Poetry

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…

The Lady of the Lake

Walter Scott

The work is an Arthurian romance by Sir Walter Scott, presented as the fifth canto of a larger poem.

Chaucer's Works, Volume 4 — The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

This volume presents Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as a freshly collated text, distinct from the many…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume gathers the fantasy‑inflected horror and detective stories that have made Edgar Allan Poe a…

Don Juan

George Gordon Byron

This work is Byron’s poetic re‑imagining of the legendary libertine Don Juan, presented as a sprawling,…

The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2

Burton Egbert Stevenson

The Home Book of Verse, Volume 2 gathers a lively assortment of English and American poetry that orients…

The complete works of John Gower, volume 2: The English works

John Gower

The volume presents the English portion of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, a fifteenth‑century poem that…

Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I

Edmund Spenser

Spencer’s *The Faerie Queene* opens as an elaborate allegorical quest, introducing a “Gentle Knight” clad in…

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

William Blake

William Blake’s *Songs of Innocence and of Experience* is a collection of lyrical poems that juxtaposes the…

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese is a collection of forty‑two love poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, first…

The Iliad

Homer

The Iliad is an epic poem attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer, presented here in an English…

Pamphlets and Parodies on Political Subjects

William Hone

I. Beowulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: A Fragment.

This volume presents the Old English epic Beowulf together with the fragmentary “Fight at Finnsburh,”…

The Book of Ballads Eleventh Edition, 1870

Martin, Theodore, Sir; Aytoun, William Edmondstoune

The Book of Ballads, Eleventh Edition (1870) is a miscellany of verse and parody assembled by Sir Theodore…

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass is a sprawling celebration of the self and the nation, presented as a series of lyrical…

Erotica Romana

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Erotica Romana is a collection of German poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe rendered into English.

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno

Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno is an English translation of the first part of Dante’s…

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Paradise Lost is John Milton’s grand poetic treatment of the biblical Fall, catalogued under subjects such as…

Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus

Geoffrey Chaucer

This volume gathers Geoffrey Chaucer’s Middle‑English poems “Boethius” and “Troilus,” presenting them as they…