Poetry

Aesop was an Ancient Greek story-teller and slave, famed and cherished for his short fables that often involve personified animals. In the renowned collection of works that is Aesop's Fables , he weaves moral education and entertainment together into tales that have been enjoyed by many, many generations. A lot of the stories in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox and the Grapes (giving us the term "sour grapes"), The Tortoise and the Hare ... more...

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Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any chapter from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. This e-book  introduces:  Full text of The Iliad and The Odyssey translated by Samuel Butler (1835-1902). Homer’s biography. Historical and geographical  background of Ancient Greece that helps to understand the period of time described in the epic poems. Timeline. Maps. Epic poems’ Summaries. Description of key themes and characters of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Table of Contents. Translated by Samuel Butler (1835-1902). Electronic Edition by MobileReference. The Iliad: -I- | -II- | -III- | -IV- | -V- | -VI- | -VII- | -VIII- | -IX- | -X- | -XI- | -XII- | -XIII- | -XIV- | -XV- | -XVI- | -XVII- | -XVIII- | -XIX- | -XX- | -XXI- | -XXII- | -XXIII- | -XXIV-. The Odyssey: -I- | -II- | -III- | -IV- | -V- | -VI- | -VII- | -VIII- | -IX- | -X- | -XI- | -XII- | -XIII- | -XIV- | -XV- | -XVI- | -XVII- | -XVIII- | -XIX- | -XX- | -XXI- | -XXII- | -XXIII- | -XXIV-. Appendix:. Homer Biography. Historic Background. Commentary on Iliad. Commentary on Odyssey. Homeric Question. About and Navigation. Historic Background: Timeline | Troy | Trojan War | Trojan Battle Order | Trojan Horse | Map of Homeric Greece | Homer''s World Map. Commentary on Iliad: Achilles and Patroclus | Characters | Achilles | Patroclus | Achaeans | Agamemnon | Hector | Historicity of the Iliad. Commentary on Odyssey: Odysseus | Places visited by Odysseus in Odyssey | Geography of the Odyssey | Homer''s Ithaca | Ithaca. more...

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Frederick Ahl's new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of Virgil's epic poem in a way that has never been done before. Echoing the Virgilian hexameter the verse stays almost line for line with the original in a thrillingly accurate and engaging style. - ;'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...'. So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the founding ancestor of Rome, is a narrative on an epic scale: Aeneas and his companions contend not only with human enemies but with the whim of the gods. His destiny preordained by Jupiter, Aeneas is nevertheless assailed by dangers invoked by the goddess Juno, and by. the torments of love, loyalty, and despair. Virgil's supreme achievement is not only to reveal Rome's imperial future for his patron Augustus, but to invest it with both passion and suffering for all those caught up in the fates of others. Frederick Ahl's new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done before. Echoing the Virgilian hexameter the verse stays almost line for line with the original in a thrillingly accurate and engaging style. This is an Aeneid that the first-time reader can grasp and enjoy, and whose rendition of Virgil's subtleties of thought and language will enthrall those already familiar with the epic. An Introduction. by Elaine Fantham, and Ahl's comprehensive notes and invaluable indexed glossary complement the translation. - ;Frederick Ahl captures the pathos... to splendid effect. His version reproduces the fierce, hurtling momentum of the original... he has produced the finest translation of the Aeneid in recent memory. - Eric Ormsby, New York Sun; Download audio extracts from The Aeneid - Eric Ormsby, New Yo more...

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This definitive edition contains sixty years of Marianne Moore's poems, incorporating her text revisions and her own entertaining notes that reveal the inspiration for complete poems and individual lines. more...

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