The Imaginative Landscape of
Christopher Columbus
Valerie I.
J.
Flint
Rather than focusing on the facts of Columbus's achievements in the New World,
Valerie Flint looks at the powerful "fantasies" that gave energy to his endeavors. Wrth
him on his voyages into the unknown, he carried medieval notions gleaned from a
Mediterranean tradition of tall tales about the sea, from books he had read, and from
the
mappae-mundi,
splendid schematic maps with fantastic inhabitants. Flint explains
how the content of Columbus's thinking influenced his reports on his discoveries.
Ooth: $24.95 ISBN 0-691 -05681 -1
Foamy Sky
The Major Poems of Miklos Radnoti
Se/eaed and translated
by
Zsuzsanna Ozsv6th and Frederick
T
umer
One of Hungary's leading poetic voices of the twentieth century, MikJ6s Radn6ti
(1909- 1944)
wrote some of his country's most cherished love poems and political
verse even as he anticipated death under the Nazis. This English-only edition presents
many of the poems that appear in his
Foamy Sky
volume and a selection of others
dating back to
1929.
The poems are characterized by a strong prosodic form. Unlike previous English
translations, this one captures the poet's use of classical meter and lyrical rhyme as well
as his visionary imagery and heroic voice.
Lockert Ubrary
of
Poetry in Translation
Paper.
$9.95 ISBN 0-691-01530-9 Oath: $24.95 ISBN 0-691-06954-9
Princeton University Press
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