{"product_id":"epic-and-epigram-two-elizabethan-entertainments-9780807121528","title":"Epic and Epigram: Two Elizabethan Entertainments","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid R. Slavitt's affectionate translations of epigrams by sixteenth-century Welsh academic John Owen transmute a careful selection of the writer's work into a vision of life, and in so doing bring Owen into conversation with the present day. Pithy, quick, favoring balance and economy over elaboration of style, the epigram is difficult in any language; that Owen mastered it in a language other than his own attests to his immense talent. Owen's small treasures go directly to the core: \"At your coming into the world, you gave a cry \/ of protest: why then protest that you must die?\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDuessa's Version: A Dirge in Seven Canticles\u003c\/i\u003e offers an irreverent and provocative recapitulation of \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e, as told by Duessa, the mutable sorceress of Spenser's epic poem. Slavitt invests her with an unforgettable voice--outraged, profane, wise, and wickedly funny--and an exasperated contempt for the hero, Spenser's Redcrosse Knight. Duessa's retelling of \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene \u003c\/i\u003ebecomes the scaffolding upon which Slavitt hangs his reflections on twentieth-century civilization and culture that are indebted at once to intelligent observation, to Spenser, and to Borscht Belt comedy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere are virtuoso performances by a poet with resources of wit and erudition that are nothing short of astonishing. These masterly translations are bound \"to get him--or at least his ghost--invited back.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David R. Slavitt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.3lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.03w x 0.24d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807121528","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45133444415625,"sku":"9780807121528","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_c13a3ebf-7d65-426a-a8f0-7784d1fbf9af.jpg?v=1767678904","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/epic-and-epigram-two-elizabethan-entertainments-9780807121528","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}