18 books like Venus and Adonis

What to read after Venus and Adonis — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Metamorfosi Ovid · 1474 · ★ 4.1 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Demanding Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem. In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many… Shares: Latin Fables, Metamorphosis, Classical Mythology, Mythology

Metamorphoses Ovid · 1479 · ★ 4.1 · 417p · ≈ 13h · Demanding The Metamorphoses is a narrative poem penned by the Roman poet Ovid. Widely considered to be his ultimate work, comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths. The poem portrays a history of the world from creation up to the deification of Julius Caesar. Metamorphoses is viewed as one of the most influential works in Western culture, inspiring authors such as Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer, and… Shares: Latin Fables, Metamorphosis, Classical Mythology, Mythology

The working-man's way in the world Charles Manby Smith · 1853 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares: Printing, Biography & Memoir

Tristia; Ex Ponto Ovid · 1892 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Shakespeare's favourite poet, deserves a place in the digital library of all lovers of classic literature. The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Ovid, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual… Shares: Latin Fables, Metamorphosis, Classical Mythology, Mythology

Selections from Ovid Ovid · 1875 · 201p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shares: Latin Fables, Metamorphosis, Classical Mythology, Mythology

Poetical works of Robert Bridges Robert Seymour Bridges · 1898 · ★ 3.7 · 484p · ≈ 16h · Challenging 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. Shares: English poetry, Poetry

Don Juan Lord Byron · 1819 · ★ 3.6 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Challenging 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… Shares: English poetry, Poetry

Poems George Meredith · 1851 · 623p · ≈ 20h · Demanding 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… Shares: English poetry, Poetry

The Norns in old Norse mythology Karen Bek-Pedersen · 2011 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "The nornir or norns were a group of female supernatural beings closely related to ideas about fate in Old Norse tradition. Karen Bek-Pedersen provides a thorough understanding of the role played by norns and other beings like them in the relevant sources. Although they are well known, even to people who have only a superficial knowledge of Old Norse mythology, this is the first detailed… Shares: Sources, Mythology

Poems Oscar Wilde · 1881 · ★ 4.0 · 214p · ≈ 7h · Challenging From the book:Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyesSee nothing save their own unlovely woe,Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, -But that the roar of thy Democracies,Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies,Mirror my wildest passions like the seaAnd give my rage a brother -! Liberty!For this sake only do thy dissonant criesDelight my discreet soul, else might all kingsBy… Shares: Art, English poetry, Poetry

A story of the golden age James Baldwin · 1887 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Challenging You have heard of Homer, and of the two wonderful poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which bear his name. No one knows whether these poems were composed by Homer, or whether they are the work of many different poets. And, in fact, it matters very little about their authorship. Everybody agrees that they are the grandest poems ever sung or written or read in this world; and yet, how few persons,… Shares: Classical Mythology, Mythology

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Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan shozō Meijiki kankō tosho maikuro-ban shūsei Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan) · 1991 · ★ 5.0 · 26p · ≈ 52m · Moderate Shares: Printing, Art, Biography & Memoir

The classic myths in English literature and in art Charles Mills Gayley · 1893 · 682p · ≈ 22h · Demanding An illustrated anthology of classical myths, based on Bulfinch's nineteenth-century "Age of Fable," examining myths of divinities and heroes, and including commentary. Shares: Classical Mythology, English poetry, Mythology

Elegy written in a country churchyard Thomas Gray · 1751 · 25p · ≈ 50m · Demanding The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: English poetry, Poetry

The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope · 1714 · ★ 3.5 · 52p · ≈ 1h · Demanding A satiric poem about Belinda and the evil Baron who wants to steal a lock of her hair, it is a commentary on the battle of the sexes and the contemporary social world of high society. Shares: Sources, English poetry, Poetry

The legend of good women Geoffrey Chaucer · 1889 · ★ 3.0 · 229p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's works, after The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout The Canterbury Tales. This form of the heroic couplet would become a… Shares: Classical Mythology, Mythology, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

Departmental ditties and other verses Rudyard Kipling · 1800 · 94p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Departmental Ditties and other verses, Rudyard Kipling. TEI XML version of http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/ditties/ . Shares: English poetry, Poetry

Imagini de i dei de gli antichi Vincenzo Cartari · 1599 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Demanding Shares: Classical Mythology, Art, Mythology

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