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Autumn bounty of pumpkins and gourds from Longwood Gardens By Sdwelch1031 (Own work) [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

E4-Resources / Poetry

To Autumn by John Keats

To Autumn by John Keats Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;...

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

E4-Resources / Poetry

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert…Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered...

Arthurian Images by Pre Raphaelites

Art / E4-Resources

Arthurian Images by Pre Raphaelites

The Arthurian legends have been illustrated in many ways. A group of nineteenth-century artists known as the Pre-Raphaelites painted many romantic illustrations of Arthurian figures. Click on an image below to see it larger.

Nobody poem by Emily Dickinson

E3-Resources / Poetry

Nobody poem by Emily Dickinson

I’m Nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! How dreary...

Old Ironsides

E3-Resources / Poetry

Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

OLD IRONSIDES by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr This was the popular name by which the frigate Constitution was known. The poem was first printed in the Boston Daily Advertiser, at the time when it...

Robinson Crusoe 1927 Silent Film

Audio / Video / E2-Resources

Robinson Crusoe 1927 Silent Film

Robinson Crusoe is a British silent film from 1927. The movie is based on the 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, and features a shipwrecked man who lived for 28 years on a seemingly...

King Arthur from Idylls of the King

E1-Resources / E4-Resources / Poetry

Idylls of the King by Tennyson

Idylls of the King Index by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Flos Regum Arthurus (Joseph of Exeter) EIL Editor’s Note: Idylls of the King is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred,...

Echo and Narcissus

E5-Resources / Short Stories

Echo and Narcissus by Ovid

Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a Roman mythological epic from the Augustan Age. In this brief story, the mountain nymph Echo falls in love with Narcissus, a beautiful hunter from...

Portrait of Horace, author of Satire I.

E5-Resources / Poetry

Satire I by Horace

SATIRE I. by Horace QUI FIT, MAECENAS. How comes it, say, Maecenas, if you can, That none will live like a contented man Where choice or chance directs, but each must praise The folk...

Wuthering Heights 1939 movie trailer

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Wuthering Heights 1939 movie trailer

The Academy-award nominated 1939 movie of Wuthering Heights, starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon, is a well-done black-and-white classic (despite the color photo on the cover of the DVD). The film includes characters and events...