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The Song of Hiawatha
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthDuke Classics 2022Longfellow wrote his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855. He based it on the Ojibway legends, which had been compiled by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and his Ojibway wife Jane Schoolc...
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Songs of Innocence and Experience : Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul
Blake, WilliamDuke Classics 2022Songs of Innocence and of Experience compiles two contrasting but directly related books of poetry by William Blake. Songs of Innocence honors and praises the natural world, the na...
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The Aeneid
VirgilDuke Classics 2022Aeneas appears in The Illiad in vague snatches and starts as a traveling warrior of great piety who was loosely connected to the foundation of Rome. Virgil weaves these fragments i...
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Don Juan
Byron, LordDuke Classics 2022In his satiric poem Don Juan, Lord Byron refigures the legend as a man easily seduced by women, rather than as a dangerous womanizer. When the first two cantos were anonymously pub...
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The Madman : His Parables and Poems
Gibran, KahlilDuke Classics 2022The poetry of Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), a Lebanese-American writer, is the third best-selling in the world, after Shakespeare and Laozi. Much of his work deals with Christianity...
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Khayyam, OmarDuke Classics 2022Edward FitzGerald gave the title The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to his translation of poetry attributed to the Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1123). Th...
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The Book of American Negro Poetry
Duke Classics 2021The work of James Weldon Johnson (1871 - 1938) inspired and encouraged the artists of the Harlem Renaissance,a movement in which he himself was an important figure. Johnson was act...
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Leaves of Grass
Whitman, WaltDuke Classics 2024Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems by Walt Whitman originally published in 1855 at the poet's own expense. Criticized when first released for Whitman's use of free verse and...
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Poems : Series I - III
Dickinson, EmilyDuke Classics 2022Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) was an eccentric, reclusive poet, though born to a family of good standing within their Massachusetts community. She had fewer than a dozen poems publ...
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The Iliad
HomerDuke Classics 2024An epic tale of love and betrayal, war and hope The Iliad is the first of two legendary ancient poems attributed to the Greek bard Homer. Typically dated between the 8th and 7th ce...
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Paradise Lost
Milton, JohnDuke Classics 2023Paradise Lost is one of the most epic, complex theological works to date. Milton's masterpiece in blank verse tells the story of the fall from grace. His protagonist is often read...