The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri http://feedbooks.com/book/206 urn:isbn:0451208633 en 1306 Poetry Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation. http://feedbooks.com/book/206.png http://feedbooks.com/book/206.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/206.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/206.mobi Paradise Lost John Milton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/174 urn:isbn:0393924289 en 1667 Poetry Religion Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books; a second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. The poem concerns the Judeo-Christian story of the Fall of Man; the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is "justify the ways of God to men" and elucidate the conflict between God's eternal foresight and free will. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/174.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/174.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/174.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/174.mobi The Iliad of Homer Homer http://feedbooks.com/book/2962 urn:isbn:B0012AHIYI en -900 Poetry War Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper. The Iliad is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the late 9th or to the 8th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the ancient Greek language, making it one of the first works of ancient Greek literature. The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence, possible multiple authors . http://feedbooks.com/book/2962.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2962.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2962.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2962.mobi The Raven Edgar Allan Poe http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3428 en 1845 Poetry Horror "The Raven" is a narrative poem by the American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. It was published for the first time on January 29, 1845, in the New York Evening Mirror. Noted for its musicality, stylized language and supernatural atmosphere, it tells of the mysterious visit of a talking raven to a distraught lover, tracing his slow descent into madness. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3428.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3428.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3428.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3428.mobi The Prophet Kahlil Gibran http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843 urn:isbn:0394404289 en 1923 Poetry The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.mobi Paradise Regained John Milton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/175 en 1667 Poetry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/175.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/175.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/175.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/175.mobi The Allowable Rhyme Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://www.feedbooks.com/book/233 en 1915 Non-Fiction Poetry Essay This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/233.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/233.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/233.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/233.mobi The Aeneid of Virgil (I-VI) Virgil http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3076 urn:isbn:0199231958 en -29 Poetry The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the 1st century BC (between 29 and 19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is written in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half treats the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad; Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or nationalist epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3076.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3076.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3076.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3076.mobi The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Omar Khayyam http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4139 en 1889 Poetry This is the first and most famous English translation of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. As a work of English literature FitzGerald's version of these poems, originally written in the Persian language, is a high point of the 19th century and has been greatly influential. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4139.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4139.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4139.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4139.mobi The Kalevala Elias Lönnrot http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2476 urn:isbn:1605067717 en 1888 Poetry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2476.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2476.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2476.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2476.mobi The Wild Knight and Other Poems Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3702 urn:isbn:1406590991 en 1900 Poetry Collections This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3702.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3702.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3702.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3702.mobi Christmas, and Poems on Slavery for Christmas Thomas Hill http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3508 en 1843 Poetry Collections A set of Christmas and antislavery poems published by Thomas Hill (1818-1891) for the Boston antislavery fair. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3508.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3508.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3508.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3508.mobi Helen of Troy Andrew Lang http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4428 en 1882 Poetry In Greek mythology, Helen, better known as Helen of Sparta or Helen of Troy, was daughter of Zeus and Leda, wife of king Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. Helen was described as having the face that launched a thousand ships. Helen or Helene is probably derived from the Greek word meaning "torch" or "corposant" or might be related to "selene" meaning "moon". This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4428.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4428.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4428.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4428.mobi