Support

Keep the room open.

Everything on Laurel is free and will stay free: the texts, the reader, the courses, the games and the tools. What it costs is the work of adding to it and the server that carries it. If the site has been useful to you, a gift of any size helps pay for the next thing.

What a gift pays for

New textsEach poet takes a day: finding a sound public domain edition, teaching the parser its habits, checking every heading by hand, finding a portrait, writing the readings.

New featuresThe course, the tests, the book mode, the passage pictures, the classical names: each began as a reader's suggestion. Yours can too, through report in the reader.

CommentariesLine notes from old editions have to be found, scanned, cleaned and placed. The Aeneid took three thousand notes; the Iliad and the Odyssey are under way.

The serverHosting, the database that carries accounts between devices, and the protection that keeps the site up when it is busy.

What we promise

Nothing that is free now will ever be put behind a charge.
No advertising, no trackers, no selling of anything you do here.
Every text stays public domain and downloadable; every method stays published.
A gift buys nothing extra, so nobody who cannot give is missing anything. It is thanks, paid forward.

Other ways to help

Report a typo. Ask for a poet on the map. Propose a note for the commentary. Tell a teacher, or use Laurel in a classroom and say what would make it better. Contubernales Books publishes the site; the address for anything that needs a person is on the Sources page.