Westbrook jokes about the novel
Emma Woodhouse was no retiring mouse
English poems
English poems to know and love.
Troilus and Cressida, Act III Scene 3
Shakespeare eavesdrops on Odysseus and Achilles
I do believe it, for they pass'd by me
Ulysses suggests that celebrities cannot rest on their laurels.
Menelaus reflects
The Queen and I meet almost every day
Menelaus takes stock
San Lorenzo
Across the way see San Lorenzo stand
J de S Westbrook on hidden beauties.
Opening lines from Homer’s Odyssey
The man, O Muse, inform, that many a way
The first lines of the Odyssey, translated by George Chapman in a version admired by Keats
Say not the trouble nought availeth
Say not the trouble nought availeth
Optimism and self-help from this principled poet of the Victorian era
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Eton College in the gateway to Orcus
Vestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus Orci
Virgil's traces are visible in this eighteenth-century poet
Proud songsters
The thrushes sing as the light is going
Hardy shares his sadness and his flair for nature