Poetry

隨園詩話

Mei Yuan

Aeneidos

Virgil

Aeneidos est poema epicum Latinum a Virgilio conscriptum, quod Aeneae, Troianorum heroï, fata et itinerum per…

The Story of Genesis and Exodus: An Early English Song, about 1250 A.D.

The work is a Middle‑English devotional poem that retells the biblical narratives of Genesis and Exodus in…

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

Hesiod

This volume gathers the surviving fragments of early Greek epic that followed Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey,…

Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight An Alliterative Romance-Poem (c. 1360 A.D.)

Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight is an alliterative romance‑poem from the mid‑fourteenth century, written in…

Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II

Henry Vaughan

Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II is a scholarly edition of the poet’s later work, assembled by E.

The Principles of English Versification

Paull F. Baum

The work is a scholarly treatise on English versification, written by Paull F.

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Robert Burns

This volume gathers the poems and songs of Scotland’s beloved bard, Robert Burns, presenting the full range…

The Aeneid of Virgil

Virgil

Virgil’s Aeneid is an epic poem that recounts the wanderings of the Trojan hero Aeneas as he strives to found…

Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection

Walter Savage Landor

The work is a collection of imagined dialogues and occasional verses that blend personal reminiscence with…

The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Christopher Marlowe

The volume presents the third part of Christopher Marlowe’s collected works, edited by H.

Spenser's Faerie Queene, Vol. 1 (of 2): Books I-III

Edmund Spenser

The work is an early‑modern English epic poem that sets out to present a “true text” of Edmund Spenser’s…

Cautionary Tales for Children

Hilaire Belloc

Cautionary Tales for Children is a collection of moral verses aimed at youngsters between eight and fourteen,…

Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings

This volume is a sweeping anthology of ancient Egyptian writings, assembled to showcase the breadth of the…

Shakespeare's Sonnets

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Sonnets is a collection of 154 lyrical poems that explore love, beauty, time, and the poet’s…

Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

This volume gathers four of Chaucer’s lesser‑known works, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, The…

La Divina Commedia di Dante

Dante Alighieri

The poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an introduction and notes

The Poetic Edda is a scholarly translation of the oldest Norse mythic corpus, beginning with the Voluspo, the…

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

Thomas Davis, selections from his prose and poetry

Thomas Davis

This volume gathers the most representative selections of Thomas Davis’s prose and poetry, beginning with his…

Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905

Various

Ainslee’s Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 is a periodical anthology that gathers short stories and poetry from a…

Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age

The volume presents itself as a companion to the poetical miscellanies that circulated in England at the…

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

William Blake

The work is a sprawling visionary essay that treats heaven and hell as complementary forces rather than fixed…

The complete works of John Gower, volume 3: The English works

John Gower

The third volume of John Gower’s complete works gathers his English poems, opening with a sprawling allegory…