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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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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