Literary Books

Songs of Action

Arthur Conan Doyle

Songs of Action, by Arthur Conan Doyle, is a collection of lyric poems about battle, courage, and patriotism. The verses reflect their authors own political leanings much more clearly than his fiction..

Chronicle of the Cid

Henry Morley

Robert Southey's "Chronicle of the Cid" is all translation from the Spanish, but is not translation from a single book. Its groundwork is that part of the Crónica General de España, the most ancient o..

Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare

Horatius Flaccus Quintus

The Ars Poetica, by Horace, also known as Epistula ad Pisones, is a treatise on poetry written in the form of a letter, and published around 18 B.C. In it, Horace defines and exemplifies the nature, s..

Reviews

Oscar Wilde

Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferred to forget. As a matter of fact, I believe this v..

The Congo and Other Poems

Vachel Lindsay

The Congo is one of the best-known poems by American poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931). It was revolutionary in its use of sounds and rhythms — as sounds and rhythms — and includes elaborate annotations..

The Iliad of Homer

William Cowper

Whether a translation of Homer may be best executed in blank verse or in rhyme, is a question in the decision of which no man can find difficulty, who has ever duly considered what translation ought t..

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the ..

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe

Perhaps Edgar Allen Poe's most famous poem, the "Raven" is a macabre exploration of a man, his memories of Lenore, and the black bird that interrupts his studies on a dark December night, with tap-tap..