An undeniable masterpiece of Western Civilization, The Metamorphoses is a continuous narrative that covers all the Olympian legends, seamlessly moving from one story to another in a splendid panorama of savage beauty, charm, and wit. It marked the first attempt to link all of the Homeric and preHomeric myths into a single work and to carry the entire chronology into the Roman pantheon. All of the gods and heroes familiar to us are represented. Such familiar legends as Hercules, Perseus and Medusa, Daedelus and Icarus, Diana and Actaeon, and many others, are breathtakingly recreated.
Ovid was probably the most popular of all the Roman poets during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and his verse was the inspiration for countless artistic and literary masterpieces of the time. Shakespeare, Bernini, and Rubens were only a few of those who mined his work to extraordinary effect.
Ovid has left mankind a magnificent achievement, and his sparkling poetry is a tour de force of Homeric and Roman myth. As Ovid himself wrote: "As long as Rome is the eternal city, these lines shall echo from the lips of men."
A former English teacher at Seattle University, Lyons enhanced his love for poetry by studying the great classical poets in the original Greek and Latin...
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The Nun's Priest's Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales by the 14th century Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Read in Middle English by Robert Ross....
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This volume of his poetry, performed here by Vincent Price in a spellbinding reading, brings forth the true power of Shelley's words....
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Out of My Mind and Back to My Senses is new author Richard Hay's innovative offering of the Truth he doggedly pursued for nearly 40 years....
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This selection of Hardy's poetry does full justice to its humanity, integrity, humour and evocative power, ranging from charming anthology pieces...
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Poet Alan L. Rein shares his unique perspective of the world in Past, Present, Poet, a collection of poetry, philosophy, and penning from one man's unique perspective....
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When John Donne stood in the pulpit of St. Paul's, the lyricism of a great poet fused with the devotion of a holy man. There were no prepared sermons, for he spoke only from notes....
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John Keats, Walter Scott, Michael Brayton, Robert Burns, Robert Browning
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Poetry can capture the imagination in a few short lines but narrative verse or poetry takes the form of telling a story, whether it be simple or complex in a longer form....
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Acerbic wit and stinging satire are contrasted with delicate sensibility and passionate desire in the work of the Latin poet Catullus....
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Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner, Tim Graham, Ghizela Rowe
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Rudyard Kipling. With our almost religious zeal to categorise and pigeon hole everything it should come as little surprise that one of the poems we learnt at school should so regularly be voted the best ever poem....
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Passion from the Heart: A Book of Poetry by Frank Hegardt II invites you to stroll the openness of one man's mind and heart....
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Johnson transformed memories of the sermons he heard in the late 1800s by renowned African American preachers into this nowclassic work of original poetry....
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