This wartime poetry collection moves from comic courtship to battlefield tragedy with restless energy and a distinctly Irish voice. Phelim O'Toole's spirited tale of the McGee family farewell party, his awkward love for Maggie, and the heartbreak of sudden departure gives way to secret missions, artillery assaults, trench nightmares, and desperate charges shaped by patriotism, grief, and gallows humor. Alongside him appear vivid figures such as Jacques Mallaise singing the Marseillaise und...

No work from classical antiquity has exerted such a continuing influence on world literature as Ovid's Metamorphoses. Drawing on the Greek and Roman mythology, Ovid's masterpiece comprises 11,995 lines, 15 books and over 250 myths from the creation of the world to the apotheosis of Julius Caesar. Ovid directs his dramas one after another, relentlessly bombarding his readers with beautiful metrics and awe-inspiring imagery as that of Io and Jupiter, Narcissus and Echo, Daphne and Apollo, Mi...