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Lucan - Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars

Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili , more generally known as the Pharsalia , is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. The title given by posterity to the poem refers...

Dave Gillespie and 7 more 9 hours 23 minutes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Hermann and Dorothea

There are few modern poems of any country so perfect in their kind as the «Hermann and Dorothea» of Goethe. In clearness of characterization, in unity of tone, in the adjustment of background and foreground, in the...

Foon 2 hours 29 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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G. K. Chesterton - Ballad of the White Horse (Version 3)

This epic poem is about Alfred the Great's defense of Christian England against the pagan Viking invaders. The decisive battle is fought in sight of a white horse mark made on a hill, after which the poem is named. As...

Robin Lamb 1 hour 42 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Virgil - Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2)

The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s...

George Allen 13 hours 5 minutes

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Unknown - Beowulf (Hall translation)

The most famous piece of Old English literature, Beowulf was written by an unknown poet at least 1000 years ago and tells how the eponymous hero who is a great warrior defeats the monster Grendel and his mother. He...

clarinetcarrot 3 hours 23 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Homer - Odysseys of Homer

The Odysseys are a collection of stories about Ulysses' journey home from the war at Troy purportedly written in the 8th century BCE by Homer, a blind poet thought to have lived in the Greek colonies in Asia Minor,...

Phil Schempf 14 hours 42 minutes

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Matthew Arnold - Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode

A young soldier born among Tartars but sired by the mighty Persian lord Rustum, serves in the Tartar army, seeking his great father. To this end, he persuades his general to call a truce and arrange for him to...

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Matthew Arnold - Balder Dead (version 2)

The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. Loki, whose deceit brought about this catastrophe, is promptly punished with...

Thomas A. Copeland 1 hour 13 minutes

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Unknown - Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ

This work is a unique rendering of the Bagavad Gita by a well known poet. It is faithful to the text and yet does not read like a translation.The Sanskrit original is written in the Anushtubh metre. It has been cast...

Jothi Tharavant 3 hours 16 minutes

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Poetry

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John Milton - Paradise Lost (version 2)

As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to recount the origin of the human race itself and, in particular, the origin of...

Thomas A. Copeland 10 hours 59 minutes

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Unknown - Beowulf (version 2)

Beowulf was composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet. Francis Barton Gummere translates this beautiful poem. Beowulf is an epic poem. The main character, Beowulf, proves himself a hero as he battles against...

Tad E. 2 hours 46 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Virgil - Aeneid, prose translation

The Aeneid is the most famous Latin epic poem, written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. The story revolves around the legendary hero Aeneas, a Trojan prince who left behind the ruins of his city and led his fellow...

Bob Neufeld and 9 more 10 hours 42 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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