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PREFACE This edition of Romeo and Juliet, first published in 1879, is now thoroughly revised on the same general plan as its predecessors in the ...

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INTRODUCTION The Medea, in spite of its background of wonder and enchantment, is not a romantic play but a tragedy ...

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PREFACE If I have turned aside from Euripides for a moment and attempted a translation of the great stage masterpiece of Sophocles, my excuse mu ...

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THE TEMPEST. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[1]. ALONSO, King of Naples. SEBASTIAN, his brother. PROSPERO, the right Duke of Milan. ANTONIO ...

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PERSONS REPRESENTED. ARGAN, an imaginary invalid. BÉLINE, second wife to ARGAN. ANGÉLIQUE, daughter to ARGAN, in love with CLÉANTE. LOU ...

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TINTRODUCTION The greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, sat ...

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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PREFACE THE STORY OF A SPEECH PLYMOUTH ROCK AND THE PILGRIMS COMPLIMENTS AND DEGREES BOOKS, AUTHORS ...

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Birds, by Aristophanes This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions ...

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THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY THE EARL OF CAVERSHAM, K.G. VISCOUNT GORING, his Son SIR ROBERT CHILTERN, Bart., Under-Secretary for Foreign Affair ...

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* * * * * TO GLADYS ...

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***** ARGUMENT To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to ...

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DEDICATION Bob Southey! You're a poet, poet laureate, And representative of all the race. Although 'tis true that you turned out ...

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PREFACE. The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"--something produced a ...

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STRUWWELPETER Merry Stories and Funny Pictures When the children have been good, That is, be it understood, Good at meal-time ...

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PREFACE. In placing before the public this collection of Edgar Poe's poetical works, it is requisite to point out in what respects it differs fr ...

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HELL Cantos 1 - 34 CANTO I IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct ...

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I Here's where I've planted my garden and here I shall care for love's blossoms-- As I am taught by my muse, carefully sort them in plots: ...

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INTRODUCTION The poet Kabîr, a selection from whose songs is here for the first time offered to English readers, is one of the most interestin ...

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TO IANTHE. {1} Not in those climes where I have late been straying, Though Beauty long hath there been matchless deemed, Not in thos ...

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INTRODUCTION. Pope's life as a writer falls into three periods, answering fairly enough to the three reigns in which he worked. Under Queen Ann ...

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THE ILIAD OF HOMER Rendered into English Prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Samuel Butler BOOK ...

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CONTENTS: Philosophy of Furniture A Tale of Jerusalem The Sphinx Hop Frog The Man of the Crowd Never Bet the Dev ...

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SONGS OF INNOCENCE INTRODUCTION Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laugh ...