A collection of poems by two great twentieth-century poets, both in the original Spanish and in powerful English translations by Robert Bly. "The two finest Spanish poets of this centurytwo of the greatest in any countrytheir verses fashioned into English by a third brilliant poet; could one who loves poetry ask for more?"Long Beach INDEPENDENT.
"An exquisite book, rich, shimmering, truly incomparable." -- New Yorker This lyric portrait of life-- and the little donkey, Platero-- in a remote Andalusian village is the masterpiece of Juan Ramo n Jime nez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Platero and I, the most popular work by the great Spanish writer Juan Ram?n Jim?nez (1881-1958), is a series of autobiographical prose poems about the wanderings in Andalusia of a poet and his donkey. The story is a simple one: it is a first person account of a poet and his donkey in the mountains of Spain, appreciating, almost Zen-like, the ...
In his classic, Platero Y Yo, Juan Ramon Jimenez, winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature, gave an affectionate account of the rambles of a poet and his little donkey, Platero. Nineteen chapters are presented here, each accompanied by a new English translation that captures the lyrical cadence and rhythm of Jimenez's poetic Spanish. Full ...
The first translation into English of the great Nobel Prize-winning poet's aphoristic meditation on the art of achieving perfection in love, art, and work.
El Diario de un poeta reciencasado no es solo la cronica del viaje que emprendio a Estodos Unidos en 1916 sino que es tambien el comienzo de una nueva etapa poetica en la que elimina los adjetivos puramente ornamentales, deja el uso de la rima para transformarla en ritmo poetico y reduce las imagenes a lo esencial.
Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956, yet his work remains far less well-known in the English-speaking world than it deserves. Jimenez was a prolific writer - his collected verse fills twenty volumes - and his early poems were first published whilst still in his teens. During the early twentieth century ...
This volume contains 45 poems by Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramon Jimenez. His poetry evokes the beauty of our feelings and perceptions. The poetic images, filled with color, sound, aroma, and rhythm, are captured in the illustrations.
This is the first translation into English of the complete Diary, written by Nobel Laureate Juan Ramon Jimenez. The translation strives at all times for accuracy and fidelity to the original text, while seeking a graceful idiom in English, expressive of the subtle nuances and rhythms of both the poetic prose and free verse. The text itself is well ...
Captured Thoughts is just what the title claims. The book reflects passing thoughts that have been turned into poetry the moment they were conceived before they were forgotten. No matter what time the thought may have occurred it was promptly captured, as I like to call it, and turned into poetry. I have been known to jump out of bed at three or ...
Este manual est dirigido a todas aquellas personas que disfrutan invirtiendo sus ahorros en los mercados de capitales, pero que sin embargo, a menudo, se sienten perdidas y desorientadas en ellos. De lo ms importante a lo que es menos, y con la ayuda de ms de 150 figuras, abarcaremos todo un conjunto de conceptos que permitirn al lector decidir qu ...
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