Ancient Poetry

After Fame is a discursive rendering of the Roman epigrammatist Martial's Book I. Its 118 poems, on themes such as work, friendship and public life, are modelled after the source material through a variety of 'treatments' - most notably machine translation (for which Latin still presents near-insurmountable difficulties), employing the results as scaffolding for poems that quickly improvise their way clear of their originals.

Arthur Rimbaud est une fulgurance dans le paysage de la poésie moderne. Né le 20 octobre 1854, mort le 10 novembre 1891, il écrivit ses premiers poèmes à quinze ans et demi et ses derniers à 20 ans. Poète maudit, tourmenté et aux idées marginales, il laisse une œuvre dont la densité fait de lui une figure majeure de la littérature française. Plongez dans la poésie de Rimbaud, le poète "voyant", pour découvrir sa sensualité lumineuse au travers d'une interprétation juste et limpide.

Œdipe... Aussi orgueilleux qu'opiniâtre, sa clairvoyance, son intelligence ont jadis eu raison de la cruelle Sphinge et de ses énigmes. Porté sur le trône par le peuple libéré pour avoir levé la terreur qui étouffait la ville de Thèbes, il doit encore prouver sa valeur : une malédiction incurable semble frapper sans distinction récoltes, troupeaux et habitants.

Die griechische und römische Mythologie, in 15 Büchern in der Versform des Hexameters vereint: Das sind die "Metamorphosen", das ungeheuer erfolgreiche Geschichtswerk Ovids. Die Entstehung der Weltzeitalter, Deukalion und Pyrrha, Daedalus und Ikarus, Orpheus und Eurydike, König Midas, Pygmalion, Perseus und Andromeda, Iason und Medea, Caesar und viele mehr werden im erfolgreichsten Geschichtsbuch aller Zeiten besungen. Mit dabei: Eine pdf-Datei mit allen Inhalten.

Dante narre un voyage à travers les trois règnes supraterrestres qui le conduira jusqu'à la vision de la Trinité. C'est avec la plus grande maîtrise de cette œuvre que Jacques Roland nous charme de sa voix profonde tout au long de la lecture des trois cantiques.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born at Field Place near Horsham, Sussex, England, on August 4th, 1792, and was drowned in the sea off Leghorn on July 8th, 1822, within a month of completing his 30th year. Here, Margaretta Scott reads a selection of his finest work.

These crisply narrated sonnets are the best way to enjoy the work of John Keats. This collection contains nearly ever poem by Keats. Poems are meant to be enjoyed through audio. Whether you're a student or a fan of Keats, please enjoy!

Marie de France visse nel XII secolo, e di lei si sa pochissimo, solo quello che scrive di se stessa: "Il mio nome è Maria e sono di Francia. Visse probabilmente alla corte di Enrico II d'Inghilterra e di Eleonora d'Aquitania, ed è la più antica narratrice nelle letterature volgari d’Occidente. Questa è una collezione di storie cortesi (originalmente in lingua d’oïl ) – famose novelle d’amore tutte tramandate da canzoni bretoni.

De nombreuses années ont passé depuis ce matin du 19 août où le poète Federico Garcia Lorca fut emmené au ravin de Viznar pour y être assassiné. On a beaucoup épilogué sur cette fin tragique : vengeance de la Guardia Civil, raillée de nombreuses fois dans l'œuvre du "Rossignol Andalou", jalousies homosexuelles, cabale politique.

Victor Hugo is one of the best-known French writers, and is part of the greatest literary figures of all time. His poetry made him famous very early, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest lyric poets when he was only 20 years old. He was also a novelist and a dramatist, and furthered the cause of Romanticism, this exalted artistic movement which toyed with Sublime and soared on the winds of emotion.

Récité et commenté par Albert Millaire, apparié aux musiques de Couperin, Duphly ou Balbastre, et interprété au clavecin par Hélène Panneton...

In Denmark, a very prosperous and popular ruler, King Hrothgar, has built a large mead hall and encouraged all of his soldiers to be jubilant and merry. The commotion from the festivities has greatly upset a horrible demon, Grendel, who lives in the swamp. Every night the demon terrorizes the community forcing the Danes to suffer at the hand of the beast for many years until a young Geatish warrior, Beowulf, hears of the plight King Hrothgar has endured.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti recites William Shakespeare's Sonnet 43.

Le Moyen Âge : Thibault de Champagne, Guyot de Dijon, Eustache Deschamps, Guillaume Dufay, Charles d’Orléans, Rutebeuf et bien d'autres.

This poetic exploration of the subject of love was composed in Italy 1821, and published anonymously, as the poet wished its circulation to be restricted to the "esoteric few." The title means "concerning or about a little soul", the subject, in this case, being Shelley's inamorata of the time, Countess Teresa (designated "Emily" in the poem) Viviani, a young woman who was immured in the Convent of Saint Anna by her father. Shelley had had a number of contacts with her by letter and in person.

The Iliad of Homer is the earliest work of European literature that we have. Created in the eighth century BC it has continued to arouse interest for over 2000 years. The author intended it to be heard, as delivered by a bard or rhapsode who had made the presentation of Greek epic poetry his profession, and who had command of the vocal resources and the dramatic power to move his audience.

Emmêlant le blé à la cuisse, le lierre au torse, la colline à la croupe et le vent de la plaine aux baisers, les poètes du XVIe siècle nous livrent léblouissante image d'une créature réconciliée.

Pegasus, du alter Renner,

Trag mich mal nach Afrika,

Alldieweil so schwarze Männer

Und so bunte Vögel da.

Kleider sind da wenig Sitte;

Höchstens trägt man einen Hut,

Auch wohl einen Schurz der Mitte;

Man ist schwarz und damit gut.

Universally admired and quoted, Shakespeare’s Sonnets have love, beauty and the passing of time at their heart. Featuring some of the best-known and best-loved lines in the history of poetry (‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’, ‘Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds’), these evocative sonnets explore passion, the fleeting nature of beauty and the essence of true and everlasting love.

Frederick Lazarus Light's resolve to write a greater Iliad in English than Homer composed in Greek is manifest. This translation impersonates Homeric Greek. It runs with Achilleus and like man-shattering Hector in the shock of arms is resolutely sharp. As unrelenting as sublimity, not yielding lyrically, unprosaically vindicating Homer's vision, the brightest labor has been attempted and is brought over as a consummate attempt.