J. M. Cohen

PENGUIN REFERENCE BOOKS A Dl CTIONARY OF MODERN QUOTATIONS J. M. Cohen, bora in London in 1903, is the author of many Penguin translations, including versions for the Classics of Cervantes, Rabelais and Montaigne. He has alsó edited the three volumes of Comic and Curious Verse, and Writers in the...

chapter i THE POET AT WAR Robert Graves is a professional writer of great accom-plishment in a great number of fields. As an autobio-grapher and the inventor of a new kind of historical novel he has found his widest public ; as a scholar with bold and idiosyncratic theories on myth and religion...

Foreword to the New Edition The opportunity to prepare a new edition of The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations a generation later than our first has allowed great expansion of the entries drawn from the twentieth century but the loss of only a handful of lines that now seem to us to have rolled...

Foreword to the New Edition The opportunity to prepare a new edition of The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations a generation later than our first has allowed great expansion of the entries drawn from the twentieth century but the loss of only a handful of lines that now seem to us to have rolled...

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION Seven years later, I find that my judgments and valuations are on the whole unchanged. I have however added references to poets whom I had not sufficiently read and appreciated in 1959, or who have written their best work since. Brecht and Mandelshtam come under the...

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Ungvári Tamás könyvtárából. John Michael Cohen was a prolific translator of European literature into English. Born in London, he was educated at St. Paul's School and Queens' College of Cambridge University. After working in his father's manufacturing business from 1925 until 1940, he was...