that stand in the way of our happiness. They may be due to any number of things: difficulties in dealing with changes, loss, ...
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