The Heroic Enthusiasts is a deeply allegorical dialogue by Giordano Bruno. It is a philosophical discussion of love and the nature of God and Man. This great work is reminiscent of Shakespeare.
The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi (Rediscovered Books)
by Mohandas K. Gandhi
You're A Badass Therapist Keep That Shit Up
by White Elephant Novelty Books
You're A Badass Valet Keep That Shit Up
by White Elephant Novelty Books
Seneca: De otio; De brevitate vitae (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
by Seneca
This edition, the first modern one in English, introduces undergraduates and more advanced students to the therapeutic possibilities of Seneca's Stoic philosophy. The short treatises De otio and De brevitate vitae balance each other by representing different but complementary aspects of Senecan philosophy: in De otio, one's duty to the 'active' life, in De brevitate vitae, one's duty to oneself in reclaiming life from the impositions made upon the self. The provocative Senecan message is to prom...
The Song of Hiawatha (Poetry Books) (Classics Illustrated)
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The epic story of Hiawatha and his fantastic magical powers Angered by the sight of warring nations, Gitche Manito, Mohican Masters of Life, sends for the prophets Hiawatha to bring peace. Brought up by his grandmother on the shores of Lake superior, Hiawatha learns to use his remarkable powers for good of humanity: wearing his magic moccasins he covers a mile with every step; grinds boulders to dust with his special mittens: speaks with all kinds of animals and birds in their own language. Over...
Blake's two finished epics have been widely regarded as combinations of brilliant set pieces which yield to no systematic rhetorical criticism. Susan Fox contests this view, discovering in Milton an elaborate verbal structure that is fully congruent with the poem's philosophy. She has made the first full exposition of the formal principles of a late Blake poem, and it suggests that the late prophecies are as profound in their artistic structures as they are in their thematic ones. The author b...
Originally published between 1932 and 1945, the eleven-volume Works of Edmund Spenser collects The Faerie Queene along with Spenser's minor poems, prose works, and Alexander C. Judson's The Life of Edmund Spenser.