Classic Poetry

• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.”...

• Author(s): Omar Khayyam • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title given by Edward FitzGerald to his translation of a selection of quatrains, originally written in Persi...

• Author(s): Kahlil Gibran • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe Prophet (1923) is a book of 26 prose poems by the Lebanese American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. A collection of ...

• Author(s): Kalidasa • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“A bee may be born in a hole in a tree, but she likes the honey of the lotus.” Shakuntala, a timeless masterpiece by the ancient Indian poet Kal...

• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe initial fame of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 was due to Gitanjali which wa...

• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureHomer's The Iliad, an ancient epic of unparalleled significance, transports readers to the heart of the Trojan War, an epoch-defining conflict betw...

• Author(s): John Milton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMilton’s magnum opus, Paradise Lost, an epic poem in blank verse, was composed during the period 1658 to 1664. The first version, published i...

• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJames Joyce’s Ulysses, a landmark of modernist literature, takes place over a single day—16 June 1904—in Dublin, as Leopold Bloom journeys th...