Literature
- Oedipus The King By Sophocles
Oedipus the King - Summary of the Story In the book Oedipus the King a man is corrupts the town Thebes from his own great misfortunes and self-tortures. The book starts off in the town of Thebes and Oedipus as the king. King Oedipus realizes slowly but...
- Authors (chronological By Date Of Birth)
Authors: Chaucer to Shakespeare Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare Authors: Donne to MiltonJohn Donne, Ben Jonson, John Webster, John Milton Authors: Bunyan to Gray John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope,...
- April In Review (or How I Od'ed On Romantic Lit And Went On Hiatus)
Bender rules.For how much longer is anyone's guess. In retrospect, trying to read The Prelude by William Wordsworth in a single sitting may not have been the wisest decision on my part. I clearly got overzealous in my determination to do a crash-course...
- Top 10 Books Recently Added To My Tbr List
Thanks to Broke and the Bookish for hosting the wonderful Top Ten Tuesday meme! This week's list is pretty self-explanatory. Similar to all book lovers out there, this list just continues to grow relentlessly. Here are my new additions: 1. The Confessions...
- Once Upon A Time Ix
I just happened to stumble across one of the coolest reading challenges over at Stainless Steel Droppings and could not resist joining up. The main focus is on four genres: Fairy Tale, Folklore, Fantasy and Mythology but the event is divided up into...
Literature
On First Looking into Chapman?s Homer by John Keats 1795?1821
On First Looking into Chapman?s Homer
John Keats 1795?1821
MUCH have I travell?d in the realms of gold
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow?d Homer ruled as his demesne:
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
?Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez?when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific?and all his men
Look?d at each other with a wild surmise?
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
From the (Romantic Writings: An Anthology ? Volume2) P.141
John Keats 1795?1821
MUCH have I travell?d in the realms of gold
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow?d Homer ruled as his demesne:
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
?Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez?when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific?and all his men
Look?d at each other with a wild surmise?
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
From the (Romantic Writings: An Anthology ? Volume2) P.141
- Oedipus The King By Sophocles
Oedipus the King - Summary of the Story In the book Oedipus the King a man is corrupts the town Thebes from his own great misfortunes and self-tortures. The book starts off in the town of Thebes and Oedipus as the king. King Oedipus realizes slowly but...
- Authors (chronological By Date Of Birth)
Authors: Chaucer to Shakespeare Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare Authors: Donne to MiltonJohn Donne, Ben Jonson, John Webster, John Milton Authors: Bunyan to Gray John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope,...
- April In Review (or How I Od'ed On Romantic Lit And Went On Hiatus)
Bender rules.For how much longer is anyone's guess. In retrospect, trying to read The Prelude by William Wordsworth in a single sitting may not have been the wisest decision on my part. I clearly got overzealous in my determination to do a crash-course...
- Top 10 Books Recently Added To My Tbr List
Thanks to Broke and the Bookish for hosting the wonderful Top Ten Tuesday meme! This week's list is pretty self-explanatory. Similar to all book lovers out there, this list just continues to grow relentlessly. Here are my new additions: 1. The Confessions...
- Once Upon A Time Ix
I just happened to stumble across one of the coolest reading challenges over at Stainless Steel Droppings and could not resist joining up. The main focus is on four genres: Fairy Tale, Folklore, Fantasy and Mythology but the event is divided up into...