Bramah and the Beggar Boy (Thot J Bap (the Heart of This Journey Bears All Patterns), #1)
by Renee Sarojini Saklikar
Idylls of the King (Top 100 Classic Epic Poems)
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
A BBC Radio 3 adaptation by Michael Symmons of Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'The Idylls of the King', narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith and broadcast on 12 July 2009 to mark the bicentenary of the poet's birth. In this extraordinary epic poem, Tennyson transforms Malory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur', infusing the legend of King Arthur with a passionate intensity. Told here in five acts, the central arc of the narrative encompasses Arthur's arrival, his relationship with Lancelot and Guinevere, the Holy Grail, the...
Glance at the World Through the Lens of Poetry
by Shashikant Nishant Sharma
An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic (Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology)
by Morris Jastrow and Albert Tobias Clay
The epic tale of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest stories in world literature, composed more than four thousand years ago. It survives in fragmentary form in various cuneiform tablets. This 1920 publication presents transliterations and translations of Old Babylonian fragments found since the discovery in the 1850s of shattered clay tablets in the library of King Ashurbanipal (668-627 BCE) at Nineveh by A. H. Layard, and painstakingly pieced together by George Smith (several of whose works have...