Classicly Books
The City of Dreadful Night
James ThomsonThe City of Dreadful Night is a long poem by the Scottish poet James "B.V." Thomson, written between 1870 and 1873, and published in the National Reformer in 1874, then in 1880 in a book entitled The ..
The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which features American Indian characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior..
Collection of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica
Hesiod & HomerThis volume contains practically all that remains of the post-Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independe..
Dante - ''The Central Man of All the World''
John T. SlatteryA world-literary-movement will commemorat in 1921 the six hundredth anniversary of the death of the immortal Dante. That a medievalist should call forth the homage of the twentieth century to the exte..
Evangeline
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEvangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search..
The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge
UnknownTáin Bó Cúailnge; "the driving-off of cows of Cooley", commonly known as The Cattle Raid of Cooley or The Táin) is a legendary tale from early Irish literature which is often considered an epic, altho..