Thomas A. Copeland
John Donne's Satires
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John Donne
Donne’s StyleIn John Donne’s day, a satire was such a poem as a satyr might compose. Satyrs were rough, savage creatures in Greek mythology…
Venus and Adonis (Version 2)
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William Shakespeare
Both Ovid and Spenser also treat this ancient myth, but Spenser alters the ending, converting the tale into an archetype of fulfilled love, …
Selected Poems
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George Herbert
These poems, from Herbert’s book The Temple, show the evolution of a soul’s relationship with God. Sudden reversals of mood are common, for …
The Radium Pool
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Edward Earl Repp
Deep beneath the many-hued, volcanic sands of the Manalava Plains is an eerie world. And in this world, in a gem-encrusted cavern, is a pool…
The Age of Reason (version 3)
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Thomas Paine
In these volumes, Paine demonstrates the anonymity of the books contained in both the Old and the New Testaments, the only certainties being…
The Metamorphoses (Miller Version)
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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
Ovid represents his work as a celebration of mutability in the form of a history of the world's notable transformations. It is a compendium …
Back to Methuselah
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George Bernard Shaw
In this late work, Shaw examines many contemporary issues under the broad rubric of evolution and then illustrates his opinions in five brie…
Four Hymns
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Edmund Spenser
Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heav…
The Maracot Deep
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Professor Maracot, accompanied by two American associates, conducts an exploration of the Atlantic Ocean floor, beginning in a diving bell o…
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV
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François Rabelais
This fourth in the five novels about the giants Pantagruel and his father Gargantua is the last novel indusputably attributed to Franç…
The Defense of Poesy
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …
Amoretti and Epithalamion
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Edmund Spenser
"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…
The Shadowy Thing
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H. B. Drake
A tale of spiritualism cannot easily win a willing suspension of disbelief in the world of a country squire, in which Dick Bellew has grown …
Sonnets
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
It has been observed that within the narrow confines of a sonnet the mind can turn around but cannot take flight. Some of Millay’s sonnets, …
The Shadow Flies
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Rose Macaulay
The title of the original, British release of this novel was They Were Defeated, referring, among other matters, to the English Civil War, 1…
Of Education
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John Milton
A well educated population is the cornerstone of a strong society. On the personal level, education contributes to virtue and self-knowledge…
The Tables of the Law and The Adoration of the Magi
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William Butler Yeats
The first two tales involve the persona's relationship with a certain Aherne, who has come into possession of a beautiful book by Joachim of…
The "Old" Arcadia
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney wrote two romances which he called Arcadia. The revised version he never finished because of his untimely death on the bat…
Astrophel and Stella
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet sequences, which these poems by Sidney made very popular in the Elizabethan age, reflected the Medieval motif of courtly love, whereb…
Shakespeare's Ovid, Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses
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William Shakespeare
Ovid represents his work as a celebration of mutability in the form of a history of the world's notable transformations. It is a compendium …