Selections
FROM THE RÂMÂYANA: TRANSLATOR The Descent of the Ganges... Milman The Death of Yajnadatta... "
FROM THE MAHÂ-BHÂRATA:
Sâvitrî; or, Love and Death... Arnold The Great Journey... "
FROM THE ILIAD:
Helen at the Scaean Gates... Bryant The Parting of Hector and Andromache... "
FROM THE ODYSSEY:
The Palace of Alcinoüs... Bryant The Bending of the Bow... "
FROM THE KALEVALA:
Ilmarinen’s Wedding Feast... Crawford The Birth of the Harp... "
FROM THE AENEID:
Nisus and Euryalus... Conington
FROM BEOWULF:
Grendel’s Mother... Hall
FROM THE NIBELUNGEN LIED:
How Brunhild was received at Worms... Lettsom How Margrave Rüdeger was slain... "
FROM THE SONG OF ROLAND:
The Horn... Rabillon Roland’s Death... "
FROM THE SHAH-NAMEH: The Rajah of India sends a Chessboard to Nushirvan Robinson Zal and Rudabeh "
FROM THE POEM OF THE CID:
Count Raymond and My Cid Ormsby My Cid’s Triumph "
FROM THE DIVINE COMEDY:
Count Ugolino Wilstach Buonconte di Montefeltro "
Beatrice descending from Heaven "
The Exquisite Beauty of Beatrice "
FROM THE ORLANDO FURIOSO:
The Death of Zerbino Rose
FROM THE LUSIAD:
Inez de Castro Mickle The Spirit of the Cape "
FROM THE JERUSALEM DELIVERED:
Sophronia and Olindo Wiffen
FROM PARADISE LOST:
Satan
Apostrophe to Light
FROM PARADISE REGAINED:
The Temptation of the Vision of the Kingdoms of the Earth