A well-known literary critic from Smolensk comments on his correspondence with academician Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov.

The masterpieces of world love poetry collected in the book - Ovid's poems and elegies, the biblical "Song of Songs", sonnets, and other poetic and prose wor...

Not possessing great poetic talent, Ausonius (c. 310 - c. 394), nevertheless, is considered the most significant late Latin poet. His work, like that of many...

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (lat. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, c. 70 - after 122), a Roman biographer who gained fame thanks to “The Lives of the Twelve Caes...

According to legend, the ancient Greek fabulist Aesop lived in the 6th century BC. e. Herodotus and Plato wrote about him. The first collection of his oral f...

Conrad Celtis (1459-1508) was a famous humanist poet of the German Renaissance who wrote in Latin. In his collection of poems, he set himself the goal of giv...

The greatest English poet A.E. Houseman (1859–1936), has been known in Russia since the 1930s, but has never been published as a separate book. This edition,...

Eternal Day is the only lifetime collection of poems by the German poet Georg Heym (1887–1912). The book consists of 41 poems. All of them, with the exceptio...

The volume is based on the contents of the first anthology of Greek epigrams, compiled in the 1st century. before Chr. and supplemented in modern times, whic...

The work of Georg Heim (1887-1912) opens up special possibilities in German poetry. In expressionism, which gravitated towards abstraction (“It is not a fall...