This is a book about Virgil's Aeneid, especially the second half of the poem, are explores in some detail Virgil's use of Homer's Iliad. The author's main purpose is to try to re-establish the value and importance of books ...

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman is one of the must read Walt Whitman poems. There were a few editions of Song of Myself, as Whitman revised this poem throughout his lifetime.

One of the greatest of all Restoration comedies, this knowing comedy of manners depicts the scheming of a nest of shallow, deceitful aristocrats to prevent two lovers from marrying. The play abounds with felicitous phrasing, ...

Conventional study guides and essay-writing manuals can be positively unhelpful to literature students, since the kind of advice about researching and structuring an essay which is useful and relevant if you are studying ...

learned to write by listening and, later, by reading; I learned to write by writing; I learned to write by teaching others how to write. I didn’t so much write this book as remember it;

Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs. A somber tale ...