Found 110 results for "English poetry (selections, extracts, etc.)"
Ὀδύσσεια
by Όμηρος
TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
Lives
by Plutarch
IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed fr...
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.
Plays (36)
by William Shakespeare
Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...
Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...
The complete poetical works
by Robert Burns
MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!
The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The title Voices of the Night originally was used by Mr. Longfellow for the poem Footsteps of Angels ; then he gave it t...
The seasons
by James Thomson
Critical Observations. When the Author of the Seasons came to London in pursuit of patronage and fame, his first want, ...
The Deserted Village
by Oliver Goldsmith, Eugène Tr Chevallier
SWEET Auburn! loveliest village of the plain,
The principles and progress of English poetry
by Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young
The classic myths in English literature and in art
by Charles Mills Gayley, Thomas Bulfinch
