The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous · Ancient · Epic poetry
Subject guide
Mortality
Explore 24 works associated with Mortality in The Western Canon. This page is generated from reviewed catalog classifications and links directly to each featured work.
Featured works
Beowulf
Anonymous · Medieval · Epic poetry
Hamlet
William Shakespeare · Early Modern · Tragedy
The Iliad
Homer · Ancient · Epic poetry
On the Nature of Things
Lucretius · Ancient · Philosophical poetry
The Testament
François Villon · Late Medieval · Poetry
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
John Donne · Early Modern · Poetry / prose
Songs and Sonnets
John Donne · Early Modern · Poetry / prose
Holy Sonnets
John Donne · Early Modern · Poetry / prose
Religio Medici
Thomas Browne · Early Modern · Essays
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
Anne Bradstreet · Early Modern · Poetry
Urn Burial
Thomas Browne · Early Modern · Essays
Endymion
John Keats · Romantic · Poetry
The Odes
John Keats · Romantic · Poetry
The Fall of Hyperion
John Keats · Romantic · Poetry
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria Rilke · Modernism · Poetry / letters
Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke · Modernism · Poetry / letters
Sonnets to Orpheus
Rainer Maria Rilke · Modernism · Poetry / letters
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke · Modernism · Poetry / letters
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca · Ancient · Philosophy / drama
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca · Ancient · Philosophy / drama
Phaedra
Seneca · Ancient · Philosophy / drama
Thyestes
Seneca · Ancient · Philosophy / drama
The Odes
Pindar · Ancient · Lyric poetry