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Milton's Minor Poems

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John Milton


“On Shakespear 1630” typifies much of Milton’s poetry. By some miracle never yet explained, at age 24 he managed to get a 16-line encomium i…

Weird Tales, Volume 2

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E. T. A. Hoffmann


Paradoxically, it is variety that unites the tales you are about to read. They take place in widely separated countries and historical perio…

Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacie

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Thomas Lodge


This novel, which Shakespeare adapted in his pastoral comedy As You Like It, is the archetypal pastoral adventure. Two young persons of high…

The Anniversary Poems

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John Donne


Elizabeth Drury, daughter of Donne's patron, Sir Robert Drury, died in 1610. A year later Donne laments her hyperbolically as the soul of th…

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 3)

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William Blake


The short, simple lines of these delicate poems resemble song lyrics, emphasizing the concrete but hinting at transcendent realities, althou…

Twilight Sleep

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Edith Wharton


Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously showing compassion and even grudging admiration for so…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 13 (Supplem…

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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James Mcglothlin


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators, and scholars. They are an amalgam of myth…

John Donne's Satires

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John Donne


Donne’s StyleIn John Donne’s day, a satire was such a poem as a satyr might compose. Satyrs were rough, savage creatures in Greek mythology…

The Master Mind of Mars (Version 3)

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Edgar Rice Burroughs


The protagonist is a soldier from the Great War whose tale John Carter has brought to Earth. Having saved the life of an ancient Martian who…

Venus and Adonis (Version 2)

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William Shakespeare


Both Ovid and Spenser also treat this ancient myth, but Spenser alters the ending, converting the tale into an archetype of fulfilled love, …

The Radium Pool

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Edward Earl Repp


Deep beneath the many-hued, volcanic sands of the Manalava Plains is an eerie world. And in this world, in a gem-encrusted cavern, is a pool…

Selected Poems

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George Herbert


These poems, from Herbert’s book The Temple, show the evolution of a soul’s relationship with God. Sudden reversals of mood are common, for …

Back to Methuselah

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George Bernard Shaw


In this late work, Shaw examines many contemporary issues under the broad rubric of evolution and then illustrates his opinions in five brie…

Four Hymns

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Edmund Spenser


Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heav…

The Age of Reason (version 3)

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Thomas Paine


In these volumes, Paine demonstrates the anonymity of the books contained in both the Old and the New Testaments, the only certainties being…

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV

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François Rabelais


This fourth in the five novels about the giants Pantagruel and his father Gargantua is the last novel indusputably attributed to Franç…

The Defense of Poesy

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Sir Philip Sidney


Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …

Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Edmund Spenser


"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…

Sonnets

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Edna St. Vincent Millay


It has been observed that within the narrow confines of a sonnet the mind can turn around but cannot take flight. Some of Millay’s sonnets, …

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