Classic and pre-20th century poetry Books

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Published in 1984: The Waltharius and Ruodlieb are considered by many scholars to be among the finest works of medieval Latin literature. Both the Waltharius, composed by an anonymous eleventh-century poet from Southern Germany, are heroic narratives...

It's not easy to make a stand for peace, when you live in a world which is besotted with war...Get your copy of Joss Sheldon's radical rhyming-novel today!This is the story of Alfred Freeman, a boy who does everything he can; to serve humankind. He feeds...

Salem's Gate, a new book release by author Donald David Sims, follows his previous publication Poems to Peruse in 2012.Salem's Gate combines action and medieval adventure in an interesting poetic tale-an odyssey.Two eleventh century kings,...

In the silence of the night, when the heart beats strongly and the soul seeks its complement, words become verses and verses become the purest expression of love.Imagine a place where the deepest and purest feelings are transformed into words that touch...

Lágrimas de Luna son las más hermosas poesías de amor y desammor que puedas leer. En este apartado descubrirás la magia de lo que se llora cuando tus lágrimas se las lleva el mar, y tu única confidente es la luna...

Unter dem Pseudonym, Doktor Pointer, gelingt es dem Autor die Fabeln Äsops, die bereits von La Fontaine so meisterlich ins Französische übertragen wurden, auch dem deutschen Leser, dem antiken Vorbild der Fabel entsprechend, kurz und prägnant in Versen...

Alphonse de Lamartine n'a pas trente ans lorsqu'il publie les Méditations poétiques, son premier recueil. L'oeuvre marque tant ses contemporains que la critique tend à en faire l'acte de naissance du romantisme français. Ce sont à l'origine vingt-quatre...

Singulier paradoxe que ces Chimères, une centaine de vers à peine, qui ont alimenté depuis des milliers de pages d'exégèses et de commentaires. Tour à tour symbolistes, rimbaldiennes, mallarméennes ou surréalistes, voire fertile terreau pour la...

The author Dale Roberts I.E. Elad Strebor has made amazing strides in his writing of poetry, six years ago talking a poem would have been a huge hurdle to jump. It all started when he was writing a book about his son (Brian) and the path that Dale had...

Author Hidden Diamond has a heart for the next generation and knows the only path towards success is laid by Jesus Christ.Growing Pains: My Journey of Self Discovery from a Christian Perspective, is a collection of poems...

PJ McMouse is a character for all ages. Becoming weary of a complicated life he really can't rewind, PJ decides to start life anew, shunning his past and deciding to live a life of kind-hearted adventure with the friends he loves! His innate ability to...

Patrick Reginald Chalmers (1872-1942) was an Irish writer and banker.. His work covered many different areas, including horse racing, hunting, and field sports. Although he is not often credited with it, Chalmers coined the phrase "Roundabouts and...

I am known as Kask suhnu Rikardnu,Suhnu Henree, suhnu Yan, suhnu Nod.This is my testament. Things I hath seen.The words I hath heard. The horror and hope.Hate me and judge me for what lies within.I ask no pardon nor mercy, nor pass.Just know that things...

"I first caught fire in high school and burned with an embarrassing adolescent passion for poetry through the works of Lao Tze and Dylan Thomas; and then, as a sophomore, in college for Gerard Manly Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, and...

Only when truth is acted upon through the consciousness of a person does its effect appear in reality. In Indian Vedic science, there is an Aporushya (i.e., beyond body, mind and intellect spell) of these truths, which have their own efficacy under the...

Read together, the three long poems in this book constitute a kind of epic. In the manner of a cubist painting, they present, through the medium of memory, the complex portrait of a man, the poet. The poems are dramatic narratives, each providing a...

In Ben Mazer’s poetry, everything and everyone seems to display a similar quality at moments of heightened, transcendent perception, when the world (or possibly the brain: it’s debatable) begins to pulse freely to its inherent musical rhythm,...

In Jessamyn Smyth's story collection, The Inugami Mochi, we have known the witch's expansion and joy in her familiar Beloved, and we have known the terrible end. Now, in Gilgamesh Wilderness, the architecture of that great epic becomes a doorway through...

Coauthors Arketa Williams and Ti'Ara "Ti" Walpool want to shine a light on abuse that is often overlooked and very seldomly discussed. With this controversial project, they are breaking their own silences. Having fallen prey to physical,...

This poetry collection, based on recurring motifs from The Odyssey, takes a journey toward a realm that opens space within awareness. It offers a wide scope, permitting the emergence of new thoughts unhindered by margins and considerations spun into...

Eclectic Dimensions, Discarding Debris is about getting rid of the trash in our lives, which often places dreams and aspirations on hold. For instance, when many allow various forms of debris to stump their growth, sometimes they can be their own worst...

In his first book of Satires, written in the late, violent days of the Roman republic, Horace exposes satiric speech as a tool of power and domination. Using critical theories from classics, speech act theory, and others, Catherine Schlegel argues that...

In combining evidence from art and poetry, Graham Zanker examines how people viewed and experienced art and how they constructed mental images, asking what one can tell us about the other. Taking the period from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC...

Ovid's Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) and its sequel Remedies for Love (Remedia Amoris) are among the most notorious poems of the ancient world. In AD 8, the emperor Augustus exiled Ovid to the shores of the Black Sea for "a poem and a mistake." Whatever the...

The Troades Of Euripides is a play written by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, first performed in 415 BC. The play is a tragedy that follows the story of the Trojan women, who are taken as captives by the Greeks after the fall of Troy. The play...

Quaestionum Ovidianarum Capita Duo is a book written by Bruno Pressler in 1903. The book is written in Latin and is a study of Ovid's works. It consists of two chapters, each focusing on a different aspect of Ovid's writings. The first chapter examines...

A major new collection from one of our best loved, most celebrated, and most original poets Deeply personal but also expansive in its imaginative scope, Nouns & Verbs brings together thirty-five years of writing from Campbell McGrath, one of America's...

Lays of Ancient Israel is a book of poetry written by Hugh McSorley and published in 1869. The book contains a collection of poems that retell stories from the Old Testament of the Bible, particularly those from the books of Genesis, Exodus, and Judges...

""Poemata"" est opus litterarum auctoris Brunii, Karoli Georgii, quod anno MDCCCLVII editum est. In hoc opere, poesis varia continetur, partim iam ante edita, partim nunc primum edita. Auctor haec carmina scripsit ut sensus suos et sententias exprimeret,...

Bedside Poetry: A Parents������� Assistant In Moral Discipline is a book written by Wendell Phillips Garrison and published in 1887. The book is a collection of poems that parents can read to their children before bed to instill moral values and teach...

An illuminated manuscript by a modern poet, with art taken from the 18th century mystic, William Blake.100+ IllustrationsFull Premium Color PrintingFrom the Back:Reveries [rev-uh-reez]Loose musings; daydreams;The random thoughts of a poet.

Australia has 'The Great South Land', South Africa has 'Shaka Zulu', Argentina has the gaucho epic 'Martin Fierro', and Chile has 'La Araucana' as its national poem. Now New Zealand has Crete 1941, an epic poem about the New Zealand-led defence of Crete...

Dracontii Presbyteri Hispani, Carmen Epicum Hexaemeron: Ab Eugenio II (1794) est liber poematicus auctore Blossio Aemilio Dracontio, presbytero Hispano. In hoc libro, Dracontius describit creationem mundi, secundum narrationem Hexaemeronis, sex dies in...

De Rerum Natura, Libri Sex est opus magnum Titus Lucretii Carus, poetae et philosophi Romani, quod anno 55 a.C.n. scriptum est. Libri sex tractant de natura rerum et explicat atomisticam philosophiam Epicuream. In libro primo, Lucretius deorum...

Zachry K. Douglas, brings you his 18th book and a pivotal change in his life. The pandemic has made everyone more aware of who they are and what it means to live and love. This title is meant to encapsulate last year's progress made in his personal life...

Hear, a wonder (and a thinking) from an eternal questing set in time; here, a look at Parsafal as the hinge of this tale of nonviolent love. Listen with your heart unimpeded by any thirsts for calculating power, and hear the cry of redemptive and...

A debut collection of poetry and prose. Written over the course of 6 months and put together by finding a love that showed him it's okay to feel again. A side project that has turned into much more.

The Messages of the Psalmists is a book that was written by John Edgar McFadyen in 1904. The book is a collection of the Psalms of the Old Testament, arranged in their natural grouping and freely rendered in paraphrase. McFadyen's goal in writing this...

A UNIQUE PORTRAYAL OF THE APPALACHIAN TRAILHappy Hiker: The epic journey of an unlikely Appalachian Trail thru-hiker is an entertaining story of an ordinary person who achieves an extraordinary accomplishment. It is a guide showing how everyday people...

Inside A Lover's Heart There's Another World, And Yet Another Rumi's masterpieces have inspired countless people throughout the centuries, and Coleman Barks's exquisite renderings of the thirteenth-century Persian mystic are widely considered the...

This work is a study of two Neo-Latin poems of the 17th century: Renéeacute; Rapin's Hortorum libri IV, dealing with contemporary French garden architecture, and Cowley's Plantarum libri VI, in which the plants are personified and botanical...