Narratives
La Divina Commedia - Il Purgatorio
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri racconta in questa opera il suo viaggio nei tre regni dell'oltre tomba. Il viaggio, avvenuto durante la settimana santa dell…
Captain Craig: A Book of Poems
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
This is a volume of narrative poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson. - Summary by Carolin
Six lyrics from the Ruthenian of Taras Shevchenko, also The Song of the Merchan…
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Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
Poetry by two radical poets, born in the same year, who suffered exile and punishment under the Tsarist Russian empire. Taras Shevchenko is …
Pearl (Weston translation)
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The Gawain Poet, The Gawain Poettranslated Byjessie Laidlay Weston and The Gawain Poettranslated By Jessie Laidlay Weston
Pearl is a structurally complex mediaeval poem that combines narrative, allegory, dream vision, elegy, affirmation of Christian faith and me…
Two Cumberland Ballads
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John Stagg
Two narrative ballads, based on local lore, by the Cumberland poet John Stagg. In 'The Hermit of Rockcliffe', a young fugitive takes refuge …
Within and Without: A Dramatic Poem
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George MacDonald
Brother Julian became a monk because he thought that was how he would find God. But now, feeling further away from God than ever and rejecte…