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...
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by Janice Campbell · Published January 31, 2014 · Last modified December 30, 2022
“How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix” is a vivid and evocative story poem is characteristic of Robert Browning’s dramatic verse. In the first video at the bottom of this post, he...
Most people enjoy hanging out with friends who have similar interests, and writers are no different. Here are a few famous author friendships, including T. S. Eliot,and Virginia Woolf; George Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Belloc,...
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...
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific English writer, was master of many literary forms including essays, poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction. His published writings include history, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics,...
Chesterton, that “Colossal Genius” Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936), popularly known as G. K. Chesterton, was a prolific British writer, lay theologian, poet, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. His published writings also include...
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...
A Fable for Critics [Whittier to Cooper] by James Russell Lowell Famous writers mentioned in this section—click on the name to move to that part of the poem: John Greenleaf Whittier: learn more about...
A Fable for Critics [Introduction] by James Russell Lowell Phoebus, sitting one day in a laurel-tree’s shade, Was reminded of Daphne, of whom it was made, For the god being one day too warm...
A Fable for Critics [Emerson to Bryant] by James Russell Lowell Famous writers mentioned in this section—click on the name to move to that part of the poem: Ralph Waldo Emerson (learn more about...
In this heartfelt poem, Anne Bradstreet muses upon the emotions she experienced during and after the catastrophic fire that consumed her family’s home. Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 18th, 1666 by...
In this deeply personal and moving poem, Anne Bradstreet writes lovingly of her husband. To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet 1 If ever two were one, then surely we. 2 If...
The Prologue A poem by Anne Bradstreet 1 To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings, 2 Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun, 3 For my mean Pen are too superior things; 4 Or...
In Reference to Her Children, 23 June 1659 by Anne Bradstreet 1 I had eight birds hatcht in one nest, 2 Four Cocks were there, and Hens the rest. 3 I nurst them up...
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