Desmond O'Grady

An English Verse Rendering

The Golden Odes of Love

My Alexandria poems and prose

This enabled the Church, when the empire crumbled, to open to the new peoples beyond the Alps, mediating what it had received from classical and biblical sources to the nucleus of the modern world being formed in Western Europe." "Beyond the Empire points out the similarities between the earlier period and ours; asks if Rome can have a similar function today; and shows how much of pagan and early Christian Rome are still extant."--BOOK JACKET.

Rome and the Church from Constantine to Charlemagne

Beyond the Empire

Constantine Cavafy

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Alternative Manners

Arabic literature sprang into existence in the sixth and seventh centuries AD with an outburst of poetry. Across northern Arabia, poets recited qasidas (odes), in which a series of themes is elaborated with vivid, imaginative language and cast in complex rhythmic and rhyming schemes.These seven odes are known collectively as the Mu'allaqat, the "suspended" poems, because they were transcribed in letters of gold on linen and suspended in the shrine of the Kaaba at Mecca as masterpieces of the qasida form.Desmond O'Grady's verse renderings of the odes capture the rhythm and spirit of this vibrant art. The known facts of the poets' lives serve as brief introductions.

المعلقات

A Desmond O'Grady Casebook ; & New Poems 2003 by Desmond O'Grady

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