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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Erotic Poems
Ovid · 449 pages
Poems include elegies to Ovid's mistress, advice on courtship, suggestions on how to break off a relationship, and a discussion of the art of cosmetics.
The Eclogues of Virgil: A Bilingual Edition
Virgil · 112 pages
The Complete Poems
Catullus · 273 pages
Includes an introduction to this Roman poet, selections from his poetry, vocabulary and grammatical notes, and glossaries on meters and figures of speech.
The Epigrams
Marcus Valerius Martialis · 245 pages
It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in A.D. 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this collection record the broad spectacle of shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigrammist's twelve subsequent books capture the spirit of Roman life - both public and private - in
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri · 288 pages
Dante, after becoming lost on the path of life, is led by Virgil into Hell to begin his journey back to the light of God.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam · 109 pages
Blue/Green Hardcover, pasted illustrations believed to be done by Willy Pogany, no pub. date, Thomas Crowell New York. Cover has gold decor.small miniature book. Written by Edward Fitzgerald.
Selected Poems
George Gordon Byron · 216 pages
George Gordon Byron was born on 22 January 1788 and he inherited the barony in 1798. He went to school in Dulwich, and then in 1801 to Harrow. In 1805 he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, later gaining a reputation in London for his startling good looks and extravagant behaviour. His first collection of poems, Hours of Idleness (1807), was not well received, but with the publication of the f
Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems
Lewis Carroll · 464 pages
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Sappho · 409 pages
A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson.Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 b.c. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed, none of the music is extant and only one poem has survived complete. All the rest are fragments. In If Not,
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
John Donne · 871 pages
This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her," and "To His Mistris Going to Bed." Presented as well are Donne's satires, epigrams, verse letters, and holy s
Selected Poems: Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson · 293 pages
A brief profile of the nineteenth century English poet, Alfred Tennyson, accompanies selections from some of his best known works.
Ballad of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde · 50 pages
*The Ballad of Reading Gaol* is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand and Naples, after his release from HM Prison Reading on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems
Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 95 pages