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The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works

10 best books like The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works (H.P. Lovecraft): Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet, The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw, The Fall of Troy, Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica, Selected Poetry, The Complete Pegāna: All the Tales Pertaining to the Fabulous Realm of Pegāna, The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters, An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker

Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
AuthorPhilip Freeman
ISBN0393353826
For more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho—the first woman writer in literary history—were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. Yet those meager remains showed such power and genius that they captured the imagination of readers through...
The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0802062199
The Saga of Gisli was written early in the thirteenth century. It offers an imaginative reconstruction of the story of a man and his family who came to Iceland from Norway about AD 960. Soon after 960 Gisli, the central figure, was outlawed for killing his brother-in-law, and then, for thirteen years...
The Fall of Troy
AuthorQuintus Smyrnaeus
ISBN0760768366
From the introduction, and doesn't the idea of the missing pieces make you crazy?!
Homer's "Iliad" begins towards the close of the last of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents extend over some fifty days only, and it ends with the burial of Hector. The things which came before and after were...
Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica
AuthorHorace
ISBN0674992148
In the two books of "Satires" Horace is a moderate social critic and commentator; the two books of "Epistles" are more intimate and polished, the second book being literary criticism as is also the "Ars Poetica." The "Epodes" in various (mostly iambic) metres are akin to the 'discourses' (as Horace...
Selected Poetry
AuthorAlexander Pope
ISBN0192834940
Though critical opinion on Alexander Pope has frequently been divided, he is now regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, he devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of twenty-one....
The Complete Pegāna: All the Tales Pertaining to the Fabulous Realm of Pegāna
AuthorLord Dunsany
ISBN1568821166
Lord Dunsany is best known as a favorite of other writers--such as H. P. Lovecraft, who counted him second only to Edgar Allan Poe as an influence on his work. Lovecraft readers will be interested to know that two ideas Lovecraft got from Dunsany were (1) an artificial pantheon of gods and other entities...
The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
AuthorOvid
ISBN0520242602
In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile—permanently, as it turned out—at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's...
An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia
AuthorS.T. Joshi
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is commonly regarded as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the 20th century. He is distinctive among writers in having a tremendous popular following as well as a considerable and increasing academic reputation as a writer of substance and significance. This...
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
AuthorAdam Sisman
ISBN0670038229
The story of the legendary friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge

The friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came Lyrical Ballads, the volume that kick-started the Romantic Movement in England. Rarely have two such...
Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker
AuthorDorothy Parker
ISBN0743211480
During the early years of her career, while struggling to "keep body and soul apart" (as she ruefully put it later), Dorothy Parker wrote more than three hundred poems and verses for a variety of popular magazines and newspapers. Between 1926 and 1933 she collected most of these pieces in three volumes...
All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten
AuthorChristopher Logue
ISBN0374529299
Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly,
Emptying her blood-red mouth—set in her ice-white face—
Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked:

"Kill! Kill for me!
Better to die than live without killing!"

Who says prayer does no good?

Christopher...
Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
AuthorTracy Lee Simmons
ISBN1882926730
Discussions of educational reform often involve windy talk of a "return to the classics," yet rarely do would-be reformers go so far as to advocate a return to education in the classical languages themselves. That is a program that strikes even the most stalwart critics of contemporary educational...
Y Gododdin
AuthorAneirin
ISBN0863833543
Aneirin, the sixth century Welsh poet, is reputed to have been one of a handful of survivors from the battle of Catraeth, which inspired his epic poem, The Gododdin. Aneirin's poem is a universal celebration of the undying theme of the ideal hero. O'Grady's belief that what Aneirin wrote of his war is...
The Riverside Milton
AuthorJohn Milton
ISBN0395809991
The first one-volume anthology of John Milton's complete poetry and selected prose to be published in over 30 years, The Riverside Milton reflects the highest quality and most current scholarship. As editor of The Milton Quarterly for 30 years, Roy Flannagan is uniquely qualified to survey Milton's...
Virgil, Vol 2: Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana
AuthorVirgil
ISBN0674995864
Virgil, Volume Ii : Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library, No 64) Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life....
Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 1
AuthorWilliam Wordsworth
Straight from the outset I must say that I have never been into poetry. I wouldn't say I hate poetry, rather I have never got into or understood it.

Due to recent nostalgic rumblings of the Lake District I decided to read some of Wordsworth's works. I am, and have been since a child, familiar with...
Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death
AuthorRamsey Campbell
ISBN0765300044
Ramsey Campbell has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Publishers Weekly calls Campbell "a horror writer's horror writer," adding, "His control of mood and atmosphere is unsurpassed." The Cleveland Plain...
Theological Tractates/The Consolation of Philosophy
AuthorBoethius
ISBN0674990838
Boethius (Boetius)--Anicius Manlius Severinus--Roman statesman and philosopher (ca. 480-524 CE), was son of Flavius Manlius Boetius, after whose death he was looked after by several men, especially Memmius Symmachus. He married Symmachus's daughter, Rusticiana, by whom he had two sons. All...
Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
AuthorVictor Davis Hanson
ISBN1893554260
For hundreds of years, the study of the classics was at the heart of a liberal education, thought essential to the cultivation of free men. Yet today speaking Latin would be regarded as a sign of eccentricity, not erudition. People now attend university for technical expertise in fields like business,...
On Ends (De finibus bonorum et malorum)
AuthorMarcus Tullius Cicero
ISBN0674990447
De finibus bonorum et malorum ("On the ends of good and evil") is a philosophical work by the Roman orator, politician and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero. It consists of five books, in which Cicero explains the philosophical views of Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Platonism of Antiochus of Ascalon....
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