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Poems of William Blake

William Blake

One of the great Enlgish Romantic poets, William Blake was also an artist, mystic, and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Expe..

The Aeneid of Virgil

Virgil

The Aeneid is an epic poem written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. It's hero is Aeneas, a Trojan who travels from Troy to Italy to eventually found Rome. Some argue that the Aeneid is Virgil's answer..

Dante - His Times and His Work

Arthur John Butler

DANTE: HIS TIMES AND HIS WORK By Arthur John Butler An introduction to the life, times and work of Dante Alighieri, the great Italian poet. This reprint of a book published in 1902 includes chapters o..

Maha-bharata

Anonymous

Maha-bharata The Epic of AncieThe Mahābhārata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa. It narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the ..

The Ballad of the White Horse

G. K. Chesterton

The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealised exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911. Written in ballad form, the work has been described as o..

Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I to III were first published in 1590, and then republished in 1596 together with books IV to VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for it..

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

Anonymous

The Mahabharata is one of ancient India's major epic poems written in Sanskrit, the other being the Ramayana. Together they might be seen as the Iliad and Odyssey of the East, though the Mahabharata a..

The Ramayana

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The Ramayana is an ancient epic written in the Sanskrit. It is attributed to Valmiki, a Hindu sage living in the 4th or 5th century. It is an integral part of Hindu literature, sharing the stage with ..