Found 367 results for "Literary studies: classical, early & medieval"
The Art of War
by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman
1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.
πολιτεία
by Πλάτων
I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon the son of Ariston, to offer a prayer to the goddess.
Essays
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.
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...
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham
Whan that April with his showres soote
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,
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences
Milton's Poems
by John Milton
Paradise Lost. The Verse of "Paradise Lost." "The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime," as that of Homer in Gre...
Revelations of divine love, recorded by Julian, anchoress at...
by Julian of Norwich, Warrack, Grace Harriet, 1855-1932
Here is a vision shown by the goodness of God to a devout woman, and her name is Julian, who is a recluse at Norwich and...
The Early History of Greed
by Richard Newhauser
The third vision in the Shepherd of Hermas, written in Rome for the young Christian community there during the early par...
Enacting the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
by Chanita Goodblatt, Eva von Contzen