Found 738 results for "Epic poetry, German"
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Доктор Живаго
by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
On they went, singing "Rest Eternal," and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to...
German Epic Poetry: The Nibelungenlied, The Older Lay of Hil...
by James Walter, Volkmar Sander
The Rape of the Lock
by Alexander Pope
The title and opening of a poem often contain a kernel of the whole.
Tristan und Isolde
by Gottfried von Strassburg, Arthur Thomas Hatto
THERE was a lord in Parmenie of tender years, as I read.
Bucolica
by Publius Vergilius Maro
The subject is announced in the first five lines; the remainder of the Eclogue fills in that outline with vivid details ...
Satirae
by Horace
D' ou vient, Mecene , que jamais I'homme, soit qu'un dessein raisonne lui ait fait choisir sa part, soit que le hasard l...
Pharsalia
by Lucan
Of wars across Emathian plains, worse than civil wars, and of legality conferred on crime we sing, and of a mighty peopl...
