A Poison Tree by William Blake
“A Poison Tree,” which explores the dangers of anger and revenge, was first published in Blake’s Songs of Experience in 1794. It has been set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in his Ten Blake...
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Charles Lamb Biography
Charles Lamb, a British author and critic, is especially remembered for his Essays of Elia and Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister Mary.
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...
Charles Lamb Index
Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb wrote shorter versions of many classic tales, some of which are assigned in EIL as introductions to the full-length original classics.
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...
King Lear: As Told in Tales from Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare Adapted by Charles and Mary Lamb in Tales From Shakespeare Other works by Charles Lamb [Note: I offer this rather Victorian-style retelling of King Lear by the Lambs to...
The Tempest by Charles and Mary Lamb
Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb wrote shorter versions of many classic tales, many of which appear in their work Tales from Shakespeare, some of which are referenced as introductions to the full-length...
