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Modern, high-quality #OpenAccess translations of classic texts by famous poets, plus original poetry and critical works.

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“War is the greatest of the evils with which the gods afflict men”

Nolan's #Odyssey left you wanting more? We are delighted to announce N. Hewitt's #OpenAccess translation of François Fénelon’s ‘sequel’ - The Adventures of Telemachus:
https://t.co/mqvBYFohqf

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"You and I in the darkness
View
The cratered
Surface
Of the moon
In lovely silence."

No Mind - A new #OpenAccess collection of original poetry by A. S. Kline echoing the traditions of Han-shan's Cold Mountain and the hills of T'ao Ch'ien:
https://t.co/e4M22r1msv

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"We are indeed immortal and here are preserved the images of the world we inhabited"

Read A.S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation of Gérard de Nerval's last novella, Aurelia, or Life and the Dream, modelled on Dante’s ‘La Vita Nuova’:
https://t.co/fGBY3EFe8y

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"When a whole world died there, it seems shameful
to spend tears on each of the innumerable dead"
Lucan, 'Pharsalia' Book VII:597-646

Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess English translation:
https://t.co/qlsojDCgqQ

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On July 18, 1843, Hugo began a two-month journey across the Pyrenees. He was forced to abort his travels after his daughter Léopoldine tragically drowned. His travelogue remained unpublished until 1880.

Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess English translation:
https://t.co/N23MppAyCt

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Victor-Marie Hugo made three trips to the Rhineland with Juliette Drouet from 1838-1840. The recollections of these excursions formed the basis of a collection of letters, published as ‘Le Rhin’ in 1842.
Read A. S. Kline's new English translation here:
https://t.co/KBkvjRnypJ

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Heinrich Heine, when a student in Göttingen in 1824, hiked through the Harz Mountains. ‘Die Harzreise’ his description of the journey, is a mixture of lyricism and satire. It was Heine’s first major success.
Read A. S. Kline's new English translation here:
https://t.co/Dgtw1qdUsk

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Heinrich Heine's 'Germany: A Winter's Tale' is his satirical verse ‘epic’ describing a journey from Paris to Hamburg in the winter of 1843. The title ‘A Winter’s Tale’ refers to Shakespeare’s late play.
Read A. S. Kline's new English translation here:
https://t.co/FQGQ0kc526

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We announce a 25th anniversary edition of A. S. Kline's prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy featuring all illustrations by Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883), digitally restored from the Cassell & Company Limited edition (London, 1902). Read here:
https://t.co/oQ22G9GSbs

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Gautier's preface to Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal in which he refutes allegations of immorality and argues that Baudelaire employed what he terms the "decadent style" not as endorsement but as his method.

In a new #OpenAccess translation by A. S. Kline:
https://t.co/bYq0D2HncR

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Selected poems from throughout Victor Hugo’s career with a central theme of mourning - ranging from his daughter Léopoldine’s drowning to his poetic tribute offered at Théophile Gautier's Grave.

Now in a new #OpenAccess translation by A. S. Kline:
https://t.co/p1uu2PuyJr

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Twenty-two of Alfred de Musset's poems including songs, sonnets, and longer narrative works that address love, memory, place, and the nature of the poetic arts.

Now available as new #OpenAccess translations by A. S. Kline:
https://t.co/uClzyX1LcN

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John Lydgate of Bury (c. 1370 – c. 1451) an English monk and poet, was born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, in the county of Suffolk. Read this #OpenAccess edition of his early works - influenced by Chaucer’s writings and modernised by A. S. Kline.
https://t.co/nEqi5PdKAU

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Dating from the late 13th/early 14th century, Sir Orfeo, a Breton ‘lay’ relates a tale derived from that of the Orpheus of Greek myth, here a royal hero who rescues his wife from the King of the Faeries.

Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation:
https://t.co/jjzE3T30Sg

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Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘Notes on the Melody of Things’ derives from his relationship with Lou Andreas-Salomé, the Russian-born psychoanalyst who was a friend of Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation:
https://t.co/1PjfUwuDI5

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Théophile Gautier’s autobiographical note was first published by Jean Auguste Marc in Sommités Contemporaines, 1867, alongside a portrait of Gautier, after a photograph by ‘Bertall’ (Charles Albert d’Arnoux).

Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation:
https://t.co/z0zmCKS6RB

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"But he was of this world, where the finest of things
Meet the worst of fates."

Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation of Gautier's Captain Fracasse
With restored engravings by Gustave Doré
https://t.co/m0MQmxrYLX

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Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation of Théophile Gautier's epistolatory novel Mademoiselle de Maupin, published in 1835:
https://t.co/rl9RCjIR3W

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"I imagined the world to be full of delightful young men, and that, on the road, one would meet many an Esplandián, or Amadis, or Lancelot of the Lake, in pursuit of their Dulcinea, and was astonished to find that the male sex takes very little interest in so sublime a quest."