The poet of Invictus chose the poems in this anthology for their simple, elemental feelings of courage, duty and adventure. It ranges from Shakespeare’s Agincourt and Elizabethan lyrics through ballads and Macaulay’s Horatius to the soldiers and sailors of the Victorian age, with English and American poets side by side.
A classic Victorian anthology of heroic verse, very much of its imperial moment and still rousing to read aloud. Download the free EPUB.