Spanish

'Happiness is a state of mind'- this is the central theme of Patanjali's Yogasutras which seek to enhance the life of man. A fascinating study of the mind, it can be regarded as the psychology of the East for the way it unravels the mystery of the human psyche, understands its working and enhances i... More

Fully Empowered was first published in Spanish in 1962 and was one of Neruda’s favorites among his own works, and he specifically asked his finest translator, Alastair Reid, to translate it into English, Neruda loved this collection partly because it grew from the most fruitful period of his own ... More

Lorca was one of the most influential and talented members of the avant-garde movement of his generation.His chilling and compelling drama Blood Wedding established him as the dramatist who revived Spanish-speaking theatre.Garcia Lorca for Beginners analyses Lorca's work within the context of his li... More

The Cycle of Spring is a translation of Phalguni. It was one of the two Tagore dramas associated with the festivals of seasons, the other being Autumn Festival. The play is full of nature. There are songs in the rustling bamboo leaves, in birds' nests, and in blossoming branches. They are the herald... More

In Isla Negra Pablo Neruda set out to explore his landscape, his roots and experience in an attempt to gather into unity the various "lives" he had left behind in the huge span of his writing career. From the more than a hundred poems he created a poetic autobiography centred round his home of Isla ... More

Presents the Spanish text and English translation of Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias as well as poems selected from works including Romancero Gitano, Canciones, and Poeta en Nueva York... More

"Medieval Joke Poetry" examines the intersection of jokes, laughter, insults, and poetry in a collection of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century medieval Iberian songs known as the "Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer," Written in Galician-Portuguese, these 'songs of mockery and insult' make up a heter... More

This compilation of 181 selections confirms the multiple faces of commonwealth poetry from India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the West Indies, Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh. This is an invaluable source and reference for students and teachers of the subject.... More

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young, unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text in this volume that continues to inspire lovers and poets.The Nobel Prizeawinning poetas mos... More

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.... More

A beautifully packaged collection from "the greatest poet of the 20th century--in any language" (Gabriel Garc'a Mrquez). 12 illustrations.First published in 1924, "Veinte poemas de amor y una canciA3n desesperada" remains among Pablo Nerudaas most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, th... More

The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, the author of more th... More

"Extravagaria" marks an important stage in Neruda's progress as a poet. The book was written just after he had returned to Chile after many wanderings and moved to his beloved Isla Negra on the Pacific coast. These sixty-eight poems thus denote a resting point, a rediscovery of sea and land, and an ... More

The winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the twentieth century. This bilingual edition makes available a major selection of his poems, both in the original Spanish and impressively rendered into English by "his most enduring t... More

This bilingual volume is the definitive collection of the poetry of Pablo Neruda, the 1971 Nobel Prize winner and one of the most profoundly influential poets of the twentieth century. His love poems are earthy and transcendent, and his political poems are the work of a man as incisive, impassioned,... More

"Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon" features nearly 50 of Neruda's poems and brings them to life for a whole new generation of readers. Unlike most other anthologies of his work, this edition is bilingual, with Mitchell's translation faced by Neruda's original Spanish-language work.Praise for Step... More

Readers enter a magical world through the delightful poetry of Nobel Prize-winning author Pablo Neruda and Luis Poirot's evocative photographs of Neruda's whimsical surroundings and possessions.... More