Classicly Collection of Books

The Lady of the Lake

Sir Walter Scott

The Lady of the Lake is a narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1810. Set in the Trossachs region of Scotland, it is composed of six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a sin..

Orlando Furioso

Ludovico Ariosto

Orlando Furioso is an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version appeared in 1516, although the poem was not published in its compl..

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..