The best Ancient, Classical & Medieval Poetry eBooks: Reddit reviews

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I've had an excellent reading week on accident thanks to no Internet for a few days. Finished Emma Goldman's Anarchism and other essays, Sharp Objects by Gillian Flyn, How to hold a grudge, To-do list formula and The Promise by R.L. Mathewson. A few of these have been on my kindle for ages.

This week I'm reading: Lobby (a Norwegian book on how to lobby), Nietzsche's The Dawn of Day (free on gutenberg), Tor and the dark art of anonymity, Japanese Death Poems, Berlin Stories by Robert Walser, and a short-short book on The Middle Ages (free on Amazon.)

I'm no expert on Sumerian mythology, but I would highly recommend the Epic of Gilgamesh. It's a touching tale about the quest for immortality and it's pretty easy to understand. Here is a link to buy the E-book: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh-Classics-Penguin-ebook/dp/B002RI9VZS

I've self published poetry. Here's the link. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071RNQPJC I've had more to say, but logging out twice accidentally and losing what I wrote here at 3am has me annoyed. I was wondering if anyone has any success stories about self promoting their work and getting noticed. Not big as Jk Rowling but at least building a foundation where writing actually felt worthwhile.

Thank you for your time.

If you have a Kindle there is a series by Delphi that offers the complete works of classical authors in the original Latin (or Greek) along with English translations. Here is a link to the eBook on Amazon.

Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 6) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AHK02GK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_43s1ybN8XY695

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The works are poetry so it's hard to translate them. Partial English translations of Hāfez exist in verse. I don't know about their quality. You can check the Wikipedia article.

Of Ferdowsi's Shāhnāmeh there are no full English translations in verse but there is an okay translation in combined prose and verse by Dick Davis. It was reviewed by NPR.

Thanks, John. A good suggestion is never late! I have recently acquired this book with all of Alexander Pope's works and so far I am loving it. I'll read the rape of the lock immediately, thought, since you were so kind as to link it here and since I don't know when I'll get to it an the book I have mentioned.

Just one question. It seems you mentioned two more books (40 sonnets and Shakespeare's sonnets), but both link to the same page. Was that intentional?

Mi-am propus sa citesc lista lui Neil deGrasse Tyson. Chiar mi-am downloadat versiunea epub a bibliei. Din pacate, e nevoie de mai multa liniste si rabdare decat am anticipat.

Ca propunere recomand "The Gift" by Hafez. Sunt cam 1/3 in carte si este superba.

No problem! It's just a link to the paperback of the book more's the pity, but here's a link to the Amazon page in case that's more useful.