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Poetics
by Aristotle
In this work, we propose to discuss the nature of the poetic art in general, and to treat of its different species in pa...
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.
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...
Aeneis
by Publius Vergilius Maro
I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shore...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
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...
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...
Os Lusíadas
by Luís de Camões, Souza Botelho
As armas, & os barões aſsinalados, / Que da Occidental praya Luſitana, / Por mares nunca de antes nauegados, / Paſſaram,...
The Rape of the Lock
by Alexander Pope
The title and opening of a poem often contain a kernel of the whole.
L' Orlando furioso
by Lodovico Ariosto
I SING of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds-all from the time when the Moor...
Godfrey of Bulloigne
by Torquato Tasso, Marzio Pieri
ARMS, and the chief I sing, whose righteous hands
Homer and His Age
by Andrew Lang
THE aim of this book is to prove that the Homeric Epics, as wholes, and apart from passages gravely suspected in antiqui...