{"product_id":"this-craft-of-verse","title":"This Craft of Verse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jorge Luis Borges\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Harvard University Press, 2025-09-16\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading.”\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Steven Poole, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSix incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than thirty years, Jorge Luis Borges’s Norton Lectures went unpublished. Recorded at Harvard in 1967 and 1968, the tapes gathered dust in a library vault until their discovery after his death. It was a twist that the author of \u003ci\u003eLabyrinths\u003c\/i\u003e would have relished. This volume assembles the recovered materials, offering a priceless window into the Argentinian master’s lifelong love affair with the English language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Craft of Verse\u003c\/i\u003e captures the cadences, candor, wit, and erudition of one of the twentieth century’s enduring literary voices. Though his avowed topic is poetry, Borges explores subjects ranging from prose forms—especially the novel—to literary history, translation theory, and philosophical aspects of communication writ large. Borges here draws on a wide range of literary examples—modern and medieval English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese. He brings characteristic eloquence and inexhaustible enthusiasm to readings of Plato, the Old Norse kenningar, Byron, Poe, Chesterton, Joyce, and Frost, as well as translations of Homer, the Bible, and the \u003ci\u003eRubáiyát\u003c\/i\u003e of Omar Khayyám.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether discussing metaphor, the origins of verse, or his own “poetic creed,” Borges gives a performance as entertaining as it is intellectually engaging. A lesson in the love of literature and the making of a unique artistic sensibility, \u003ci\u003eThis Craft of Verse\u003c\/i\u003e is a sustained encounter with one of the writers whose place in the twentieth century will be forever remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158507733161,"sku":"PHBK-9780674302457","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/1526453482428.jpg?v=1780591552","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/this-craft-of-verse","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}