Category - Literary Criticism

The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and the best-known legal text of ancient India. Famous for fifteen centuries it still generates cont...

Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dial...

This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly liter...

The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories...

Drawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson's new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian ficti...

Alain de Botton's bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy—later made into a six-part TV series—has helped popularize ancient philosophy and es...

'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.'Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental...

Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. Admired by Ge...

This is a new annotated translation of the B-text, Langland's own extensive revision of his original text. One of the greatest poems of the Engli...