An accomplished poet and a keen observer of the human condition, David Slavitt deploys both skill...

Directly or obliquely, while reading Gibbon or shopping for toys at F. A. O. Schwarz, Slavitt add...

In these fourteen beautifully crafted stories David R. Slavitt shows his mastery of the form. Ele...

[Slavitt's] sentences are so unburdened by the trivial or any kind of distraction, so transparent...

Praise for David R. Slavitt'Slavitt's touch is light, and he writes beautifully.... His satire is...

This volume of poetry illustrates a new side of the author of The Carnivore and Suits for the Dea...

'A wonderfully disorienting title for a wonderfully orienting book. Deeply instructive, entirely ...

Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if the...

'The works of Plautus,' writes Palmer Bovie, 'mark the real beginning of Roman literature.' In th...

As he enters his sixth decade of publishing poetry, David R. Slavitt remains a determined wildcat...

Fiction. Jewish Studies. A version of Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich,except that it is contempora...

Death Benefits deepens and extends David R. Slavitt's sublime, lyric confrontation with mortality...

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of class...

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of class...

In his twelfth book of original verse, David R. Slavitt leads us to a crossroads where terror, lo...

Historical fiction has long ranked somewhere just above romance novels and mysteries in the great...

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of class...

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of class...

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of class...

Euripides is, of the three great Attic tragedians, perhaps the most contemporary in sensibility. ...

Equinox is a collection of twenty-five poems on various subjects. They are occasional, in that mo...

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of class...

Virgil is Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BC - 19 BC), classical Roman poet, author of Aeneid, Eclogue...

Composed while its author was imprisoned, this book remains one of Western literature¿s most eloq...

PS3569.L3,David R. Slavitt's sixtieth book, is a collection of poems, translations, imitations, p...

In Petrarch's hands, lyric verse was transformed from an expression of courtly devotion into a wa...

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of class...

David R. Slavitt brings together eight poems that deal largely with the mind's relation to histor...

La Vita Nuova (1292¿94) has many aspects. Dante¿s libello, or ¿little book,¿ is most obviously a ...

In The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Poems, veteran poet David R. Slavitt touches on topics from th...

The availability of The Latin Eclogues in English is a major contribution to the study of the lit...

In this collection, esteemed poet and translator David R. Slavitt brings to life John Milton's La...

John Smith is an eminent historian, secure in his well-paid position as an endowed professor at a...

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of class...

One will do well to read these hymns, these poems, and find nourishment in them in Slavitt's tran...

Broken ColumnsTwo Roman Epic Fragments: 'The Achilleid' of Publius Papinius Statius and 'The Rape...

'Despite the resurgence of interest in the field of late antiquity, there are still too few autho...

Poetry lovers, Milton fans, and scholars of either will welcome, enjoy, and learn from this work.

Widely praised for his translations of Boethius and Ariosto, esteemed translator David R. Slavitt...

This elegant new translation at last restores the poetry to one of the greatest and most influent...

Three mysterious Greenlandic poets are translated for the first time into English by Slavitr, a p...

'The works of Plautus,' writes Palmer Bovie, 'mark the real beginning of Roman literature.' Now B...

Epinician Odes and Dithyrambs of BacchylidesTranslated by David R. Slavitt'Slavitt has an astonis...

The Odes of Horace are a treasure of Western civilization, and this new English translation is a ...

Remarks on the life of the poet: how it was - and how it is - to be an American writer in our tim...

David R. Slavitt's affectionate translations of epigrams by sixteenth-century Welsh academic John...

Distinguished poet and translator David R. Slavitt here provides a translation of and meditation ...

Falling from Silence is the seventy-third book by David Slavitt, the prolific poet, translator, a...