Classicly Collection of Books

The Translations of Beowulf

Chauncey Brewster Tinker

The following pages are designed to give a historical and critical account of all that has been done in the way of translating Beowulf from the earliest attempts of Sharon Turner in 1805 down to the p..

An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic

Anonymous

The Epic of Gilgamesh is roughly 4000 years old, making it one of the earliest known works of written literature. It comes from Mesopotamia (aka ancient Iraq), and features the Sumerian legends of the..

Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry

John Dryden

"Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry" from John Dryden. English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made Poet Laureate in 1668 (1631-1700). Dryden’s discourses upon Sati..

Notes to The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Obstacles have long existed to my presenting the public with a perfect edition of Shelley's Poems. These being at last happily removed, I hasten to fulfil an important duty,—that of giving the product..

Sir Walter Scott

Richard H. Hutton

Sir Walter Scott from Richard Holt Hutton. English journalist of literature and religion (1826-1897). It will be observed that the greater part of this little book has been taken in one form or o..

Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy

Andrew Lang

Persons not much interested in, or cognisant of, “antiquarian old womanries,” as Sir Walter called them, may ask “what all the pother is about,” in this little tractate.  On my side it is “about”..

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy is an epic poem by Dante Alighieri, written between 1308 and 1321, and it's considered one of the greatest works of world literature. It contains the Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise..

The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso

The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising 11,995 lines, 15 books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from ..