By Thierry Boucquey, Marie Josephine Diamond
Scholars frequently locate it tricky to find greater than floor biographical info on international authors. discovering criticism--especially in English--can be both not easy. as well as entries for genres, pursuits, and literary phrases, this set deals serious biographies on an array of overseas authors. assurance features a spectrum of codecs, together with poetry, drama, fiction, memoir, essays, epics, odes, and sacred texts. the 1st quantity starts off with African proverbs relationship from 1500 B.C and maintains during the finish of the 13th century. quantity 2 considers 1300 in the course of the 1800s, and quantity three concentrates at the earlier centuries. the point of interest is on participants and genres which are underrepresented in conventional assets. for that reason, even if there are lots of references to early local American, Anglo-Saxon, and Celtic literature within the first quantity, just a handful of English and English-speaking American writers looks in quantity 2, and quantity three doesn't contain any writers from both the U.S. or nice Britain.
Alphabetically prepared articles diversity from a number of paragraphs to some pages. Longer biographical entries contain separate sections on severe research. so much entries finish with an inventory of English translations and extra examining choices. each one tome contains a volume--specific preface, advent, time line, checklist of writers by way of geographic zone, bibliography, and index.
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Ritter, Hellmut. Ocean of the Soul: Men, the World and God in the Stories of Farid Al-Din ‘Attar. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. Thackston, Wheeler M. A Millennium of Classical Persian Poetry. : Iranbooks, 1994. ) During the Golden Age of ancient Greece, many of the Greek city-states began experimenting with representative forms of government. Rather than being ruled by kings or tyrants, the citizens of these city-states attempted to rule themselves in the name of the common good.
Apart from writing his many poems (over 45,000 couplets) and mystical prose works, he was a diligent collector of the sayings and writings of the great Sufi saints and masters who, in the previous two centuries, profoundly influenced the civilization of Persia. Far¯ıd od-D¯ın’s most celebrated work is his long allegorical or didactic epic, The Conference of the Birds. The poem follows the birds as they search for the Simurgh, or Phoenix, whom they want to make their ruler. Passing through the philosophical trials and tribulations of the seven valleys of inner perfection, most of them die through a fatal attachment to the self: the nightingale cannot give up the rose, nor the parrot its cage; the wagtail decides it is too small, the peacock too large.
The Metamorphoses has had a great influence on world literature since it was rediscovered in the RENAISSANCE . ” An English Version of a Work by Apuleius Apuleius: The Golden Ass. Translated by P. G. Walsh. : Clarendon Press, 1994. A Work about Apuleius Schlamm, Carl C. The Metamorphoses of Apuleius: On Making an Ass of Oneself. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Aquinas, Saint Thomas See THOMAS AQUINAS, SAINT. Arabian Nights See THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, THE. 20 Aristophanes Aristophanes (ca.