Found 121 results for "Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval"
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...
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...
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.
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...
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham
Whan that April with his showres soote
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...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
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 ...
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...
Il purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri
To course on better waters the little boat of my wit, that leaves behind her so cruel a sea, now raises her sails, and I...
Rime
by Francesco Petrarca
You who can hear in scattered rhymes the sound of all that sighing which once fed my heart in my first youthful error, w...
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...
The Ramayana
by Ramesh Menon, Vālmīki
"Holy One, I wonder if any man born into the world was blessed with every virtue by your Father in heaven."