Poetics

by Aristotle

I PROPOSE to treat of Poetry in itself and of its various kinds, noting the essential quality of each, to inquire into t...

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...

The Club of Queer Trades

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called fl...

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

Faerie queene

by Edmund Spenser

The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II

by Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

John Donne Poetry

by John Donne, John Booty

Away thou fondling motley humourist,

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...

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

ONES-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,

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...

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

SING, MUSE, OF ACHILLES'S WRATH, WHICH BROUGHT SORROW AND DEATH TO THE ACHAEAN CAMP.

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Den, and I laid me down in t...

Il Paradiso

by Dante Alighieri

THE GLORY of the All-Mover penetrates through the universe and reglows in one part more, and in another less.

Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India

by Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

IT may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translat...

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

Tell me about a complicated man.

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark,

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...