Presents an English verse translation of the twelfth-century epic about the exploits of Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar--the Cid--a knight of vision and courage, and features the Spanish text on facing pages.
Presents an English translation of the oldest existing epic poem in French, telling the tale of the massacre in 778 of Charlemagne's rear guard at Roncesvalles in northern Spain, and includes an introduction and notes.
W.S. Merwin uses verse to chronicle the history of nineteenth-century Hawaii and to tell the story of one family's struggle to escape the government's attempts to seize and contain possible victims of leprosy.
