This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:Hermann and DorotheaErotica RomanaReynard the FoxThe Sorcerer's ApprenticeSongsFamiliar SongsBalladsCantatasOdesSonnetsEpigramsParablesArtGod, Soul, and WorldReligion and ChurchAntiquesVenetian EpigramsElegiesWest-Eastern DivanSongs from Various PlaysMiscellaneous Poems
John Keats' 'Lamia' is a hauntingly beautiful narrative poem that delves into the themes of love, deceit, and the consequences of indulging in forbidden desires.
Step into the captivating world of "e;Northanger Abbey,"e; a novel that offers a delightful satire on the popular Gothic novel genre of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
‘The Trachinian Maidens’ (also ‘Women of Trachis’ or ‘The Trachiniae’) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles, in which Deianeira, the wife of Heracles, is distraught over her husband''s neglect of her family.
One of America's best loved poets, Longfellow drew on his own experience of domestic tragedy to produce some of the most moving and honest poems ever written.
Journey with Ulysses as he battles to bring his victorious, but decimated, troops home from the Trojan War, dogged by the wrath of the god Poseidon at every turn.
'To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour' William BlakeWilliam Blake was a poet and artist.
Saint John of the Cross was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered, along with Saint Teresa of Avila, as a founder of the Discalced Carmelites.
The best of John Donne's poemsJohn Donne (1572-1631) was born into a Catholic family and studied law before sailing with Essex to attack Cadiz in 1596.
Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world:'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'His genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language of his lyrical poems.
Evangeline describes the betrothal of a fictional Acadian girl named Evangeline Bellefontaine to her beloved, Gabriel Lajeunesse, and their separation as the British deport the Acadians from Acadie in the Great Upheaval.
'De Rerum Natura' ('On the Nature of Things') is a 1st century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius, with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience.
Chief satirist of the Augustan age, as seen in The rape of the Lock, Pope spoke out against society and his profession, in poetry of bitter invective and biting humour.
