Poetry
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Poetry
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) - Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare
The Ars Poetica, by Horace, also known as Epistula ad Pisones, is a treatise on poetry written in the form of a letter, and published around 18 B.C. In it, Horace defines and exemplifies the nature, scope and correct...
1 hour 58 minutes
Poetry
587
Friedrich Nietzsche - Joyful Wisdom (or: The Gay Science)
«The Joyful Wisdom,» written in 1882, just before «Zarathustra,» is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. Here the essentially grave and masculine face of the poet-philosopher is seen to light up and...
12 hours 38 minutes
Poetry
505
William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 4)
Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male...
2 hours 28 minutes
Poetry
513
William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 3)
Shakespeare’s Sonnets , or simply The Sonnets , comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. The poems were...
2 hours 19 minutes
