1 June
James Baldwin's The Book Lover: A Guide to the Best Reading was published in fifteen editions, 1884-1910. Probably.... Its bibliographic history is hard to come by online, as tends to be so with older books. The version I have access to is certainly the fifteenth; and is supposedly the 1910 (and thus final) edition. It's copyrighted 1902; however, given that only four copyright dates are given, every edition did not bring with it a renewal of the copyright. Indeed, the entries at World Cat suggest that the 1902 version was the thirteenth (thus, the Preface to the Thirteenth Edition still included in the fifteenth) while the fourteenth came in 1904.
The Book Lover is doubly useful for this project. In transcribing Lubbock's 1886 list, it also makes note of several responses to that list, though unfortunately does not note if these responses were among those published in the Pall Mall Gazette. Regardless, those discussed are not germane to this project; one is a list of novels only (by F B Perkins, in the Library Journal, presumably the same U S publication still publishing today); another is the negative response of John Ruskin, who apparently only stated the many books that needed to be excluded from Lubbock's list; and a thirdóoddly enoughóis a list of books that the African explorer Henry Stanley claims he took with him on his expedition of 1874-77. We know from the Carnochan article noted in the 18 January post that Ruskin's response was published in the the Pal Mall Gazette, as was a response by Frederick W Farrar [see 27 January post]. Quoted in Baldwin's book, Farrar gives a longer list than what we drew from his Great Books book, but since the latter came later chronologically, and given the informal nature of the Pall Mall response, we're only noting that larger selection here:
"If all the books in the world were in a blaze, the first twelve which I would snatch out of the flames would be, the Bible, Imitatio Christi, Homer, Aeschylus, Thucydides, Tacitus, Virgil, Marcus Aurelius, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth. Of living authors I would save first the works of Tennyson, Browning, and Ruskin."
More importantly, in two chapters of the book ('On the Choice of Books' and 'Books of Power'), Baldwin gives us his own lists of books; the one found in the former chapter is short, and nearly every entry in it is found among the Books of Power, thus making the creation of a single list easy enough. That list will be posted later in June.
2 June
Besides the albums such as those by the Miracles, Supremes, and Temptations noted previously, consisting of a mix of previously-released singles and unreleased tracks, the other kind of problematic release when defining compilations is the boxed set combining "hits" and other previously-released tracks (singles or album tracks) with out-takes, alternate versions, and other rarities. Two examples come from the Yes discography: Yesyears, and its successor, In a Word: Yes (1969- ). Both consist mostly of previously-released tracks, but they also both feature a selection of previously-unreleased material. A boxed set with the balance skewed more towards previously-unavailable material is the first volume of Neil Young's Archives. But, to find a boxed set that arguably warrants status as a minor album instead of a compilation, we turn to Jefferson Airplane Loves You. Twenty-three of its 52 tracks were previously unreleased; however, many of those 23 tracks are concert recordings. As with the difficult case of albums with a mix of studio and concert tracks, boxed sets suggest that perhaps the minor-album category should be broader, including releases with such mixed assortments. In this scenario, Yes's Keys to Ascension albums, Young's Archives sets, those Motown albums (Where Did Our Love Go, The Temptin' Temptations, Going to a Go-Go), and Jefferson Airplane Loves You would also fall into that category; precisely because doing so lets the reader know not to dismiss them as concert albums or compilations, while still noting that they are not major studio albums consisting mostly of original material.
3 June
Adam Kirsch's The 'Five-Foot Shelf' Reconsidered, at Harvard Magazine, assesses Charles W Eliot's Harvard Classics series, published in 1909 (or at least copyrighted that year; the article suggests it didn't come out until 1910).
While the Adler/ Hutchins set The Great Books of the Western World supplanted the Harvard Classics as the core element of "great books" education, that article notes that Collier's aggressive promotion of the Harvard set means that many of its hundreds of thousands of copies are fairly easy to find. If you confine yourself to the Web (bad idea), there's even a great web site devoted to the Harvard series: My Harvard Classics. Whereas the bizarre Great Books Survey at Infomotions tells you a lot about coefficients, this site gives you both the complete texts and handy excerpts of the texts, moreover suggesting a 90-day reading plan based on those excerpts.
4 June
From James Baldwin's The Book Lover, here are the Books of Power, defined by the author as "the works which embody the best thoughts of the noblest thinkers of all countries and ages." He adds, "in them we perceive the crystallization of human wisdom as it has been made manifest through the grandest intellects of all nations; by the reading of them our minds are lifted into closer companionship with the invisible, the sublime, the everlasting. Such books are for the building up of a lofty character, for the turning of the soul inward upon itself and the fitting of it for greater, stronger, worthier achievements."
This list contains the Books of Power, plus the Blackmoore and Irving entries found in a shorter list in the chapter 'On the Choice of Books'; that shorter list specifies Paradise Lost for Milton, Heroes and Hero Worship for Carlyle, and Oration on the Crown for Demosthenesóthus, thus the separate entries presented in brackets. Baldwin describes this list as that of "famous books [...] which every person who aspires to the rank of thinker should regard as his inheritance from the master minds of the ages."
We should note that the following chapters of this book contain longer lists of books: 'Books Relating to Ancient History', 'Books Relating to Modern History', 'Geography and Travels', 'Philosophy and Religion', 'Political Economy and the Science of Government', 'On the Practical Study of English Literature'. Also, Baldwin's chapter on the Lubbock list gives his own lists of one-hundred "works suitable for a young person's library" and another hundred on "nature and nature study." All of these are excluded not only because, if combined, they would not make for a list sufficiently in subject to match the guidelines of this project, but also on the same grounds as Hutchinson's The World's Best Books [1953] and English and Pope's What to Read [1929] mentioned in the 10 May post: they are more like directories suggesting books on certain subjects for the reader to choose from--not lists of books, each of which is worthy of close reading or historically significant.
Addison: The Spectator.
∆schylus: Tragedies. Prometheus Bound has been rendered into English verse by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Agamemnon has been translated by Dean Milman, and the entire seven tragedies by Dean Potter.
[in the chapter 'On the Choice of Books', Baldwin recommends Plumptre's translation]
∆sop: Fables. The best English edition is probably that of Joseph Jacobs.
Arabian Nights. For most readers Lane's translation is to be preferred.
Ariosto: Orlando Furioso. The standard translation is that of W. S. Rose in Bohn's Illustrated Library.
Aristophanes: Comedies. The translation by John Hookham Frere is admirable.
Aristotle: Selections. Translated by Jowett.
Bacon's Essays.
Bible, The. For a book lover's library, Professor Moulton's Modern Reader's Bible is unsurpassed.
[in the chapter 'On the Choice of Books': Blackmoore's Lorna Doone]
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.
Browne, Sir Thomas: Religio Medici.
Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress.
Burke's Orations and Political Essays.
Burns's Poems.
Burton, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Carlyle's Essays.
[in chapter 'On the Choice of Books': Heroes and Hero Worship]
Cervantes: Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Chaucer. If not the complete works, at least the Canterbury Tales.
Cicero: Orations, Office, Old Age, Friendship. Long's translation of the Orations is the best.
Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and Genevieve.
Dante's Divina Commedia. Translated by Longfellow.
Defoe: Robinson Crusoe.
Demosthenes: Orations. A good translation is that of Kennedy in Bohn's Classical Library.
[in chapter 'On the Choice of Books': Orations on the Crown]
Dickens's Novels. If not all, at least the following: David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, A Tale of Two Cities, and Pickwick Papers.
Dryden's Poems.
George Eliot's Novels. Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Romola, Middlemarch,
Daniel Deronda.
Emerson's Essays.
Epictetus: Discourses. Long's edition.
Euripides: Tragedies. Prose translation by Coleridge, in the Bohn Classical Library, or A. S. Way's metrical translation.
Fielding's Tom Jones.
Froissart's Chronicles.
Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Goethe's Faust. Translated by Bayard Taylor.
Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield.
Hawthorne's Novels. The Scarlet Letter, The Marble Faun, The Blithedale Romance, The House of the Seven Gables.
Herodotus. Rawlinson's translation with notes and special essays is to be preferred.
Holmes: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The most notable poetical translations are George Chapman's (1611), Pope's (1715), Tickell's (1715), Cowper's (1781), Lord Derby's (1867), Bryant's (1870). The greatest scholars award the pain of merit to Chapman. Says Lowell: "Chapman has made for us the best poem that has yet been Englished out of Homer." The best prose translation of the Iliad is that by Lang, Leaf, and Myers; the best of the Odyssey is that by Butcher and Lang.
Horace's Odes, Epodes, and Satires. There are excellent translations by Conington, Lord Lytton, and T. Martin.
Hugo: Les MisÈrables.
[in the chapter 'On the Choice of Books': Washington Irving's Sketch Book]
Kalevala, The. Of this national epic of Finland there is a good American translation by John Martin Crawford.
Keats's Poems.
Lamb: The Essays of Elia.
Longfellow's Poems.
Lowell's Works.
Macaulay's Essays.
Mahabharata, The.
Malory's Morte d'Arthur.
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations. Long's translation.
Marlowe: Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, and The Jew of Malta.
Milton's Poetical Works
[in the chapter 'On the Choice of Books': Milton's Paradise Lost]
MoliËre's Dramas. Translation by H. Van Laun.
Montaigne's Essays.
Nibelungenlied, The. Lettsom's is the best poetic translation.
Omar Kh·yyam's Rubaiy·t, by Fitzgerald. There are many good English versions.
Plato's Dialogues. Jowett's translation.
Plutarch: Lives of Illustrious Greeks and Romans. Arthur Hugh Clough's revision of Dryden's Plutarch.
Poe's Poems.
Pope's Poetical Works.
Ramayana, The.
Saadi's Gullistan. Translation by Edwin Arnold.
Scott: The Waverley Novels.
Shakespeare's Works. The following editions of Shakespeare have been issued within the past hundred years: The first Variorum (1813); The Variorum (1821); Singer's (10 vols. 1826); Knight's (8 vols. 1841); Collier's (8 vols. 1844); Verplanck's (3 vols. 1847); Hudson's (11 vols. 1857); Dyce's (6 vols. 1867); Mary Cowden Clarke's (2 vols. 1860); R. G. White's (12 vols. 1862); Clark and Wright's (9 vols.1866); The Leopold Edition (1 vol. 1877); The Harvard Edition (20 vols. 1881); Rolfe's (for schools, 1877-1881); Furness's Variorum (1871-1901).
Shelley's Poems.
Sophocles: Tragedies. Translation by Plumptre.
Spenser's Faerie Queene, not to be read through, but in selections.
Tasso: Jerusalem Delivered. Translation by Fairfax.
Tennyson's Poems.
Thackeray's Novels, especially Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, The Newcomes, and
Pendennis.
Theocritus: Idylls. Andrew Lang's translation.
Virgil's ∆neid. Either Connington's or Morris's translation.
Walton, Izaak: The Complete Angler.
Webster's Best Speeches.
Wordsworth's Poems.
5 June
Two potential lists, the inclusion of which is still uncertain, take the form of series of books published by Easton Press and the Franklin Library. The former's 100 Greatest Books Ever Written is the most obvious of three of its series we could use to make a larger list, the others being the awkwardly-titled Collector's Library of Famous Editions and the Books That Changed the World. The Franklin Library also has three series that would warrant inclusion: 100 Greatest Books of All Time; World's Best Loved Books; and Greatest Books of the World's Greatest Writers.
The problem with including the lists of these two publishers is that two other classics-publishing companies, of greater stature and showing stronger editorial control over their choice of books, do not offer, at least for now, potential lists for this project--precisely because they have been around longer than the leatherbound-book publishing companies (documented at Leather Bound Treasure). That is, for Penguin Classics and Oxford World's Classics, the two biggest names in this business, a complete list of said classics is not available; we know what's currently available, but further research would be necessary to find how many, or if any, previous Penguin Classics and World's Classics are no longer in print. The inclusion of books in the other series listed below, though a complete list of their classics is easier to construct, would thus cause an inconsistency in the project. A similar lack of information, and desire for inconsistency, is also why I am only including the final versions of lists that have gone through revisions: because, as noted previously, I do not have access to all of the editions of the Good Reading series.
Bantam Classics (now part of Modern Library)
Barnes and Nobles Classics
Classics Club (no longer extant, but here's a page at the Bookman's Answer)
Dorset Classic Reprints
Dover Publications Thrift Editions
Everyman's Library (currently under Random House)
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux Classics does not have its own page; nor does Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Hackett Classics
I Tatti Renaissance Library (produced by Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, published by Harvard University Press)
Library of America
Loeb Classical Library (now part of Harvard University Press)
Modern Library
Norton Critical Editions
Oxford World's Classics
Penguin Classics, including its Complete Annotated Listing from a few years back (also of note is the Penguin Archive Project at the University of Bristol); also the Viking Critical Library, comparatively a short list, is part of the Penguin operation now--unfortunately, does not have its own page on their site; as is Signet Classics--previously all Signet series were part of New American Library, as was the varied Mentor series, which mostly consisted of non-fiction
Shambhala Publications has both Classics and Pocket Classics imprints
Simon and Schuster Enriched Classics
Tuttle Publishing has information about its Classics titles mixed in with others in its Literature category
Wordsworth Editions
There's some information here and there about Airmont Classics, which seem to be appreciated only for their covers
The Folio Society, like the "leatherbound" publishers, presents fancy versions of the classics, though with an emphasis on illustrations. Its predecessor of sorts, Golden Cockerel Press, is no longer extant, but the page at the site, Books and Writers, provides some details.
Some of these series serve a function similar to Robert Kanigel's book or Michael Dirda's Classics for Pleasure: that is, they include works not commonly ranked as great or classic, or perhaps that once were but have not received as much attention in recent decades.
New York Review Books Classics
Serpent's Tail Classics
Also, an older series, Sacred Books of the East, has a Wikipedia page with links to full-text scans available at the Internet Sacred Text Archive and elsewhere.
6 June
Following up on the lists of the 15 May post, treading into the recent past and contemporary times, with fifteen artists each listed for the 1985-94, 1990-99, and 1995-2004 periods, compensating for both the lack of consensus to be expected with more-recent work; and the rise of electronic dance music and Hip Hop as genres relatively distinct from Rock, unlike previous genres such as Reggae and Disco finding themselves swallowed up by Rock's commercial vacuum--until we get to the Twenty-First Century, when popular music as a whole found itself dumped in favor of growing televisual forms of recreation: the Web, video games, the D V D, mobile phones. Anyone suggesting that most of the artists listed for the 2000-09 and 2005-2014 periods compare favorably to their predecessors would turn this exercise into a kind of special pleading. Moreover, unlike in the 1990's, many of the most influential of recent artists in Techno and related genres have not been as interested or successful in branching off into album-oriented work--even in the case of commercially-successful "E D M" artists.
1985-94:
The Beastie Boys
Beat Happening
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Cure
Robyn Hitchcock
Ice Cube
The Mekons
My Bloody Valentine
Nirvana
The Pixies
Public Enemy
Spacemen 3
Suede
Sun City Girls
Tom Waits
1990-99:
Aphex Twin
Blur
Boredoms
Vic Chesnutt
The Flaming Lips
Gastr del Sol
Guided by Voices
P J Harvey
Massive Attack
Pavement
Pulp
Royal Trux
Sebadoh
Stereolab
Underworld
1995-2004:
Beck
Björk
Califone
Charalambides
Fennesz
Jay-Z
Jeff Mills
Neutral Milk Hotel
The No-Neck Blues Band
The Olivia Tremor Control (or Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, or Super Furry Animals, or Ghost)
OutKast
Radiohead
Smog
Wilco
The Wu-Tang Clan/ Method Man/ The GZA/ Ol' Dirty Bastard/ Ghostface Killah
2000-09:
Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U F O
Boris
Excepter
The Fiery Furnaces
Gorillaz
Alicia Keys
Oneida
The Shins
Sunn
Usher
2005-14:
Animal Collective
Deerhunter
Jandek
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
The Hold Steady
The Knife
Lil Wayne
My Morning Jacket
Joanna Newsom
Kanye West
Some possible artists for the 2010-19 decade? These New Puritans and Prince Rama to start--perhaps Death Grips.
7 June
Harold Bloom's The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages [1994] will be posted over the course of 14 days, as it appears in the back of the book; my notes will gradually be added, and the listing of the massive 'Chaotic Age' portion of the list in this project's final master list will continue into 2014.
The Democratic Age: Italy:
Ugo Foscolo:
{} [Dei Sepolcri] On Sepulchres, translated by Thomas G Bergin
{} [Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis] Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis [1802; revised 1817]
Odes and
{} The Graces [published in part 1803 and 1818; in its entirety, 1822]
Alessandro Manzoni:
{} [I Promessi Sposi] The Betrothed
{} [Dei Romanzo Storico] On the Historical Novel
Giacomo Leopardi:
Essays and Dialogues, translated by Giovanni Cecchetti
Poems
The Moral Essays, translated by Howard Norse
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli:
Roman Sonnets, translated by Harold Norse
Giosue Carducci:
[Inno a Satana] 'Hymn to Satan'
{} Barbarian Odes [published in three volumes, 1877-89]
Rhymes and Rhythms
Giovanni Verga:
{} Little Novels of Sicily [1883], translated by D H Lawrence
{} Mastro-Don Gesualdo [1889], translated by D H Lawrence
{} [I Malavoglia] The House by the Medlar Tree [1881], translated by Raymond Rosenthal
The She-Wolf and Other Stories, translated by Giovanni Cecchetti
Spain and Portugal:
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer:
Poems
Benito Perez Galdos:
{} Fortunato and Jacinta
Leopoldo Alas (Clarin):
{} La Regenta
JosÈ Maria de EÁa de QueirÛs:
{} [Os Maias: EpisÛdios da Vida Rom‚ntica] The Maias [1888]
France:
Benjamin Constant:
{} Adolphe
{} The Red Notebook
Francois-Auguste-RenÈ de Chateaubriand:
Atala and
RenÈ, translated by Irving Putter
{} The Genius of Christianity
Alphonse de Lamartine:
{} Meditations
Alfred de Vigny:
{} Chatteron
Poems
Victor Hugo:
The Distance, the Shadows: Selected Poems, translated by Harry Guest
{} Les MisÈrables
{} Notre-Dame of Paris
{} William Shakespeare
{} The Toilers of the Sea
{} The End of Satan
{} God
Alfred de Musset:
Poems
{} Lorenzaccio
GÈrard de Nerval:
{} The Chimeras, translated by Peter Jay
{} Sylvie
{} Aurelia
ThÈophile Gautier:
{} Mademoiselle de Maupin
{} Enamels and Cameos
HonorÈ de Balzac:
{} The Girl With the Golden Eyes
{} Louis Lambert
{} The Wild Ass's Skin
{} Old Goriot
{} Cousin Bette
{} A Harlot High and Low
{} EugÈnie Grandet
{} Ursule Mirouet
Standhal:
{} On Love
{} The Red and the Black
{} The Charterhouse of Parma
Gustave Flaubert:
{} Madame Bovary, translated by Francis Steegmuller
{} Sentimental Education
{} SalammbÙ
A Simple Soul
George Sand:
{} The Haunted Pool
Charles Baudelaire:
{} Flowers of Evil, translated by Richard Howard
{} Paris Spleen
StephanÈ MallarmÈ
Selected Poetry and Prose
Paul Verlaine:
Selected Poems
Arthur Rimbaud:
Complete Works, translated by Paul Schmidt
Tristan CorbiËre:
{} Les Amours Jaunes
Jules Laforgue:
Selected Writings, translated by William Jay Smith
Guy de Maupassant:
Selected Short Stories
…mile Zola:
{} Germinal
{} L'Assommoir
{} Nana
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8 June
The Democratic Age: Scandinavia:
Henrik Ibsen:
{} Brand, translated by Geoffrey Hill
{} Peer Gynt, translated by Rolf Fjelde
{} Emperor and Galilean
{} Hedda Gabler
{} The Master Builder
{} The Lady From the Sea
{} When We Dead Awaken
August Strindberg:
{} To Damascus
{} Miss Julie
{} The Father
{} The Dance of Death
{} The Ghost Sonata
{} A Dream Play
Great Britain:
Robert Burns:
Poems
William Blake:
Complete Poetry and Prose
William Wordsworth:
Poems
{} The Prelude
Sir Walter Scott:
{} Waverley
{} The Heart of Midlothian
{} Redgauntlet
{} Old Mortality
Jane Austen:
{} Pride and Prejudice
{} Emma
{} Mansfield Park
{} Persuasion
Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
Poems and Prose
Dorothy Wordsworth:
{} The Grasmere Journal
William Hazlitt:
Essays and Criticism
Lord Byron:
{} Don Juan
Poems
Walter Savage Landor:
Poems
{} Imaginary Conversations
Thomas de Quincey:
{} Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Selected Prose
Charles Lamb:
Essays
Maria Edgeworth:
{} Castle Rackrent
John Galt:
{} The Entail
Elizabeth Gaskell:
{} Cranford
{} Mary Barton
{} North and South
James Hogg:
{} The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner [originally anonymously published, 1824]
Charles Maturin:
{} Melmoth the Wanderer
Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Poems
'A Defence of Poetry'
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley:
{} Frankenstein
John Clare:
Poems
John Keats:
Poems and Letters
Thomas Lovell Beddoes:
{} Death's Jest-Book
Poems
George Darley:
{} Nepenthe
Poems
Thomas Hood:
Poems
Thomas Wade:
Poems
Robert Browning:
Poems
{} The Ring and the Book
Charles Dickens:
{} The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
{} David Copperfield
{} The Adventures of Oliver Twist
{} A Tale of Two Cities
{} Bleak House
{} Hard Times
{} Nicholas Nickleby
{} Dombey and Son
{} Great Expectations
{} Martin Chuzzlewit
{} Christmas Stories
{} Little Dorrit
{} Our Mutual Friend
{} The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
Poems
Dante Gabriel Rossetti:
Poems and
Translations
Matthew Arnold:
Poems
Essays
Arthur Hugh Clough:
Poems
Christina Rossetti:
Poems
Thomas Love Peacock:
{} Nightmare Abbey
{} Gryll Grange
Gerard Manley Hopkins:
Poems and
Prose
Thomas Carlyle:
Selected Prose
{} Sartor Resartus
John Ruskin:
{} Modern Painters
{} The Stones of Venice
{} Unto This Last
{} The Queen of the Air
Walter Pater:
{} Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Appreciations[: With an Essay on Style] [1889; essays published in periodicals, 1866-89; revised selection, 1890]
{} Imaginary Portraits
{} Marius the Epicurean
Edward FitzGerald:
{} The Rub·iy·t of Omar Khayyam
John Stuart Mill:
{} On Liberty
{} Autobiography
John Henry Newman:
{} Apologia pro Vita Sua
{} A Grammar of Assent
{} The Idea of a University
Anthony Trollope:
{} The Barsetshire Novels
{} The Palliser Novels
{} Orley Farm
{} The Way We Live Now
Lewis Carroll:
Complete Works
Edward Lear:
{} Complete Nonsense
George Gissing:
{} New Grub Street
Algernon Charles Swinburne:
Poems and
Letters
Charlotte BrontÎ:
{} Jane Eyre
{} Villette
Emily BrontÎ:
Poems
{} Wuthering Heights
William Makepeace Thackeray:
{} Vanity Fair
{} The History of Henry Esmond
George Meredith:
Poems
{} The Egoist
Francis Thompson:
Poems
Lionel Johnson:
Poems
Robert Bridges:
Poems
Gilbert Keith Chesterton:
Collected Poems
{} The Man Who Was Thursday
Samuel Butler:
{} Erewhon
{} The Way of All Flesh
W S Gilbert:
{} Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
{} Bab Ballads
Wilkie Collins:
{} The Moonstone
{} The Woman in White
{} No Name
Coventry Patmore:
Odes
James Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis):
'The City of Dreadful Night'
Oscar Wilde:
Plays
{} The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Artist as Critic ['The Critic as Artist', included in Intentions; earlier version, 'The True Function and Value of Criticism: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing: A Dialogue', published serially in the Nineteenth Century, Jul.-Sep. 1890]
Letters
John Davidson:
Ballads and Songs
Ernest Dowson:
Complete Poems
George Eliot:
{} Adam Bede
{} Silas Marner
{} The Mill on the Floss
{} Middlemarch
{} Daniel Deronda
Robert Louis Stevenson:
Essays
{} Kidnapped
{} Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
{} Treasure Island
The New Arabian Nights
{} The Master of Ballantrae
{} Weir of Hermiston
William Morris:
Early Romances
Poems
{} The Earthly Paradise
{} The Well at the World's End
{} News From Nowhere
Bram Stoker:
{} Dracula
George Macdonald:
{} Lilith
{} At the Back of the North Wind
Germany:
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenburg):
{} Hymns to the Night
Aphorisms
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm:
Fairy Tales
Eduard Morike:
Selected Poems, translated by Christopher Middleton
{} Mozart on His Way to Prague
Theodor Storm:
{} Immensee
Poems
Gottfried Keller:
{} Green Henry
Tales
E T A Hoffmann:
{} The Devil's Elixir
Tales
Jeremias Gotthelf:
{} The Black Spider
Adalbert Stifter:
{} Indian Summer
Tales
Friedrich Schlegel:
Criticism and
Aphorisms
Georg Buchner:
{} Danton's Death
{} Woyzeck
Heinrich Heine:
Complete Poems
Richard Wagner:
The Ring of the Nibelung
Friedrich Nietzsche:
{} The Birth of Tragedy
{} Beyond Good and Evil
{} On the Genealogy of Morals
{} The Will to Power
Theodor Fontane:
{} Effi Briest
Stefan George:
Selected Poems
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9 June
The Democratic Age: Russia:
Aleksandr Pushkin:
Complete Prose Tales
Collected Poetry, translated by Walter Arndt
{} Eugene Onegin, translated by Charles Johnston
Narrative Poems, translated by Charles Johnston
{} Boris Godunov
Nikolay Gogol:
The Complete Tales
{} Dead Souls
{} The Government Inspector, translated by Adrian Mitchell
Mikhail Lermontov:
Narrative Poems, translated by Charles Johnston
{} A Hero of Our Time
Sergey Aksakov:
{} A Family Chronicle
Aleksandr Herzen:
{} My Past and Thoughts
{} From the Other Shore
Ivan Goncharov:
{} The Frigate Pallada
{} Oblomov
Ivan Turgenev:
{} A Sportsman's Notebook, translated by Charles and Natasha Hepburn
{} A Month in the Country
{} Fathers and Sons
{} On the Eve
{} First Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky:
{} Notes From the Underground
{} Crime and Punishment
{} The Idiot
{} The Possessed (The Devils)
{} The Brothers Karamazov
Short Novels
Leo Tolstoy:
{} The Cossacks
{} War and Peace
{} Anna Karenina
{} A Confession
{} The Power of Darkness
Short Novels
Nikolay Leskov:
Tales
Aleksandr Ostrovsky:
{} The Storm
Nikolay Chernyshevsky:
{} What Is to Be Done?
Aleksandr Blok:
'The Twelve' and Other Poems, translated by Anselm Hollo
Anton Chekhov:
The Tales
The Major Plays
The United States:
Washington Irving:
{} The Sketch Book
William Cullen Bryant:
Collected Poems
James Fenimore Cooper:
{} The Deerslayer
John Greenleaf Whittier:
Collected Poems
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
{} Nature
{} Essays, first and second series
{} Representative Men
{} The Conduct of Life
{} Journals
Poems
Emily Dickinson:
Complete Poems
Walt Whitman:
{} Leaves of Grass, first edition
Leaves of Grass, third edition
The Complete Poems
{} Specimen Days
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
{} The Scarlet Letter
Tales and Sketches
{} The Marble Faun
Notebooks
Herman Melville:
{} Moby-Dick
{} The Piazza Tales
{} Billy Budd
Collected Poems
{} Clarel
Edgar Allan Poe:
Poetry and Tales
Essays and Reviews
{} The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
{} Eureka
Jones Very:
Essays and Poems
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman:
{} The Cricket and
Other Poems
Henry David Thoreau:
{} Walden
Poems
Essays
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
{} Two Years Before the Mast
Frederick Douglass:
{} Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
Selected Poems
Sidney Lanier:
Poems
Francis Parkman:
{} France and England in North America
{} The California and Oregon Trail
Henry Adams:
{} The Education of Henry Adams
{} Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
Ambrose Bierce:
Collected Writings
Louisa May Alcott:
{} Little Women
Charles W Chesnutt:
The Short Fiction
Kate Chopin:
{} The Awakening
William Dean Howells:
{} The Rise of Silas Lapham
{} A Modern Instance
Stephan Crane:
{} The Red Badge of Courage
Stories and
Poems
Henry James:
{} The Portrait of a Lady
{} The Bostonians
{} The Princess Casamassima
{} The Awkward Age
Short Novels and Tales
{} The Ambassadors
{} The Wings of the Dove
{} The Golden Bowl
Harold Frederic:
{} The Damnation of Theron Ware
Mark Twain:
Complete Short Stories
{} The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Devil's Racetrack
{} Number Forty-Four: The Mysterious Stranger
{} Pudd'nhead Wilson
{} A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
William James:
{} The Varieties of Religious Experience
{} Pragmatism
Frank Norris:
{} The Octopus
Sarah Orne Jewett:
{} The Country of the Pointed Firs and
Other Stories
Trumball Stickney:
Poems
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10 June
The Theocratic Age: The Ancient Near East:
{1} Gilgamesh, translated by David Ferry
{2} The Egyptian Book of the Dead
{3} The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version
The Apocrypha
Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth) [Pirkei Avot], translated by R Travers Herford
Ancient India (Sanskrit):
{4} The Mahabharata
There is an abridged translation by William Buck, and a dramatic version by Jean-Claude CarriËre, translated by Peter Brook
The Bhagavad-Gita
The crucial religious section of Mahabharata, Book 6, translated by Barbara Stoler Miller
{5} The Ramayana
There is an abridged version by William Buck, and a retelling by R K Narayan
The Ancient Greeks:
Homer:
{6} The Iliad, translated by Richmond Lattimore
{7} The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Hesiod:
{8} The Works and Days
{9} Theogony, translated by Richmond Lattimore
Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman
translated by Guy Davenport
Pindar:
{10} The Odes, translated by Richmond Lattimore
Aeschylus:
{11} The Oresteia, translated by Robert Fagles
{12} Seven Against Thebes, translated by Anthony Hecht and Helen H Bacon
{13} Prometheus Bound
{14} The Persians
{15} The Suppliant Women
Sophocles:
{16} Oedipus the King, translated by Stephen Berg and Diskin Clay
{17} Oedipus at Colonus, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
{18} Antigone, translated by Robert Fagles
{19} Electra
{20} Ajax
{21} Women of Trachis
{22} Philoctetes
Euripides (translated by William Arrowsmith):
{23} Cyclops
{24} Heracles
{25} Alcestis
{26} Hecuba
{27} The Bacchae
{28} Orestes
{29} Andromache
{30} Medea, translated by Rex Warner
{31} Ion, translated by H D (Hilda Doolittle)
{32} Hippolytus, translated by Robert Baag
{33} Helen, translated by Richmond Lattimore
{34} Iphigeneia at Aulis, translated by W S Merwin and George Dimock
Aristophanes:
{35} The Birds, translated by William Arrowsmith
{36} The Clouds, translated by William Arrowsmith
{37} The Frogs
{38} Lysistrata
{39} The Knights
{40} The Wasps
{41} The Assemblywomen (also called The Parliament of Women)
Herodotus:
{42} The Histories
Thucydides:
{43} The Peloponnesian War
The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles)
Plato:
Dialogues
Aristotle:
{44} Poetics
{45} Ethics
Hellenistic Greeks:
Menander:
{46} The Girl From Samos, translated by Eric G Turner
"Longinus":
{47} On the Sublime
Callimachus:
Hymns and Epigrams
Theocritus:
{48} Idylls, translated by Daryl Hine
Plutarch:
{49} Lives, translated by John Dryden
{50} Moralia
"Aesop":
Fables
Lucian:
Satires
The Romans:
Plautus:
{51} Pseudolus
{52} The Braggart Soldier
{53} The Rope
{54} Amphitryon
Terence:
{55} The Girl From Andros
{56} The Eunuch
{57) The Mother-in-Law
Lucretius:
{58} The Way Things Are, translated by Rolfe Humphries
Cicero:
{59} On the Gods
Horace:
{60} Odes, translated by James Michie
{61} Epistles
{62} Satires
Persius:
{63} Satires, translated by W S Merwin
Catullus:
'Attis', translated by Horace Gregory
Other poems translated by Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, Walter Savage Landor, and a host of English poets
Virgil:
{64} The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
{65} Eclogues and
{66} Georgics, translated by John Dryden
Lucan:
{67} Pharsalia
Ovid:
{68} Metamorphoses, translated by George Sandys
{69} The Art of Love
{70} Epistulae Heroidum or Heroides, translated by Daryl Hine
Juvenal:
{71} Satires
Martial:
{72} Epigrams, translated by James Michie
Seneca:
Tragedies, particularly {73} Medea; and {74} Hercules Furens, as translated by Thomas Heywood
Petronius:
{75} Satyricon, translated by William Arrowsmith
Apuleius:
{76} The Golden Ass, translated by Robert Graves
The Middle Ages: Latin, Arabic, and the Vernacular Before Dante:
Saint Augustine:
{77} The City of God
{78} The Confessions
{79} The Koran: Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation by Ahmad Ali
{80} The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
{81} The Poetic Edda, translated by Lee Hollander
Snorri Sturluson:
{82} The Prose Edda
{83} The Nibelungen Lied
Wolfram von Eschenbach:
{84} Parzival
Chretien de Troyes:
{85} Yvain: The Knight of the Lion, translated by Burton Raffel
{86} Beowulf, translated by Charles W Kennedy
{87} The Poem of the Cid, translated by W S Merwin
Christine de Pisan:
{88} The Book of the City of Ladies, translated by Earl Richards
Diego de San Pedro:
{89} Prison of Love
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11 June
The Aristocratic Age: Italy:
Dante:
{90} [Divina Commedia] The Divine Comedy, translated by Laurence Binyon in terza rima, and by John D Sinclair in prose
{91} The New Life, translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Petrarch:
Lyric Poems, translated by Robert M Durling
Selections, translated by Mark Musa
Giovanni Boccaccio:
{92} The Decameron
Matteo Maria Boiardo:
{93} Orlando Innamorato
Ludovico Ariosto:
{94} Orlando Furioso
Michelangelo Buonarroti:
Sonnets and Madrigals, translated by Wordsworth, Longfellow, Emerson, Santayana, and others
Niccolo Machiavelli:
{95} [Il Principe] The Prince
{96} The Mandrake, a Comedy
Leonardo da Vinci:
Notebooks
Baldassare Castiglione:
{97} The Book of the Courtier
Gaspara Stampa:
Sonnets and
Madrigals
Giorgio Vasari:
{98} Lives of the Painters
Benvenuto Cellini:
{99} Autobiography
Torquato Tasso:
{100} Jerusalem Delivered
Giordano Bruno:
{101} The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
Tommaso Campanella:
Poems
{102} The City of the Sun
Giambattista Vico:
{103} Principles of a New Science
Carlo Goldoni:
{104} The Servant of Two Masters
Vittorio Alfieri:
{105} Saul
Portugal:
Luis de CamoÎns:
{106} The Lusiads, translated by Leonard Bacon
AntÛnio Ferreira:
Poetry, in The Muse Reborn, translated by T F Earle
Spain:
Jorge Manrique:
{107} Coplas, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fernando de Rojas:
{108} La Celestina, translated by James Mabbe, adapted by Eric Bentley
{109} Lazarillo de Tormes, translated by W S Merwin
Francisco de Quevedo:
{110} Visions, translated by Roger L'Estrange
Satirical Letter of Censure, in J M Cohen's Penguin Book of Spanish Verse
Fray Luis de LeÛn:
Poems, translated by Willis Barnstone
St. John of the Cross:
Poems, translated by John Frederick Nims
Luis de GÛngora:
Sonnets
{111} Soledades
Miguel de Cervantes:
{112} Don Quixote, translated by Samuel Putnam
{113} Exemplary Stories
Lope de Vega:
{114} La Dorotea, translated by Alan S Trueblood and Edwin Honig
{115} Fuente Ovejuna, translated by Roy Campbell
{116} Lost in a Mirror, translated by Adrian Mitchell
{117} The Knight of Olmedo, translated by Willard F King
Tirso de Molina:
{118} The Trickster of Seville, translated by Roy Campbell
Pedro Calderon de la Barca:
{119} Life Is a Dream, translated by Roy Campbell
{120} The Mayor of Zalamea
{121} The Mighty Magician
{122} The Doctor of His Own Honor
Sor Juana InÈs de la Cruz:
Poems
England and Scotland:
Geoffrey Chaucer:
{123} The Canterbury Tales
{124} Troilus and Criseyde
Sir Thomas Malory:
{125} Le Morte d'Arthur
William Dunbar:
Poems
John Skelton:
Poems
Sir Thomas More:
{126} Utopia
Sir Thomas Wyatt:
Poems
Henry Howard, Early of Surrey:
Poems
Sir Philip Sidney:
{127} The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
{128} Astrophel and Stella
{129} An Apology for Poetry
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke:
Poems
Edmund Spenser:
{130} The Faerie Queene
The Minor Poems
Sir Walter Raleigh:
Poems
Christopher Marlowe:
Poems and
Plays:
Michael Drayton:
Poems
Samuel Daniel:
Poems
{131} A Defence of Ryme
Thomas Nashe:
{132} The Unfortunate Traveller
Thomas Kyd:
{133} The Spanish Tragedy
William Shakespeare:
Plays and
Poems
Thomas Campion:
Songs
John Donne:
Poems
Sermons
Ben Jonson:
Poems, Plays, and Masques
Francis Bacon:
{134} Essays
Robert Burton:
{135} The Anatomy of Melancholy
Sir Thomas Browne:
{136} Religio Medici
{137} Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall
{138} The Garden of Cyrus
Thomas Hobbes:
{139} Leviathan
Robert Herrick:
Poems
Thomas Carew:
Poems
Richard Lovelace:
Poems
Andrew Marvell:
Poems
George Herbert:
{140} The Temple
Thomas Traherne:
{141} Centuries,
Poems, and
{142} Thanksgivings
Henry Vaughan:
Poetry
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester:
Poems
Richard Crashaw:
Poems
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher:
Plays
George Chapman:
Comedies, Tragedies, Poems
John Ford:
{143} 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
John Marston:
{144} The Malcontent
John Webster:
{145} The White Devil
{146} The Duchess of Malfi
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley:
{147} The Changeling
Cyrill Tourneur:
{148} The Revenger's Tragedy
Philip Massinger:
{149} A New Way to Pay Old Debts
John Bunyan:
{150} The Pilgrim's Progress
Izaak Walton:
{151} The Compleat Angler
John Milton:
{152} Paradise Lost
{153} Paradise Regained
Lycidas,
{154} Comus,
and the Minor Poems
Samson Agonistes [published with Paradise Regained]
{155} Areopagitica
John Aubrey:
{156} Brief Lives
Jeremy Taylor:
{157} Holy Dying
Samuel Butler:
{158} Hudibras
John Dryden:
Poetry and Plays
Critical Essays
Thomas Otway:
{159} Venice Preserv'd
William Congreve:
{160} The Way of the World
{161} Love for Love
Jonathan Swift:
{162} A Tale of the Tub
{163} Gulliver's Travels
Shorter Prose Works
Poems
Sir George Etherege:
{164} The Man of Mode
Alexander Pope:
Poems
John Gay:
{165} The Beggar's Opera
James Boswell:
{166} Life of Johnson
Journals
Samuel Johnson:
Works
Edward Gibbon:
{167} The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edmund Burke:
{168} A Philosophical Enquiry Into... the Sublime and Beautiful
{169} Reflections on the Revolution in France
Maurice Morgann:
{170} An Essay on the Character of Sir John Falstaff
William Collins:
Poems
Thomas Gray:
Poems
George Farquhar:
{171} The Beaux' Stratagem
{172} The Recruiting Officer
William Wycherley:
{173} The Country Wife
{174} The Plain Dealer
Christopher Smart:
{175} Jubilante Agno
{176} A Song to David
Oliver Goldsmith:
{177} The Vicar of Wakefield
{178} She Stoops to Conquer
{179} The Traveller
{180} The Deserted Village
Richard Brinsley Sheridan:
{181} The School for Scandal
{182} The Rivals
William Cowper:
Poetical Works
George Crabbe:
Poetical Works
Daniel Defoe:
{183} Moll Flanders
{184} Robinson Crusoe
{185} A Journal of the Plague Year
Samuel Richardson:
{186} Clarissa
{187} Pamela
{188} Sir Charles Grandison
Henry Fielding:
{189} Joseph Andrews
{190} The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Tobias Smollett:
{191} The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
{192} The Adventures of Roderick Random
Laurence Sterne:
{193} The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
{194} A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Fanny Burney:
{195} Evelina
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele:
The Spectator
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12 June
The Aristocratic Age: France:
{196} Jean Froissart:
Chronicles
{197} The Song of Roland
FranÁois Villon:
Poems, translated by Galway Kinnell
{198} Michel de Montaigne:
Essays, translated by Donald Frame
{199} FranÁois Rabelais:
Gargantua and Pantagruel, translated by Donald Frame
{200} Marguerite de Navarre:
The Heptameron
{201} Joachim du Bellay:
The Regrets, translated by C H Sisson
{202} Maurice ScËve:
Delie
Pierre de Ronsard:
{203} Odes,
Elegies,
Sonnets
{204} Philippe de Commynes:
Memoirs
{205} Agrippa d'AubignÈ
Les Tragiques
Robert Garnier:
{206} Mark Antony, translated by Mark (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
{207} The Jewesses
Pierre Corneille:
{208} The Cid
{209} Polyeucte
{210} NicomËde
{211} Horace
{212} Cinna
{213} Rodogune
{214} FranÁoois de la Rochefoucauld:
Maxims
{215} Jean de la Fontaine:
Fables
MoliËre:
(translated by Richard Wilbur)
{216} The Misanthrope
{217} Tartuffe
{218} The School for Wives
{219} The Learned Ladies
(translated by Donald Frame)
{220} Don Juan
{221} School for Husbands
{222} Ridiculous Precieuses
{223} The Would-Be Gentleman
{224} The Miser
{225} The Imaginary Invalid
{226} Blaise Pascal:
PensÈes
{227} Jacques-BÈnigne Bossuet:
Funerary Orations
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux:
{228} The Art of Poetry
{229} Lutrin
Jean Racine:
(translated by Richard Wilbur)
{230} Phaedra
{231} Andromache
(translated by C H Sisson)
{232} Britannicus
{233} Athaliah
Pierre Carlet de Marivaux:
{234-240} Seven Comedies
Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
{241} The Confessions
{242} …mile
{243} La Nouvelle HËloÔse
Voltaire:
{244} Zadig
{245} Candide
{246} Letters on England
{247} The Lisbon Earthquake
AbbÈ PrÈvost:
{248} Manon Lescaut, translated by Donald Frame
Madame de la Fayette:
{249} The Princess of Cleves
SÈbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort:
Products of the Perfected Civilization[: Selected Writings of Chamfort], translated by W S Merwin
Denis Diderot:
{} Rameau's Nephew
Choderlos de Laclos:
{} Dangerous Liaisons
Germany:
Erasmus:
{} In Praise of Folly
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
{} Faust, Parts One and Two, translated by Stuart Atkins
{} Dichtung und Warheit
{} Egmont, translated by Willard Trask
{} Elective Affinities
{} The Sorrows of Young Werther, translated by Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Mayer, and W H Auden
Poems, translated by Michael Hamburger, Christopher Middleton, and others
{} Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
{} Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering
{} Italian Journey
Verse Plays and
{} Hermann and Dorothea, translated by Michael Hamburger and others
{} Roman Elegies, Venetian Epigrams, {} West-Eastern Divan, translated by Michael Hamburger
Friedrich Schiller:
{} The Robbers
{} Mary Stuart
{} Wallenstein
{} Don Carlos
{} On the NaÔve and Sentimental in Literature
Gotthold Lessing:
{} Laocoˆn
{} Nathan the Wise
Friedrich Hˆlderlin:
Hymns and Fragments, translated by Richard Sieburth
Selected Poems, translated by Michael Hamburger
Heinrich von Kleist:
{} Five Plays, translated by Martin Greenberg
Stories
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13 June
The Chaotic Age: Italy:
Luigi Pirandello:
{} Naked Masks: Five Plays, translated by Eric Bentley and others
{} Gabriele D'Annunzio:
Maia: In Praise of Life
{} Dino Campana:
Orphic Songs, translated by Charles Wright
Umberto Saba:
Stories and Recollections, translated by Estelle Gilson
Poems
{} Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa:
The Leopard, translated by Archibald Colquhoun
Giuseppe Ungaretti:
Selected Poems, translated by Allen Mandelbaum
The Buried Harbor: Selected Poems, translated by Kevin Hart
Eugenio Montale:
(translated by William Arrowsmith)
The Storm and Other Things: Poems
The Occasions: Poems
Cuttlefish Bones: Poems
(translated by Jonathan Galassi)
Otherwise: Last and First Poems
The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays
Salvatore Quasimodo:
Selected Writings: Poems and Discourse on Poetry, translated by Allen Mandelbaum
Tommaso Landolfi:
Gogol's Wife and Other Stories
Leonardo Sciascia:
{} Day of the Owl
{} Equal Danger
The Wine-Dark Sea: Thirteen Stories
Pier Paolo Pasolini:
Poems, translated by Norman MacAfee with Luciano Martinengo
Cesare Pavese:
Hard Labor: Poems, translated by William Arrowsmith
Dialogues with LeucÚ, translated by William Arrowsmith and D S Carne-Ross
Primo Levi:
{} If Not Now, When? translated by William Weaver
Collected Poems
{} The Periodic Table
Italo Svevo:
{} The Confessions of Zeno
{} As a Man Grows Older
Giorgio Bassani:
The Heron, translated by William Weaver
Natalia Ginzburg:
Family
{} Elio Vittorini:
Women of Messina
{} Alberto Moravia:
1934, translated by William Weaver
Andrea Zanzotto:
Selected Poetry
Italo Calvino:
{} Invisible Cities, translated by William Weaver
{} The Baron in the Trees, translated by Archibald Colquhoun
{} If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, translated by William Weaver
{} t zero, translated by William Weaver
Antonio Porta:
Kisses from Another Dream: Poems.
Spain:
Miguel de Unamuno:
Three Exemplary Novels, translated by Angel Flores
{} Our Lord Don Quixote, translated by Anthony Kerrigan
Antonio Machado:
Selected Poems, translated by Alan S Trueblood
Juan RamÛn JimÈnez:
Invisible Reality: Poems, translated by Antonio T de Nicolas
Pedro Salinas:
My Voice Because of You: Poems, translated by Willis Barnstone
Jorge GuillÈn:
GuillÈn on GuillÈn: The Poetry and the Poet, translated by Reginald Gibbons
Vincente Aleixandre:
A Longing for the Night: Selected Poems
Federico GarcÌa Lorca:
Selected Poems
{} Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba
Rafael Alberti:
The Owl's Insomnia: Poems, translated by Mark Strand
Luis Cernuda:
Selected Poems, translated by Reginald Gibbons
Miguel Hern ·ndez:
Selected Poems
Blas de Otero:
Selected Poems
Camilo JosÈ Cela:
{} The Hive
Juan Goytisolo:
Space in Motion, translated by Helen R Lane
Catalonia:
Carles Rib·:
Selected Poems
J V Foix:
Selected Poems
{} Joan Perucho:
Natural History, translated by David H Rosenthal
{} Merce Rodoreda:
The Time of the Doves, translated by David H Rosenthal
Pere Gimferrer:
Selected Poems
Salvador Espri˙
La Pell de Brau: Poems, translated by Burton Raffel
Portugal:
Fernando Pessoa:
{} The Keeper of Sheep, translated by Edwin Honig and Susan M Brown
Poems, translated by Edwin Honig and Susan M Brown
Selected Poems, translated by Peter Rickard
Always Astonished: Selected Prose, translated by Edwin Honig
{} The Book of Disquiet, translated by Alfred Mac Adam
Jorge de Sena:
Selected Poems
JosÈ Saramago:
{} Baltasar and Blimunda
JosÈ Cardoso Pires:
{} Ballad of Dogs' Beach
Sophia de Mello Breyner:
Selected Poems
EugÈnio de Andrade:
Selected Poems
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14 June
The Chaotic Age: France:
Anatole France
{} Penguin Island
{} ThaÔs
Alain-Fournier
Le Grand Meaulnes.
Marcel Proust
{} Remembrance of Things Past (In Search of Lost Time), translated by C K Scott Moncrieff, revised by Terence Kilmartin
Andre Gide
(translated by Richard Howard)
{} The Immoralist
{} Corydon
(translated by Dorothy Bussy)
{} Lafcadio's Adventures (The Caves of the Vatican)
{} The Counterfeiters
{} The Journals
Colette
Collected Stories
Retreat from Love
Georges Bataille
{} Blue of Noon
Louis-Ferdinand CÈline
{} Journey to the End of Night
RenÈ Daumal
Mount Analogue, translated by Roger Shattuck
Jean Genet
(translated by Bernard Frechtman)
Our Lady of the Flowers
The Thief's Journal
The Balcony
Jean Giradoux
Four Plays, translated by Maurice Valency
Alfred Jarry
Selected Works, translated by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor
Jean Cocteau
The Infernal Machine and Other Plays
Guillaume Apollinaire
Selected Writings, translated by Roger Shattuck
AndrÈ Breton
Poems, translated by Jean-Pierre Cauvin and Mary Ann Caws
Manifestoes of Surrealism, translated by Richard Seaver and Helen R Lane
Paul ValÈry
The Art of Poetry
Selected Writings
RenÈ Char
Poems, translated by Jonathan Griffin and Mary Ann Caws
Paul …luard
Selected Poems
Louis Aragon
Selected Poems
Jean Giono
The Horseman on the Roof
Michel Leiris
Manhood, translated by Richard Howard
Raymond Radiguet
Count d'Orgel's Ball
Jean-Paul Sartre
{} No Exit
{} Nausea, translated by Lloyd Alexander
{} Saint Genet
{} The Words, translated by Bernard Frechtman
{} The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert
Simone de Beauvoir
{} The Second Sex
Albert Camus
{} The Stranger, translated by Matthew Ward
{} The Plague
{} The Fall
{} The Rebel
Henri Michaux
Selected Writings, translated by Richard Ellmann
Edmond JabËs
The Book of Questions, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
Selected Poems, translated by Keith Waldrop
Saint-John Perse
Anabasis, translated by T S Eliot
Birds, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Exile and Other Poems, translated by Denis Devlin
Pierre Reverdy
Selected Poems
Tristan Tzara
Seven Dada Manifestos, translated by Barbara Wright
Max Jacob
Selected Poems
Pierre-Jean Jouve
Selected Poems
Francis Ponge
Things: Selected Writings, translated by Cid Corman
Jacques PrÈvert
Paroles
Philippe Jaccotet
Selected Poems, translated by Derek Mahon
Charles Peguy
The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc
Benjamin PÈret
Selected Poems
AndrÈ Malraux
The Conquerors
The Royal Way
Man's Fate
Man's Hope
The Voices of Silence
Francois Mauriac
(translated by Gerard Hopkins)
Therese
The Desert of Love
The Woman of the Pharisees
Jean Anouilh
Becket
Antigone
Eurydice
The Rehearsal
EugËne Ionesco
The Bald Soprano
The Chairs
The Lesson
AmÈdÈÈ
Victims of Duty
Rhinoceros
Maurice Blanchot
Thomas the Obscure, translated by Robert Lamberton
Pierre Klossowski
The Laws of Hospitality
The Baphomet
Raymond Roussel
Locus Solus.
Antonin Artaud
Selected Writings, translated by Helen Weaver
Claude Levi-Strauss
Tristes Tropiques
Alain Robbe-Grillet
(translated by Richard Howard)
The Voyeur
Jealousy
In the Labyrinth
The Erasers
Project for a Revolution in New York
For a New Novel.
Nathalie Sarraute
The Use of Speech, translated by Barbara Wright
The Planetarium, translated by Maria Jolas
Claude Simon
(translated by Richard Howard)
The Grass
The Wind
The Flanders Road
Marguerite Duras
The Lover, translated by Barbara Bray
Four Novels, translated by Sonia Pitt-Rivers and others
Robert Pinget
(translated by Barbara Wright)
Fable
The Libera Me Domine
That Voice
Michel Tournier
The Ogre
Friday
Marguerite Yourcenar
Coup de Grace
Memoirs of Hadrian
Jean Follain
Transparence of the World: Poems, translated by W S Merwin
Yves Bonnefoy
Words in Stone, translated by Susanna Long
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15 June
The Chaotic Age: Great Britain and Ireland:
William Butler Yeats:
The Collected Poems [1933; expanded 1950; revised 1956; incl. The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems [1889]; The Wind Among the Trees [1899]; Shadowy Waters [1900]; In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age [1904]; Responsibilities [1914]; Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921]; The Tower [1928]; The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933]; selections from The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, 1892; The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1910; The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses, and a Play in Verse, 1919; Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems, 1932; A Full Moon in March, 1935; and Last Poems and Plays, 1940]
Collected Plays
{} A Vision
Mythologies
George Bernard Shaw:
Major Critical Essays
{} Heartbreak House
{} Pygmalion
{} Saint Joan
{} Major Barbara
{} Back to Methuselah
John Millington Synge:
Collected Plays [The Shadows of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints;The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows]
Sean O'Casey:
{} Juno and the Peacock
{} The Plough and the Stars
{} The Shadow of a Gunman
George Douglas Brown:
{} The House with the Green Shutters [1901]
Thomas Hardy:
{} The Well-Beloved
{} The Woodlanders
{} The Return of the Native
{} The Mayor of Casterbridge
{} Far from the Madding Crowd
{} Tess of the d'Urbevilles
{} Jude the Obscure
Collected Poems
Rudyard Kipling:
{} Kim
Collected Stories
{} Puck of Pook's Hill
Complete Verse
A.E. Housman:
Collected Poems.
Max Beerbohm:
{} Zuleika Dobson
{} Seven Men and Two Others
Joseph Conrad:
{} Lord Jim
{} The Secret Agent
{} Nostromo
{} Under Western Skies
{} Victory
Ronald Firbank:
Five Novels [{} Valmouth [1919]; {} The Flower Beneath The Foot - Being a Record of the Early Life of St. Laura De Nazianzi and the Times in Which She Lived [1923]; {} Sorrow in Sunlight [1924; published in the U S as Prancing Nigger]; {} Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli [1926]; {} The Artificial Princess [1934]]
Ford Madox Ford:
{} Parade's End
{} The Good Soldier
W Somerset Maugham:
Collected Short Stories
{} The Moon and Sixpence
John Cowper Powys:
{} Wolf Solent
{} A Glastonbury Romance
Saki (H H Munro):
The Short Stories
H G Wells:
The Science Fiction Novels
David Lindsay:
{} A Voyage to Arcturus [1920]
Arnold Bennett:
{} The Old Wives' Tale
Walter De la Mare:
Collected Poems
{} Memoirs of a Midget
Wilfred Owen:
Collected Poems
Isaac Rosenberg:
Collected Poems
Edward Thomas:
Collected Poems
Robert Graves:
Collected Poems
{} King Jesus
Edwin Muir:
Collected Poems
David Jones:
{} In Parenthesis
{} The Anathemata
John Galsworthy:
{} The Forsyte Saga
E M Forster:
{} Howards End
{} A Passage to India
Frank O'Connor:
Collected Stories
D H Lawrence:
Complete Poems
Studies in Classic American Literature
Complete Short Stories
{} Sons and Lovers
{} The Rainbow
{} Women in Love
Virginia Woolf:
{} Mrs. Dalloway
{} To the Lighthouse
{} Orlando: A Biography
{} The Waves
{} Between the Acts
James Joyce:
{} Dubliners
{} Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
{} Ulysses
{} Finnegans Wake
Samuel Beckett:
{} Murphy
{} Watt
{} Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
{} Waiting for Godot
{} Endgame
{} Krapp's Last Tape
{} How It Is
Elizabeth Bowen:
Collected Poems
J G Farrell:
{} The Siege of Krishnapur [1973]
Henry Green:
{} Nothing [1950]
{} Loving [1945]
{} Party Going [1939]
Evelyn Waugh:
{} A Handful of Dust
{} Scoop
{} Vile Bodies
{} Put Out More Flags
Anthony Burgess:
{} Nothing Like the Sun
G B Edwards:
{} The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Iris Murdoch:
{} The Good Apprentice
{} Bruno's Dream
Graham Greene:
{} Brighton Rock
{} The Heart of the Matter
{} The Power and the Glory
Christopher Isherwood:
{} The Berlin Stories
Norman Douglas:
{} South Wind [1917]
Aldous Huxley:
Collected Essays
{} Antic Hay
{} Point Counter Point
{} Brave New World
Lawrence Durrell:
{} The Alexandria Quartet
William Golding:
{} Pincher Martin
Doris Lessing:
{} The Golden Notebook
Mervyn Peake:
The Gormenghast Trilogy [{} Titus Groan [1946]; {} Gormenghast [1950]; {} Titus Alone [1959]]
Jeanette Winterson:
{} The Passion [1987]
W H Auden:
Collected Poems
{} The Dyer's Hand
Roy Fuller:
Collected Poems
Gavin Ewart:
Selected Poems
Basil Bunting:
Collected Poems
William Empson:
Collected Poems [1949; includes {} Letter IV [1927]; {} Poems [1935]; {} The Gathering Storm [1940] plus three new poems and 'Notes'; expanded 1955 edition with the addition of one poem and one play]
{} Milton's God [1961]
Some Versions of Pastoral [1935; U S versions originally entitled English Pastoral Poetry]
George Wilson Knight:
{} The Wheel of Fire[: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy] [1930]
R S Thomas:
Poems
Frank Kermode:
{} The Sense of an Ending[: Studies in the Theory of Fiction] [1967; edited 1965 lectures]
Stevie Smith:
Collected Poems
F T Prince:
Collected Poems
Philip Larkin:
Collected Poems
Donald Davie:
Selected Poems
Geoffrey Hill:
Collected Poems
Jonathan Spence:
{} The Death of Woman Wang [1978]
{} The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci [1984]
Elizabeth Jennings:
Selected Poems
Keith Douglas:
The Complete Poems
Hugh MacDiarmid:
Complete Poems
Louis MacNeice:
Collected Poems
Dylan Thomas:
The Poems
Nigel Dennis:
{} Cards of Identity [1955]
Seamus Heaney:
Selected Poems: 1969-1987
{} Field Work [1979]
{} Station Island [1984]
Thomas Kinsella:
{} Peppercanister Poems [1972-1978] [1979; originally published as separate editions: Butcher's Dozen, 1972; A Selected Life, 1972; Vertical Man, 1973; The Good Fight: A Poem for the Tenth Anniversary of the Death of John F Kennedy, 1973; One, 1974; A Technical Supplement, 1976; Song of the Night and Other Poems, 1978; The Messenger, 1978]
Paul Muldoon:
Selected Poems
John Montague:
Selected Poems.
John Arden:
Plays
Joe Orton:
The Complete Plays [Ruffian and the Stair [1964, radio; revised 1967]; Entertaining Mr. Sloane [1964]; Loot [1966]; The Good and Faithful Servant [1967, television]; The Erpingham Camp [1966, as part of the television series The Seven Deadly Sins; revised 1967]; Funeral Games [1968, television]; What the Butler Saw [1969]]
Flann O'Brien:
{} The Dalkey Archive [1964]
{} The Third Policeman [1967]
Tom Stoppard:
{} Travesties [1974]
Harold Pinter:
{} The Caretaker
{} The Homecoming.
Edward Bond:
{} The Fool [1975]
{} Saved [1965]
George Orwell:
Collected Essays
{} 1984
Edna O'Brien:
A Fanatic Heart[: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien] [includes Returning, 1987; and selections from The Love Object, 1968; A Scandalous Woman, 1974; A Rose in the Heart, 1978; plus a section entitled Quartet (Uncollected Stories, 1979-1981); originally published in Redbook, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and other publications]
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16 June
The Chaotic Age: Germany:
Hugo von Hofmannsthal:
Poems and Verse Plays, translated by Michael Hamburger and others
Selected Prose, translated by Mary Huttinger and Tania and James Stern [incl. {} Andreas Oder Vereinigten [1932]; {} [Die Frau Ohne Schatten] The Woman Without a Shadow [1919]]
Selected Plays and Libretti, translated by Michael Hamburger and others [incl. {} [Der Turm] The Tower [1925; revised 1927]; {} Elektra [1909]; {} [Das Salzburger Grosse Welttheater] The Salzburg Great Theatre of the World [1922]; {} [Der Rosenkavalier] The Cavalier of the Rose [1911]; {} Arabella [1933]; {} [Der Schwierige] The Difficult Man [1921]]
Rainer Maria Rilke:
Selected Poetry, translated by Stephen Mitchell (includes the {} Duino Elegies)
{} The Sonnets to Orpheus, translated by Stephen Mitchell
{} The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, translated by Stephen Mitchell
{} New Poems: First Part and Other Part, translated by Edward Snow
Hermann Broch:
{} [Die Schlafwandler: Eine Romantrilogie] The Sleepwalkers [originally published in three volumes: Pasenow; Oder, Die Romantik, 1931; Esch; Oder, Die Anarchie, 1931; and Huguenau, Oder, Die Sachlichkeit, 1932]
{} [Der Tod des Vergil] The Death of Virgil [1945]
{} [Hofmannsthal und seine Zeit] Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time [1974]
Georg Trakl:
Selected Poems
Gottfried Benn:
Selected Poems
Franz Kafka:
Amerika
The Complete Stories
The Blue Octavo Notebooks
{} The Trial
Diaries
{} The Castle
Parables, Fragments, Aphorisms
Bertolt Brecht:
Poems, 1913-1956
{} The Threepenny Opera, translated by Desmond Vesey and Eric Bentley
{} The Good Woman of Setzuan, translated by Eric Bentley
{} Mother Courage and Her Children, translated by Eric Bentley
{} Galileo, translated by Charles Laughton
{} The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Arthur Schnitzler:
Plays and
Stories
Frank Wedekind:
Lulu Plays [{} Erdgeist [1895] and {} Die B¸chse der Pandora [1904]]
{} [Fr¸hlings Erwachen] Spring Awakening [1906], translated by Edward Bond
Karl Kraus:
{} [Die Letzten Tage der Menschheit] The Last Days of Mankind [originally published serially in Fackel, 1919]
Gunter Eich:
Moles
Thomas Mann:
{} The Magic Mountain
Stories of Three Decades [includes {} Tristan [1903]; {} Tonio Krˆger [originally published in Neue Deutsche Rundschau, Feb. 1903]; Fiorenza [1906]; {} Der Tod in Venedig [1911]; {} Herr und Hund: Eine Idyll [1919]; {} Unordnung und Fruhes Leid [originally published in Neue Rundschau, 1925]; {} Mario und der Zauberer [1930]
{} Joseph and His Brothers
{} Doctor Faustus
{} Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Alfred Dˆblin:
{} Berlin Alexanderplatz
Hermann Hesse:
{} The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi)
{} Narcissus and Goldmund
Robert Musil:
{} Young Tˆrless
{} The Man Without Qualities
Joseph Roth:
{} [Radetzkymarsch] The Radetzky March [1932]
Paul Celan:
Poems, translated by Michael Hamburger
Thomas Bernhard:
{} [Holzf‰llen] Woodcutters [1984]
Heinrich Bˆll:
{} [Billard um Halbzehn] Billiards at Half-Past Nine [1959]
Ingeborg Bachmann:
In the Storm of Roses[: Selected Poems], translated by Mark Anderson
Hans Magnus Enzensberger:
Poems for People Who Don't Read Poems [excerpts from Verteidigung der Wˆlfe [1959]; Landessprache [1960]; Blindenschrift [1964]]
Walter Benjamin:
Illuminations
Robert Walser:
Selected Stories, translated by Christopher Middleton, et al.
Christa Wolf:
{} [Kassandra] Cassandra [1984]
Peter Handke:
{} Slow Homecoming
Max Frisch:
{} [Stiller] I'm Not Stiller [1954]
{} [Der Mensch Erscheint im Holoz‰n] Man in the Holocene [1979]
G¸nter Grass:
{} The Tin Drum
{} The Flounder
Friedrich D¸rrenmatt:
{} [Der Besuch der Alten Dame] The Visit [1956]
Johannes Bobrowski:
{} [Schattenland Strˆme] Shadow Lands [1962], translated by Ruth and Matthew Mead
Russia:
Anna Akhmatova:
Poems, translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward [incl. {} Requiem]
Leonid Andreyev:
SelectedTales
Andrey Bely:
{} [Peterburg''] Petersburg [1913]
Osip Mandelshtam:
Selected Poems, translated by Clarence Brown and W S Merwin [excerpts from Stone [1913; expanded 1916]; Tristia (1922]; and Poems [1928; which itself consisted of Stone, Tristia, and new poems written 1921-25]
Velimir Khlebnikov:
The King of Time[: Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian]
Vladimir Mayakovsky:
{} The Bedbug and Selected Poetry, translated by Max Hayward and George Reavey
Mikhail Gulgakov:
{} The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Kuzmin:
{} Alexandrian Songs [originally published serially in Ves˝]
Maksim Gorky:
{} Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Andreev
{} Autobiography
Ivan Bunin:
Selected Stories
Isaac Babel:
Collected Stories
Boris Pasternak:
{} Doctor Zhivago
Selected Poems, translated by Jon Stallworthy and Peter France
Yury Olesha:
{} [Zavist?] Envy [1927]
Marina Tsvetayeva:
Selected Poems, translated by Elaine Feinstein
Mikhail Zoshchenko:
Nervous People and Other Satires
Andrei Platonov:
{} [Kotlovan] The Foundation Pit [1987; written 1926-30]
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
{} One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
{} The Cancer Ward
{} The Gulag Archipelago
{} August 1914
Joseph Brodsky:
A Part of Speech: Poems [consists of {} Ostanovka v Pustyne [1970]; {} Konets Prekrasnoi Epokhi: Stikhotvoreniia 1964-71 [1977]; {} Chast' Rechi: Stikhotvoreniia 1972-76 [1977]]
Scandinavia:
Isak Dinsen (Danish, but wrote in English):
{} [Vinter-eventyr] Winter's Tales
{} Seven Gothic Tales
Martin Andersen Nexo:
{} [Pelle Erobreren] Pelle the Conquerer [published in four volumes, 1906-10]
Knut Hamsun:
{} Hunger
{} Pan
Sigrid Undset:
Kristin Lavransdatter [{} Kransen [1920]; {} Husfrue [1921]; {} Korset [1922]]
Gunnar Ekelˆf:
{} [V‰gvisare till Underjorden] Guide to the Underworld, translated by Rika Lesser [1977]
Tomas Transtrˆmer:
Selected Poems
P‰r Lagerkvist:
{} Barabbas [1950]
Lars Gustafsson:
Selected Poems
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17 June
The Chaotic Age: Serbo-Croat:
Ivo Andri?:
{} The Bridge on the Drina [1945]
Vasko Popa:
Selected Poems
Danilo Kis:
{} A Tomb for Boris Davidovich [1976]
Czech:
Karel ?apek:
{} War With the Newts [1936]
{} R U R [1920]
Vaclav Havel:
{} Largo Desolato [1986]
Milan Kundera:
{} The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Jaroslav Seifert:
Selected Poetry [selections from M?sto v Slz·ch [Town in Tears], 1921; Sam· L·ska [Nothing but Love], 1923; SvatebnÌ Cesta [Honeymoon], 1925; SlavÌk ZpÌv· ?patn? [The Nightingale Sings Badly], 1926; Po?tovnÌ Holub [Carrier Pigeon], 1929; Jablko z KlÌna [An Apple From Your Lap[, 1933; Ruce Venu?iny [The Hands of Venus], 1936; ZpÌv·no do Rota?ky [Songs for the Rotary Press], 1936; Zhasn?te Sv?tla [Put Out the Lights], 1938; Sv?tlem Od?n· [Robed in Light], 1940; P?ilba HlÌny [A Helmetful of Earth], 1947; Koncert na Ostrov? [Concert on the Island], 1965; Halleyova Kometa [Halley's Comet], 1967; OdlÈv·nÌ Zvon? [The Casting of Bells], 1967; Morov˝ Sloup [The Plague Column], 1978; De?tnÌk z Piccadilly [An Umbrella From Piccadilly], 1979; All the Beauties of the World, 1979; B˝ti B·snÌkem [To Be a Poet], 1983]
Miroslav Holub:
The Fly
Polish:
Bruno Schulz:
{} [Sklepy Cynamonowe] The Street of Crocodiles [1934]
{} [Sanatorium Pod Klepsydr?] Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass [1937]
Czeslaw Milosz:
Selected Poems [1973; 1980 edition includes an additional poem, 'A Magic Mountain']
Witold Gombrowicz:
Three Novels [{} Ferdydurke [1937]; {} Pornografia [1960]; {} Kosmos [1965]]
Stanislaw Lem:
{} [?ledztwo] The Investigation [1959]
{} Solaris [1961]
Zbigniew Herbert:
Selected Poems [1977; selections from Chord of Light, 1956; Hermes, Dog, and Star, 1957; Study of the Object, 1961; Inscription, 1969; Mr. Cogito, 1974; plus poems previously unpublished and originally published in TwÛrczo??; features versions from Collected Poems, 1971]
Adam Zagajewski:
Tremor
Hungarian:
Attila JÛzsef:
Perched on Nothing's Branch
Ferenc Juhasz:
[The Boy Changed Into a Stag: ]Selected Poems[ 1949-1967] [selections from The Winged Colt, 1949; The S·ntha Family, 1950; My Father, 1950; New Poems, 1951; Ode to Flying, 1953; Laying Hold of the Sun and the Moon, 1954; The Spendthrift Country, 1954; Power of the Flowers, 1955; The Breeding Country: Collected Poems 1946-1956, 1957; The Flowering World Tree. Selected Poems 1946-1964, 1965; Battling the White Lamb, 1965; Legends of the Holy Flood of Fire, 1969]
Laszlo Nemeth:
{} Guilt
Modern Greek:
C P Cavafy:
Collected Poems
George Seferis:
Collected Poems [1967; expanded 1969; revised and expanded 1981; includes {} Turning Point [1931]; {} The Cistern [1932]; {} Mythistorima [1935]; {} Book of Exercises [1940]; {} Logbook I [1940]; {} Logbook II [1944]; {} "Thrush" [1947]; {} Logbook III [1955]; {} Three Secret Poems [1966]; and selections from Book of Exercises II, 1976]
Nikos Kazantzakis:
{} The Greek Passion [Christ Recrucified]
{} The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel [1938]
Yannis Ritsos:
Exile and Return
Odysseas Elytis:
What I Love: Selected Poems
Angelos Sikelianos:
Selected Poems [1979]
Yiddish:
Sholem Aleichem:
Tevye the Diaryman and
The Railroad Stories, translated by Hillel Halkin
The Nightingale, translated by Aliza Shevrin
Mendele Mokher Seforim:
{} The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third
I L Peretz:
Selected Stories
Jacob Glatstein:
Selected Poems
Moshe-Leib Halpern:
Selected Poems [Bloom could be referring to In New York: A Selection, but this will remain an indeterminate selection]
H Leivick (Leivick Halpern):
Selected Poems [indeterminate selection?]
Israel Joshua Singer:
{} The Brothers Ashkenazi
{} Yoshe Kalb
Chaim Grade:
{} The Yeshiva [originally published in two volumes, 1967-68]
S Ansky:
{} The Dybbuk [1914]
Mani Leib:
Selected Poems [indeterminate selection?]
Sholem Asch:
{} East River
Isaac Bashevis Singer:
[The ]Collected Stories[ of Isaac Bashevis Singer] [1982; originally published in the New Yorker, A Treasury of Yiddish Stories, and other publications]
{} In My Father's Court
{} The Manor, {} the Estate, {} the Family Moskat
{} Satan in Goray
Hebrew:
Hayyim Nahman Bialik:
Shirot Bialik: The Epic Poems
S Y Agnon:
{} In the Heart of the Seas
Twenty-One Stories [originally published 1919-50; 10 of these 21 stories form part of The Book of Deeds]
Aharon Appelfeld:
{} The Immortal Bartfuss
{} Badenheim 1939
Yaakov Shabtai:
{} Past Continuous
Yehuda Amichai:
[The ]Selected Poetry[ of Yehuda Amichai], translated by Stephen Mitchell and Chana Bloch [selections from Now and in Other Days, 1955; Two Hopes Away, 1958; Poems, 1948-1962; Now in the Storm, Poems 1963-1968; Behind All This a Great Happiness Is Hiding, 1976; Time, 1978; A Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers, 1980; The Hour of Grace, 1983; From Man Thou Art and Unto Man Shalt Thou Return, 1985]
Travels, translated by Ruth Nevo
A B Yehoshua:
{} A Late Divorce
Amos Oz:
{} A Perfect Peace
T Carmi:
At the Stone of Losses, translated by Grace Shulman
Nathan Zach:
Selected Poems [The Static Element: Selected Poems of Nathan Zach] [1982]
Dalia Ravikovitch:
A Dress of Fire
Dan Pagis:
Selected Poems [Variable Directions: The Selected Poetry of Dan Pagis] [1989]
David Shahar:
{} The Palace of Shattered Vessels [1975 English translation published in part in News From Jerusalem as 'Moses and the Negress', 'The King's Eye', and 'The Dove and the Moon'; and in Commentary; 1988 English translation of first and second novels in eight-novel sequence published as Summer in the Streets of the Prophet [K?ayits be-Derekh ha-Nevi?im]; and, A Voyage to Ur of the Chaldees [a-Masa? le-Ur-Kas?dim]]
David Grossman:
{} See Under: Love
Yoram Kaniuk:
{} His Daughter
Arabic:
Najib Mahfuz:
{} Midaq Alley
{} Fountain and Tomb
{} Miramar
Adunis:
Selected Poems
Mahmud Darwish:
The Music of Human Flesh [1980]
Taha Husayn:
An Egyptian Childhood [part of The Days]
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18 June
The Chaotic Age: Latin America:
RubÈn Dario:
Selected Poetry [Selected Poems of RubÈn Dario, 1965; selections from Abrojos; Rimas; Azul, 1888; Prosas Profanas y Otros Poemas, 1896; Cantos de Vida y Esperanza; Los Cisnes y Otros Poemas; El Canto Errante; Poema del Oto&&etilde;o y Otros Poemas; Canto a la Argentina y Otros Poems; and a section entitled Miscellaneous Poems]
Jorge Luis Borges:
{} The Aleph and Other Stories
{} Dreamtigers (The Maker)
{} Ficciones
Labyrinths
A Personal Anthology
Alejo Carpentier:
{} Explosion in a Cathedral
{} The Lost Steps
{} Reasons of State
{} The Kingdom of This World
Guillermo Cabrera Infante:
{} Three Trapped Tigers
{} View of Dawn in the Tropics
Severo Sarduy:
{} Maitreya
Reinaldo Arenas:
{} The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando
Pablo Neruda:
{} Canto General [1950], translated by Jack Schmitt
{} [Residencia en la Tierra] Residence on Earth [originally published in three volumes: Residencia I, 1933; Residencia II, 1935; Tercera Residencia, 1947], translated by Donald Walsh
{} Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, translated by W S Merwin
{} Full Empowered, translated by Alastair Reed
Selected Poems[ of Pablo Neruda], translated by Ben Belitt [1961; excerpts from Residence on Earth; Canto General; Odas Elementales, 1954; Nuevas Odas Elementales, 1956; Tercer Libro de las Odas, 1957; Estravagario, 1958; Navegaciones y Regresos, 1959]
Nicol·s GuillÈn:
Selected Poems [Assuming here that Bloom intended Man-Making Worlds: Selected Poems of Nicol·s GuillÈn, which in both editions among other selections includes {} La Paloma de Vuelo Popular (ElegÌas) [1958]]
Octavio Paz:
The Collected Poems
{} The Labyrinth of Solitude
CÈsar Vallejo:
Selected Poems, translated by H R Hays [1981; selections from Los Heraldos Negros, 1918; Trilce, 1922; EspaÒa, Aparta de MÌ Este C·liz, 1939; Poemas Humanas, 1939]
Spain, This Take Cup From Me
Miguel Angel Asturias:
{} Men of Maize
JosÈ Lezama Lima:
{} Paradiso
JosÈe Donoso:
{} The Obscene Bird of Night
Julio Cort·zar:
{} Hopscotch
All Fires the Fire, translated by Suzanne Jill Levin [stories: 'The Southern Thruway'; 'The Health of the Sick'; 'Meeting'; 'Nurse Cora'; 'The Island at Noon'; 'Instructions for John Howell'; 'All Fires the Fire'; 'The Other Heaven']
Blow-Up and Other Stories, translated by Paul Blackburn [1967; originally entitled The End of the Game and Other Stories; includes Las Armas Secretas [1959] and selections from Besiario, 1951; and Final del Juego, 1956]
Gabriel GarcÌa Marquez:
{} One Hundred Years of Solitude, translated by Gregory Rabassa
{} Love in the Time of Cholera, translated by Edith Grossman
Mario Vargas Llosa:
{} The War of the End of the World
Carlos Fuentes:
{} A Change of Skin
{} Terra Nostra
Carlos Drummond de Andrade:
Travelling in the Family, translated by Elizabeth Bishop, et al. [selections from Alguma Poesia (Some Poetry) [1930]; Brejo das Almas (Wasteland of Souls) [1934]; Sentimento do Mundo (A Feeling About the World) [1940]; JosÈ [1942]; A Rosa do Povo (Rose of the People) [1945]; Novos Poemas (New Poems) [1947]; Claro Enigma (Evident Enigma) [1951]; A Vida Passado a Limp (Fair Copy of Life) [1958]; A Paix„o Medida (Passion Measured) [1980]]
The West Indies:
C L R James:
{} The Black Jacobins[: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution] [1938]
The Future in the Present [1977]
V S Naipul:
{} A Bend in the River
{} A House for Mr. Biswas [1961]
Derek Walcott:
Collected Poems [includes {} Another Life [1973]; selections from In a Green Light: Poems 1948-1960, 1962; Selected Poems, 1964; The Castaway and Other Poems, 1965; The Gulf and Other Poems, 1969; Sea Grapes, 1976; The Star-Apple Kingdom, 1979; The Fortunate Traveller, 1981; Midsummer, 1984]
Wilson Harris:
The Guyana Quartet [{} Palace of the Peacock [1960]; {} The Far Journey of Oudin [1961]; {} The Whole Armour [1962]; {} The Secret Ladder [1963]
Michael Thelwell:
{} The Harder They Come [1980]
AimÈ CesairÈ:
Collected Poetry [1983; includes revised versions of {} Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal [originally published in VolontÈs, Aug. 1939]; {} Les Armes Miraculeuses [1946; revised 1970]; {} Soleil cou CoupÈ [1948; revised and coupled with Corps Perdu as Cadastre, 1961]; {} Corps Perdu [1950; revised and coupled with Soleil cou CoupÈ as Cadastre, 1961]; {} Ferrements [1960; originally published in PrÈsence Africaine, 1955-59]; and Noria, published in part in varied publications, 1955-76, in its entirety as part of Oeuvres ComplËtes, 1976; this collection features the Oeuvres ComplËtes versions]
Africa:
Chinua Achebe:
{} Things Fall Apart
{} Arrow of Gold
{} No Longer at Ease
Wole Soyinka:
{} A Dance of the Forest
Amos Tutuola:
{} The Palm-Wine Drunkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town
Christopher Okigbo:
Labyrinths, with Path of Thunder
John Pepper Clark(-Bekederemo)
{} Casualties: Poems
Ayi K Armah:
{} The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born [1968]
Wa Thiong'o Ngugi:
{} A Grain of Wheat
Gabriel Okara:
The Fisherman's Invocation
Nadine Gordimer:
Collected Stories [indeterminate selection; a Collected Stories for this author was not published until 2010]
J M Coetzee:
{} Foe [1986]
Athol Fugard:
{} A Lesson From Aloes [1978]
LÈopold S Senghor:
Selected Poems [1966; selections from Chants d'Ombre, 1945; Hosties Noires, 1948; Chants Pour Naett, 1949; …thiopiques, 1956; Nocturnes, 1961 [which includes Chants Pour NaÎtt, retitled Chants Pour Signare, and a selection of new poems]]
India (in English):
R K Narayan:
{} The Guide
Salman Rushdie:
{} Midnight's Children
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala:
{} Heat and Dust [1975]
Canada:
Malcolm Lowry:
{} Under the Volcano [1947]
Robertson Davies:
The Deptford Trilogy [{} Fifth Business [1970]; {} The Manticore [1972]; {} World of Wonders [1975]]
{} The Rebel Angels [1981]
Alice Munro:
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Northrop Frye:
{} Fables of Identity
Anne HÈbert:
Selected Poems [1987; selections from Le Tombeau des Rois, 1953; and PoËmes, 1960 [which included Tombeau and a section of new poems entitled Le MystËre de la Parole] plus a section entitled Uncollected Poems]
Jay Macpherson:
Poems Twice Told [{} The Boatman [1957]; {} Welcoming Disaster [1974]]
Margaret Atwood:
{} Surfacing [1972]
Daryl Hine:
Selected Poems [selections from Five Poems, 1954; The Carnal and the Crane, 1959; The Devil's Picture Book, 1961; The Wooden Horse, 1965; Minutes, 1968; Resident Alien, 1975; Daylight Saving, 1978]
Australia and New Zealand:
Miles (Stella) Franklin:
{} My Brilliant Career [1901]
Katherine Mansfield:
The Short Stories[ of Katherine Mansfield] [includes Bliss, 1921; The Garden Party, and Other Stories, 1922; plus other stories previously uncollected in book form, and a section entitled Unfinished Stories]
A D Hope:
Collected Poems [selections from The Wandering Islands, 1955; Poems, 1962; A D Hope, 1963; plus poems not previously published in book form]
Patrick White:
{} Riders in the Chariot [1961]
{} A Fringe of Leaves [1976]
{} Voss [1957]
Christina Stead:
{} The Man Who Loved Children [1940]
Judith Wright:
Selected Poems [indeterminate selection]
Les A Murray:
The Rabbiter's Bounty: Collected Poems [selections from The Ilex Tree [1965]; The Weatherboard Cathedral [1969]; Poems Against Economics [1972]; Lunch and Counter Lunch [1974]; Ethnic Radio [1977]; The People's Otherworld [1983]; The Daylight Moon [1987]]
Thomas Keneally:
{} The Playmaker [1987]
{} [Schlinder's Ark] Schlinder's List [1982]
David Malouf:
{} An Imaginary Life [1978]
Kevin Hart:
{} Peniel [1991] and Other Poems
Peter Carey:
{} Oscar and Lucinda [1988]
{} Illywhacker [1985]
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continued at 19 June and 20 June posts...
19 June
The Chaotic Age: The United States [part one]:
Edward Arlington Robinson:
Selected Poems [1965; selections from The Torrent and the Night Before, 1896; The Children of the Night, 1897--an expanded revised version of The Torrent, two poems omitted; Captain Craig, 1902; The Town Down the River, 1910; The Man Against the Sky, 1916; The Three Taverns, 1920; Avon's Harvest, 1921; Dionysus in Doubt, 1925; Nicodemus,1932; features versions from Collected Poems, 1921, expanded 1927, 1929, and 1937]
Robert Frost:
The Poetry[ of Robert Frost] [includes A Boy's Will [1913; revised 1930]; North of Boston [1914]; Mountain Interval [1916; expanded 1930]; New Hampshire [1923]; West-Running Brook [1928; expanded 1930]; A Further Range [1936]; A Witness Tree [1942]; A Masque of Reason [1945]; Steeple Bush [1947]; A Masque of Mercy [1947]; In the Clearing [1962]; plus two of the three poems in the section entitled An Afterword, from the Collected Poems [1949], the other poem having been made part of In the Clearing]
Edith Wharton:
Collected Short Stories [Volume I includes 'That Good May Come'; 'April Showers'; 'Friends'; 'The Line of Least Resistance'; 'The Letter'; 'The House of the Dead Man'; 'The Introducers'; 'Les Metteurs en ScËne'; 'Writing a War Story'; 'Mrs. Manstey's View' [originally published Jul. 1891 in Scribner's]; 'The Fulness of Life' [originally published Dec. 1893 in Scribner's]; 'The Lamp of Psyche' [originally published Oct. 1895 in Scribner's]; 'The Valley of Childish Things, and Other Emblems' [originally published Jul. 1896 in Century Magazine]; The Greater Inclination [1899; six stories, two of which originally published in Scribner's, 1898 and 1899]; Crucial Instances, 1901 [originally published 1900-01 in Scribner's]; The Descent of Man, 1904 [originally published 1902-06 in varied periodicals: Scribner's, Harper's, Collier's, Cosmopolitan, the Atlantic Monthly, and Ainslee's]; The Hermit and the Wild Woman, 1908 [originally published 1904-08 in Scribner's and Collier's]; Volume II includes Tales of Men and Ghosts, 1910 [originally published Jun. 1909-Aug. 1910 in Scribner's and Century Magazine]; Here and Beyond, 1926 [originally published 1919 and 1925-26 in varied periodicals: Pictorial Review, Scribner's, and the Red Book Magazine]; Certain People, 1930 [originally published 1926-28 in Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post]; Human Nature, 1933 [originally published 1932-33 in varied periodicals: Scribner's, Woman's Home Companion, the Saturday Evening Post, and Nash's Pall Mall Magazine]; The World Over, 1936 [five stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post, 1931; Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan, Dec. 1933 and Feb. 1934; Liberty, 1934; Story-Teller, 1936; and one story previously unpublished]; all of Xingu and Other Stories [1916; originally published 1911-19 in varied periodicals: Scribner's, Century Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, and Woman's Home Companion] except 'Bunner Sisters'; and the Preface and 'All Souls'' from Ghosts, 1937]
The Age of Innocence [1920]
Ethan Frome [1911]
The House of Mirth [1905]
The Custom of the Country [1913]
Willa Cather:
My ¡ntonia [1918]
The Professor's House [1925]
A Lost Lady [1923]
Gertrude Stein:
Three Lives [1906]
The Geographical History of America[ or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind] [1936]
The Making of Americans[: Being the History of a Family's Progress] [published in part, 1924, in the Transatlantic Review; in its entirety, 1925; abridged version, 1934]
Tender Buttons [1914]
Wallace Stevens:
Collected Poems [includes Harmonium [1923; revised 1931]; Parts of a World [1942];Ideas of Order [1936]; The Man With the Blue Guitar [1937]; Transport to Summer [1947]; The Auroras of Autumn [1950]; plus section entitled The Rock]
The Necessary Angel[: Essays on Reality and the Imagination] [1951; six essays, three of which originally published as Three Academic Pieces, 1947]
Opus Posthumous
The Palm at the End of the Mind
Vachel Lindsay:
Collected Poems [1923; revised and expanded 1925; originally published in the Metropolitan; Poetry; the Independent; Tuck's Magazine; Reedy's Mirror; the Little Review; the American Magazine; the Outlook; the Chicago Herald; the Masses; the Red Cross Magazine; the Bookman; the Seven Arts; Forum; the Chicago Daily News; Contemporary Verse; the New Republic; the New York Sun; Others; Youth; the Yale Review; and in varied anthologies]
Edgar Lee Masters:
Spoon River Anthology [1915]
Theodore Dreiser:
Sister Carrie [1900]
An American Tragedy [1925]
Sherwood Anderson:
Winesburg, Ohio [1919]
Death in the Woods and Other Stories [16 stories previously published]
Sinclair Lewis:
Babbit [1922]
It Can't Happen Here [1935]
Elinor Wylie:
Last Poems [1943; three sections of poems previously unpublished and one section of poems previously uncollected in book form]
William Carlos Williams:
Spring and All [1923]
Paterson [originally published in five volumes: 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958]
Collected Poems [Volume I 1909-1939 includes The Tempers [1913]; Al Que Quierre! [1917]; Sour Grapes [1921]; Spring and All [1923]; 'The Descent of Winter' [originally published in Exile, Autumn 1928]; An Early Martyr and Other Poems [1935]; Adam and Eve and the City [1936]; selections from Poems, 1909; Volume II 1939-1962 includes The Wedge [1944]; The Clouds [1948]; The Pink Church [1949]; The Desert Music [1954]; Journey to Love [1955]; Pictures From Brueghel [1962]; both volumes include poems previously uncollected in book form or previously published in earlier anthologies]
Ezra Pound:
Personae: Collected Poems [includes Personae [1909]; Ripostes [1912]; Lustra [1916]; Cathay; and other poems]
The Cantos
Literary Essays[ of Ezra Pound] [selections from Pavannes and Divisions, 1918; Instigations, 1920; Make It New, 1934; Polite Essays, 1937; some of the essays originally published in varied periodicals: the New York Herald, the Egoist, the English Journal, Poetry, the Criterion, the Quarterly Review, the Future, the Little Review, the New Freewoman, and Dial]
Robinson Jeffers:
Selected Poems [selections from Selected Poetry, 1938; Be Angry at the Sun, 1941; Medea, 1946; The Double Axe, 1948; Hungerfield, 1954; The Beginning and the End, 1963]
Marianne Moore:
[The ]Complete Poems[ of Marianne Moore] [includes What Are Years [1941]; Nevertheless [1946]; Like a Bulwark [1956]; O To Be a Dragon [1959]; Tell Me, Tell Me [1966]; plus sections entitled Collected Later [originally published as a section entitled Hitherto Uncollected, in Collected Poems, 1951] and Hitherto Uncollected; and a selection of translations of Jean de la Fontaine's Fables; 1981 version includes additional poems in the Hitherto Uncollected section]
Hilda Doolittle (H D):
Selected Poems [selections from Sea Garden, 1916; Hymen, 1921; Heliodora and Other Poems, 1924; Red Roses for Bronze, 1931; Trilogy, 1944-46; Helen in Egypt, 1961; Hermetic Definition, 1972; and sections entitled Miscellaneous Poems 1914-1917; and Miscellaneous Poems, 1931-1938(?)]
John Crowe Ransom:
Selected Poems [includes selections from Poems About God, 1919; Chills and Fever, 1924; Grace After Meat, 1924; Two Gentlemen in Bonds, 1927; plus poems previously uncollected in book form; another anthology, Poems and Essays, 1955, includes the entirety of the 1945 edition of Selected Poems with a few additions and some poems revised plus a selection of essays]
T S Eliot:
The Complete Poems and Plays[, 1909-1950] [includes Prufrock and Other Observations [1917]; Poems: 1920 [1920]; 'The Waste Land'; 'The Hollow Men'; Ash Wednesday [1930]; Journey of the Magi [1927]; A Song for Simeon [1928]; Animula [1929]; Marina [1930]; Triumphal March [1931]; Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama [1932]; Murder in the Cathedral [1935]; The Family Reunion [1939]; The Cocktail Party [1949]; Four Quartets; Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats [1939]; selections from The Rock; two poems, 'Coriolan' and 'Difficulties of a Statesman', included with Triumphal March and Sweeney Agonistes in a section entitled Unfinished Poems; plus a section entitled Minor Poems]
Selected Essays[, 1917-1932]
Katherine Anne Porter:
[The ]Collected Stories[ of Katherine Anne Porter] [includes Flowering Judas and Other Stories; Pale Horse, Pale Rider [1939]; The Leaning Tower and Other Stories]
Jean Toomer:
Cane [published in part in varied periodicals; in its entirety, 1923]
John Dos Passos:
U S A [The 42nd Parallel [1930]; 1919 [1932]; The Big Money [1936]]
Conraid Aiken:
Collected Poems [includes Punch: The Immortal Liar: Documents in His History [1921]; Priapus and the Pool and Other Poems [1925; originally published on its own, 1922; 1925 edition omits three parts of Priapus and includes 21 other poems, all of which are included in Collected Poems; 1949 edition of Priapus omits eight parts of the 1925 version]; John Deth: A Metaphysical Legend and Other Poems [1930]; The Coming Forth by Day of Oriris Jones [1931]; Preludes for Memnon [1931]; Landscape West of Eden [1934]; Time in the Rock: Preludes to Definition [1936]; And in the Human Heart [1940]; Brownstone Eclogues and Other Poems [1942]; The Soldier [1944]; The Kid [1947]; The Divine Pilgrim [1949; published in part as The Jig of Forslin: A Symphony, 1916; The House of Dust: A Symphony, 1920; The Pilgrimage of Festus, 1923; and The Charnel Rose; Senlin: A Biography; and Other Poems, 1925; both House of Dust and Charnel Rose revised for inclusion in Divine Pilgrim; Senlin revised for publication on its own, 1925, and again for Divine Pilgrim]; Skylight One: Fifteen Poems [1949]; A Letter From Li Po and Other Poems [1955]; Sheepfold Hill: Fifteen Poems [1958]; The Morning Song of Lord Zero: Poems Old and New [1963]; Thee [1967]; 'Blues for Ruby Matrix' [originally published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 1935]; selections from Turns and Movies and Other Tales in Verse, 1916; and Nocturne of Remembered Spring and Other Poems, 1921; and other poems]
Eugene O'Neill:
Lazarus Laughed [1928]
The Iceman Cometh [1946]
Long Day's Journey into Night [1956]
e e cummings:
Complete Poems[, 1904-1962] [1991; includes Tulips and Chimneys [1923]; & [1925]; XLI Poems [1925]; Is 5 [1926]; W (ViVa) [1931]; No Thanks [1935]; 50 Poems [1940]; 1 x 1 [1944]; Xaipe [1950]; 95 Poems [1958]; 73 Poems [1962]; Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems [1983]; plus sections entitled New Poems [originally published in Collected Poems, 1938]; and Uncollected Poems]
John B Wheelwright:
Collected Poems [of John Wheelwright] [includes Rock and Shell [1933]; Mirrors of Venus [1938]; Political Self-Portrait [1940]; Dusk to Dusk, a fourth book of poetry prepared for publication at the time of the author's death, but left unpublished until this collection; plus a section entitled Additional Poems [three poems originally published in Diogenes, Dec. 1940/Jan. 1941; one poem originally published in Fantasy, 1940; five poems originally published in Eight More Harvard Poets, 1923--his other five poems from that anthology having been incorporated into later works--and other poems either previously unpublished or uncollected in book form]
Robert Fitzgerald:
Spring Shade: Poems[, 1931-1970] [includes Poems [1935]; A Wreath for the Sea [1943]; In the Rose of Time [1956]; plus sections entitled Poems, 1956-1970 and Selected Translations]
Louise Brogan:
The Blue Estuaries: Selected Poems [1968; 105 poems, 26 of which originally published in the New Yorker, one originally published in Art News, and one and part of another originally published in Poetry]
LÈonie Adams:
Poems: A Selection [1954; Section II, entitled As Apt Was Joy, includes selections from Those Not Elect, 1925, and High Falcon and Other Poems, 1929; Section I, Fruits of Two Seasons, previously unpublished]
Hart Crane:
Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose [includes White Buildings [1926]; The Bridge [1930]; plus a section entitled Uncollected Poems split into three sections: Early Poems; Late Poems: Key West: An Island Sheaf; More Late Poems; and a section entitled Selected Prose]
Allen Tate:
Collected Poems
F Scott Fitzgerald:
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories [originally published in varied periodicals: the Saturday Evening Post, the Smart Set, Metropolitan, the American Mercury, the Red Book Magazine, and Esquire, 1920-37; selections from Flappers and Philosophers, 1920; Tales of the Jazz Age, 1922; All the Sad Young Men, 1926; Taps at Reveille, 1935; The Stories of F Scott Fitzgerald, 1951]
The Great Gatsby [1925]
Tender Is the Night [originally published serially Jan.-Apr. 1934 in Scribner's Magazine]
William Faulkner:
As I Lay Dying [1930]
Sanctuary [1931]
Light in August [1932]
Absalom, Absalom! [1936]
The Sound and the Fury [1929]
The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] [1939]
Collected Stories[ of William Faulkner] [includes These 13; and all except 'Smoke' from Dr. Martino and Other Stories]
The Hamlet [1940]
Ernest Hemingway:
[The ]Complete Short Stories[ of Ernest Hemingway] [1987; includes the stories published in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, 1938; plus sections entitled Short Stories Published in Books or Magazines Subsequent to "The First Forty-nine", and Previously Unpublished Fiction]
{} A Farewell to Arms
{} The Sun Also Rises
{} The Garden of Eden
John Steinbeck:
The Grapes of Wrath [1939]
Zora Neale Hurston:
Their Eyes Were Watching God [1937]
Nathanael West:
Miss Lonelyhearts [1933]
A Cool Million [1934]
The Day of the Locust [1939]
Richard Wright:
Native Son [1940]
Black Boy [originally published in two volumes: Black Boy, 1945; and American Hunger, published in part serially, in its entirety, 1977]
Eudora Welty:
[The ]Collected Stories[ of Eudora Welty] [includes A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, 1941; The Wide Net and Other Stories, 1943; The Golden Apples, 1949; The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories, 1955; plus two 'Uncollected Stories': 'Where Is the Voice Coming From?', originally published in the New Yorker, 1963, and 'The Demonstrators', originally published in the New Yorker, 1966]
Delta Wedding [1946]
The Robber Bridegroom [1942]
The Ponder Heart [originally published 1953 in the New Yorker]
Langston Hughes:
Selected Poems [1959; selections from The Weary Blues, 1926; Fine Clothes to the Jew, 1927; Dear Lovely Death, 1931; Shakespeare in Harlem, 1942; Fields of Wonder, 1947; One-Way Ticket, 1949; Montage of a Dream Deferred, 1951; plus other poems previously unpublished in book form; and new poems]
The Big Sea [1956]
I Wonder As I Wander [1940]
Edmund Wilson:
The Shores of Light[: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties] [1952; originally published in varied periodicals]
Patriotic Gore[: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War] [1962]
Kenneth Burke:
Counter-Statement [1931]
A Rhetoric of Motives [1950]
Joseph Mitchell:
Up in the Old Hotel[ and Other Stories] [originally published in the New Yorker; includes McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, 1943-- expanded for this edition; Old Mr. Flood, 1948; The Bottom of the Harbor, 1960; and Joe Gould's Secret, 1965]
Abraham Cahan:
The Rise of David Levinsky [1917]
Kay Boyle:
Three Short Novels [1958; includes The Crazy Hunter [originally published as part of The Crazy Hunter: Three Short Novels [1940]]; The Bridgegroom's Body [originally published as part of The Crazy Hunter: Three Short Novels [1940]]; Decision [originally published as 'Passport to Doom' in the Saturday Evening Post, 1948]
Ellen Glasgow:
Barren Ground [1925]
Vein of Iron [1935]
John P Marquand:
H M Pulham, Esquire [1941]
John O'Hara:
Collected Stories [1selections from The Doctor's Son and Other Stories, 1935; Files on Parade, 1939; Pipe Night, 1945; Hellbox, 1947; Sermons and Soda Water, 1960; Assembly, 1961; The Cape Cod Lighter, 1962; The Hat on the Bed, 1963; The Horse Knows the Way, 1964; Waiting for Winter, 1966; And Other Stories, 1968]
Appointment in Samarra [1934]
Henry Roth:
Call It Sleep [1934]
Thornton Wilder:
Three Plays [1957] [includes Our Town [1938]; The Skin of Our Teeth [1942]; The Matchmaker [1955; based on his earlier 1938 play, The Merchant of Yongers, itself based on John Oxenford's A Day Well Spent, 1835, and Johann Nestroy's Einen Jux Will er Sich Machen, 1842]
Robert Penn Warren:
All the King's Men [1946]
World Enough and Time [1950]
Selected Poems[, 1923-1975] [1976; includes Audubon: A Vision [1969]; and selections from Selected Poems, 1923-1943, 1944; Promises: Poems 1954-1956, 1957; You, Emperors, and Other Poems 1957-1960, 1960; Incarnations: Poems 1966-1968, 1968; Or Else: Poem/ Poems 1968-1974, 1974; plus a section of poems previously unpublished in book form entitled Tale of Time: Poems 1960-1966; and a section of new poems entitled Can I See Arcturus From Where I Stand? Poems 1975] [Bloom could have intended to list New and Selected Poems, 1923-1985, as that volume was published closer to the publication date of The Western Canon; however, both volumes include the entirety of Aubudon, so that work is included regardless]
Delmore Schwartz:
Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge [first section, The Dream of Knowledge, originally published as In Dreams Begin Responsibilites, 1938; revised and expanded for this book; second section, Summer Knowledge, published in part in Vaudeville for a Princess, Mutiny, and Genesis Book One, and in the New Yorker and Art News]
Weldon Kees:
[The ]Collected Poems[ of Weldon Kees] [includes The Last Man [1943]; The Fall of the Magicians [1947]; Poems, 1947-1954 [1954]; plus a section entitled Uncollected Poems]
Elizabeth Bishop:
The Complete Poems[, 1927-1979] [includes North and South [1946]; Poems: North and South&151;A Cold Spring [which includes North and South and a section of new poems, Cold Spring]; Questions of Travel [1965]; plus sections entitled Translations From the Portuguese; and New and Uncollected Work]
John Berryman:
Collected Poems [1989; includes The Dispossessed [1948]; Homage to Mistress Bradstreet [1956]; Berryman's Sonnets [1967]; Love and Fame [1971]; Delusions Etc. [1972]; selections from Poems, 1942; and His Thought Made Pockets and the Plane Buckt, 1958; plus nine of twenty poems originally published in Five Young American Poets, 1940; and 'Formal Elegy', originally published in Of Poetry and Power: Poems Occasioned by the Presidency and Death of John F Kennedy, 1964, and later included in Short Poems, 1967]
Paul Bowles:
The Sheltering Sky [1949]
Randall Jarrell:
Complete Poems [includes Blood for a Stranger [1942]; Little Friend, Little Friend [1945]; Losses [1948]; The Seven-League Crutches [1951]; The Woman at the Washington Zoo [1960]; The Lost World [1965]; selections from 'The Rage for the Lost Penny', Jarrell's portion of Five Young American Poets, 1940; plus sections entitled New Poems; Uncollected Poems (1934-1965); and Unpublished Poems (1935-1965)]
Charles Olson:
The Maximus Poems [originally published in five volumes: The Maximus Poems 1-10, 1953; The Maximus Poems, 11-22, 1956; The Maximus Poems IV, V, VI, 1968; The Maximus Poems: Volume Three, 1975]
[The ]Collected Poems[ of Charles Olson] [includes Y & X [1948]; In Cold Hell, in Thicket [1953; includes one poem originally published in Y & X]; The Distances [1960; includes nine poems originally published in In Cold Hell, in Thicket]; O'Ryan [1960; expanded 1965]; West [1966]; plus poems originally published in Archaeologist of Morning, 1970; poems previously uncollected in book form; and poems previously unpublished; the introduction states, "three-quarters of the roughly four hundred poems presented here were never published in his lifetime"--presumably some of that three-fourths was originally published in Archaeologist, a posthumous collection]
Robert Hayden:
Collected Poems [includes {} A Ballad of Remembrance [1962]; {} Words in the Mourning Time [1970]; {} The Night-Blooming Cereus [1972]; {} Angle of Ascent [1975]; {} American Journal [1982]]
Robert Lowell:
Collected Poems [indeterminate selection; Lowell's Complete Poems was not published until 2003]
Theodore Roethke:
[The ]Collected Poems[ of Theodore Roethke] [includes Open House [1941]; The Lost Son and Other Poems [1948]; The Far Field [1964]; selections from Praise to the End!, 1951; The Waking, 1953; Words for the Wind, 1958; I Am! Says the Lamb, 1961; and a section entitled Previously Uncollected Poems]
[and David Wagoner - ]Straw for the Fire[: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63] [1972]
James Agee:
Permit Me Voyage [1934]
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (with Walker Evans) [1941]
Jean Garrigue:
Selected Poems [selections from Thirty-Six Poems and a Few Songs, 1944; The Ego and the Centaur, 1947; The Monument Rose, 1953; A Water Walk by Villa d'Este, 1959; Country Without Maps, 1964; New and Selected Poems, 1967; Chartres and Prose Poems, 1970; Studies for an Actress and Other Poems, 1973; plus a section entitled Uncollected Poems]
May Swenson:
New and Selected Things Taking Place [1978; published in part in varied periodicals; plus selections from Iconographs, 1970; Half Sun Half Sleep: New Poems, 1967; To Mix With Time: New and Selected Poems, 1963; A Cage of Spines, 1958; Another Animal, 1954]
In Other Words
Robert Duncan:
Bending the Bow [1968]
Richard Wilbur:
New and Collected Poems [includes The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems [1947]; Ceremony and Other Poems [1950]; Things of This World [1956]; Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems [1961]; Walking to Sleep [1969]; The Mind-Reader [1976]; plus a section entitled New Poems]
Richard Eberhart:
Collected Poems [1930-1986] [selections from A Bravery of Earth, 1930; Reading the Spirit, 1936; Song and Idea, 1940; Poems New and Selected, 1944; Burr Oaks, 1947; Selected Poems, 1951; Undercliff: Poems 1946-1953, 1953; Great Praises, 1957; Collected Poems 1930-1960, 1960; The Quarry: New Poems, 1964; Selected Poems 1930-1965, 1965; Shifts of Being, 1968; Fields of Grace, 1972; Ways of Light: Poems 1972-1980, 1980; Four Poems, 1980; Florida Poems, 1981; The Long Reach: New and Uncollected Works 1948?1984, 1984; plus poems originally published in The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, 1985; and 13 new poems]
M B Tolson:
Harlem Gallery [1965]
Kenneth Koch:
Seasons on Earth [1987]
continued at 20 June post...
20 June
The Chaotic Age: The United States [part two]:
Frank O'Hara:
[The ]Selected Poems[ of Frank O'Hara]
James Schuyler:
Collected Poems [includes Freely Espousing [1969]; The Crystal Lithium [1972]; Hymn to Life [1974]; The Morning of the Poem [1980]; A Few Days [1985]; selections from The Home Book: Prose and Poems, 1951-1970, 1977; plus a section entitled Last Poems]
James Baldwin:
The Price of a Ticket[: Collected Nonfiction 1948-1985] [includes Notes of a Native Son, 1955 [essays originally published 1949-53 in varied periodicals: Zero, Partisan Review, Commentary, the New Leader, Harper's, and the Reporter]; Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son, 1961 [essays originally published 1956-61 in varied periodicals: the New York Times, Encounter, Esquire, Harper's, Partisan Review, and the New Leader; plus two edited 1960 lectures; and part of an essay previously unpublished], The Fire Next Time [1963], No Name in the Street [1972], The Devil Finds Work [1976]; 24 essays previously published; and one new essay, 'The Price of a Ticket']
Saul Bellow:
Seize the Day [1956]
The Adventures of Augie March [1953]
Herzog [1964]
John Cheever:
The Stories[ of John Cheever] [originally published in varied periodicals: the New Yorker, Esquire, the Saturday Evening Post, and Playboy; includes The Enormous Radio and Other Stories, 1953; The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories, 1959; Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel, 1961; The Brigadier and the Golf Window, 1964; The World of Apples, 1973]
Bullet Park [1969]
Ralph Ellison:
Invisible Man [1952]
Truman Capote:
In Cold Blood[: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences] [originally published serially in the New Yorker, Sep.-Oct. 1965]
Carson McCullers:
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe [1951]
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter [1940]
Flannery O'Connor:
Complete Stories [includes A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, 1955; Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965; plus 12 stories previously uncollected in book form]
The Violent Bear It Away [1960; first chapter is revised version of 'You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead', New World Writing, Oct. 1955]
Wise Blood [published in part, Apr. 1948, as 'The Train', Sewanee Review; Feb. 1949, as 'The Heart of the Park', in the Partisan Review; Dec. 1949, as 'The Peeler', in the Partisan Review; and Apr. 1952, as 'Enoch and the Gorilla', in New World Writing; in its entirety, 1952]
Vladimir Nabokov:
Lolita [1955]
Pale Fire [1962]
Gore Vidal:
Myra Breckinridge [1968]
Lincoln [1984]
William Styron:
The Long March [1956]
J D Salinger:
The Catcher in the Rye [1951]
Nine Stories
Wright Morris:
Ceremony in Lone Tree [1960]
Bernard Malamud:
The Stories[ of Bernard Malamud] [1983; originally published 1950-73 in the Partisan Review and other periodicals]
The Fixer [1966]
Norman Mailer:
Advertisements for Myself [1959]
The Executioner's Song [1979]
Ancient Evenings [1983]
John Hawkes:
The Cannibal [1949]
Second Skin [1964]
William Gaddis:
The Recognitions [1955]
Tennessee Williams:
The Glass Menagerie [1944]
A Streetcar Named Desire [1947]
Summer and Smoke [1948]
Arthur Miller:
Death of a Salesman [1949]
Edwin Justus Mayer:
Children of Darkness [1930]
Harold Brodkey:
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode [originally published 1963-88 in varied periodicals, except 'Angel', originally published in Women and Angels, 1985]
Ursula K Le Guin:
The Left Hand of Darkness [1969]
Raymond Carver:
Where I'm Calling From
Robert Coover:
Spanking the Maid [1982]
Don DeLillo:
White Noise [1985]
Libra [1988]
Running Dog [1978]
Mao II [1991]
John Crowley:
Little, Big [1981]
∆gypt [1987; revised and retitled as Solitudes, 2007]
Love and Sleep [1994]
Guy Davenport:
Tatlin! [1974]
James Dickey:
The Early Motion [originally published as Drowning With Others [1962] and Helmets [1964]]
The Central Motion [includes The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead, and Mercy [1968]; The Zodiac [1976]; The Strength of Fields [1979]; plus selections of the author's translations from Head-Deep in Strange Sounds: Free-Flight Improvisations From the unEnglish [1979]]
E L Doctorow:
The Book of Daniel [1971]
World's Fair [1985]
Stanley Elkin:
The Living End [1979]
William H Gass:
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country [1968]
Omensetter's Luck [1966]
Russell Hoban:
Riddley Walker
Denis Johnson:
Angels [1983]
Fiskadoro [1985]
Jesus' Son [1992]
Cormac McCarthy:
Blood Meridian[or the Evening Redness in the West] [1985]
Suttree [1979]
Child of God [1973]
William Kennedy:
Ironweed [1983]
The Albany Cycle [Legs [1975]; Billy Phelan's Greatest Game [1978]; Ironweed; Quinn's Book [1988]; Very Old Bones [1992]; The Flaming Corsage [1996]; Roscoe [2002]; Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes [2012]] [though Bloom obviously did not select the three later works here (published after The Western Canon) his unclear selection of The Albany Cycle allows for some editorial discretion]
Toni Morrison:
Song of Solomon [1977]
Gloria Naylor:
The Women of Brewster Place [1982]
Joyce Carol Oates:
Them [1969]
Walker Percy:
The Moviegoer [1961]
Grace Paley:
The Little Disturbances of Man [1959]
Thomas Pynchon:
V [1963]
The Crying of Lot 49 [1966]
Gravity's Rainbow [1973]
Cynthia Ozick:
'Envy, or Yiddish in America'
The Messiah of Stockholm [1987]
Ishmael Reed:
Mumbo Jumbo [1972]
Philip Roth:
Portnoy's Complaint [1969]
My Life as a Man [1974]
Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue [The Ghost Writer [1979]; Zuckerman Bound [1981]; The Anatomy Lesson [1983]; The Prague Orgy [1985]]
The Counterlife [1986]
Patrimony[: A True Story [1991]
Operation Shylock [1993]
James Salter:
Solo Faces
Light Years
Robert Stone:
Dog Soldiers [1974]
A Flag for Sunrise [1981]
John Barth:
The Floating Opera [1956]
The End of the Road [1958]
The Sot-Weed Factor [1960]
Walter Abish:
Alphabetical Africa [1974]
How German Is It [1980]
Eclipse Fever [1993]
'I Am the Dust Under Your Feet' [originally published in Conjunctions, 1987]
Donald Barthelme:
Forty Stories
The Dead Father [1975]
Thomas M Disch:
On Wings of Song [originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1979 in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction]
Paul Theroux:
{} The Mosquito Coast [1981]
John Updike:
The Witches of Eastwick [1984]
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.:
Cat's Cradle [1963]
Edmund White:
Forgetting Elena [1973]
Nocturnes for the King of Naples [1978]
James McCourt:
Time Remaining [1993]
James Wilcox:
Modern Baptists [1983]
A R Ammons:
Collected Poems[, 1951-1971] [includes the entirety, or nearly all, of Ommateum, With Doxology [1955]; Expressions of Sea Level [1964]; Corsons Inlet [1965]; Northfield Poems [1966]; Uplands [1970]; Briefings: Poems Small and Easy [1971]]
Selected Longer Poems [includes 'Pray Without Ceasing'; 'Summer Session'; 'Essay on Poetics'; 'Extremes and Moderations'; 'Hibernaculum']
Sphere: The Form of the Nation [1974]
John Ashbery:
The Double Dream of Spring [1970]
Houseboat Days [1977]
Selected Poems [selections from Some Trees, 1956; The Tennis Court Oath, 1962; Rivers and Mountains, 1966; The Double Dream of Spring, 1970; Three Poems, 1972; Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, 1975; Houseboat Days, 1977; As We Know, 1979; Shadow Train, 1981; A Wave, 1984]
Flow Chart [1991]
Hotel LautrÈamont [1992]
And the Stars Were Shining [1994]
David Mamet:
American Buffalo [1975]
Speed-the-Plow [1988
David Rabe:
Streamers [1975]
Sam Shepard:
Seven Plays [1981] [originally presented as La Turista [1967]; The Tooth of Crime [1972]; Curse of the Starving Class [1976]; Buried Child [1979]; True West [1981]; Savage/ Love [1981]; Tongues [1981; with Joseph Chaikin]]
August Wilson:
Fences [1983]
Joe Turner's Come and Gone [1984]
Anthony Hecht:
Collected Earlier Poems [includes The Hard Hours [1967]; Millions of Strange Shadows [1977]; The Venetian Vespers [1979]; selections from A Summoning of Stones, 1954]
Edgar Bowers:
Living Together: New and Selected Poems [1973; selections from The Form of Loss, 1956; The Astronomers, 1965; plus six new poems]
Donald Justice:
Selected Poems [1979; selections from The Summer Anniversaries, 1960; Night Light, 1967; Departures, 1973; plus a section entitled Uncollected Poems]
James Merrill:
From the First Nine[: Poems 1946-1976] [ selections from The Black Swan, 1946; First Poems, 1951; The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, 1959; Water Street, 1962; Nights and Days, 1966; The Fire Screen, 1969; Braving the Elements, 1972; The Yellow Pages, 1974; Divine Comedies, 1976]
The Changing Light at Sandover [originally published as 'The Book of Ephraim', in Divine Comedies, 1976; Mirabell: Books of Number, 1978; and Scripts for the Pageant, 1980; published as a single work, with the addition of 'The Higher Keys', 1982]
W S Merwin:
Selected Poems [selections from A Mask for Janus, 1952; The Dancing Bears, 1954; Green With Beasts, 1956; The Drunk in the Furnace, 1960; The Moving Target, 1963; The Lice, 1967; The Carrier of Ladders, 1970; Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment, 1973; The Compass Flower, 1977; Opening the Hand, 1983]
James Wright:
Above the River: The Complete Poems [includes all but five poems of The Green Wall [1957]; the entirety of Saint Judas [1959]; The Branch Will Not Break [1963]; Shall We Gather at the River [1968]; Two Citizens [1973]; To a Blossoming Pear Tree [1977]; This Journey [1982]; plus two poems originally published in Collected Poems, 1971, and sections entitled Selected Prose [excerpts from Moments in the Indian Summer, 1976; and The Summers of Annie and James Wright, 1981], New Poems (from Collected Poems, 1971); and Some Translations (from Collected Poems, 1971, and New Translations)]
Galway Kinnell:
Selected Poems [selections from What a Kingdom It Was, 1960; Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock, 1964; Body Rags, 1968; First Poems 1946-1954, 1970; The Book of Nightmares, 1973; Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, 1980]
Philip Levine:
Selected Poems [includes Pili's Wall [1971]; selections from On the Edge, 1963; Not This Pig, 1968; Red Dust, 1971; They Feed the Lion, 1972; 1933, 1974; The Names of the Lost, 1976; Ashes, 1979; Seven Years From Somewhere, 1979; One for the Rose, 1981] [Bloom could have intended to list New Selected Poems, published in 1991, closer to the date of The Western Canon; that volume includes all of the poems of the 1984 edition as well as selections from Sweet Will, 1985, and A Walk With Tom Jefferson, 1988]
Irving Feldman:
New and Selected Poems [selections from Work and Days, 1961; The Pripet Marshes, 1965; Magic Papers, 1970; Lost Originals, 1972; Leaping Chair, 1976; plus 11 new poems]
Donald Hall:
The One Day [1988]
Old and New Poems [selections from Exiles and Marriages, 1955; The Dark Houses, 1958; A Roof of Tiger Lilies, 1963; The Alligator Bride, 1969; The Yellow Poem, 1971; The Town of Hill, 1975; Kicking the Leaves, 1978; The Toy Bone, 1979; The Happy Man, 1986; plus a section entitled 1987-1990 and four poems previously uncollected]
Alvin Feinman:
Poems [1990; includes Preambles and Other Poems [1964], revised; plus new poems]
Richard Howard:
Untitled Subjects [1969]
Findings [1971]
John Hollander:
Reflections on Espionage [1976]
Selected Poetry [1993; includes Powers of Thirteen [1983]; selections from A Crackling of Thorns, 1958; Movie-Going and Other Poems, 1962; The Night Mirror, 1971; Town and Country Matters, 1972; Tales Told of the Fathers, 1975; In Place, 1978; Spectral Emanations, 1978; Blue Wine, 1979; Harp Lake, 1988]
Tesserae[ and Other Poems] [1993]
Gary Snyder:
No Nature: New and Selected Poems [1992; selections from Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, 1959; Myths and Texts, 1960; Mountains and Rivers Without End [published in part, 1965; in its entirety, 1996; this excerpt appears to be a unique selection]; The Back Country, 1967; Regarding Wave, 1969; Turtle Island, 1974; Axe Handles, 1983; Left Out in the Rain, 1988]
Charles Simic:
Selected Poems[ 1963-1983] [selections from Dismantling the Silence, 1971; Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk, 1974; Charon's Cosmology, 1977; Classic Ballroom Dances, 1980; White, 1980; Austerities, 1982; Weather Forecast for Utopia and Vicinity: Poems 1967-1982, 1983]
Mark Strand:
Selected Poems [selections from Sleeping With One Eye Open, 1964; Reasons for Moving, 1968; Darker, 1970; The Story of Our Lives, 1973; The Late Hour, 1978; New Poems, 1980]
The Continuous Life [1990]
Dark Harbor [1993]
Charles Wright:
The World of the Ten Thousand Things[: Poems 1980-1990] [includes The Southern Cross [1981]; The Other Side of the River [1984]; Zone Journals [1988]; Xionia [1990]]
Jay Wright:
Dimensions of History [1976]
The Double Invention of Komo [1980]
Selected Poems[ of Jay Wright] [selections from Death as History, 1967; The Homecoming Singer, 1971; Soothsayers and Omens, 1976; Dimensions of History, 1976; The Double Invention of Koma, 1980; Explications/ Interpretations, 1984]
Elaine's Book [1988]
Boleros [1991]
Amy Clampitt:
Westward [1990]
Allen Grossman:
The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected [(1979-1991)] [selections from The Woman on the Bridge Over the Chicago River, 1979; Of the Great House, 1982; The Bright Nails Scattered on the Ground, 1986; plus a section entitled Pastorals of Our Other Hours in the Millennium]
Howard Moss:
New Selected Poems [selections from The Wound and the Weather, 1946; The Toy Fair, 1954; A Swimmer in the Air, 1957; A Winter Come, a Summer Gone, 1960; Finding Them Lost, 1965; Second Nature, 1968; New Poems, 1971; Buried City, 1975; A Swim Off the Rocks, 1976; Notes From the Castle, 1980; Rules of Sleep, 1984]
James Applewhite:
River Writing: An Eno Journal [1988]
J D McClatchy:
The Rest of the Way [1992]
Alfred Corn:
A Call in the Midst of the Crowd [1978]
Douglas Crase:
The Revisionist [1981]
Rita Dove:
Selected Poems [includes The Yellow House on the Corner [1980]; Museum [1983]; and Thomas and Beulah [1986]]
Thylias Moss:
Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems [selections from Hosiery Seams on a Bowlegged Woman, 1983; Pyramid in Blue, 1990; At Redbones, 1990; Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky, 1991; plus 26 new poems]
Edward Hirsch:
Earthly Measures [1994]
Tony Kushner:
Angels in America [originally presented in two parts: Millennium Approaches, 1990; and Perestroika, 1992]
21 June
21 June
Michael Dirda's Classics for Pleasure, offers the second-best (after Philip Ward's) combination of a list of works for readers to enjoy and a enjoyable work to read in and of itself; or we could say, it offers a selection of books less predictable than Fadiman's or Van Doren's, and his prose is at least superior to Van Doren's. (Powys's selection is relatively limited, and as a novelist himself doesn't seem to have put as much care and effort into his text, presumably because he was somewhat dismissive of the entire concept).
As with these other list-as-book's, the discussion of the works noted at the beginning of each chapters in some cases makes note of other works; if the author recommends those other works, or seems to do so, I've included them--a choice not always obvious, but I'm trying not to be too liberal. These added works are marked with an asterisk, unless they have been made part of the "selected" texts that the author includes among, or as, his official choice as presented in the chapter headings.
The works listed here are those discussed and recommended in the first-sixth chapters: 'Playful Imaginations', 'Heroes of Their Time', 'Love's Mysteries', 'Words From the Wise', 'Everyday Magic', and 'Lives of Consequence'. (Dirda uses c. as an abbreviation for circa, whereas I prefer ca. so that c. can stand for century.)
Lucian (c. 115-200 B C)
The True History
Lucius, or The Ass
Dialogues of the Dead
Dialogues of the Heterae*
Dialogues of the Gods*
Essays
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
Rameau?s Nephew
Other Works
(incl. Encyclopedia;
The Indiscreet Jewels;
Supplement to the Voyage to Bougainville;
The Nun;
'This Is Not a Story';
Jacques the Fatalist)
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
Crotchet Castle
Other Novels
(incl.
Nightmare Abbey;
Gryll Grange;
Maid Marian)
Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
Seven Men
A Christmas Garland
Zuleika Dobson
Selected Essays
(incl. anthology And Even Now)
Jaroslav Ha?ek (1883-1923)
The Good Soldier ?vejk
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969)
Brothers and Sisters [1929]
Manservant and Maidservant
Other Novels
(incl.
Daughters and Sons;
Parents and Children;
A House and Its Head;
A Father and His Fate;
Darkness and Day;
Pastors and Masters;
The Present and the Past)
S J Perelman (1904-1979)
The Most of S J Perelman (esp. 'Strictly From Hunger'; 'Cloudland Revisited' series)
Italo Calvino (1923-1985)
Invisible Cities
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
Amphigorey
Amphigorey Too
Amphigorey Also
Amphigorey Again
Beowulf (eighth century)
Abolqasem Ferdowsi (940?-1020)
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
The Icelandic Sagas (twelfth to fifteenth centuries) (incl.
Njal Saga
Laxdaela Saga
Grettir Saga
Egil Saga)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Plays (incl.
The Jew of Malta;
Dr. Faustus;
The Tragedy of Dido;
Edward II;
Tamburlaine)
Poems
…mile Zola (1840-1902)
Germinal
Other Novels
(incl.
L'Assommoir;
Nana;
La BÍte Humaine;
Au Bonheur des Dames;
La Terre)
Ernst J¸nger (1895-1998)
48) Storm of Steel
James Agee (1909-1955)
49) Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Film Criticism
Sappho (fl. ca. 600 B C E)
Poems and Fragments
Arthurian Romances (twelfth and thirteenth centuries) (incl.
ChrÈtien de Troyes - Yvain, or The Knight of the Lion
Gottfried von Strassburg -Tristan
Wolfram von Eschenbach - Parzival)
Marie-Madeleine de la Fayette (1634-1693)
53) The Princess of ClËves
Sˆren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Diary of a Seducer [part of Either/ Or]
George Meredith (1828-1909)
Modern Love
C P Cavafy (1863-1933)
Collected Poems
(incl. 'Waiting for the Barbarians';
'The God Abandons Antony';
'Ithaka';
'A Byzantine Nobleman in Exile Composing Verses';
'The Melancholy of Iason Kleandros, Poet in Kommagini, 595 C E';
'And I Lounge and Lay on Their Beds')
Georgette Heyer (1902-1974)
The Grand Sophy
Venetia
Friday's Child
Cotillion
A Civil Contract
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
Selected Poetry
(incl. 'Evening';
'Rosary';
'White Flock';
Requiem;
Poem Without a Hero)
Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989)
Rebecca
Lao-Tse (ca. 570 B C)
Tao tÍ Ching
Heraclitus (fl. ca. 500 B C)
Philosophical Fragments
Cicero (106-43 B C)
On Duties
Discussions at Tusculum
The Dream of Scipio [part of De re Publica]
The Letters to Atticus
Erasmus (1466?-1536)
The Praise of Folly
The English Religious Tradition (incl.
The King James Bible
The Book of Common Prayer
John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress
Isaac Watts - Hymns
Charles Wesley - Hymns
George Whitefield - Sermons
Jonathan Edwards - Sermons)
Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)
Ethics
Theological-Political Treatise
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Rasselas
Essays From the Rambler and the Idler
Lives of the Poets
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (fourteenth century)
Pearl*
The Classic Fairy Tales (incl.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Hans Christian Andersen
Charles Perrault
Countess d'Aulnoy
[incl. 'The Yellow Dwarf']
Angela Carter - 'The Comany of Wolves' [from The Bloody Chamber]
Tanith Lee - Red as Blood[, or Tales From the Sisters Grimmer])
E T A Hoffmann(1776-1822)
Short Stories
(incl. 'The Golden Pot';
'The Sandman';
'Mademoiselle de Scudery';
'The Mines of Falun')
The Devil's Elixirs*
Prosper MÈrmiÈe (1803-1870)
Short Stories
(incl. Carmen;
'Mateo Falcone';
''La Double MÈprise';
'The Spanish Witches';
'Djoumane';
Lokis;
Colomba;
'The Venus of Ille')
The Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX*
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)
The Secret Garden
Little Ford Fauntleroy*
A Little Princess*
E Nesbit (1858-1924)
Five Children and It
The Story of the Treasure-Seekers*
The Railway Children*
The Story of the Amulet*
Wet Magic*
The Phoenix and the Carpet*
John Masefield (1878-1967)
The Box of Delights
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
Memoirs of a Midget
Other Works
(incl. 'The Listeners';
Peacock Pie;
'Seaton's Aunt';
'All Hallows';
'The Riddle';
'Crewe';
The Return)
Plutarch (fl.ca. 66)
Parallel Lives of the Greeks and Romans
Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576)
The Book of My Life
The Secrets of Eternity*
John Aubrey (1626-1697)
Brief Lives
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Selected Poems
(incl. Essay on Criticism;
The Rape of the Lock;
'Elegy for an Unfortunate Lady';
'Eloisa to Abelard';
'Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot';
The Dunciad
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
The Social Contract
Confessions
On the Origin of Inequality
Julie, or The New HÈloÔse*
…mile, or On Education*
Discourse on the Sciences and Arts
Reveries of a Solitary Walker*
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself
Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897)
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Henry James (1843-1916)
Collected Letters
Collected Essays
The American Scene
Italian Hours [twenty essays, only two of which had not been previously published in periodicals or other books, 1873-1902; many of the works were revised for this book, published 1909; see the Notes on the Text for Library of America's version]
A Small Boy and Others
The Turn of the Screw*
The Aspern Papers*
The Beast in the Jungle*
W H Auden (1907-1973)
Selected Poems
(incl. 'Meiosis';
'Ode';
'Letter to Lord Byron';
'The Sea and the Mirror';
'The Platonic Blow';
'Spain';
'September 1, 1939';
elegies for Yeats and Freud;
'On the Circuit';
'The Cave of Making')
The Dyer's Hand
The EnchafËd Flood
Forewords and Afterwords
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continued at 22 June...
22 June
Michael Dirda's Classics for Pleasure specifically responds to Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan. The author explains that he read Fadiman's book as a child, adding, "Over the years I gradually meandered my way through nearly all the works" listed there. He then went on to a doctorate in comparative literature and a position as editor and writer at the Washington Post Book World (which, sadly, in 2009 was discontinued as a separate section within the Sunday paper--as sure a sign as any of the Post's decline in recent years). In turn, Dirda designed Classics for Pleasure not to overlap with the final, 1997 version of Fadiman's plan, arguing that the works listed there are "relatively familiar." So, like Kanigel's Vintage Reading, this book directs its readers to "new authors and less obvious classics."
Dirda, Fadiman, Bloom, and Ward are the closest we get with these "great books" lists to literary criticism at its best. The better writers on literature in recent decades (say, Denis Donaghue, Terry Eagleton, Frank Kermode, George Steiner) do not create such lists--though we'd all be better off if they did.
The works discussed and recommended in the sixth-eleventh chapters: 'The Dark Side', 'Traveler's Tales', 'The Way We Live Now', 'Realms of Adventure', and 'Encyclopedic Visions':
John Webster (1580?-1625)
The White Devil
The Duchess of Malfi
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
James Hogg (1770-1835)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Sheridan le Fanu (1814-1873)
Ghost Stories
(incl. 'Green Tea';
Carmilla;
'Mr. Justice Harbottle';
'The Dead Sexton')
Uncle Silas
The House by the Churchyard*
Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
Dracula
M R James (1862-1936)
Collected Ghost Stories
(incl. 'Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book';
'The Mezzotint';
'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas';
'Casting the Runes';
'A Warning to the Curious';
'Count Magnus';
'The Diary of Mr. Poynter';
'Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance')
William Roughead (1870-1952)
Tales of the Criminous (1906-1946)
(incl. anthologies The Evil That Men Do and
Classic Crimes)
H P Lovecraft (1890-1937)
Selected Short Stories
(incl. 'The Dunwich Horror';
The Shadow Out of Time;
'The Colour Out of Space';
'The Thing on the Doorstep';
'The Call of Cthulhu')
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
At the Mountains of Madness
'Supernatural Horror in Literature'*
The Shadow Over Innsmouth*
Thomas More (1487-1535)
Utopia
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Robinson Crusoe*
A Journal of the Plague Year*
Moll Flanders*
A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal*
Xavier de Maistre (1763-1852)
A Journey Around My Room
A Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room
Jules Verne (1828-1905)
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Mysterious Island
Other Works
(incl. The Adventures of Captain Hatteras;
The Will of an Eccentric;
The Begum's Millions;
'Dr. Ox's Experiment';
Master of the World;
Robur the Conquerer;
Mathias Sandorf;
Jules Verne and Michael Verne - The Barsac Mission;
Jules Verne and Michael Verne - 'The Eternal Adam')
J K Huysmans (1848-1907)
A Rebours
L‡-Bas
Isak Dinesen (1885-1962)
Out of Africa
Seven Gothic Tales
Other Stories
(incl. 'The Roads Around Pisa';
'The Monkey';
'Babette's Feast';
'The Deluge at Norderney')
Robert Byron (1905-1941)
The Road to Oxiana
The Station*
The Byzantine Achievement*
Petronius (first century)
Satyricon
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)
Cranford
Other Works
(incl. The Life of Charlotte Bronte;
North and South;
Mary Barton)
Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891)
Oblomov
JosÈ Maria EÁa de Queiros (1845-1900)
The Crime of Father Amaro
Cousin Bazilio
The Maias
The Relic*
The Illustrious House of Ramires*
The Yellow Sofa*
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
Short Stories
(incl. 'Gooseberries';
'A Dreary Story';
'The Darling';
'Gusev';
'Ward No. 6';
'The Lady With the Dog';
'The Bishop')
Letters
Plays
(incl. The Sea Gull;
The Three Sisters;
Uncle Vanya)
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
Cane
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Death Comes for the Archbishop
A Lost Lady
Other Books
(incl. The Professor's House;
The Song of the Lark;
My Mortal Enemy)
Louis-Ferdinand CÈline (1894-1961)
Death on the Installment Plan
Journey to the End of the Night
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
Collected Stories
Losing Battles*
The Optimist's Daughter*
H Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
She
King Soloman's Mines
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Lost World
The Captain of the 'Polestar' and Other Stories
'Lot No. 249'*
'The Horror of the Heights'*
Brigadier Gerard stories*
Captain Sharkey stories*
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Kim
Short Stories
(incl. 'Without Benefit of Clergy';
'The Phantom Rickshaw';
'The Miracle of Purun Bhagat';
'The Man Who Would Be King';
'Mary Postgate';
'Dayspring Mishandled';
'The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat';
'Wireless';
'The Finest Story in the World')
H G Wells (1866-1946)
The Time Machine
Other Works
(incl. The Island of Dr. Moreau;
The War of the Worlds;
The Invisible Man;
The First Men in the Moon;
'The Crystal Egg';
'The Truth About Pyecraft';
'Pollock and the Porroh Man';
'The Sea Raiders';
'The Plattner Story';
'The Country of the Blind')
G K Chesterton (1874-1936)
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Father Brown Mysteries
(incl. 'The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown';
anthology The Club of Queer Trades;
'The Blue Cross';
'The Hammer of God';
'The Oracle of the Dog';
'The Sins of Prince Saradine';
'The Invisible Man')
Essays, Journalism, and Short Stories
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
The Hercule Point Mysteries
(incl. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd;
Murder on the Orient Express;
The A B C Murders)
The Jane Maple Mysteries
(incl. What Mrs. Magillicuddy Shaw;
The Mirror Crack'd;
The Moving Finger)
And Then There Were None*
Dorothy L Sayers - Gaudy Night*
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
The Maltese Falcon
Other Works
(incl. Red Harvest;
'The Whosis Kid')
Ovid (43 B C-A D 17)
Metamorphoses
Robert Burton (1577-1640)
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
J G Frazer (1854-1941)
The Golden Bough (incl. Adonis, Attis, Osiris)
H W Fowler (1858-1933)
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Selected Poetry
(incl. Cathay;
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley;
Homage to Sextus Propertius;
Personae;
The Cantos)
Literary Essays
The Spirit of Romance
The A B C of Reading
Letters
Andre Malraux (1901-1976)
Man's Fate
Man's Hope
The Voices of Silence
Philip K Dick (1928-1982)
The Man in the High Castle
Other Novels and Stories
(incl. Martian Time-Slip;
Dr. Bloodmoney;
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?;
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch;
A Scanner Darkley;
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said;
Valis)
23 June
The most-recent edition of Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to which I have access, the fifth, edited by Nick Rennison and co-authored by him and Kenneth McLeish, the editor of the first-fourth editions, at first glance made me think that this series offers a conceivable "great books" list, because it designates certain books as Highly Recommended and a smaller number as Masterpieces. However, the introduction to the fifth edition seems to suggest that this feature only appeared with that edition, thus making those selections the choice of Rennison only. Moreover, the series, currently in its ninth edition, like the book 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, doesn't take the reader back to ancient times (and, like that book, doesn't acknowledge this temporal wall). Instead, Rennison does note that only works "written in English or [...] widely available in translation" are included. Moreover, the guide excludes theatre, and only has a small, separate list of poetry. The genre and temporal restrictions are more important than the English-language preference for the purposes of this project. As noted previously, several of these lists are Western-specific, ostensibly or otherwise; and that restriction is, in its roundabout way, a language-based one. Either way, Bloomsbury's out.
24 June
From a web site about the 75th anniversary of Pengiun Books, the essay, The Original 10: Where Are They Now? (which also lists books 11-20), and a Timeline are still available to read and will likely be of great interest to bibliophiles.
25 June
No posts will be made in July and August, as I work on annotating the "great books" lists posted through June and transcribing a few more. By the end of August, I will have completed 30 lists. The eleven lists coming after the 19 listed at the 23 May post:
James Baldwin - The Book Lover - 1910 (see 4 June and 1 June posts) *Baldwin*
Charles W Eliot - Harvard Classics - 1910; 1917 (see 3 June post) *Eliot*
John Lubbock - The Pleasures of Life - 1930 (see 18 January post) *Lubbock*
Raymond Queneau - Pour une Bibliotheque Ideal - 1956 *France*
Kenneth Rexroth - Classics Revisited - 1965-69 *Rexroth*
Harold Bloom - The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages - 1994 (see posts for 20 June-7 June) *Bloom*
Michael Dirda - Classics for Pleasure - 2007 (see posts for 22 June-21 June) *Dirda*
Kevin Hill - The Great Books List - 2007 *Great*
anonymous - World Canonical Texts - 2011 *World*
Anthony O'Hear - The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature - 2011 *O'Hear*
Russ Kick - The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals - 2012-13 (see 6 January post) *Graphic*
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After these, what's left? At least Adler and Hutchins's The Great Books of the Western World; Philip Ward's A Lifetime's Reading: The World's 500 Greatest Books; and the web site The Great Books List (see 24 April post). Also, probably a few lists of "Oriental" classics, which despite restrictions of language and place are acceptable for this project for the same reason "Western"-only lists are.
26 June
26 June
The web site World Canonical Texts originally presented a list of 36 works, plus lists of 16 and four derived from those 36; then presented a list of 150, from which lists of 100, 50, 25, and 12 were derived. However, not all of the works on those shorter lists are in the 150 and 36 tallies; each list is meant to stand on its own as representative of the world's major religious and philosophical movements, thus making substitutions necessary at times. Also, the entries in the list of 36 do not always take the same form in the list of 150 (for example, the list of 150 has Plato's complete works, while the 36 only has The Republic).
Despite this complex set-up, this site makes an extraordinary contribution to the literature of book lists/ canons/ reading plans. Far more so than the Norwegian Book Club's World Library, these lists, especially when combined into a single list as I have done here, offer the only "great books" list not dominated by the West. By focusing on religious and philosophical texts, the anonymous author (who tells us a few details about himself, most important that he's Chinese) effectively offers a path to understanding the Christian, Islamic, Classical Chinese, Buddhist, and Hindu traditions in their literary manifestations. Perhaps only a list emphasizing poetry could be as truly global. In contrast, most of the lists we've seen emphasize fiction, namely the novel (the major exception being Seymour-Smiths's, and to a lesser extent Eliot's, Adler's, Van Doren's and the Great Books of the Western World lists, all of which nonetheless are Western-dominated.)
This site's lists, like nearly all of the "great books" lists, do not rank the works, except insofar that those works in the shorter lists are more representative and perhaps more significant (the creator of the site is not always clear on this point). I got the order in which they're presenting here by starting with the shortest list, so that the first-fourth here constitute the list of 4 at the site; they are followed by the works in the list of 12 not already included in the list of 4, the works in the list of 16 not already included in the lists of 4 or 12, and so on.
Plato - Dialogues
Mahabharata
Sima Qian - Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian)
Muhammad (reciter) - Quran
Herodotus - Histories
Samyutta Nikaya
Bible
Xiao Tong - Wenxuan [Selections of Refined Literature] ("includes substantial parts of Chu Ci, and poetry up [to] the compilers' time including [...] Cao Zhi or Tao Yuanming")
Sankara - Brahmasutrabhasya
Al-Ghazali - Revival of Religious Sciences
Zhu Xi - Sishu Zhangju Jizhu (Commentaries on Four Books) ("commentaries include The Analects, Mengzi, and Li Ji from which Zhong Yong and Da Xue are 2 chapters" or, as this compiler puts it on another page, "Lunyu ("Analects"), Menzi ("Mencius") and Liji ("Records of Rites") are included"--just to give an example of the differing spellings used without any definite pattern throughout these lists)
Shakespeare - First Folio
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
Nagarjuna - Mulamadhyamakakarika
Plato - Republic
Virgil - Aeneid
Wang Bi - Works (Wang Bi Ji) ("includes Zhouyi and Laozi")
Su Shi - Dongpo Quanji (Works) ("Su Shi's Works -- given that his ci poetry work are selected in Huaan Cixuan -- is just the traditional collection of his prose and shi poetry writings")
Al-Tabari - Tarikh al-Tabari (History of Prophets and Kings)
Ibn Sina [Avicenna] - Al-Shifa [The Book of Healing]
Rumi - Masnavi
Kalidasa - Works ("most important works include "Abhijnanasakuntalam (drama), Kumarasambhava (epic poetry) and Meghaduta (shorter poetry)")
Augustine - On the Trinity
Zhiyi - Fahua Xuanyi
Ferdowsi - Shahnameh
Ramanuja - Bhagavadgitabhasya
Dante - Commedia
Amir Khusrau ("his third diwan (collection) called Ghurrath-ul-Kamal is among his most important works, [as are] his historical masnavis Ashiqe and Noh Sepehr")
Gao Bing - Tangshi Pinhui ("early Ming compilation of Tang poetry - the way it classifies poets, and poems by sub-genre is commonly used afterwards such as the popular 300 Tang Poems")
Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy
Gibbon - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Rig Veda
Homer - Iliad
Aristotle - Metaphysics
Laws of Manu (Manava Dharmasastra)
Eusebius - Church History
Kalidasa - The Recognition of Shakuntala [already numbered above]
Zhiyi - Commentaries on Vimalakirti Sutra
Kong Yingda - Correct Meanings of Mao Odes (Maoshi Zhengyi) ("Shi Jing ("Classics of Odes") is included")
Xuanzang - Records of Western Religions
Cheng Xuanying - Zhuangzi Zhushu (Sub-commentary on Zhuangzi)
Three Hundred Tang Poems
Dao Yuan - Jingde Chuandenglu (Transmission of Lamp)
Sima Guang - Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government)
William Shakespeare - Hamlet [already indirectly included as part of the First Folio]
Cao Xueqin - The Story of the Stone (Shitou Ji)
Marx - Das Kapital
Plato - Complete Works
Xunzi - Xunzi
Ramayana
Umasvati - Tattvathasutra/bhasya
Muallaquat
Manikkavachakar - Tiruvacakam
Murasaki Shikibu - Genji Monogatari
Ibn Arabi - Meccan Revelations
Calvin - Institutes
Abul Fazl - Akbarnama
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Descartes - Discourses on Method
Locke - Two Treatises on Government
Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Guo Xiang - Zhuangzi Zhu (Commentaries on Zhuangzi) ("includes Zhuangzi")
Sophocles - Theban Plays
Thucydides - Peloponnesian Wars
Mozi - Mozi
Dong Zhongshu - Chunqiu Fanlu
Kautilya [Chanakya] - Arthasastra
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Livy - History of Rome
Asvaghosa - Buddhacarita
Vimalakirtinirdesasutra [Vimalak?rti S?tra
Origen - On First Principles
Patanjali - Yogasutra
Pancatantra
Ge Hong - Baopuzi
Liu Yiqing - Shishuo Xinyu
Hala - Sattasai
Mahavamsa [The Great Chronicle]
Pseudo-Dionysius Aeropagite
Wonhyo - Dacheng Qixinlun Shuji ("includes The Awakening of Faith")
Du You - Tongdian
Abu Nuwas - Diwan
Al-Bukhari - Sahih Al-Bukhari
Udayana - Nyayakusumanjali
Hujwiri - Kashf al-Mahjub
Al-Hariri - Maqamat al-Hariri
Wang Zhe - Chongyang Quanzhenji
Musa ibn Maymum (Maimonides) - Guide for the Perplexed
Jayadeva - Gita Govinda
Shinran - Jiao Xing Xin Zheng (Kyogyoshinsho)
Huang Sheng - Huaan Cixuan ("a Southern Song compilation that includes ci poetry of various styles")
Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica
Rashiduddin [Rashid-al-Din Hamadani] - Jami al-Tawarikh
Gregory Palamas - Triads
Hafez - Divan
Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
Tsong Kha Ba - Ocean of Reason Commentary on Mulamadhyamakakarika
Machiavelli - The Prince
Luther - Three Treatises of 1520
Yi Hwang - Sheng Xue Shi Tu (Seonghaksipdo)
Luis de Camoens - Lusiads
Montaigne - Essays
Adi Granth
Mulla Sadra - Al-Asfar [The Transcendent Philosophy of the Four Journeys of the Intellect]
Milton - Paradise Lost
Huang Zongxi - Mingru Xuean
Mustafa Naima - Tarikh-i Naima [Ravdatu l-Huseyn fi Hulasat-i-ahbari l-Hafiqayn]
Voltaire - Essay on Manners
Goethe - Faust
Mickiewicz - Pan Tadeusz
J S Mill - On Liberty
Ghalib - Divan
Cicero - On Duties
Sappho - Lyrical Poems
Early Upanisads
Hanfeizi - Hanfeizi
Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Plotinus - Enneads
Avesta
Bhartrhari - Satakatraya
Yogacarabhumi [Yog?c?rabh?mi-??stra] [Discourse on the Stages of Yogic Practice]
Buddhaghosa - Visuddhimagga
Tao Hongjing - Zhengao
Bede - English Church History
John of Damascus - Fountain of Wisdom
Al-Shafii - Al-Risala
Bana - Kadambari
Bhagavata Purana
Kukai - Jujushinron
Al-Masudi - Meadows of Gold
Nizamulmulk - Siyasatnama
Abhinavagupta - Tantraloka
Somadeva - Kathasaritsagara
Shao Yong - Huangji Jingshi Shu [Book of Supreme World Ordering Principles]
Chretien de Troyes - Arthurian Romances
Petrarch - Canzoniere
Al-Suhrawardi [Sohrevardi] - Hikmat al-Ishraq [Oriental Theosophy]
Ibn Khaldun - Kitab al-Ibar [Muqaddimah]
Sadi [Saadi Shirazi] - Gullistan
Hemacandra - Trisastisalakapurusacaritra [Tri-shashthi-shalaka-purusha-charitra]/ Parisistaparvan [Parishista-parvan] [Lives of Sixty-Three Great Men]
Kaviraja [Suri] - Raghavapandaviya
Wang Chongyang (Wang Zhe) - Chongyang Quanzhen Ji ("commentaries include Zhouyi Cantong Qi")
Yu Yan - Zhouyi Cantong Qi Fahui [Elucidation of the Cantong Qi]
Wang Shifu - Xixiang Ji [The Story of the Western Wing]
Shi Naian - Shuihu Zhuan
Jose de Acosta - Natural and Moral History of the Indies
Fuzuli - Epic of Layla and Majnun
Gu Yanwu - Rizhi Lu
Matshuo Basho - Works ("mostly Haiku poetry, but also including a famous travel works [sic] Oku no Hosomichi")
Hugo - Les Miserables
Hume - Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Lyrical Ballads
Whitman - Leaves of Grass
William James - Pragmatism
Schleiermacher - The Christian Faith
Burckhardt - Civilization of Renaissance in Italy
Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tolstoy - War and Peace
Solovyov - Lectures on Divine Humanity [Lectures on Godmanhood]
Shah Waliullah - Hujjat Allah al-Baligha [The Conclusive Argument From God
Bi Yuan - Xu Zizhi Tongjian
Xuanzhuang - Datang Xiyu Ji [The Great Tang Records on the Western Religions
27 June
27 June
Raymond Queneau's Pour une Bibliotheque Ideal is very difficult to find. Thankfully, one the best sites on the web, Bureau of Public Secrets, features a transcription of the 100 entries of that book's final list, linked-to at the end of this post. In a project similar to J Peder Zane's, Queneau asked several French authors and critics each to draw up a list of their favorite 100 books. Bibliotheque Ideal includes those responses as well as the overall list seen here.
Ken Knabb, the creator of Bureau of Public Secrets, offers this transcription as part of an appendix of his own book on books, Gateway to the Vast Realms: Recommended Readings From Literature to Revolution. It reads more like a directory than a list, canon, or reading plan, though it's definitely on my short list of anthologies that could eventually be included. Either way, it's worthy of serious review, as are Knabb's translations of Situationist literature and several other goodies found at his site.
Shakespeare, ThȂtre
La Bible (y compris le Nouveau Testament)
Proust, ¿ la Recherche du Temps Perdu
Montaigne, Essais
Rabelais, Les Cinq Livres
Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
Pascal, PensÈes
MoliËre, ThÈ‚tre
J.-J. Rousseau, Les Confessions
Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir
Platon, Dialogues
Stendhal, La Chartreuse de Parme
F. Villon, Les Testaments
Rimbaud, Oeuvres poÈtiques (y compris les Illuminations)
Cardinal de Retz, MÈmoires
Tolstoi, La Guerre et la Paix
Saint-Simon, MÈmoires
Cervantes, Don Quichotte
Racine, ThȂtre
Eschyle, ThȂtre
Dostoievsky, Les FrËres Karamazov
MallarmÈ, PoËmes
La Fontaine, Fables
Goethe, Faust
Apollinaire, Alcools
Flaubert, L?…ducation Sentimentale
HomËre, L?OdyssÈe
Corneille, ThȂtre
Dante, La Divine ComÈdie
Chateaubriand, MÈmoires d?Outre-Tombe
Balzac, La ComÈdie humaine
Sophocle, ThȂtre
James Joyce, Ulysse
Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
Swift, Les Voyages de Gulliver
Verlaine, PoËmes
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Rimbaud, Une Saison en Enfer
Descartes, Discours de la MÈthode
PrÈvost, Manon Lescaut
Ronsard, Les Odes
Aristophane, ThȂtre
Tacite, Annales et Histoires
Spinoza, …thique
Hoelderlin, PoËmes
GÈrard de Nerval, Les Filles du Feu (et les ChimËres)
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Saint Augustin, Les Confessions
LautrÈamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
Victor Hugo, Les MisÈrables
Lewis Carroll, Alice au Pays des Merveilles
Musset, ComÈdies et Proverbes
Jules Renard, Journal
HomËre, L?Iliade
Dostoievsky, L?Idiot
Emily BrontÎ, Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent
Dostoievsky, Les PossÈdÈs
Voltaire, Contes
W. Blake, PoËmes
Dostoievsky, Crime et Ch‚timent
Plutarque, Vie des Hommes illustres (traduction d?Amyot)
Mme de La Fayette, La Princesse de ClËves
Karl Marx, Le Capital
Benjamin Constant, Adolphe
Beaumarchais, ThȂtre
Agrippa d?AubignÈ, Les Tragiques
Alfred de Vigny, Les DestinÈes
Lorca, PoËmes
Malraux, La Condition humaine
La Rochefoucauld, Maximes
La BruyËre, Les CaractËres
Mme de SÈvignÈ, Lettres
LittrÈ, Dictionnaire de la Langue franÁaise
Jarry, Ubu roi
ValÈry, PoËmes
Pascal, Les Provinciales
T.E. Lawrence, Les Sept Piliers de la Sagesse
MÈrimÈe, Nouvelles
ValÈry, VariÈtÈ
HÈraclite, Fragments
Marivaux, ThȂtre
V Hugo, La LÈgende des SiËcles
Kafka, Le ProcËs
Voltaire, Correspondance
Apollinaire, Calligrammes
AndrÈ Gide, Journal
Andersen, Contes
Alexandre Dumas, Les Trois Mousquetaires
Casanova, MÈmoires
Les Mille et une Nuits
Conrad, Lord Jim
Novalis, PoÈsies et Fragments philosophiques
Nietzsche, Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra
Claudel, ThȂtre
Tristan CorbiËre, Les Amours Jaunes
V Hugo, Les Contemplations
Saint Jean de la Croix, La Nuit obscure de l?¬me
Gogol, Les ¬mes mortes
Virgile, L?…nÈide
Bernanos, Journal d?un CurÈ de Campagne
http://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/book-lists/queneau.htm
28 June
28 June
Also featured at Ken Knabb's Bureau of Public Secrets site is the Kenneth Rexroth Archive, which includes an overview and excerpts of Kenneth Rexroth's Classics Revisited, a series of essays nearly all of which were originally published in Saturday Review, 1965-69. They constitute one of the finer lists in this project. As with Dirda's or Kanigel's, the selection of texts is not the listmaker's choice of the greatest books; unlike those two projects, though, Rexroth for the most part addresses works commonly placed in literary canons and similar lists. The original Saturday Review pieces aren't easy to come by: they don't seem to have been digitized, and library bound copies aren't common. The 85 essays ran from 20 March 1965 to 26 April 1969. The order in which Knabb places them on his site comes from the book also entitled Classics Revisited, published by Quadrangle Books in 1968 as the series was ongoing. It included 58 of the 85, in addition to essays on Thucydides and Baudelaire. The other 27 essays were collected in The Elastic Retort, then in More Classics Revisited, with the addition of Aquinas and H G Wells (in both books) and Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Records of the Grand Historian of China, Heike Monogatari, Moll Flanders, Alexander Berkman, W B Yeats, Franz Kafka's The Trial, Herbert Read's The Green Child, and W C Williams (only in More Classics, which was put together after Rexroth's death). The four essays Rexroth added--Thucydides, Baudelaire, Aquinas, Wells--obviously warrant being part of the project, according to Knabb the later additions were made by the editor of More Classics. I'm only including the 89 essays Rexroth himself designated as part of the Classics Revisisted series. Knabb has constructed a larger version of the list, incorporating the More Classics additions as well as works, authors, and topics noted in Rexroth's personal papers as potential topics for future Classics essays. The numbering and titles below come from the original essays in the Saturday Review, followed by the two additions each from the books Classics Revisited and The Elastic Retort.
'Classics Revisited', The Saturday Reivew:
I - The Epic of Gilgamesh
II - The Iliad
III - The Odyssey
IV - Beowulf
V - Njal's Saga
VI - Don Quixote
VII - Livy's Early Rome
VIII - The Satyricon
IX - Plutarch
X - Tacitus [The Germania, The Agricola, The History, and The Annals all noted]
XI - Le Morte d'Arthur
XII - The Oresteia
XIII - Gargantua and Pantagruel
XIV - The Trial and Death of Socrates [Euthyphro, the Apology, Crito, Phaedo]
XV - Euripides [Orestes, Iphigenia at Taurus, Medea, Hippolytus, The Bacchae, The Trojan Woman, the Cretans, and Iphigenia at Aulis are all noted, but given Rexroth's choice to include another essay solely on Hippolytus and the larger number of plays that could join those in being implicit selections, this essay remains an indeterminate selection]
XVI - Machiavelli [The Prince and The Discourses on Livy are discussed; other works--The Art of War, The History of Florence, The Life of Castruccio, Mandragola, and Clezia--are noted but are not included in our list]
XVII - Sophocles: The Theban Plays
XVIII - Sappho--Poet and Legend
XXIII - Plato's The Republic
XIX - The Tale of Genji
XX - Chaucer [Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde are discussed]
XXI - The Dream of the Red Chamber
XXII - "The Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius
XXIV - Montaigne's Essays
XXV - Restif de la Bretonne, Monsieur Nicolas
XXVI - Casanova
XXVII - The Book of Job
XXVIII - The Works of Sir Thomas More [Utopia, A Dialogue Comfort Against Tribulation, and Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More are discussed]
XXIX - Stendhal's "The Red and the Black"
XXX - Macbeth
XXXI - Apuleius [The Golden Ass is discussed]
XXXII - Julius Caesar [The Gallic War and The Civil War are discussed]
XXXIII - The Pilgrim's Progress
XXXIV - Marco Polo [The Travels of Marco Polo is discussed]
XXXV - Walt Whitman [Leaves of Grass is discussed]
XXXVI - The Works of Marx [The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital, and the Economic and Philosophical Notebooks of 1844 are noted]
XXXVII - Shakespeare, The Tempest
XXXVIII - The Goncourt Journal
XXXIX - "The Brothers Karamazov"
XL - The Works of Ben Jonson [Volpone is discussed, while The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair are noted]
XLI - "Sentimental Education"
XLII - The Works of Rimbaud
XLIII - The Poetry of Tu Fu
XLIV - "The Duchess of Malfi"
XLIX - The "Greek Anthology"
XLV - "Carmina Burana" ['Stabat Mater' and other examples of medieval Latin poetry noted]
XLVI - "Huckleberry Finn"
XLVII - "Tom Jones"
XLVIII - Chekhov's Plays
L - The "Kalevala"
LI - Japanese Poetry [Hitomara is noted]
LII - "The Compleat Angler"
LIII - The "Mahabharata"
LIV - "War and Peace"
LV - The Works of Herodotus
LVI - The Poetry of Lucretius
LVII - "The Decline and Fall"
LVIII - "Tristram Shandy"
LIX - The Poetry of Catullus
LX - AbÈlard and HÈloÔse [Story of My Misfortunes, letters, and hymns are noted]
LXI - Parkman's History
LXII - Parade's End
LXIII - The Works of Blake
LXIV - Sherlock Holmes [none of the novels or stories are specifically noted]
LXV - White's "Natural History"
LXVI - Euripides's "Hippolytus"
LXVII - Racine's "PhËdre"
LXVIII - "Tao Te Ching"
LXIX - "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"
LXX - Balzac
LXXI - "Fathers and Sons"
LXXII - The "Aeneid
LXXIII - The "Bhagavad Gita"
LXXIV - Robinson Crusoe
LXXV - The Journal of John Woolman
LXXVI - The Early Irish Epic [The Ulster Cycle is discussed]
LXXVII - "Pickwick Papers"
LXXVIII - The English and Scottish Popular Ballad
LXXIX - Frederick Douglass [autobiography is discussed]
LXXX - "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
LXXXI - Aristotle's Poetics
LXXXII - Gulliver's Travels
LXXXIII - Robert Burns
LXXXIV - Goethe [Faust is discussed]
LXXXV - The Song of Songs
from the book Classics Revisited:
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
Baudelaire, Poems
from the book The Elastic Retort:
St. Thomas Aquinas
H.G. Wells
29 June
Charles W Eliot's Harvard Classics: The Five-Foot Shelf of Books, as noted previously is one of the two popular sets of "great books" that left an indelible mark on U S culture in the Twentieth Century. At various spots online, not least the My Harvard Classics site, one can download full-text scans of the original 51-volume set published in 1909; some of those sites also have the accompanying 20-volume Shelf of Fiction published in 1917. The bibliographic notes will be added and expanded well into the future, especially as with some of these entries I need to consult bibliographies at academic libraries.
The complexity of several of the Harvard Classics entries broaches again the difficult issue of identifying which shorter items were originally published as monographs. First of all, before the late Nineteenth Century, many shorter works that would've otherwise been published in periodicals were indeed monographs: pamphlets especially, but also lectures and scientific reports. The second matter: many of the ancient and medieval texts, most numerous in the World Canonical Texts list, only became books over time; and, no, that's not some cute remark about scrolls. Rather, a religious leader or a philosopher's writings or speeches, in some cases reported secondhand, were gradually compiled into a singular work, often centuries after the author in question had died. This phenomenon might lead us to define a collection of a modern author's letters (or notes and ephemera) as a book, but that argument doesn't hold; unless such a collection has been set aside as a well-defined, unquestioned singular work, such as the letters of Abelard and HÈloÔse. The crucial factor is still the authors' intention, even a dead author. Those religious and philosophical writers wrote, or at least spoke, for audiences; a large collection of letters, addressed to more than one recipient, is not for this project considered a singular work.
Volume 1:
1) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
2) The Journal of John Woolman
William Penn - Fruits of Solitude (3) Some Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Related to the Conduct of Human Life. Part I; 4) More Fruits of Solitude, Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims, Relating to the Conduct of Human Life)
Volume 2:
5) Plato - The Apology of Socrates
6) Plato - Crito
7) Plato - Phaedo
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus [excerpts from Discourses]
8) The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
George Long - 'M Aurelius Antoninus'
George Long - 'The Philosophy of Antoninus'
Volume 3:
9) Francis Bacon - Essays, Civil and Moral (Essays or Counsels--Civil and Moral) [Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed] [1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retited Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall in 1625]
10) Francis Bacon - [Nova Atlantis] The New Atlantis [1624]
11) John Milton - Areopagitica [1644]
12) John Milton - Tractate on Education (Milton's Tractate on Education) [On Education] [originally anonymously published 1644]
13) Sir Thomas Browne - Religio Medici [1643]
Volume 4:
The Complete Poems of John Milton
[incl. 14) Paradise Lost; 15) Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes]
Volume 5:
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays and English Traits
[incl. 16) An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge [1837; later retitled The American Scholar] and 17) English Traits]
Volume 6:
The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
Volume 7:
18) The Confessions of Saint Augustine [Confessions in Thirteen Books]
19) Thomas A Kempis - The Imitation of Christ
Volume 8:
Nine Greek Dramas [20) Aeschylus - The House of Atreus [The Oresteia];
21) Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound;
22) Sophocles - Oedipus the King;
23) Sophocles - Antigone;
24) Euripides - Hippolytus;
25) Euripides - The Bacchae;
26) Aristophanes - The Frogs]
Volume 9:
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero With His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age (Letters of Cicero)
[incl. 27) On Friendship; 28) On Old Age]
Letters of Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Letters of Plinius)
Volume 10:
29) Adam Smith - An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Volume 11:
30) Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species
Volume 12:
Plutarch's Lives [excerpts]
Volume 13:
31) Virgil's Aeneid
Volume 14:
Miguel de Cervantes - The First Part of the Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of the Mancha
Volume 15:
32) Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress
Izaak Walton - The Lives of John Donne and George Herbert ('The Life of Dr. Donne'; 'The Life of Mr. George Herbert')
Volume 16:
33) Stories From the Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights' Entertainment)
Volume 17:
Folk-Lore and Fable (Aesop's Fables; Grimm's Tales; Andersen's Tales)
[incl. Andersen's second Fairy Tales for Children [1838] in its entirety]
Volume 18:
Modern English Drama (34) John Dryden - All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost;
35) Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The School for Scandal;
36) Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer;
37) The Cenci - Percy Bysshe Shelley;
38) Robert Browning - A Blot in the 'Scutcheon;
39) Lord Byron - Manfred)
Volume 19:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust, Part I (The Tragedy of Faust)
40) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Egmont
41) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Hermann and Dorothea
42) Christopher Marlowe - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (Doctor Faustus)
Volume 20:
43) The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Volume 21:
44) Alessandro Manzoni - I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)
Volume 22:
45) The Odyssey of Homer
Volume 23:
46) R H Dana, Jr. - Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After
Volume 24:
47) Burke - The Sublime and Beautiful
48) Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France
49) Burke - A Letter From the Right Hon. Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord
Volume 25:
50) John Stuart Mill - Autobiography
51) John Stuart Mill - Essay on Liberty
Thomas Carlyle - 'Characteristics' [published in the Edinburgh Review, Dec. 1831; included in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 1838]
52) Thomas Carlyle - Inaugural Address at Edinburgh (Inaugural Address) [Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, April 2nd, 1866] [1866]
Thomas Carlyle - Sir Walter Scott (Essay on Scott) ['Memories of the Life of Scott', published in London and Westminster Review, Jan. 1838; included in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 1838]
Volume 26:
Continental Drama (53) Pedro Calderon de la Barca - Life Is a Dream;
54) Pierre Corneille - Polyeucte;
55) Jean Baptiste Racine - Phaedra;
56) Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere - Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite;
57) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Minna von Barnhelm, or The Soldier's Fortune;
58) Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller - William Tell)
Volume 27:
English Essays, From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay (59) Philip Sidney - The Defence of Poesy;
Ben Jonson - 'On Shakespeare'; 'On Bacon' [essays from Explorata, Timber or Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter];
Abraham Cowley - 'Of Agriculture';
Joseph Addison - 'The Vision of Mirza'; 'Westminster Abbey';
Sir Richard Steele - The Spectator Club ['Of the Club', originally published in the Spectator, 1 Mar. 1711];
Jonathan Swift - 'Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation';
Jonathan Swift - 'A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding';
{} Jonathan Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet[: Together With a Proposal for the Encouragement of Poetry in This Kingdom] [1721];
Jonathan Swift - 'On the Death of Esther Johnson' [Stella] [excerpt from The Journal to Stella];
{} Daniel Defoe - The Shortest-Way With the Dissenters: Or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church [1702];
Daniel Defoe - 'The Education of Women';
Samuel Johnson - 'Life of Addison, 1672-1719';
David Hume - 'Of the Standard of Taste';
Sydney Smith - 'Fallacies of Anti-Reformers';
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 'On Poesy or Art' [1818 lecture; originally published in The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1836]
William Hazlitt - 'Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen' [originally published in Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt, 1836; also included in Winterslow: Essays and Characters Written There, 1839];
Leigh Hunt - 'Deaths of Little Children' [originally published in the Indicator];
Leigh Hunt - 'On the Realities of Imagination';
Charles Lamb - 'On the Tragedies of Shakespeare' [originally published in the Reflector, 1811];
Thomas de Quincey - 'Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow' [part of Suspiria de Profundis; originally published in Blackwood's Magazine, Jun. 1845];
Percy Bysshe Shelley - 'A Defence of Poetry';
Thomas Babington Macaulay - 'Machiavelli' [originally published in the Edinburgh Review, 1827])
Volume 28:
Essays English and American (William Makepeace Thackeray - 'Jonathan Swift';
{} John Henry Newman - The Idea of a University [originally published as Discourses on University Education and as Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education 1852; revised and retitled as The Scope and Nature of University Education, 1859]; Lectures and Essays on University Subjects [1859]; these two volumes combined to form The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated [1873]];
Matthew Arnold - 'The Study of Poetry' [introduction to The English Poets];
{} John Ruskin - Sesame and Lilies [two lectures, 'Of Kings' Treasures' and 'Of Queens' Gardens' delivered 1864; published 1865; second edition that year includes preface; revised, with new preface and essay 'The Mystery of Life and Its Art', 1871; 'Mystery' essay removed and another new preface added for 1882 edition];
Walter Bagehot - 'John Milton' [originally published in the National Review, Jul. 1859];
Thomas Henry Huxley - 'Science and Culture' [lecture delivered 1 Oct. 1880; published in anthology Science and Culture: Collected Essays, 1881];
Edward Augustus Freeman - 'Race and Language' [originally published in the Contemporary Review, Feb. 1877; revised version, in Historical Essays, Third Series [1879], includes portions of 'The Geographical Aspect of the Eastern Question', originally published in the Fortnightly Review, Jan. 1877];
Robert Louis Stevenson - 'Truth of Intercourse' [originally published May 1879 in Cornhill Magazine (volume 39); published in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, 1881 as the fourth of four essays collectively entitled 'Virginibus Puerisque'];
Robert Louis Stevenson - 'Samuel Pepys' [originally published Jul. 1881 in Cornhill Magazine (volume 44); later included in Familiar Studies of Men and Books, 1882];
William Ellery Channing - 'On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes' [1840];
Edgar Allan Poe - 'The Poetic Principle' [originally published in the Home Journal, 31 Aug. 1850 and the Union Magazine of Literature and Art, Oct. 1850];
Henry David Thoreau - 'Walking' [chapter 6 of Excursions [1863]];
James Russell Lowell - 'The President's Policy' [originally anonymously published in North American Review (volume 98, issue 102) Jan. 1864; included in Political Essays, 1888];
{} James Russell Lowell - On Democracy [1884; lecture delivered that year])
Volume 29:
{} Charles Darwin - The Voyage of the Beagle
Volume 30:
Scientific Papers ({} Michael Faraday - [A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter and Their Relations to Each Other] Forces of Matter [edited 1859 lectures; originally published in the Chemical News, 1860; book version published the same year];
{} Michael Faraday - The Chemical History of a Candle [edited 1848 lectures; originally published in the Chemical News, 1861; first book version, entitled A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: To Which Is Added a Lecture on Platinum (that lecture having been published in the Chemical News as 'On Platinum', 1861) published in 1861; 'On Platinum' removed for some later editions];
Hermann von Helmholtz - On the Conservation of Force;
Hermann von Helmholtz - Ice and Glaciers;
Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) - The Wave Theory of Light;
Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) - The Tides;
{} Simon Newcomb - The Extent of the Universe [1884];
Sir Archibald Geikie - Geographical Evolution [lecture delivered 24 Mar. 1879; included in Geographical Sketches at Home and Abroad])
Volume 31:
{} The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Volume 32:
Literary and Philosophical Essays (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve - 'Montaigne' [included in Causeries de Lundi]
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve - 'What Is a Classic?' [1850; included in Causeries de Lundi];
Ernest Renan - The Poetry of the Celtic Races ['La PoÈsie des Races Celtiques', in Essais de Morale et de Critique, 1859];
{} Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - The Education of the Human Race [1780];
{} J C Friedrich von Schiller - [‹ber die ƒthetische Erziehung des Menschen in Einer Reihe von Briefen] Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man [1794];
{} Immanuel Kant - Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals;
Giuseppe Mazzini - 'Byron and Goethe' [originally published in Monthly Chronicle, 1839])
Volume 33:
Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern (Herodotus - 'An Account of Egypt';
Tacitus - Germany [excerpt];
Sir Francis Drake - Sir Francis Drake Revived;
Francis Pretty - Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World;
Captain Walter Bigges - Drake's Great Armada;
Edward Haies - {} [A Narrative of the Expedition of Sir Humfrey Gylberte in 1583 for the Planting of a Colony in America, as Given by Captain Edward Haies, a Distinguished Member of the Expedition] Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland;
Sir Walter Raleigh - {} [The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana] The Discovery of Guiana [1596])
Volume 34:
French and English Philosophers ({} Rene Descartes - Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences;
Voltaire - {} Letters on the English;
J J Rousseau - {} A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of Inequality Among Mankind;
J J Rousseau - Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar;
Thomas Hobbes - Of Man, Being the First Part of the Leviathan)
Volume 35:
Chronicle and Romance ({} The Chronicles of Froissart;
Sir Thomas Malory - The Holy Grail [excerpt from Le Morte d'Arthur];
A Description of Elizabethan England Written by William Harrison for Holinshed's Chronicles)
Volume 36:
{} Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
{} William Roper - The Life of Sir Thomas More [1626]
{} Sir Thomas More - Utopia
Martin Luther - {} Ninety-Five Theses
Martin Luther - {} Address to the German Nobility
Martin Luther - {} Concerning Christian Liberty
Volume 37:
English Philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ({} John Locke - Some Thoughts Concerning Education;
{} George Berkeley - Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists;
{} David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding)
Volume 38:
Scientific Papers (The Oath of Hippocrates; The Law of Hippocrates;
Ambroise ParÈ - {} [The Apology and Treatise Containing the Voyages Made to Divers Places] Journeys in Diverse Places;
{} William Harvey - On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals;
{} Edward Jenner - The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox;
O[liver] W[endell] Holmes[, Sr.] - 'The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever' [originally published in the New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 1843; included in Medical Essays, 1855];
Lord Lister - 'On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery' [lecture delivered 9 Aug. 1867; published in the British Medical Journal];
Louis Pasteur - The Physiological Theory of Fermentation;
Louis Pasteur - The Germ Theory and Its Application to Medicine and Surgery (Revised) [lecture delivered 29 Apr.1878; published in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences];
Louis Pasteur - On the Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases (Revised) [lecture delivered 3 May 1880; published in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences]
Sir Charles Lyell - Prejudices Which Have Retarded the Progress of Geology; Uniformity in the Series of Past Changes in the Animate and Inanimate World [excerpts from Principles of Geology])
Volume 39:
Famous Prefaces (Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books)
Volume 40:
English Poetry From Chaucer to Grey
Volume 41:
English Poetry From Collins to Fitzgerald
Volume 42:
English Poetry From Tennyson to Whitman
Volume 43:
American Historical Documents From 1000 to 1904
Volume 44:
Sacred Writings ({} The Sayings of Confucius;
The Book of Job; The Book of Psalms; Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher; The Gospel According to Luke; The Acts of the Apostles)
Volume 45:
Sacred Writings (The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians; The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians;
Hymns of the Christian Church;
Buddhist Writings, Translated and Annotated by Henry Clarke Warren;
The Bhagavad-Gita or Song Celestial, Translated by Sir Edwin Arnold;
Chapters From the Koran, Translated and Annotated by E H Palmer)
Volume 46:
Elizabethan Drama ({} Christopher Marlowe - Edward the Second;
William Shakespeare - {} The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark;
{} King Lear;
{} The Tragedy of Macbeth;
{} The Tempest)
Volume 47:
Elizabethan Drama ({} Thomas Dekker - The Shoemaker's Holiday;
{} Ben Jonson - The Alchemist;
{} Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher - Philaster;
{} John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi;
{} Philip Massinger - A New Way to Pay Old Debts)
Volume 48:
{} Blaise Pascal - Thoughts
Blaise Pascal - Letters
Blaise Pascal - Minor Works
Volume 49:
Epic and Saga ({} Beowulf;
{} The Song of Roland;
{} The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel;
{} The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs)
Volume 50:
Introduction, Reader's Guide, Indexes
Volume 51:
Lectures on the Harvard Classics - William Allan Nielson, ed. [Eliot says in the introduction, "The Lecture Series on the contents of the Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious young men and women whose education was cut short."]
The Shelf of Fiction was published in 1917:
Volumes 1 and 2:
{} Henry Fielding - The History of Tom Jones
Volume 3:
{} Laurence Sterne - A Sentimental Journey
{} Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Volume 4:
{} Sir Walter Scott - Guy Mannering
Volumes 5-6:
{} William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
Volumes 7-8:
{} Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Volume 9:
{} George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
Volume 10:
Nathaniel Hawthorne - {} The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne - 'Rappaccini's Daughter'
Washington Irving - 'Rip Van Winkle'
Washington Irving - 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'
Edgar Allan Poe - 'Eleonora', 'The Fall of the House of Usher',
and 'The Purloined Letter'
Francis Bret Harte - 'The Luck of Roaring Camp', 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat',
and 'The Idyl of Red Gulch'
Samuel L. Clemens - 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog'
Edward Everett Hale - 'The Man Without a Country'
Volume 11:
{} Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady
Volume 12:
{} Victor Hugo - Notre Dame de Paris
Volume 13:
{} Honore de Balzac - Old Goriot
{} George Sand - [La Mare au Diable] The Devil's Pool [1846]
{} Alfred de Musset - [Histoire d'un Merle Blanc] The Story of a White Blackbird [1842]
Alphonse Daudet - ['Contes du Lundi: Le SiËge de Berlin'] The Siege of Berlin [originally published in Le Soir, 18 July 1871; title shortened to Le SiËge de Berlin for inclusion in Lettres ‡ un Absent, 1871; also included in expanded version of Contes du Lundi, 1878]
Alphonse Daudet - ['La DerniËre Classe, RÈcit d'un Petit Alsacien'] The Last Class--The Story of a Little Alsatian [originally published in Le Soir, 13 May 1872; titled shortened to 'La DerniËre Classe' for inclusion in Contes du Lundi, 1873]
Alphonse Daudet - ['Contes du Lundi: L'Enfant Espion'] The Child Spy [originally published in Le Soir, 25 July 1871; title shortened to 'L'Enfant Espion' for inclusion in Lettres ‡ un Absent, 1871; also included in expanded version of Contes du Lundi, 1878]
Alphonse Daudet - [Contes de Lundi: La Partie de Billard'] The Game of Billiards [originally published in Le Soir, 26 September 1871; title shortened to 'La Partie de Billard' for inclusion in Contes du Lundi, 1873]
Alphonse Daudet - ['Contes du Lundi: Le Zouave'] The Bad Zouave [originally published in Le Soir, 15 July 1872; retitled 'Le Mauvais Zouave' for inclusion in Contes du Lundi, 1873]
Guy de Maupassant - [L'Aventure de Walter Schnaffs] Walter Schnaffs' Adventure [originally published in Le Gaulois, 11 April 1883]
Guy de Maupassant - ['Deux Amis'] Two Friends [originally published in Gil Blas, 5 February 1883]
Volume 14:
{} Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Volume 15:
{} Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther
{} Gottfried Keller - [Das F‰hnlein der Sieben Aufrechten] The Banner of the Upright Seven
{} Theodor Storm - [Der Schimmelreiter] The Rider on the White Horse [1888]
{} Theodor Fontane - [Irrungen, Wirrungen] Trials and Tribulations [1888]
Volumes 16-17:
{} Leo Tolsoy - Anna Karenina
Volume 18:
{} Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Volume 19:
Ivan Turgenev - {} A House of Gentlefolk [Home of the Gentry]
Ivan Turgenev - {} Fathers and Children
Volume 20:
{} Juan Valera - Pepita Jimenez [originally published serially 1874]
{} Bj¯rnstjerne Bj¯rnson - [En Glad Gut] A Happy Boy [1860]
{} Alexander L Kielland - Skipper Worse [1882]
30 June
Anthony O'Hear's Great Books: From the Iliad and the Odyssey to Goethe's Faust: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature [2007] offers a good, short list in the form of a series of essays.
Homer - The Odyssey
Homer - The Iliad
Aeschylus's Oresteia: Agamemnon
Sophocles's Theban Plays: Antigone
Euripides - Bacchae
Plato and the Death of Socrates [here the author discusses the Apology; Euthyphro; Crito; and Phaedo]
Virgil and the Aeneid
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Saint Augustine's Confessions
Dante - The Divine Comedy
Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
Shakespeare - Henry V;
Hamlet;
The Tempest
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Milton - Paradise Lost
Pascal - PensÈes
Racine - PhËdre
Goethe - Faust