Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the editorship of Herbert Golder and the late William Arrowsmith, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical and geographical references in the plays. Produced more frequently on the ancient stage than any other tragedy, Orestes retells with striking innovations the story of the young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father. Though eventually exonerated, Orestes becomes a fugitive from the Furies (avenging spirits) of his mother's blood. On the brink of destruction, he is saved in the end by Apollo, who had commanded the matricide. Powerful and gripping, Orestes sweeps us along with a momentum that starting slowly, builds inevitably to one of the most spectacular climaxes in all Greek tragedy.

Orestes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Literature & Fiction

Peck, John

Nisetich, Frank

Eurípides

Dramas & Plays

Oxford University Press

In a country where much of the prominent poetry seeks to affirm the fleeting present and its changing values, John Peck’s poetry comes as an important, if unlikely, gift. Peck’s verse deals the cards of the fragmentary, ideogramic, juxtapositional, and elliptical through the deck of normally discursive syntax. Echoing late high Modernism, Peck’s work, in the words of novelist Joseph McElroy, is “a way of seeing things,” confident “in the packed vividness of the referential.” Avoiding the narrow identity- or group-specific viewpoint of some of his contemporaries, Peck invites us to enter the larger humanscape and unearth with him unnoticed connections to our shared past and to one another. In Contradance, his ninth collection, Peck’s passion for inquiry and historical reflection has never been stronger or more beautifully embodied. 

Contradance (Phoenix Poets)

Poetry

University of Chicago Press

Red Strawberry Leaf: Selected Poems, 1994-2001 (Phoenix Poets)

The poems in Red Strawberry Leaf speak in a voice unique in American letters, moving effortlessly beyond arbitrary city limits and national borders, transcending trends, continents, and eras to connect individual states of mind to the whole of Western culture. Written over seven years, Red Strawberry Leaf meditates on the spirit's engagement with the world in an allusive, personal style, in which neither the personal nor the tribal holds pride of place. Scattered touches of apocalypse and dark collective inventories serve only to highlight moments of burnished, lyric brilliance. These challenging poems will reward readers many times over.

History & Criticism

Write It Right covers everyday tasks and academic writing, offering user-friendly advice on how students can make the most of simple, practical methods for tackling essays and longer pieces of work. Divided into ten sections, this guide can be used either as a course book or for individual use. Each section is informed by one or more essential ideas about how to write well.

Write it Right: The Secrets of Effective Writing (Bloomsbury Study Skills, 24)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Red Globe Press

Aimed at students wishing to improve their writing skills, this guide deals with the key basics of grammar, punctuation and spelling while also showing students how to construct a sentence, how to build a paragraph and how to structure an essay. This third edition includes an expanded 'Spot the Mistake' section.

The Student's Guide to Writing: Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (Bloomsbury Study Skills, 53)

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This is a guide for students of English, illustrating ways of constructing a critical response to novels. It shows how, through analysis of passages, they can approach novels confidently and independently and construct and articulate a personal response.

How to Study a Novel: A Students' Guide (How to Study Literature)

Format Hardcover Subject Literary Reference General Miscellaneous English Dictionaries Thesauri Literary Theory General Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Genres Literary Forms Literary Criticism Publisher Basingstoke Hampshire Higher and Further Education Division Macmillan 1984

Literary Terms and Criticism: A Students' Guide

Coyle, Martin

Palgrave HE UK

Shakespeare is often the first dramatist people study. You may have read, seen and even acted in plays, but Shakespeare may well be the first writer whose plays you are expected to analyse and discuss. This book provides a crystal clear method of approaching Shakespeare's plays.

How to Study a Shakespeare Play

How to Study a Thomas Hardy Novel (How to Study Literature)

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Orestes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Contradance (Phoenix Poets)

Red Strawberry Leaf: Selected Poems, 1994-2001 (Phoenix Poets)

Red Strawberry Leaf: Selected Poems, 1994-2001 (Phoenix Poets)

Write it Right: The Secrets of Effective Writing (Bloomsbury Study Skills, 24)

The Student's Guide to Writing: Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (Bloomsbury Study Skills, 53)

How to Study a Novel: A Students' Guide (How to Study Literature)

Literary Terms and Criticism: A Students' Guide

How to Study a Shakespeare Play

How to Study a Thomas Hardy Novel (How to Study Literature)