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Organized by author, aids to required texts may include atlases, historical references, glossaries and "Who's who?" guides.

Homer | Virgil | Lucan | Milton | Whitman | Walcott


Homer

Maps (some pages may load slowly)

Who's who in the Iliad (at geocities.com)

Who's who in the Odyssey (at Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Page, thinkquest.org)

 

Virgil

Maps

Who's who in the Aeneid (at geocities.com)

A short biography of Julius Caesar (at the University of Houston)

A narrative of events during the Late Republic
(at the Illustrated History of the Roman Empire)

A narrative of events during the Early Empire
(at the Illustrated History of the Roman Empire)

All about Emperor Augustus

 

Lucan

A short biography of Lucan (at Encyclopaedia Britannica Online)

Maps

About the Battle of Pharsalus (at www.livius.org)

 

Milton

A brief history of Stuart England (at BBC History)

A Paradise Lost Study Guide (at www.paradiselost.org)

The Milton Home Page (at the University of Richmond)

A Chronology of Milton's life (at the University of Richmond)

Page 1 of the first edition (at members.aol.com)

Phineas Fletcher's The Locusts or Apollyonists (at Literature Online)

Milton's The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth (from Renascence Editions)

 

Whitman

A short biography of Walt Whitman (at the Academy of American Poets)

An Introduction to Leaves of Grass (at the University of South Carolina)

An image of the corrected version of Whitman's O Captain! My Captain!
(at American Memory, Historical Collections for the National Digital Library)

An image of Emerson's letter to Whitman praising the 1855 edition of
Leaves of Grass. (at American Memory, Historical Collections for the National Digital Library)

 

Walcott

A short biography of Derek Walcott (at Encyclopaedia Britannica Online)

Maps

General information about Nobel Prize laureate, Derek Walcott (at The Nobel Prize Internet Archive)

An interview with Derek Walcott on Omeros (at Caribana, A Review of Caribbean Literatures)

 
 

 

 
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Date Created: July 8, 2003
Last Modified: July 30, 2003
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