Found 782 results for "French Epic poetry"
Poetics
by Aristotle
In this treatise we propose to discuss (1) poetry itself; (2) the various forms it can take; (3) the function and potent...
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
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...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
La Divina Commedia
by Dante Alighieri
To run through better waters the little ship of my wit now hoists its sails, leaving behind it a sea so cruel,
The song of Hiawatha
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jeff Ulmer
Dark behind it rose the forest,
Godfrey of Bulloigne
by Torquato Tasso, Marzio Pieri
God sends his angel to Tortosa down,
The octopus, a story of California
by Frank Norris
Just after passing Caraher's saloon.