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Beowulf

Beowulf

by Francis Barton Gummere

Beowulf is an epic poem considered as a remarkable Anglo-Saxon literature written in old English by unknown author and has been translated by Francis Barton Gummere. This poem narrates the rise and fall of Beowulf who hails from Greats, a tribal kingdom. Beowulf encounters three battles named Grendel, Grendel's mother and The dragon against supe..

Poems

Poems

by Victor Hugo

This book is a selection collection of poems of Victor Hugo, a French writer who has influenced the Romantic Movement and remembered for his magnum opus Les Misérables. His poems captured the spirit of Romantic era and touched religious themes. Notable poems in this collection are The Girl Of Otaheite, The Feast Of Freedom, The Morning Of Life, The..

Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works

Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works

by Kalidasa

Shakuntala is a dramatized version of a story from Mahabharata, written by Kalidasa, one of the greatest Sanskrit dramatist and poet. Shakuntala, is brought up in a forest by Kanva Rishi, after her father Vishwāmitra, a sage disowns her on account of continuing his ascetism. King Dushyanta encounters her in forest during his hunting and they get..

Lays of Ancient Rome

Lays of Ancient Rome

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay

Lays of Ancient Rome is a poems collection of narrative style written by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay, a British historian whose work on British history is considered as a masterpiece.  The poems are based on the early roman history and recent historical works such as Ivry and The Armada. It includes poems such as Horatius, The Battle Of..

A Boy's Will

A Boy's Will

by Robert Frost

A Boy's Will is a poetry collection of Robert Frost, an American author credited with four Pulitzer Prizes for his poetical works of A Further Range , New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes, Collected Poems, and A Witness Tree. His notable contributions include plays, prose books and letters such as A Way Out, The Cow's in the Corn, A Mas..

The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire

The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire

by James Huneker

The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire is a selective collection poems of written by Charles Baudelaire, a French poet whose proses had great impact on writings of Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé.  Apart from his masterpiece The Flowers of Evil, his notable works include Mirror of Art, The Essence of Laughter, The ..

Poems

Poems

by Christina Georgina Rossetti

This poetry collection is the selective and popular poems written by Christina Georgina Rossetti, an English poet remembered for her wide variety of poetic works in the genres of Romance, Devotional and Children’s poems.  Her magnum opuses are Goblin Market, Remember, and In the Bleak Midwinter. Her contributions to literary world includes ..

The Poetical Works of John Milton

The Poetical Works of John Milton

by John Milton

The Poetical Works of John Milton is a collection of most popular poems of the English poet John Milton, remembered for his epic poem Paradise lost. Among his numerous works of poems, plays and proses notable are Lycidas, Paradise Regained, Of Reformation, Animadversions, History of Britain, and A Treatise of Civil Power. This collection of poem..