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by EILeditor · Published March 10, 2014 · Last modified December 14, 2023
Family and boyhood Early career and travels A Harvard professor Evangeline Other important works Struck by tragedy Writing until the end Description of the man Longfellow’s poetry His character Sources Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Biography...
John Dryden Biography Family and education Early adult life Prolific playwright Poet Laureate Poetry and politics Religious matters Reversal of fortunes Life overview Sources Family and education Poet, dramatist, and satirist John...
Classics-Based Writing Resource / E1-Resources
by Janice Campbell · Published March 3, 2014 · Last modified January 16, 2021
Situational irony is a form of humor that focuses on a contrast between expectation and reality. In these excerpts from Around the World in Eighty Days, you will see how Jules Verne has used...
The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell “Hand in hand they used to make their way to the glorious moors, which in after days they loved so passionately.” The Children Who Never Played...
Why Study the Pagans? by Cheryl Lowe A classical education involves two things primarily: the study of the classical languages, Latin and/or Greek, and the study of the classical civilization of Greece and Rome....
by EILeditor · Published February 24, 2014 · Last modified February 2, 2021
Victor Hugo Biography Man is neither master of his life nor of his fate. He can but offer to his fellowmen his efforts to diminish human suffering; he can but offer to God his...
Benjamin Franklin Biography Family history and education Writing and printing career Helping his fellow man Fight against the Stamp Act Continental Congress Colonial diplomacy in France Making peace Franklin in person Life philosophy Printing...
Biography / E3-Resources / Poetry
by EILeditor · Published February 18, 2014 · Last modified October 11, 2023
Family history and childhood Early work and romance Literature, reform, and family life The Biglow Papers Family tragedies Teaching and traveling The Atlantic Monthly Work abroad End of life Overview of writings and influence...
Biography / E4-Resources / Poetry
by EILeditor · Published February 12, 2014 · Last modified July 25, 2023
Family history and upbringing Meeting other poets Health troubles Praise and correspondence Browning’s courtship A secret wedding Published poetry Politics and posterity “God took her” Overview of married life and poetry Sources Family history...
Biography / E4-Resources / Poetry
by EILeditor · Published February 10, 2014 · Last modified August 26, 2020
Robert Browning Biography Family background Early career & personality First major poems (Paracelsus and Sordello) Dramatic works Expanding poetic repertoire Marriage Browning’s masterpiece: The Ring and the Book Growing fame Later writings Beliefs (religious...
Gustave Doré did a series of famous illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy, which we study in World Literature, Module 4. Here are a few examples of these highly detailed etchings. Click on an image...
Hidden Histories ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘The Iliad’ are giving up new secrets about the ancient world By Jonathan Gottschall September 28, 2008 [This article has been abridged for use on the Excellence in Literature...
Ancient Greek resources currently available on our site include: “Why Study the Pagans?” by Cheryl Lowe “Why We Read the Odyssey” by Deborah Stokol Introduction to Greek Tragedy Introduction to Classical Greek Literature by...
Over the centuries, the authors and characters of Ancient Greek literature have been portrayed in many different styles; here are a few below. To learn more about classical Greek art, visit the Metropolitan Museum...
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES BY CHARLES LAMB CHAPTER TEN The Madness from Above.—The Bow of Ulysses.—The Slaughter.—The Conclusion. When daylight appeared, a tumultuous concourse of the suitors again filled the hall; and some wondered,...
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES BY CHARLES LAMB CHAPTER NINE The Queen’s Suitors.—The Battle of the Beggars.—The Armour Taken Down.— The Meeting with Penelope. From the house of Eumaeus the seeming beggar took his way,...
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES BY CHARLES LAMB CHAPTER EIGHT The Change from a King to a Beggar.—Eumaeus and the Herdsmen.— Telemachus. Not long did Minerva suffer him to indulge vain transports; but briefly recounting...
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES BY CHARLES LAMB CHAPTER SEVEN The Songs of Demodocus.—The Convoy Home.—The Mariners Transformed to Stone.—The Young Shepherd. When it was daylight, Alcinous caused it to be proclaimed by the heralds...
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES BY CHARLES LAMB CHAPTER SIX The Princess Nausicaa.—The Washing.—The Game with the Ball.—The Court of Phaeacia and King Alcinous. Meantime Minerva, designing an interview between the king’s daughter of that...
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES BY CHARLES LAMB CHAPTER FIVE The Tempest.—The Sea-bird’s Gift.—The Escape by Swimming.—The Sleep in the Woods. At the stern of his solitary ship Ulysses sat, and steered right artfully. No...
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES BY CHARLES LAMB CHAPTER FOUR The Island of Calypso.—Immortality Refused. Henceforth the adventures of the single Ulysses must be pursued. Of all those faithful partakers of his toil, who with...
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES BY CHARLES LAMB CHAPTER THREE The Song of the Sirens.—Scylla and Charybdis.—The Oxen of the Sun.—The Judgment.—The Crew Killed by Lightning. “Unhappy man, who at thy birth wast appointed twice...
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES BY CHARLES LAMB CHAPTER TWO The House of Circe.—Men changed into Beasts.—The Voyage to Hell.—The Banquet of the Dead. On went the single ship till it came to the island...
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES BY CHARLES LAMB CHAPTER ONE The Cicons.—The Fruit of the Lotos-tree.—Polyphemus and the Cyclops.— The Kingdom of the Winds, and God Aeolus’s Fatal Present.—The Laestrygonian Man-eaters. This history tells of...
Introduction to Romanticism by the English Department at Brooklyn College, courtesy of Dr. Lilia Melani Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as “romantic,” although love may occasionally be the...
by EILeditor · Published January 28, 2014 · Last modified February 25, 2021
The madrigal, a polyphonic musical composition usually sung a capella, was a type of secular Renaissance music that would have been familiar to writers such as Edmund Spenser. Madrigals usually feature the words of...
Virginia Woolf Resources Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a Modernist writer who used the stream-of-consciousness technique, as seen in her novel To the Lighthouse. Here are a selection of resources you may find helpful in...
Greek tragedy is an ancient form of theatre that peaked in Athens around the 5th century B.C. These tragedies were often based on characters from mythology, as well as the oral epic tradition, and...
Benjamin Franklin is one of the most quoted Americans; his wisdom is timeless. Here are a few quotes to inspire you. “Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If...
A Fable for Critics [Poe to Lowell] by James Russell Lowell Famous writers mentioned in this section—click on the name to move to that part of the poem: Edgar Allan Poe: a writer famous...
Here’s the Everyday Educator — our annual newsletter handout. It has book lists and helpful articles about homeschooling topics. We’d rather be sharing it in person, but for now, you can download the Everyday Educator here. I hope you enjoy it!
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