Great Poems of Western Literature

Achilles Aeneas Aeneid Agamemnon Alcinous allegory Athene Beatrice beautiful believe better body breath Byron canto Chaucer comes comic spirit courtesy Criseyde Dante Dante's dark death Diomedes Divine Comedy doth earth epic eternity Eumaeus Eurycleia eyes Faerie Queene father fear feel gods golden hath heart heaven Hector Hell Hephaestus hero Homer Iliad important irony Ithaca less light live look lover Lucretius matter mean Menelaus Milton mind mortal nature Nestor never night Odysseus once Pandar Paradise Patroclus peace Penelope persons Phaeacian poem poet poetry Prelude Priam Purgatory Pylos reader seems seen sense ship silence sleep song soul speak Spenser story style sweet tale Telemachus tell thee Thetis things thou thought told tragedy Troilus Troilus and Criseyde Trojans Troy truth turn unto Virgil wind words Wordsworth wrath Zeus