This epic volume brings together the two greatest adventure stories ever told - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey - the twin heroic poems at the foundation of Western literature, retold here in prose.
"e;Coleridge's Conversation Poems - The Complete Collection"e; features all eight of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems dubbed 'conversation poems' by George McLean Harper.
Featuring both the original text and a modern, translated version, this fourteenth-century Arthurian poem tells the legendary tale of the mysterious Green Knight and Sir Gawain, a great knight of the Round Table.
The legendary tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is one of the most famous folk tales in history, with Merlin the Wizard and the virtuous Sir Lancelot being known and loved by young and old alike to this day.
First published in 1915, this volume contains Theophile Gautier's biography of the French poet, art critic, and essayist Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867).
First published in 1868, "e;Ave Atque Vale"e; is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne dedicated to French poet, art critic, and essayist Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867).
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet, art critic, and essayist who was among the first people to translate the work of Edgar Allen Poe.
"e;Then, O Beloved, Whisper To The Worm"e; is a fantastic collection of selected poetry by the French poet, art critic, and essayist Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867).
"e;Whose Name was Writ in Water"e; contains a fantastic collection of poetry by various authors written in dedication to English Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821).
Cottage Poems, by Patrick Bronte, is a reflective and morally grounded collection that reveals the literary sensibilities of the Bronte family's patriarch.
Poems - by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell is a powerful and intimate collection that marks the first published work of the Bronte siblings, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, writing under their now-famous pseudonyms.
Bound naked to the back of a wild horse and loosed across the plains, a young man endures a night of terror in one of Byron's most thrilling narrative poems.
'The English Poetic Mind' (1932) is Williams' discussion of the source of the poetic impulse, creativity and drive behind three prominent English poets: Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth.
Transfiguring medievalism combines medieval literature, modern poetry and theology to explore how bodies, including literary bodies, can become apparent to the attentive eye as more than they first appear.
Transfiguring medievalism combines medieval literature, modern poetry and theology to explore how bodies, including literary bodies, can become apparent to the attentive eye as more than they first appear.
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.
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.
Sophocles addresses themes of civil disobedience, fidelity, and love for family; and questions which law is greater: the gods' or man'sin this play that challenged many established mores of Ancient Greece.
Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, 'Electra' recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.
';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.
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.
