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| TONY
KLINE COLLECTION: POETRY IN TRANSLATION
The
Tony Kline Collection presents modern
high-quality translations of classic
texts by famous poets as well as
original poetry and critical works.
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Baudelaire
: Eighteen poems in
translation.
Charles Baudelaire was born
in Paris. He made a name
as an art critic and translator
of Edgar Allan Poe, but
his fame rests on the
poems of Les Fleurs du
Mal. He visited Mauritius
in 1841 but lived most
of his life in Paris in
poverty on a small allowance.
He is pre-eminently the
poet of the City, and
an illusory immorality
clings to his poetry that
reveals, in reality, the
sensitivity of a deeply
moral spirit. |

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Perspectives
/ From
the Mountain:
Original poetry, in the
mainstream European tradition. s
The tone is serious, wide-ranging,
and critical, in the sense
of promoting scepticism
towards social structures,
and validating the importance
of the unique, individual
and private mind. |


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| Ovid:
The Amores:
Ovid's three books of
elegies, mainly erotic,
and mostly addressed to
his unidentified lover
Corinna.
The
setting is sophisticated
Augustan Rome, the tone
cool, ironic, witty with
an underlying seriousness.
Ovid shows his understanding
of the game of illicit
love, and reveals his
mastery of language, and
his desire for, and expectation
of, immortality. |

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Ovid: The Art of Love
: Ovid's Ars
Amatoria, three
books of worldly advice
to those involved in the
game of love.
Ovid
was exiled to the Black
Sea Region by Augustus
for "a song and an
error" (carmen
et error). This
was the song. The error
is a matter for speculation.
Certainly this work is
near the edge of what
might be conventionally
acceptable even in later
times, more for its worldliness
than its explicit sexual
reference. |
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Ovid: The Cures for Love
: Ovid's Remedia
Amoris, his book
of worldly advice to those
trying to escape from
love.
In
a witty and cool manner,
Ovid describes the various
methods for disentangling
the heart from a love
affair. Along the way,
Augustan Rome once more
comes to life, explicitly
and amusingly.
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Ovid:
The Heroides: The
Heroides are fictional
letters written
by eighteen women of myth
and history, to their
lovers or ex-lovers, capturing
their thoughts and feelings
at a critical moment in
their story. Ovid
shows the depths of his
humanism, and a sensitivity
towards the female psyche
remarkable at this early
date. Among the women
are Phaedra, Dido, Ariadne,
Medea, Sappho, Helen,
and Hero. The Hero and
Leander letters are particularly
fine, and influenced Marlowe's
'Hero and Leander' and
Shakespeare's 'Romeo and
Juliet' among other works. |

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