World Literature

I. Ancient Mediterranean and near Eastern literature

  1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 1900-250 BC)

  2. The Hebrew Bible (1000-300 BC)

  3. Iliad, Homer (8th century BC)

  4. The Odyssey, Homer (8th century BC)

  5. Collected works of Sappho (630 BC)

  6. The Aeneid, Virgil (70-19 BC)

  7. Metamorphoses, Ovid (43-17 BC)

II. Ancient India

  1. The Ramayana of Valmiki (ca. 550 BC)

  2. The Baghavad Gita (ca 4th century BC)

III. Early Chinese Literature and Thought

  1. Classic of Poetry (ca 1000-600 BC)

  2. Confucius (551-479 BC)

  3. Laozi (sixth—third century BC)

IV. Europe and the Islamic World

  1. The Christian Bible: The New Testament (ca. first century A.D)

  2. Augustine (354-430 AD)

  3. The Quran (610-32 AD)

  4. Beowulf (ninth century)

  5. Marie De France (1150? - 1200?)

  6. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

  7. The Thousand and One Nights (fourteenth century)

  8. Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400)

  9. Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364—ca. 1431)

V. Medieval China

  1. Li Bo (701—762)

  2. Du Fu (712-770)

VI. Japan’s Classical age

  1. Sei Shonagon (966-1017)

  2. Murasaki Shikibu (978-1014)

VII. Islam and Pre-islamic culture in North Africa

  1. Sunjata: A west African epic of the mande peoples (late thirteenth early fourteenth century)

VIII. Europe and the New World

  1. Francis Petrarch (1304-1374)

  2. Niccolo Macchiaveli (1469-1527)

  3. Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549)

  4. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

  5. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

  6. Popol Vuh (1554-58)

  7. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)

ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE

  1. BEDE (ca. 673-735 ) and CAEDMON' S HYMN

  2. THE DREAM OF THE ROOD

  3. BEOWULF translated by Seamus Heaney

  4. JUDITH

  5. KING ALFRED (849-899 )

  6. Preface to the Pastoral Care

  7. The Wanderer

  8. The Wife’s Lament

ANGLO-NORMA N LITERATURE

  1. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

  2. [Obituary for William the Conquerorj

  3. LEGENDARY HISTORIES OF BRITAIN

  4. GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH : The History of the Kings of Britain

  5. [The Story of Brutus and Diana's Prophecy]

  6. WACE: Le Roman de Brut

  7. [The Roman Challenge]

  8. LAYAMON: Brut

  9. [Arthur's Dream]

  10. T H E MYTH OF ARTHUR' S RETUR N

  11. Geoffrey of Monmouth: From The History of the Kings of Britain

  12. Wace: From Le Roman de Brut

  13. Layamon: From Brut

CELTIC CONTEXTS

  1. EXILE OF TH E SONS OF UISLIU

  2. THOMAS OF ENGLAND : Le Roman de Tristran [The Deaths of Tristran and Ysolt]

  3. MARIE DE FRANCE: Lanval

  4. MARIE DE FRANCE: Chevrefoil

  5. ANCRENE RIWLE (Rule for Anchoresses): [The Parable of the Christ-Knight]

MIDDLE ENLGISH LITERATURE IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURY

  1. SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (ca. 1375-1400 ) 160

  2. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400): THE CANTERBURY TALES

  3. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400): The General Prologue

  4. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400): The Knight's Tale

  5. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400): The Miller's Prologue and Tale

  6. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400): The Man of Law

  7. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400): The Wife of Bath

  8. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400): The Pardoner

  9. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400): The Nun's Priest

  10. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400): The Partson’s Tale

(LYRICS AND OCCASIONAL VERSE:)

  1. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400): Troilus's Song

  2. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400): Truth

  3. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400): To His Scribe Adam

  4. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400): Complaint to His Purse

  1. JOHN GOWER (ca. 1330-1408 ) The Lover's Confession

  2. JOHN GOWER (ca. 1330-1408 ): The Tale of Philomena and Tereus

  3. WILLIAM LANGLAND (ca. 1330-1387 ): The Vision of Piers Plowman

  4. WILLIAM LANGLAN D (ca. 1330-1387 ): The Vision of Piers Plowman

MIDDLE ENGLISH INCARNATION AND CRUCIFIXION LYRICS

  1. What is he, this lordling, that cometh from the fight

  2. Ye That Pasen by the Weye

  3. Sunset on Calvary

  4. I sing of a Maiden

  5. Adam Lay Bound

  6. The Corpus Christi Carol

  1. JULIAN OF NORWICH: A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich 372

  2. Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe 384

THE YORK PLAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION

  1. The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play

MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS

  1. The Cuckoo Song

  2. Alison

  3. My Lief Is Faren in Londe

  4. Western Wind

  5. I Am of Ireland

Sir Thomas Malory

  1. Morte Darthur

ROBERT HENRYSON

  1. The Cock and The Fox

JOHN SKELTON (ca. 1460-1529)

  1. Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale

  2. With lullay, lullay, like a child

  3. The Tunning of Elinour Rumming

  4. Secundus Passus

SIR THOMAS MORE

  1. SIR THOMAS MORE (1478-1535 ): Utopia

  2. SIR THOMAS MORE: The History of King Richard III

SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER (1503-1542 )

  1. The long love that in my thought doth harbor

  2. Whoso list to hunt

  3. Farewell, Love

  4. My galley

  5. Divers doth use 5

  6. Madam, withouten many words

  7. They flee from me

  8. The Lover Showeth

  9. How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed

  10. My lute, awake!

  11. Forget not yet

  12. Blame not my lute

  13. Stand whoso list

  14. Who list his wealth and ease retain

  15. Mine own John Poins

HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517-1547 )

  1. The soote season

  2. Love, that doth reign and live within my thought

  3. Alas! so all things now do hold their peace

  4. Th'Assyrians' king, in peace with foul desire

  5. So cruel prison how could betide

  6. Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest

  7. O happy dames, that may embrace

  8. Martial, the things for to attain

  9. The Fourth Book of Virgil

FAITH IN CONFLICT

THE ENGLISH BIBLE

  1. 1 Corinithians 13

  1. WILLIAM TYNDALE: The Obedience of a Christian Man

  2. THOMAS MORE : A Dialogue Concerning Heresies

  3. JOHN CALVIN: The Institution of Christian Religion

  4. ANNE ASKEW: From The First Examination of Anne Askew

  5. JOHN FOXE: Acts and Monuments

  6. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER: From The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony

  7. BOOK OF HOMILIES : From An Homily Against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion

  8. RICHARD HOOKER: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

  9. ROBERT SOUTHWELL : The Burning Babe

ROGER ASCHA M (1515-1568 )

  1. The Schoolmaster

SIR THOMAS HOBY (1530-1566 )

  1. Castiglione's The Courtier

WOMEN IN POWER

MARY I (MARY TUDOR)

Letter to Henry VIII

Charles V: The Coronation of Mary

  1. The Oration of Quee n Mary in the Guildhall, on the First of February, 1554

LADY JANE GREY

  1. Roger Ascham's Schoolmaster

  2. A Talk with Lady Jane

  3. A Letter of the Lady Jane to M.H.

  4. A Letter of the Lady Jane, Sent unto her Father

  5. A Prayer of the Lady Jane

  6. A Second Letter to Her Father

  7. Foxe's Acts and Monuments

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

  1. Casket Letter Number 2

  2. A Letter to Elizabeth I, May 17, 1568

  3. Narrative of the Execution of the Queen of Scots

ELIZABETH I

  1. Verses Written with a Diamond

  2. Passage of Our Most Dread Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth through the City of London to Westminster on the Day before Her Coronation

  3. Speech to the House of Commons, January 28, 1563

  4. A Speech to a Joint Delegation of Lords and Commons, November 5, 1566

  5. A Letter to Mary, Queen of Scots, February 24, 1 567

  6. The doubt of future foes

  7. On Monsieur's Departure

  8. A Letter to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, February 10, 1586

  9. A Letter to Sir Amyas Paulet, August 1 586

  10. A Letter to King Jame s VI of Scotland, February 14, 1 587

  11. Verse Exchange between Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh

  12. Speech to the Troops at Tilbury

  13. The "Golden Speech"

ARTHUR GOLDING (1536-1605)

  1. Ovid's Metamorphoses

  2. [The Four Ages]

EDMUND SPENSER (1552-1599 )

  1. The Shepheardes Calender

  2. The Faerie Oueene

  3. Amoretti and Epithalamion

SIR WALTER RALEGH (1552-1618 )

  1. The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd 9

  2. What is our life?

  3. [Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son]

  4. The Lie

  5. Farewell, false love

  6. Methought I saw the grave where Laur a lay

  7. Nature, that washed her hands in milk

  8. [The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself]

  9. The discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana

  10. The History of the World

  11. [Conclusion: On Death]

THE WIDER WORLD

  1. Frobischer’s Voyages to The Arctic (The Orange Book)

  2. DRAKE'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE GLOBE , 1577-8

  3. AMADAS AND BARLOWE' S VOYAGE TO VIRGINIA

  4. HARIOT'S REPORT ON VIRGINIA

JOHN LYLY (1554-1606 )

  1. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586 )

  1. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

  2. The Defense of Poesy

  3. Astrophil and Stella

FULKE GREVILLE , LOR D BROOKE (1554-1628 )

  1. Caelica

MARY (SIDNEY) HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE

  1. Psalm 52

  2. Psalm 139

SAMUEL DANIEL (1562-1619 )

  1. Delia

MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631 )

  1. Idea

  2. Ode. To the Virginian Voyage

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593 )

  1. Hero and Leander

  2. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

  3. Doctor Faustus

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616 )

  1. Sonnet 1: "From fairest creatures we desire increase"

  2. Sonnet 3: "Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest"

  3. Sonnet 12: "When I do count the clock that tells the time"

  4. Sonnet: 15 "When I consider every thing that grows"

  5. Sonnet 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

  6. Sonnet 19: "Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws"

  7. Sonnet 20: "A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted"

  8. Sonnet 23: "As an unperfect actor on the stage"

  9. Sonnet 29: "When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes"

  10. Sonnet 30: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought"

  11. Sonnet 33 "Full many a glorious morning have I seen"

  12. Sonnet 35: "No more be grieved at that which thou hast done"

  13. Sonnet 55: "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments"

  14. Sonnet 60: "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore"

  15. Sonnet 62: "Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye"

  16. Sonnet 65: "Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea"

  17. Sonnet 71: "No longer mourn for me when I am dead"

  18. Sonnet 73: "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"

  19. Sonnet 74: "But be contented; when that fell arrest”

  20. Sonnet 80: "O, how I faint when I of you do write"

  21. Sonnet 85: "My tongue-tied muse in manners holds her still"

  22. Sonnet 87: "Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing"

  23. Sonnet 93: "So shall I live supposing thou art true"

  24. Sonnet 94: "They that have power to hurt and will do none"

  25. Sonnet 97: "How like a winter hath my absence been"

  26. Sonnet 98: "From you have I been absent in the spring"

  27. Sonnet 105: "Let not my love be called idolatry"

  28. Sonnet 106: "When in the chronicle of wasted time"

  29. Sonnet 107: “Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul"

  30. Sonnet 110: "Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there"

  31. Sonnet 116: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds"

  32. Sonnet 126: "O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power"

  33. Sonnet 127: "In the old age black was not counted fair"

  34. Sonnet 128: "How oft when thou, my music, music play'st”

  35. Sonnet 129: "Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame"

  36. Sonnet 130: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"

  37. Sonnet 135: "Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will"

  38. Sonnet 138: "When my love swears that she is made of truth"

  39. Sonnet 144: "Two loves I have of comfort and despair"

  40. Sonnet 146: "Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth"

  41. Sonnet 147: "My love is as a fever, longing still"

  42. Sonnet 152 "In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn"

  43. Twelfth Night

  44. King Lear

THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1620)

  1. My sweetest Lesbia

  2. I care not for these ladies

  3. When to her lute Corinna sings

  4. Now winter nights enlarge

  5. There is a garden in her face

  6. Fain would I wed 1231The Words and Behavior of the Lady Jane upon the Scaffold

THOMAS NASHE (1567-1601 )

  1. A Litany in Time of Plague

RICHARD BARNFIELD (1574-1627 )

  1. Cynthia

JOHN DONNE (1572-1631 )

  1. SONGS AND SONNETS

  2. The Flea

  3. The Good-Morrow

  4. Song ("Go and catch a falling star")

  5. The Undertaking

  6. The Sun Rising

  7. The Indifferent

  8. T he Canonization

  9. Song ("Sweetest love, I do not go")

  10. Air and Angels

  11. Break of Day

  12. A Valediction: Of Weeping

  13. Love's Alchemy

  14. A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day

  15. The Bait

  16. The Apparition

  17. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

  18. The Ecstasy

  19. The Funeral

  20. The Blossom

  21. The Relic

  22. A Lecture upon the Shadow

  23. Elegy 16. On His Mistress

  24. Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed 1283

  25. Satire 3

  26. Sappho to Philaenis

  27. From An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary

  28. Divine Sonnet 1: "Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?"

  29. Divine Sonnet 5 :"I am a little world made cunningly"

  30. Divine Sonnet 7: "At the round earth's imagined corners, blow"

  31. Divine Sonnet 9: "If poisonous minerals, and if that tree"

  32. Divine Sonnet 10: "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee"

  33. Divine Sonnet 11: "Spit in my face, you Jews"

  34. Divine Sonnet 13: "What if this present were the world's last night?"

  35. Divine Sonnet 14: "Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you"

  36. Divine Sonnet 17: "Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt"

  37. Divine Sonnet 18: "Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear"

  38. Divine Sonnet 19: "Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one"

  39. Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward

  40. A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany

  41. Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness

  42. A Hymn to God the Father

  43. Biathanatos

  44. Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

  45. Death’s duel

IZAAK WALTO N (1593-1683 )

  1. The Life of Dr. John Donne

AEMILIA LANYER (1569-1645 )

  1. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

BEN JONSON (1572-1637 )

  1. The Masque of Blackness

  2. EPIGRAMS: To My Book

  3. EPIGRAMS: On Something, That Walks Somewhere

  4. EPIGRAMS: To William Camden

  5. EPIGRAMS: On My First Daughter

  6. EPIGRAMS: To John Donne

  7. EPIGRAMS: On Giles and Joan

  8. EPIGRAMS: On My First Son

  9. EPIGRAMS: On Lucy, Countess of Bedford

  10. EPIGRAMS: To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr. Donne's Satires

  11. To Sir Thoma s Roe

  12. Inviting a Friend to Supper

  13. On Gut

  14. Epitaph on S. P., a Child of Quee n Elizabeth's Chapel

  15. To Penshurst

  16. Song: To Celia

  17. To Heaven

  18. UNDERWOOD

  19. From A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces: 4. Her

  20. Triumph

  21. A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth

  22. My Picture Left in Scotland

  23. To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius

  24. Cary and Sir H. Morison

  25. Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount

  26. Quee n and Huntress

  27. The Advancement of Learning

  28. [The Abuses of Language]

  29. From Novum Organum

  30. The New Atlantis

  31. [Solomon's House]

ROBERT BURTO N (1577-1640 )

  1. The Anatomy of Melancholy 1574

SIR THOMAS BROWN E (1605-1682)

  1. Religio Medici 1582

  2. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial

THOMAS HOBBES (1588-1679 )

  1. Leviathan 1596

GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633 )

  1. THE TEMPLE

  2. The Altar

  3. Redemption

  4. Easter

  5. Easter Wings

  6. Affliction

  7. Prayer

  8. Jordan

  9. Church Monuments

  10. The Windows

  11. Denial

  12. Virtue

  13. Man

  14. Jordan

  15. Time

  16. The Bunch of Grapes

  17. The Pilgrimage

  18. The Holdfast

  19. The Collar

  20. The Pulley

  21. The Flower

  22. The Forerunners

  23. Discipline

  24. Death

  25. Love(3)

HENRY VAUGHAN (1621-1695)

  1. POEMS

  2. A Song to Amoret

  3. SILEX SCINTILLANS

  4. Regeneration

  5. The Retreat

  6. Silence, and Stealth of Days!

  7. Corruption

  8. Unprofitableness

  9. The World

  10. They Are All Gone into the World of Light!

  11. Cock-Crowing

  12. The Night

  13. The Waterfall

RICHARD CRASHAW (ca. 1613-1649)

  1. Music's Duel

  2. STEPS TO THE TEMPLE

  3. To the Infant Martyrs

  4. I Am the Door

  5. On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord

  6. Luke 11

  7. CARMEN DEO NOSTRO

  1. In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God: A Hymn Sung as by the Shepherds

  2. To the Noblest & Best of Ladies, the Countess of Denbigh

  3. The Flaming Heart

ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)

  1. HESPERIDES

  2. The Argument of His Book

  3. Upon the Loss of His Mistresses

  4. The Vine

  5. Dreams

  6. Delight in Disorder

  7. His Farewell to Sack

  8. Corinna's Going A-Maying

  9. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

  10. The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home

  11. How Roses Came Red

  12. Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast

  13. Upon Jack and Jill. Epigram

  14. To Marigolds

  15. His Prayer to Ben Jonson

  16. The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad

  17. The Night-Piece, to Julia

  18. Upon His Verses

  19. His return to London

  20. Upon Julia's Clothes

  21. Upon Prue, His Maid

  22. To His Book's End

  23. NOBLE NUMBERS

  24. To His Conscience

  25. Another Grace for a Child

THOMAS CAREW (1595-1640 ) 1666

  1. An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne

  2. To Ben Jonson

  3. A Song ("Ask me no more where Jove bestows")

  4. To Saxham

  5. A Rapture

S IR JOH N SUCKLIN G (1609-1642 )

  1. Song ("Why so pale and wan, fond lover?")

  2. FRAGMENTA AUREA

  3. Loving and Beloved

  4. A Ballad upon a Wedding

  5. THE LAST REMAINS OF SIR JOHN SUCKLING

  6. Out upon It!

RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1657)

  1. LUCASTA

  2. To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

  3. The Grasshopper

  4. To Althea, from Prison

  5. Love Made in the First Age. To Chloris

EDMUND WALLER (1606-1687 )

  1. The Story of Phoebus and Daphne Applied 1686

  2. Song ("Go, lovely rose!")

ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-1667 )

  1. Ode: Of Wit

KATHERINE PHILIPS (1632-1664)

  1. A Married State 1691

  2. Upon the Double Murder of King Charles

  3. Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia

  4. To Mrs. M. A. at Parting

  5. On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips

ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678)

  1. POEMS

  2. The Coronet

  3. Bermudas

  4. A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body

  5. The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn

  6. To His Coy Mistress

  7. The Definition of Love

  8. The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers

  9. The Mower Against Gardens

  10. Damon the Mower

  11. The Mower to the Glowworms

  12. The Mower's Song

  13. The Garden

  14. An Horatian Ode

  15. Upon Appleton House

CRISIS OF AUTHORITY

Reporting the News

  1. The Moderate, No. 28, 16-23 January 1649

  2. [The Trial of King Charles I, the first day] 1739

  3. A Perfect Diurnal of Some Passages in Parliament, No. 288 1741

  4. [The Execution of Charles I]

Political Writing

  1. ROBERT FILMER: From Patriarcha 1746

  2. JOHN MILTON: From The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

  3. GERRARD WINSTANLEY: From A New Year's Gift Sent to the

Writing the Self

  1. LUCY HUTCHINSON : From Memoirs of the Life of Colonel John Hutchinson

  2. [Charles I and Henrietta Maria]

  3. EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON : From The History of the Rebellion

  4. [The Character of Oliver Cromwell]

  5. LADY ANNE HALKETT: From The Memoirs

  6. [Springing the Duke]

  7. DOROTHY WAUGH: From A Relation Concerning Dorothy Waugh's Cruel Usage by the Mayor of Carlisle

THOMAS TRAHERNE (1637-1674 )

  1. Centuries of Meditation 1770

  2. The Third Century 1770

  3. Wonder 1770

  4. On Leaping over the Moon 1772

MARGARET CAVENDIS H (1623-1673 )

  1. POEMS AND FANCIES

  2. The Poetess's Hasty Resolution

  3. The Hunting of the Hare

  4. A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life

  5. The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing

World

JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)

  1. POEMS

  2. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

  3. On Shakespeare

  4. L'Allegro

  5. II Penseroso

  6. Lycidas

  7. The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty

  8. [Plans and Projects]

  9. From Areopagitica

  10. SONNETS

  11. How Soon Hath Time

  12. On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament

  13. To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652

  14. When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

  15. On the Late Massacr e in Piedmont

  16. Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint

  17. Paradise Lost

The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1785)

CARMEN DEO NOSTRO

JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)

  1. Annus Mirabilis 208 5

  2. [London Reborn] 208 5

  3. Song from Marriage a la Mode

  4. Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem

  5. Mac Flecknoe

  6. To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

  7. A Song for St. Cecilia's Day

  8. Epigram on Milton

  9. Alexander's Feast

  10. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

  11. [Two Sorts of Bad Poetry]

  12. [The Wit of the Ancients: The Universal]

  13. [Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared]

  14. The Author's Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic License

  15. ["Boldness" of Figures and Tropes Defended: The Appeal to "Nature"]

  16. [Wit as "Propriety"]

  17. A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire

  18. [The Art of Satire] 213 1

  19. The Preface to Fables Ancient and Modem 213 2

  20. [In Praise of Chaucer] 213 2

SAMUEL PEPYS (1633-1703 )

  1. The Diary

  2. [The Great Fire]

  3. [The Deb Willet Affair]

SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727)

  1. A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton

SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680)

  1. Hudibras

JOHN WILMOT, SECOND EARL OF ROCHESTER

  1. Part 1, Canto 1

WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670-1729)

  1. The Way of the World

MARY ASTELL (1666-1731)

  1. Some Reflections upon Marriage

DANIEL DEFOE (ca. 1660-1731 )

  1. Roxana

ANNE FINCH , COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA (1661-1720)

  1. The Introduction

  2. A Nocturnal Reverie

MATTHEW PRIOR (1664-1721)

  1. An Epitaph

  2. A Better Answer

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745 ) 2301

  1. A Description of a City Shower 230 3

  2. Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift 230 4

  3. A Tale of a Tub 231 5

  4. Gulliver's Travels 232 3

  5. A Modest Proposal

JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719 ) and SIR RICHARD STEELE (1672-1729

(1672-1729 ) 246 8

  1. THE PERIODICAL ESSAY: MANNERS , SOCIETY, GENDER

  2. Steele: [The Spectator's Club] (Spectator 2) 247 0

  3. Addison: [The Aims of the Spectator] (Spectator 10) 247 3

  4. Steele: [Inkle and Yarico] (Spectator 11) 247 6

  5. Addison: [The Royal Exchange] (Spectator 69) 247 8

THE PERIODICAL ESSAY: IDEAS

  1. Addison: [Wit: True, False, Mixed] (Spectator 62) 248 1

  2. Addison: [Paradise Lost: General Critical Remarks]

  3. (Spectator)

  4. Addison: [The Pleasures of the Imagination] (Spectator 411) 248 8

  5. Addison: [On the Scale of Being] (Spectator 519) 249 0

ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)

  1. An Essay on Criticism

  2. The Rape of the Lock

  3. Eloisa to Abelard

  4. An Essay on Man

  5. Epistle 1. Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to the Universe

  6. Epistle 2. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to Himself, as an Individual

  7. Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

  8. The Dunciad: Book the Fourth

  9. [The Educator]

  10. [The Carnation and the Butterfly]

  11. [The Triumph of Dulness]

ELIZA HAYWOOD (1693?-1756)

  1. Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689-1762)

  1. The Lover: A Ballad

  2. Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband

DEBATING WOMEN: ARGUMENTS IN VERSE

  1. JONATHAN SWIFT: The Lady's Dressing Room

  2. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU : The Reasons That Induced Dr. Swift to Write a Poem Called the Lady's Dressing Room

  3. ALEXANDER POPE: Impromptu to Lady Winchelsea

  4. ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA : The Answer (To Pope's Impromptu)

  5. ALEXANDER POPE: Epistle 2. To a Lady

  6. ANNE INGRAM, VISCOUNTESS IRWIN: An Epistle to Mr. Pope 2604 MARY LEAPOR

JOH N GAY (1685-1732)

  1. The Beggar's Opera

WILLIAM HOGARTH

  1. Marriage A-la-Mode

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)

  1. The Vanity of Human Wishes

  2. On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet

  3. Rambler No. 5 [On Spring]

  4. Idler No. 31 [On Idleness]

  5. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

  6. Rambler No. 4 [On Fiction]

  7. Rambler No. 60 [Biography]

  8. A Dictionary of the English Language

  9. The Preface to Shakespeare

LIVES OF THE POETS

  1. Cowley: [Metaphysical Wit]

  2. Milton: ["Lycidas"]

  3. [Paradise Lost]

  4. Pope: [Pope's Intellectual Character. Pope and Dryden Compared]

JAMES BOSWELL (1740-1795 )

  1. Boswell on the Grand Tour

  2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

  3. FRANCE S BURNEY (1752-1840 )

FRANCE S BURNEY (1752-1840 )

  1. The Journal and Letters 2811

LIBERTY

  1. JOHN LOCKE: Two Treatises of Government

  2. MARY ASTELL : A Preface, in Answer to Some Objections to Reflections upon Marriage

  3. ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, THIRD EARL OF SHAFTESBURY: Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humor

  4. JAMES THOMSON : Ode: Rule, Britannia

  5. DAVID HUME : Of the Liberty of the Press

  6. EDMUN D BURKE: Speech on the Conciliation with the American Colonies

    SAMUEL JOHNSON : [A Brief to Free a Slave]

  7. OLAUDAH EOUIANO: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself

  8. JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748 ): The Seasons

THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771 )

  1. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

  2. Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat

  3. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)

  1. Ode on the Poetical Character

  2. Ode to Evening

CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1771 )

  1. Jubilate Agno

OLIVER GOLDSMITH (ca. 1730-1774 )

  1. The Deserted Village

GEORGE CRABBE (1754-1832)

  1. The Village

WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)

  1. The Task

  2. The Castaway

POPULAR BALLADS

  1. Lord Randall

  2. Bonnv Barbara Allan

  3. The Wife of Usher's Well

  4. The Three Ravens

  5. Sir Patrick Spens

  6. The Bonny Earl of Murray

POEMS IN PROCESS A1

  1. John Milton A3

  2. Lycidas A3

  3. Alexander Pope A5

  4. The Rape of the Lock A5

  5. An Essay on Man A6

  6. Samuel Johnson A7

  7. The Vanity of Human Wishes A8

  8. Thomas Gray A9

  9. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard A9

APPENDIXES

  1. Literary Terminology A56

  2. Geographic Nomenclature A78

  3. British Money A80

  4. The British Baronage A85

  5. The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain A87

  6. Religions in England A90

  7. Illustration: The Universe According to Ptolemy A94

  8. Illustration: A London Playhouse of Shakespeare's Time A95

Europe

  1. The Iliad by Homer

  2. The Odyssey by Homer

  3. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

  4. Medea by Euripides

  5. The Aeneid by Virgil

  6. Metamorphoses by Ovid

  7. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

  8. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

  9. Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

  10. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

  11. The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

  12. Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  13. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

  14. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

  15. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  16. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

  17. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

  18. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

  19. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  20. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

  21. The Trial by Franz Kafka

  22. The Castle by Franz Kafka

  23. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

  24. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

  25. Ulysses by James Joyce

  26. The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne

  27. Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

  28. Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot

  29. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

  30. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil

  31. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

  32. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann

  33. Hunger by Knut Hamsun

  34. Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

  35. The Red and the Black by Stendhal

  36. Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  37. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  38. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

  39. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

  40. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy (Agapic eBook)

  41. Middlemarch by George Eliot

  42. Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo

  43. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

  44. Independent People by Halldór Laxness

  45. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

  46. Blindness by José Saramago

  47. History (La Storia, #1-2) by Elsa Morante

  48. The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi

Asia

  1. The Recognition of Śakuntalā by Kālidāsa

  2. Mahabharata by Anonymous

  3. Ramayana by Vālmīki (Agapic eBook)

  4. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

  5. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun

  6. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

  7. أولاد حارتنا (Children of Gebelawi) by نجيب محفوظ

  8. The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata

Africa

  1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

North America

  1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Agapic eBook)

  2. Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

  3. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Agapic eBook)

  4. Beloved by Toni Morrison

  5. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

  6. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (Agapic eBook)

  7. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (Agapic eBook)

  8. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

  9. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Agapic eBook)

South America

  1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

  2. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

  3. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

  4. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

  5. Grande Sertão: Veredas by João Guimarães Rosa

Oceania

(This list doesn't contain any titles clearly identifiable with Oceania based on the given authors and titles.)

Middle East

  1. مثنوی معنوی (Masnavi) by Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi)

  2. The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz by Saadi

Plays

  1. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

  2. King Lear by William Shakespeare

  3. Othello by William Shakespeare

North America:

  1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925, USA)

  2. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939, USA)

  3. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940, USA)

  4. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951, USA)

  5. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955, USA/Russia)

  6. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950, USA)

  7. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957, USA)

  8. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936, USA)

  9. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960, USA)

  10. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966, USA)

South America:

  1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967, Colombia)

  2. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (1944, Argentina)

Europe:

  1. 1984 by George Orwell (1949, UK)

  2. The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942, France)

  3. The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925, Austria-Hungary)

  4. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932, UK)

  5. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954-1955, UK)

  6. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (1967, Russia)

  7. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947, Netherlands)

  8. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980, Italy)

  9. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1932, France)

  10. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1953, Ireland/France)

  11. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902, UK)

  12. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil (1930, Austria)

  13. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922, Ireland)

  14. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929, USA)

  15. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943, France)

  16. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (1913-1927, France)

  17. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (1898, UK)

  18. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1924, Germany)

  19. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke (1910, Austria)

  20. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1926, UK)

  21. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (1949, France)

  22. Asterix the Gaul by René Goscinny (1959, France)

  23. Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan (1954, France)

  24. The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati (1940, Italy)

  25. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (1928, UK)

  26. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1973, Russia)

  27. L'Écume des jours by Boris Vian (1947, France)

  28. Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier (1913, France)

  29. Martin Eden by Jack London (1909, USA)

  30. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939, USA)

  31. If This Is a Man • The Truce by Primo Levi (1947/1963, Italy)

  32. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1900, UK)

  33. The Joke by Milan Kundera (1967, Czechoslovakia)

  34. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron (1979, USA)

  35. Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello (1921, Italy)

  36. Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre (1943, France)

  37. Paroles by Jacques Prévert (1946, France)

  38. Le Lotus bleu (Tintin #5) by Hergé (1936, Belgium)

  39. The Bald Soprano and Other Plays by Eugène Ionesco (1950, France)

  40. Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #1) by Henry Miller (1949, USA)

  41. Nadja by André Breton (1928, France)

  42. Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau (1959, France)

  43. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund Freud (1905, Austria)

  44. L'Œuvre au noir by Marguerite Yourcenar (1968, France)

  45. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll (1974, Germany)

  46. The Order of Things by Michel Foucault (1966, France)

  47. Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss (1955, France)

  48. The Counterfeiters by André Gide (1925, France)

  49. La Confusion des sentiments by Stefan Zweig (1927, Austria)

  50. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (1947, UK)

  51. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf (1906, Sweden)

  52. Lorca: Gypsy Ballads by R. G. Havard (1928, Spain)

  53. Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (1978, France)

  54. Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire (1913, France)

  55. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951, Germany/USA)

  56. The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono (1951, France)

  57. Man's Fate by André Malraux (1933, France)

  58. The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras (1964, France)

  59. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet (1943, France)

  60. Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos (1925, USA)

  61. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht (1941, Germany)

  62. Le Silence de la mer by Vercors (1942, France)

  63. Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars (1926, Switzerland)

  64. Contempt by Alberto Moravia (1954, Italy)

  65. Ballad of the Salt Sea by Hugo Pratt (1967, Italy)

  66. Capital of Pain by Paul Éluard (1926, France)

  67. Aurélien by Louis Aragon (1944, France)

  68. The Theater and Its Double by Antonin Artaud (1938, France)

  69. The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq (1951, France)

  70. Le Secret de l'Espadon - 1 by Edgar P. Jacobs (1950, Belgium)

  71. Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen (1968, Switzerland)

  72. Friday, or, The Other Island by Michel Tournier (1967, France)

  73. Thérèse Desqueyroux by François Mauriac (1927, France)

  74. Under Satan's Sun by Georges Bernanos (1926, France)

  75. Writing Degree Zero by Roland Barthes (1953, France)

  76. Les Vrilles De La Vigne by Colette (1908, France)

  77. No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase (1939, UK)

  78. Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraute (1939, France)

  79. The Journal of Jules Renard by Jules Renard (1925, France)

  80. Écrits by Jacques Lacan (1966, France)

  81. Gaston 1 by André Franquin (1959, Belgium)

  82. Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett by Georges Simenon (1931, Belgium)

  83. The General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare (1963, Albania)

  84. Le Soulier de satin by Paul Claudel (1929, France)

  85. La Modification by Michel Butor (1957, France)

  86. The Interrogation by J.M.G. Le Clézio (1963, France)

  87. Furor & Mystery and Other Writings by René Char (1948, France)

  88. Amers, suivi de Oiseaux et de Poésie by Saint-John Perse (1957, France)

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Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

Volume 4

Volume 5

  • Aeschylus (translated into English verse by G.M. Cookson)

    • The Suppliant Maidens

    • The Persians

    • Seven Against Thebes

    • Prometheus Bound

    • The Oresteia

      • Agamemnon

      • Choephoroe

      • The Eumenides

  • Sophocles (translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb)

    • The Oedipus Cycle

      • Oedipus the King

      • Oedipus at Colonus

      • Antigone

    • Ajax

    • Electra

    • The Trachiniae

    • Philoctetes

  • Euripides (translated into English prose by Edward P. Coleridge)

    • Rhesus

    • Medea

    • Hippolytus

    • Alcestis

    • Heracleidae

    • The Suppliants

    • The Trojan Women

    • Ion

    • Helen

    • Andromache

    • Electra

    • Bacchantes

    • Hecuba

    • Heracles Mad

    • The Phoenician Women

    • Orestes

    • Iphigenia in Tauris

    • Iphigenia in Aulis

    • Cyclops

  • Aristophanes (translated into English verse by Benjamin Bickley Rogers)

    • The Acharnians

    • The Knights

    • The Clouds

    • The Wasps

    • Peace

    • The Birds

    • The Frogs

    • Lysistrata

    • Thesmophoriazusae

    • Ecclesiazousae

    • Plutus

Volume 6

  • Herodotus

    • The History (translated by George Rawlinson)

  • Thucydides

    • History of the Peloponnesian War (translated by Richard Crawley and revised by R. Feetham)

Volume 7

  • Plato

    • The Dialogues (translated by Benjamin Jowett)

      • Charmides

      • Lysis

      • Laches

      • Protagoras

      • Euthydemus

      • Cratylus

      • Phaedrus

      • Ion

      • Symposium

      • Meno

      • Euthyphro

      • Apology

      • Crito

      • Phaedo

      • Gorgias

      • The Republic

      • Timaeus

      • Critias

      • Parmenides

      • Theaetetus

      • Sophist

      • Statesman

      • Philebus

      • Laws

    • The Seventh Letter (translated by J. Harward)

Volume 8

  • Aristotle

    • Categories

    • On Interpretation

    • Prior Analytics

    • Posterior Analytics

    • Topics

    • Sophistical Refutations

    • Physics

    • On the Heavens

    • On Generation and Corruption

    • Meteorology

    • Metaphysics

    • On the Soul

    • Minor biological works

      • On Sense and the Sensible

      • On Memory and Reminisence

      • On Sleep and Sleeplessness

      • On Dreams

      • On Prophesying by Dreams

      • On Longevity and Shortness of Life

      • On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing

Volume 9

  • Aristotle

    • History of Animals

    • Parts of Animals

    • On the Motion of Animals

    • On the Gait of Animals

    • On the Generation of Animals

    • Nicomachean Ethics

    • Politics

    • The Athenian Constitution

    • Rhetoric

    • Poetics

Volume 10

  • Hippocrates

    • Works

      • The Hippocratic Oath

      • On Ancient Medicine

      • On Airs, Water, and Places

      • The Book of Prognostics

      • On Regimen in Acute Diseases

      • Of the Epidemics

      • On Injuries of the Head

      • On the Surgery

      • On Fractures

      • On the Articulations

      • Instruments of Reduction

      • Aphorisms

      • The Law

      • The Ulcer

      • On Fistulae

      • On Hemorrhoids

      • On the Sacred Disease

  • Galen

    • On the Natural Faculties

Volume 11

  • Euclid

    • The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements

  • Archimedes

    • On the Sphere and Cylinder

    • Measurement of a Circle

    • On Conoids and Spheroids

    • On Spirals

    • On the Equilibrium of Planes

    • The Sand Reckoner

    • The Quadrature of the Parabola

    • On Floating Bodies

    • Book of Lemmas

    • The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems

  • Apollonius of Perga

    • On Conic Sections

  • Nicomachus of Gerasa

    • Introduction to Arithmetic

Volume 12

  • Lucretius

  • Epictetus

  • Marcus Aurelius

Volume 13

  • Virgil (translated into English verse by James Rhoades)

Volume 14

  • Plutarch

    • The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (translated by John Dryden)

Volume 15

  • P. Cornelius Tacitus (translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb)

    • The Annals

    • The Histories

Volume 16

Volume 17

  • Plotinus

    • The Six Enneads (translated by Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page)

Volume 18

Volume 19

  • Thomas Aquinas

    • Summa Theologica (First part complete, selections from second part, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)

Volume 20

Volume 21

  • Dante Alighieri

    • Divine Comedy (Translated by Charles Eliot Norton)

Volume 22

Volume 23

  • Niccolò Machiavelli

    • The Prince

  • Thomas Hobbes

    • Leviathan

  • Erasmus

    • The Praise of Folly

Volume 24

Volume 25

Volume 26

Volume 27

Volume 28

Volume 29

Volume 30

Volume 31

Volume 32

Volume 33

Volume 34

Volume 35

Volume 36

Volume 37

Volume 38

Volume 39

Volume 40

Volume 41

Volume 42

Volume 43

Volume 44

Volume 45

Volume 46

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

    • The Philosophy of Right

    • The Philosophy of History

  • Jane Austen

  • George Eliot

    • Middlemarch

Volume 47

Volume 48

Volume 49

  • Charles Darwin

    • The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

    • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Volume 50

  • Karl Marx

    • Capital

  • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

    • Manifesto of the Communist Party

Volume 51

Volume 52

Volume 53

  • William James

    • The Principles of Psychology

Volume 54

Volume 55

Volume 56

Volume 57

Volume 58

Volume 59

  • Henry James

    • The Beast in the Jungle

  • George Bernard Shaw

    • Saint Joan

  • Joseph Conrad

    • Heart of Darkness

  • Anton Chekhov

    • Uncle Vanya

  • Luigi Pirandello

    • Six Characters in Search of an Author

  • Marcel Proust

    • Remembrance of Things Past: "Swann in Love"

  • Willa Cather

    • A Lost Lady

  • Thomas Mann

  • James Joyce

    • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Volume 60

  • Virginia Woolf

    • To the Lighthouse

  • Franz Kafka

    • The Metamorphosis

  • D. H. Lawrence

    • The Prussian Officer

  • T. S. Eliot

    • The Waste Land

  • Eugene O'Neill

    • Mourning Becomes Electra

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald

    • The Great Gatsby

  • William Faulkner

    • A Rose for Emily

  • Bertolt Brecht

    • Mother Courage and Her Children

  • Ernest Hemingway

    • The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

  • George Orwell

    • Animal Farm

  • Samuel Beckett

    • Waiting for Godot

NATIVE AMERICAN ORAL LITERATURE

STORIES OF THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD

  1. The Iroquois Creation Story

  2. The Navajo Creation Story

  3. Hajíínéí (The Emergence)

TRICKSTER TALES

  1. The Winnebago Trickster Cycle (edited by Paul Radin)

ORATORY

  1. The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake

  2. Powhatan’s Discourse of Peace and War

  3. King Philip’s Speech

POETRY

  1. Cherokee War Song

  2. Lenape War Song

  3. Two Cherokee Songs of Friendship

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451—1506)

  1. Letter of Discovery (February 15, 1493)

  2. Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage

BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS Casas (1474—1566)

  1. An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies

  2. Atvar NÚÑEZ CABEZA DE Vaca (C. 1490-1558)

  3. The Relation of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

  4. [Dedication]

  5. [The Malhado Way of Life]

  6. [Our Life among the Avavares and Arbadaos]

  7. [Pushing On] 76 [Customs of That Region]

  8. [The First Confrontation]

  9. [The Falling-Out with Our Countrymen]

FIRST ENCOUNTERS: EARLY EUROPEAN ACCOUNTS OF NATIVE AMERICA

  1. HERNÁN CORTÉS: Second Letter to the Spanish Crown

  2. THOMAS HARRIOT: A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

  3. SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN: The Voyages of the Sieur de

    Champlain 93 ROBERT JUET: The Third Voyage of Master Henry Hudson

  4. JOHN HECKEWELDER: History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations

  5. WILLIAM BRADFORD AND EDWARD WINSLOW: Mourt’s Relation

  6. JOHN SMITH (1580—1631): The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles

  7. JOHN SMITH (1580—1631): A Description of New England

  8. JOHN SMITH (1580—1631): New England’s Trials

  9. WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590—1657): Of Plymouth Plantation

  10. Tuomas Morton (C. 1579-1647): New English Canaan

  11. JOHN WINTHROP (1588—1649): A Model of Christian Charity

  12. JOHN WINTHROP (1588—1649): From The Journal of John Winthrop

  13. The Bay Psalm Book

  14. Roger WILLIAMS (C. 1603—1683): A Key into the Language of America 205

  15. Roger WILLIAMS (C. 1603—1683): Christenings Make Not Christians

  16. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): The Prologue

  17. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): In Honor of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory

  18. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): To the Memory of My Dear and Ever Honored Father Thomas Dudley Esq.

  19. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): To Her Father with Some Verses 226

  20. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): Contemplations

  21. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): The Flesh and the Spirit

  22. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): The Author to Her Book

  23. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): Before the Birth of One of Her Children

  24. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): To My Dear and Loving Husband

  25. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment

  26. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): Another [Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment]

  27. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): In Reference to Her Children, 23 June 1659

  28. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet

  29. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet 242

  30. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet

  31. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): For Deliverance from a Fever

  32. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House

  33. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): As Weary Pilgrim

  34. ANNE BRADSTREET (C. 1612—1672): To My Dear Children

  35. MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH (1631—1705) - From The Day of Doom

  36. Mary ROWLANDSON (C. 1637—1711): A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

  37. EDWARD TAYLOR (C. 1642—1729): Preparatory Meditations

  38. EDWARD TAYLOR (C. 1642—1729): God’s Determinations 304

  39. EDWARD TAYLOR (C. 1642—1729): Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children

  40. EDWARD TAYLOR (C. 1642—1729): Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold

  41. EDWARD TAYLOR (C. 1642—1729): Huswifery

  42. COTTON MATHER (1663—1728): The Wonders of the Invisible World

  43. COTTON MATHER (1663—1728): Magnalia Christi Americana

  44. COTTON MATHER (1663—1728): Galeacius Secundus: The Life of William Bradford, Esq., Governor of Plymouth Colony

  45. COTTON MATHER (1663—1728): Nehemias Americanus: The Life of John Winthrop, Esq., Governor of the Massachusetts Colony

  46. COTTON MATHER (1663—1728): A Notable Exploit: Dux Fæmina Facti 349 Bonifacius

  47. COTTON MATHER (1663—1728): Essays to Do Good

  48. JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703—1758) 356: Personal Narrative

  49. JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703—1758) 356: On Sarah Pierpont 368 Sarah Edwards’s Narrative

  50. JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703—1758) 356: A Divine and Supernatural Light

  51. JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703—1758) 356: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION

THE JESUIT RELATIONS

  1. JEROME LALEMANT: How Father Isaac Jogues Was Taken by the Iroquois, and What He Suffered on His First Entrance into Their Country

  2. P. F. X. DE CHARLEVOIX: Catherine Tegahkouita: An Iroquois Virgin

  3. SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ: Love Opened a Mortal Wound

  4. SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ: Suspend, Singer Swan

  5. FRANCIS DANIEL PASTORIUS: [In These Seven Languages]

  6. ELIZABETH ASHBRIDGE: Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge

  7. JOHN WOOLMAN: The Journal of John Woolman

  8. JOHN MARRANT: A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black

  9. REBECCA SAMUEL: Letters to Her Parents

  10. SAGOYEWATHA: Reply to the Missionary Jacob Cram

  11. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790): The Way to Wealth

  12. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790): The Speech of Miss Polly Baker

  13. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790): Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One

  14. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790): Information to Those Who Would Remove to America

  15. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790): Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America

  16. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790): The Autobiography

  17. SAMSON OCCOM (1723-1792): An Account of the Mohawk Indians, on Long Island

  18. SAMSON OCCOM (1723-1792): A Short Narrative of My Life

  19. SAMSON OCCOM (1723-1792): A Sermon at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian

  20. SAMSON OCCOM (1723-1792): Hymns

ETHNOGRAPHIC AND NATURALIST WRITING

  1. SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT: The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York in the Year 1704

  2. WILLIAM BYRD: The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover 1710-1712

  3. From The History of the Dividing Line

  4. ALEXANDER HAMILTON: Hamilton’s Itinerarium

  5. WILLIAM BARTRAM: Anecdotes of an American Crow

  6. HENDRICK AUPAUMUT: History of the Muh-he-con-nuk Indians

  7. J. Hector St. JOHN DE CREVECOEUR (1735—1813): Letters from an American Farmer

  8. ANNIS BOUDINOT STOCKTON (1736—1801): A Hymn Written in the Year 1753

  9. ANNIS BOUDINOT STOCKTON (1736—1801): An Elegiak Ode on the 28th Day of February [1782]. The Anniversary of Mr. [Stockton’s] Death

  10. ANNIS BOUDINOT STOCKTON (1736—1801): On a Little Boy Going to Play on a Place from Whence He Had Just Fallen

  11. ANNIS BOUDINOT STOCKTON (1736—1801): Addressed to General Washington, in the Year 1777, after the Battles of Trenton and Princeton

  12. ANNIS BOUDINOT STOCKTON (1736—1801): [L]ines on Hearing of the Death of Doctor Franklin

  13. JOHN ADAMS (1735—1826) AND ABIGAIL ADAMS (1744—1818): The Letters - Abigail Adams to John Adams (Aug. 19, 1774)

  14. JOHN ADAMS (1735—1826) AND ABIGAIL ADAMS (1744—1818): The Letters - John Adams to Abigail Adams (Sept. 16, 1774) [Prayers at the Congress]

  15. JOHN ADAMS (1735—1826) AND ABIGAIL ADAMS (1744—1818): The Letters - John Adams to Abigail Adams (July 23, 1775) [Dr. Franklin]

  16. JOHN ADAMS (1735—1826) AND ABIGAIL ADAMS (1744—1818): The Letters - John Adams to Abigail Adams (Oct. 29, 1775) [Prejudice in Favor of New England]

  17. JOHN ADAMS (1735—1826) AND ABIGAIL ADAMS (1744—1818): The Letters - Abigail Adams to John Adams (Nov. 27, 1775) [The Building Up a Great Empire]

  18. JOHN ADAMS (1735—1826) AND ABIGAIL ADAMS (1744—1818): The Letters - Abigal Adams to John Adams (March 31, 1776) [Remember the Ladies]

  19. JOHN ADAMS (1735—1826) AND ABIGAIL ADAMS (1744—1818): John Adams to Abigail Adams (July 3, 1776) [These colonies are free and independent states]

  20. JOHN ADAMS (1735—1826) AND ABIGAIL ADAMS (1744—1818): John Adams to Abigail Adams (July 3, 1776) [Reflections on the Declaration of Independence]

  21. JOHN ADAMS (1735—1826) AND ABIGAIL ADAMS (1744—1818): Abigail Adams to John Adams (July 14, 1776) [The Declaration. Smallpox. The Grey Horse]

  22. JOHN ADAMS (1735—1826) AND ABIGAIL ADAMS (1744—1818): John Adams to Abigail Adams (July 20, 1776) [Do My Friends Think I Have Forgotten My Wife and Children?]

  23. JOHN ADAMS (1735—1826) AND ABIGAIL ADAMS (1744—1818): bigail Adams to John Adams (July 21, 1776) [Smallpox. The Proclamation for Independence Read Aloud]

  24. THOMAS PAINE (1737—1809): Common Sense 682

  25. THOMAS PAINE (1737—1809): The Crisis, No. 1

  26. THOMAS PAINE (1737—1809): The Age of Reason

  27. THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826): The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

  28. THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826): Notes on the State of Virginia

  29. The Declaration of Independence

  30. THE FEDERALIST: No. 1 [Alexander Hamilton]

  31. THE FEDERALIST: No. 10 [James Madison]

  32. OLAUDAH EQUIANO (1745?—1797): The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself

  33. JUDITH SARGENT Murray (1751—1820): On the Equality of the Sexes

  34. PHILIP FRENEAU (1752—1832): The Wild Honey Suckle

  35. PHILIP FRENEAU (1752—1832): The Indian Burying Ground

  36. PHILIP FRENEAU (1752—1832): To Sir Toby

  37. PHILIP FRENEAU (1752—1832): On Mr. Paine’s Rights of Man

  38. PHILIP FRENEAU (1752—1832): On the Religion of Nature

  39. PHILLIS WHEATLEY (C. 1753-1784): On Being Brought from Africa to America

  40. PHILLIS WHEATLEY (C. 1753-1784): To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth

  41. PHILLIS WHEATLEY (C. 1753-1784): To the University of Cambridge, in New England

  42. PHILLIS WHEATLEY (C. 1753-1784): On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770

  43. PHILLIS WHEATLEY (C. 1753-1784): Thoughts on the Works of Providence

  44. PHILLIS WHEATLEY (C. 1753-1784): To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works

  45. PHILLIS WHEATLEY (C. 1753-1784): To His Excellency General Washington

  46. PHILLIS WHEATLEY (C. 1753-1784): Letters

  47. PHILLIS WHEATLEY (C. 1753-1784): Letters - To John Thornton (Apr. 21, 1772)

  48. PHILLIS WHEATLEY (C. 1753-1784): Letters - To Rev. Samson Occom (Feb. 11, 1774)


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