Beers & Books CCLVII – Novalis: Love Poems

Love Poems

Novalis (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801)

Beers & Books CCLVI – Hafez: Love Poems

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Hafis / Hafez (c. 1315/1325 – c. 1390)

Beers & Books CCLV – Dafydd ap Gwilym

Clicking the label
Dafydd ap Gwilym
soon you will agree with me:
There's no bard like him.

Dafydd ap Gwilym (c. 1315/1320 – c. 1350/1370)

Beers & Books CCLIV – Petrarca's Love Poems

The most beautiful love poems

Francesco Petrarca (* 20. Juli 1304 in Arezzo; † 19. Juli 1374 in Arquà)

Beers & Books CCLIII – Dante's Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

 
Dante Aleghieri (c. 1265 – 14 September 1321)

Beers & Books CCLII – Boccaccio's Decamaron

The Decamaron

Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375)

Beers & Books CCLI – Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s – 25 October 1400)

Beers & Books CCL – Chinese Philosophers

Laozi, Zhuang Zhou, Confucius,
Liezi, I Ching

Beers & Books CCXLIX – Tanka and Haiku

Japanese Seasons
Tanka and Haiku
from thirteen
centuries

Beers & Books CCXLVIII – Imre Kertész

Fatelessness

Imre Kertész (9 November 1929 – 31 March 2016)

Beers & Books CCXLVII – Hungarian storytellers

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Beers & Books CCXLVI – Oliver Herford

"Crime, Wickedness, Villany, Vice,
And Sin only misery bring;
If you want to be Happy and Nice,
Be good and all that sort of thing."

Oliver Herford (2 December 1860 – 5 July 1935) 

Laughing Lhursday*

Weekend market in Spain.
One kilogram of garlic: 3 euros.

Weekend market in my little town.
One garlic bulb: 2.30 euros.

 * [For first time visitors]: Typo in the title? Nah. It's just that
I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.