De Natura deorum vs Poems: Which Should You Read?

De Natura deorum Cicero · 1718 ★★★★☆ 3.8 236 pages · ≈ 4 h 22 m · Demanding

De Natura deorum (The Nature of the Gods) is a philosophical dialogue by Roman orator Cicero written in 45 BC. It is laid out in three books, each of which discuss the theology of different Roman and Greek philosophers.…

Poems Francis Thompson · 1893 ★★★★☆ 3.8 328 pages · ≈ 6 h 04 m · Demanding

It is a poetry book. Francis Thompson, a poet of high thinking, 'of celestial vision', and of imaginings that found literary images of answering splendour, died in London in the winter of 1907. His life—always a fragile…