Walden Pond Video
Walden Pond Video and More Here is a brief video of Walden Pond with narration in Thoreau’s own words. Trailer for Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul,...
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Robinson Crusoe Theme Music from 1970s TV show
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was a French-German children’s television drama series made by Franco London Films (a.k.a. FLF Television Paris). The series was based on the first of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe novels, but...
Robinson Crusoe Opera by Jacques Offenbach
Offenbach’s Opera Version of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe’s early novel, Robinson Crusoe, has inspired artists and musicians for generations. Jacques Offenbach (1890–1880) wrote an opéra comique called Robinson Crusoé which was first performed at...
Glass Armonica-Tchaikovsky
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Tchaikovsky William Zeitler plays this piece on the glass armonica, an invention of Benjamin Franklin, while other unseen instruments provide accompaniment. Other American Literature (E3) videos
The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES BY CHARLES LAMB PREFACE This work is designed as a supplement to the Adventures of Telemachus. It treats of the conduct and sufferings of Ulysses, the father of Telemachus. The...
Poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose most famous works include a translation of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy and the poem “Paul Revere’s Ride.”...
Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PAUL REVERE’S RIDE by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Composed as a narration by the landlord of the Wayside Inn, Longfellow’s 1860 poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” is the fictionalized retelling of a patriotic story. It was...
Dr. Drake’s Chaucer Study Questions
Geoffery Chaucer Study Questions by Dr. Alfred J. Drake “General Prologue” to Canterbury Tales 1. What is the basic purpose of the “General Prologue?” 2. Study lines 1-18. What seem to be the motives...
T S Eliot Poetry
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was a great Modernist poet who converted to Christianity mid-way through his career. He was a contemporary of Joseph Conrad, George Bernard Shaw, and Virginia Woolf, to name just a...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giammai di...
Gerard Manley Hopkins Poetry
Gerard Manley Hopkins Poetry Gerard Manley Hopkins is a favorite here at EIL, as his poems are especially lovely for memorization and copywork. We will be expanding our collection of his poetry in the...
Psalm 19: Coeli Enarrant by Sir Philip Sidney
Psalm 19: Coeli Enarrant by Sir Philip Sidney 1554-1586 The heavenly frame sets forth the fame Of him that only thunders; The firmament, so strangely bent, Shows his handworking wonders. Day unto day doth...
Laus Deo by John Greenleaf Whittier
LAUS DEO! by John Greenleaf Whittier On hearing the bells ring on the passage of the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery. The resolution was adopted by Congress, January 31, 1865. The ratification by the requisite...
For Righteousness’ Sake by John Greenleaf Whittier
FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS’ SAKE by John Greenleaf Whittier Inscribed to friends under arrest for treason against the slave power. THE age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame...
Massachusetts to Virginia by John Greenleaf Whittier
MASSACHUSETTS TO VIRGINIA by John Greenleaf Whittier Written on reading an account of the proceedings of the citizens of Norfolk, Va., in reference to George Latimer, the alleged fugitive slave, who was seized in...
The Deacon’s Masterpiece by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
THE DEACON’S MASTERPIECE: OR THE WONDERFUL “ONE-HOSS SHAY.” A LOGICAL STORY by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran...
Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1807) by William Wordsworth Begun on March 27, 1802 and finished before 1806, possibly in early 1804. Wordsworth stated that “two years at least passed...
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798 by William Wordsworth Five years have passed; five summers with the length Of...
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
THIS LIME-TREE BOWER MY PRISON by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ADDRESSED TO CHARLES LAMB, OF THE INDIA HOUSE, LONDON In the June of 1797 some long-expected friends paid a visit to the author’s cottage; and...
Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
FROST AT MIDNIGHT by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet’s cry Came loud—and hark, again! loud as before. The inmates of my cottage, all at...
Dejection: An Ode by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
DEJECTION: AN ODE by Samuel Taylor Coleridge WRITTEN APRIL 4, 1802 “Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms; And I fear, I fear, my Master dear!...
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. 5 So twice...
To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley
TO A SKYLARK by Percy Bysshe Shelley Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with “Prometheus Unbound” in the same year. There is a transcript in the Harvard manuscript. Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird...
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
ODE TO THE WEST WIND by Percy Bysshe Shelley (This poem was conceived and chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near Florence, and on a day when that tempestuous wind, whose...
Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley
MONT BLANC by Percy Bysshe Shelley LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI [Composed in Switzerland, July, 1816 (see date below). Printed at the end of the “History of a Six Weeks’ Tour” published...
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN by John Keats 1. Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than...
Ode on Melancholy by John Keats
ODE ON MELANCHOLY by John Keats 1. No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf’s-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss’d By nightshade, ruby grape of...
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE by John Keats 1. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One...
Fra Lippo Lippi by Robert Browning
The text below comes from the poetry collection, Men and Women, by Robert Browning. The helpful introductory and line notes (make sure you don’t miss those — they’re located at the end of the poem)...
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church Rome, 15 – by Robert Browning
“The Bishop Orders His Tomb” by Robert Browning is considered to be the first blank verse dramatic monologue poem in English. In it, a (fictional) dying bishop speaks to his sons and contemplates his...
