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These poems, a source to which poetry has returned again and again in search of renewal, are subtle, startling, earthy, erotic, and supremely musical.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The poet Paul Blackburn studied and translated the troubadours for twenty years, and the result of that long commitment is \u003ci\u003eProensa\u003c\/i\u003e, an anthology of thirty poets of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries, which has since established itself not only as a powerful and faithful work of translation but as a work of poetry in its own right. Blackburn's \u003ci\u003eProensa\u003c\/i\u003e, George Economou writes, \"will take its place among Gavin Douglas' \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e, Golding's \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e, the Homer of Chapman, Pope, and Lattimore, Waley's Japanese, and Pound's Chinese, Italian, and Old English.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49733771460881,"sku":"NGR9781681370309","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50254506361105,"sku":"GOR008607276","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51744576110865,"sku":"GOR010175201","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51783524876561,"sku":"CIN1681370301G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1681370301.jpg?v=1751436973"},{"product_id":"william-langland-s-piers-plowman-book-george-economou-9780812215618","title":"William Langland's \"Piers Plowman\"","description":"William Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature. Probably composed between 1372 and 1389, the poem survives in three distinct versions. It is known to modern readers largely through the middle of the three, the so-called B-text. Now, George Economou's verse translation of the poet's third version makes available for the first time in modern English the final revision of a work that many have regarded as the greatest Christian poem in our language.   Langland's remarkable powers of invention and his passionate involvement with the spiritual, social, and political crises of his time lay claim to our attention, and demand serious comparison with Dante's Divine Comedy. Economou's translation preserves the intensity of the poet's verse and the narrative energy of his alliterative long line, the immediacy of the original's story of the quest for salvation, and the individuality of its language and wordplay.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50409642361105,"sku":"GOR002165077","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50797733970193,"sku":"CIN0812215613VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007876432145,"sku":"NIN9780812215618","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52105522053393,"sku":"CIN0812215613G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812215613.jpg?v=1752317160"},{"product_id":"unfinished-and-uncollected-book-george-economou-9781848614369","title":"Unfinished and Uncollected","description":"Partly an addendum to George Economou's versions of the canonical Cavafy poems, published by Shearsman in 2013, this volume also includes a number of Economou's own uncollected poems and translations, giving us a picture of both poet and translator, as well as a shadowy image of Cavafy himself, in the form of versions of the master's uncompleted poems.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51159542890769,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51159545184529,"sku":"NIN9781848614369","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52125926326545,"sku":"NLS9781848614369","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1848614365.jpg?v=1751217816"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-george-economou.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}