18 books like Odes
Don Juan
Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favourite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written entirely in…
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Rime of the ancient mariner
A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding. The mariner then relates to the man all the events of a long sea voyage, arousing in his listener feeling of impatience, fear, fascination and bemusement.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was published in the collection Lyrical Ballads (1798), which contributed significantly to the advent of modern poetry and the beginnings of British Romance…
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Childe Harold's pilgrimage
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition. He himself disliked the poem, because he felt it revealed too much of himself. In it a young man (called childe after the medieval term for a candidate for knighthood) travels to distant lands to relieve the boredom and weariness brought on by a life of dissipation. It is thought to be a comment on the…
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Satirae
The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus's regime, his Satires provide trenchant social commentary on men's perennial enslavement to money, power, fame, and sex. Not as frequently translated as his Odes, in…
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Carmina
"The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of technique have often proved elusive, especially when - as has usually been the case - a single translator ventures to maneuver through Horace's infinite variety.
Now for the first time, leading poets from America, England, and Ireland have collaborated to bring all 103 odes into…
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Q. Horatii Flacci opera
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Satirae
Bite and wit characterize two seminal and stellar authors in the history of satirical writing, Persius (34-62 CE) and Juvenal (writing about sixty years later). The latter especially had a lasting influence on English writers of the Renaissance and succeeding centuries.
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Satyricon
An incomplete Roman novel believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius Arbiter. What remains of the novel is a picaresque story concerning the narrator’s battle to keep his lover, a handsome sixteen year old boy, away from his many rivals.
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Catullus
Includes an introduction to this Roman poet, selections from his poetry, vocabulary and grammatical notes, and glossaries on meters and figures of speech.
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Poetical works of Robert Bridges
Each section preceded by a bibliographical note. Second edition. Prometheus the firegiver, a mask in the Greek manner.--Demeter, a mask.--Eros and psyche.--The growth of love.--Shorter poems, --New poems, --Later poems.--Poems in classical prosody.--October, and other poems.--New verse.--Two pieces written after the war.--Index of titles and first lines.
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Poems
This is a poem book. Aurelius prudentius clemens, the greatest of the Latin Christian poets, was born in the year 348 during the consulship of Salia and Philip. The place of his birth is not known with certainty. Three cities of Hither Spain are designated by him as his own: Tarragona, Saragossa, and Calahorra. Partisans of each have claimed him as a native son with convincing arguments. In the…
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Silvae
Statius' Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 AD. Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles mourners, sends thanks, admires a memorable scene. The verse is light in touch, with a distinct picture quality. Statius gives us in these impromptu poems clear images of Domitian's Rome. Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This…
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Satyrs upon the Jesuits
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Vitae excellentium imperatorum
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Ovid with an English translation: Heroides and Amores
Index of proper names appended
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Apocolocyntosis
13 works of Seneca the Younger
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (4 BC - 65 AD)
This ebook presents a collection of 13 works of Seneca the Younger. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents:
Apocolocyntosis
L. Annaeus Seneca On Benefits
Of a Happy Life
Of Anger
Of Clemency
Of Consolation to Helvia
Of Consolation To Marcia
Of…
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Metamorphoses
To the Right Honourable and Mighty Lord, THOMAS EARLE OF SUSSEX, Viscount Fitzwalter, Lord of Egremont and of Burnell, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, Iustice of the forrests and Chases from Trent Southward; Captain of the Gentleman Pensioners of the House of the QUEENE our Soveraigne Lady.
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The Georgics of Virgil translated by Thomas Neville, ..
Virgil's classic poem extols the virtues of work, describes the care of crops, trees, animals, and bees, and stresses the importance of moral values.
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