Cantos 4 to 11 Dante Videos with Professor Mahfood
Dr. Mahfood reflects on cantos 4 – 11, which go through Circles 1-6 of Hell in Dante’s Inferno. Please be aware that this is a challenging work with complex and mature themes. These optional...
Category: English 5: World Literature
Cantos 1 to 3 Dante Videos with Professor Mahfood
Dr. Mahfood shares his insights on the first three cantos (the Dark Wood and Gate of Hell) in Dante’s Inferno. Please be aware that this is a challenging work with complex and mature themes....
Babette’s Feast & The Beatific Vision
Babette’s Feast & The Beatific Vision by Joshua Gibbs Feb. 9, 2014 Several months ago, Babette’s Feast received a Criterion release accompanied by a fat little book of essays about the film, as well...
Dante’s Inferno: The 1911 Silent Movie
Have you ever read Dante’s Divine Comedy? It is a three-part book-length Italian narrative poem that tells of Dante’s journey through the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, and it’s considered one of the greatest works...
A E Housman Poetry
Alfred Edward Housman (1859 – 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet. His cycle of poems, A Shropshire Lad evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the...
Why Study the Pagans by Cheryl Lowe
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....
Victor Hugo Biography
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...
Art for Divine Comedy by Dante
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 by Jonathan Gottschall
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 Literature Resources Index
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...
Ancient Greek Literature in Art
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...
Chapter 10 Adventures of Ulysses by Lamb
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,...
Chapter 9 Adventures of Ulysses by Lamb
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,...
Chapter 8 Adventures of Ulysses by Lamb
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...
Chapter 7 Adventures of Ulysses by Lamb
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...
Chapter 6 Adventures of Ulysses by Lamb
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...
Chapter 5 Adventures of Ulysses by Lamb
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...
Chapter 4 Adventures of Ulysses by Lamb
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...
Chapter 3 Adventures of Ulysses by Lamb
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...
Chapter 2 Adventures of Ulysses by Lamb
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...
Chapter 1 Adventures of Ulysses by Lamb
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 from Lilia Melani
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...
Greek Tragedy: An Introduction
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...
Anna Akhmatova film trailer
You may view the trailer for this film about Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Other World Literature (E5) videos
Victor Hugo Resources
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a beloved and enduring French novelist, playwright, and poet. His classic book Les Misérables inspired the stage musical of the same name. Learn more about Victor Hugo and his work...
Inferno Cantos 32 to 34 Questions and Analysis by Stacy Esch
Inferno: Final Destinations Cantos XXXII – XXXIV by Stacy Esch, with illustrations selected by EIL staff Circle 9, The Frozen Pit Treacherous Fraud [To be expanded] Dante arrives at the bottom of the Inferno,...
Inferno Cantos 18 to 31 Questions/Analysis by Stacy Esch
Inferno: Final Destinations Cantos XVIII – XXI by Stacy Esch, with illustrations selected by EIL staff The Eighth Circle, Malebolge Sins of Fraud Malebolge, Dante’s name for the Eighth Circle, furthers our understanding of...
Inferno Cantos 12 to 17 Questions for Analysis by Stacy Esch
Inferno: Questions for Analysis Cantos XII – XVII by Stacy Esch, with illustrations selected by EIL staff Professor Esch’s original materials have been edited by the Excellence in Literature staff for use on this...
Inferno Cantos 5 to 11 Structure Analysis by Stacy Esch
Structure in the Inferno Analysis of Cantos V – XI by Stacy Esch [with illustrations selected by EIL staff] An alert reading of these early cantos helps us identify an underlying unity that turns...
Inferno Cantos 1 to 5 Questions for Analysis by Stacy Esch
Inferno: Questions for Analysis, Cantos I – V by Stacy Esch [with illustrations selected by EIL staff] What is the “dark wood”? How did Dante get there? [see Introducing Canto I] What’s the significance...
