Ancient, Classical & Medieval

In his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, Odysseus must pass through the land of...

‘The Works and Days’ is a didactic poem of some 800 lines composed by the anc...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Translated by Edward FitzGerald Narrated by De...

Aristotle’s Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first...

The first of Homer's epic poems tells of the counsel of Nestor, Achilles' slaying of Hect...

Array A collection of the funny, curious verse written during the 19th and 20th centuries...

Array A collection of the greatest war poetry ever written, read by some of the 20th cent...

Array A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, read by some of the 2...