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
Proud songsters
The thrushes sing as the light is going
Hardy shares his sadness and his flair for nature
Opening lines from Homer’s Iliad
The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring
A Georgian wit attempts to render the epic of ancient Greece