The Washington Post Book World has written that Fernando Pessoa was "Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century [though] some critics would even leave off that last qualifying phrase" and "one of the most appealing European modernists, equal in command and range to his contemporaries Rilke and Mandelstam." The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, a Los Angeles Times Best...(展开全部)

The Washington Post Book World has written that Fernando Pessoa was "Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century [though] some critics would even leave off that last qualifying phrase" and "one of the most appealing European modernists, equal in command and range to his contemporaries Rilke and Mandelstam." The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, a Los Angeles Times Best...(展开全部)

This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her," and "To His Mistris Going to Bed." Presented as well are Donne's satires, epigrams, verse...(展开全部)

Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust. Self-exiled in Paris, for twenty-five years Celan continued writing in his German mother tongue, although it had "passed through...(展开全部)

Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust. Self-exiled in Paris, for twenty-five years Celan continued writing in his German mother tongue, although it had "passed through...(展开全部)

谢默斯·希尼（Seamus Heaney），1939—2013，爱尔兰著名诗人、评论家、翻译家，1995年诺贝尔文学奖得主。希尼出身于北爱尔兰伦敦德里郡一个天主教务农家庭，童年和少年时代都在乡村度过。1957年，他考入贝尔法斯特女王大学，主修英语语言文学。1762年，希尼的诗作首次公开发表。四年后，他的第壹部诗集《一个自然主义者之死》出版，得到评论界的广泛好评，并获得许多文学奖项；同年，他被母校聘为讲师，主讲现代英语文学。1772年，迫于北爱尔兰紧张局势，希尼辞去教职，移居爱尔兰共和国威克洛，成为职业作家。之后，曾任美国哈佛大学修辞学教授，英国牛津大学诗歌教授。1778年，希尼出版大型诗选《开垦地：诗选1966—1996》，是他一生主要诗歌成就的总结；2002年，三十年文选出版，是他一生主要诗学探求的总结。2013年，希尼在都柏林病逝，享年74岁，遗...(展开全部)

伍迪艾伦（Woody Allen，1935－），原名艾伦・斯图尔特・康尼格斯伯格（Allen Stewart Konigsberg），当代集编、导、演于一身的犹太裔美国著名电影艺术家、作家和单簧管演奏家，被称为“卓别林之后最杰出的喜剧天才”。他的电影多以曼哈顿为背景，以死亡、性和道德为主题，有浓郁的纽约知识分子风格，机智幽默又细腻感伤。神经质的内省而自我的人物（多由伍迪・艾伦自己扮演）、想像力丰富而奇特的构思、絮叨又幽默的对白、反讽与批判的视角，几乎是他每部电影的共同元素。创作颇丰，代表作有《安妮・霍尔》（1977）、《曼哈顿》（1979）、《汉娜和她的姐妹们》（1986）、《子弹穿越百老汇》（1994）等。

Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him. From that article grew a lifel...(展开全部)

A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to his own voic...(展开全部)