Elegy in Autumn: In memory of Frank Dempster Sherman

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare gathers the full range of the playwright’s English drama from the…

Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem

This edition presents the Old English heroic saga Beowulf in a modern English translation that strives to…

The divine comedy

Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy is an epic poem that begins with the narrator’s confession that, at the midpoint of his…

The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original

Homer

The work presented here is a prose rendering of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, produced by the…

The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse

Valmiki

The work is an English‑verse rendering of the ancient Indian epic attributed to the sage Válmíki, whose…

The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII

Ovid

The work is Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Books I‑VII, a sweeping Latin poem that begins with a grand “Argument” in…