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  • Omeros

    by Derek Walcott ...
    A masterpiece of modern epic poetry from the Nobel Prize–winning author: "One of the great poems of our time." —John Lucas, New StatesmanDive into the poignant verses of Omeros, a grand opus of epic poetry penned by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. Told in multiple chapters and tracing two currents of history, this work offers an immersive blend of historic account and personal sentiment.Titled with ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Walcott's Omeros: Revitalization of Wounded Caribbeans

    by Rahman Mostafiz ...
    While writing this epic, Walcott adopts and transforms elements from Pound’s The Cantos, Eliot’s The Waste Land and Crane’s The Bridge. He uses pseudo-Dantean verse, Sapphic prosody, Homeric sensibility and Virgilian methodology, which does not show his inaptness of aesthetic purity of writing epic, but rather shows his attempt to set a new trend in literary modernism. I have defined this new ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Odyssey (English edition translated by Valerio Massimo De Angelis)

    by Omero ...
    A man. A god at war with him. Ten thousand miles of sea between him and home.Attributed to the legendary Homer and composed in verse over 2,700 years ago, the Odyssey is one of the foundational epic poems of Western civilisation — the tale that has forever defined the concept of journey, obstacle and return. Ulysses won the Trojan War with the ruse of the wooden horse. Now all he has to do is ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Le Piccole Odissee Dimenticate: perché Omero non poteva pensare a tutto!

    by Karl Guthorm, Aino U. Micciché, Augusto Chiarle ...
    Il mito ci ha tramandato l'Odissea di Ulisse. Ma Ulisse era fortunato: aveva Omero. Voi no.In questo gioco di ruolo breve e surreale, i giocatori interpretano l'equipaggio di un oscuro reduce della guerra di Troia che cerca di tornare a casa attraverso un Mediterraneo mitologico popolato di dei annoiati, mostri con problemi personali e isolani profondamente scettici.Nessun dado da venti. Nessuna ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Shadows of Divine Perfection

    Derek Walcott's Omeros

    by Lance Callahan ...
    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
    In the Shadows of Divine Perfection provides an examination of Derek Walcott's Omeros 1990)- the St. Lucian poet's longest work, and the piece that secured his Nobel Laureate-that reveals the deep-seated bond between the root narratives of ancient Greece to the cultural products and practices of the contemporary Caribbean. This book presents the first detailed reading of Walcott's highly ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer

    Landscape, History, and Poetic Voice in Omeros

    by Rachel D. Friedman ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer puts Derek Walcott's epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer, especially the Odyssey, to show how reading them against each other changes our understanding of the poems of both poets. It explores Walcott's conscious use of the Odyssey and the Homeric persona of Omeros to explore his own deepening relationship with his craft and his identity as a Caribbean ... Read more

    $117.59 CAD

  • Promise of Fidelity

    by Omero Sabatini ...
    The story is set in the seventeenth century, in the Duchy of Milan, then a Spanish possession in northern Italy; however, the plot is merely a pretext for the author to weave a timeless and universal tale that touches on every human feeling, passion, and behavior.In compelling fashion, love, hate, prejudice, vengeance, forgiveness, fear, courage, crime, punishment, redemption, treachery, loyalty, ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

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