Kenneth Rexroth, Classics Revisited [1965-69]
146 entries: 116 monographical, 30 otherwise
Unrankedarranged topically
This book began as a series of essays, nearly all of which were originally published in the 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 are not easy to come by: they do not seem to have been digitized so one must resort to library bound copies, beautiful large volumes that hopefully have not been moved to off-site storage of your nearest university library. The 85 essays ran from March 20th, 1965 to April 26th, 1969. Fifty-eight of the essays were republished in a book, also entitled Classics Revisited, in 1968 as the series was ongoing; it also featured new 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. Further studies (regarding 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 William Carlos Williams) were included only in More Classics, which was put together after Rexroth's death. While the four essays Rexroth added (Thucydides, Baudelaire, Aquinas, Wells) obviously warrant being part of the project, according to Ken Knabb (editor of the Kenneth Rexroth Archive at his web site, the Bureau of Public Secrets) the later additions were made by the editor of More Classics. I am 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 of works below follows the order in which the essays were published in the Saturday Review, not the subsequent books, followed by the two additions each from the books Classics Revisited and The Elastic Retort.
- Sha Naqba Imuru_11
The Epic of Gilgamesh; He Who Saw the Deep
Eighteenth-Tenth centuries B.CSumerian; Akkadian
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Norway* *Great* *Graphic* *Educated*
Homer
- Iliad_33
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Cowan and Guinness ("Trinity") specifiy Richard Lattimore's English translation; Mallison ("Smart") notes Derek Jacobi's modern aural versionGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Odýsseia_36
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
--
- Beowulf_14
ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Seamus Heaney's modern English versionEnglish
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Great* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
--
- Njáls Saga_5
ca. Thirteenth CenturyNorse
*Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Norway* *Dirda*
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha_37
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Edith Grossman's English translationSpanish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Livy (Titus Livius)
Ab Urbe Condita Libri_6
History of Rome
First Century B CLatin
*Lubbock* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Trinity* *World*
- Petronius
Satyricon_7
late First CenturyLatin
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman*
- Plutarch
Bìoi Paràllēloi_18
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
First CenturyGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Educated*
Cornelius Tacitus
- De Origine et Situ Germanorum_5
Germania
written ca. 98Latin
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Trinity*
- De Vita et Moribus Iulii Agricolae_3
Agricola
written ca. 98Latin
*Rexroth* *Read* *Trinity*
- Dialogus de Oratoribus_3
written ca. 102Latin
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Trinity*
- Historiae_8
written ca. 100-10Latin
*Invitation* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Annales_11
written First CenturyLatin
*Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity*
- Thomas Malory
Le Morte d'Arthur_13
1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Telegraph* *Great* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Aeschylus
Oresteia_19
The House of Atreus
458 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Zane* *Newman*
- François Rabelais
La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel_22
originally published in five volumes: Les Horribles et Épouvantables Faits et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua, 1532; La Vie Très Horrifique du Grand Gargantua, Père de Pantagruel, 1534; Le Tiers Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1546; Le Quart Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1552; Le Cinquiesme et Dernier Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1564; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux's English translationFrench
*Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Smart* *Newman*
Plato
- Euthyphro_6
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Campbell* *O'Hear*
- Apologia Socratis_16
The Apology
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear*
- Crito_13
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *O'Hear*
- Phaedo_14
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *O'Hear*
Plays_5
late Fifth Century B CGreek
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Rexroth* *Good* *Read*
Niccolò Machiavelli
- Il Principe_29
The Prince
1532Italian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Discorsi Sopra la Prima Deca di Tito Livio_4
1531Italian
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Trinity*
Sophocles
- Antigone_22
ca. 441 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman*
- Oidipous epi Kolōnō_20
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Newman*
- Oidipous Tyrannos_25
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
Poems_6
late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B CGreek
*Rexroth* *Bloom* *Dirda* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Murasaki Shikibu
Genji Monogatari_12
The Tale of Genji
ca. early Eleventh Century; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Royall Tyler's English translationJapanese
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Oriental* *Magill* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Graphic*
Geoffrey Chaucer
- Canterbury Tales_30
1478; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Nevill Coghill's modern English versionEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Troilus and Criseyde_8
written ca. 1380sEnglish
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Cáo Xuěqín (Mengruan) (Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in)
Hóng Lóu Mèng_7
The Dream of the Red Chamber; The Story of the Stone
1791Chinese
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Great* *World*
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton_17
Meditations
written 161-80Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Great*
- Plato
Politeia_24
The Republic
early Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais_26
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595French
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
- Nicolas-Edme Rétif (Rétif de la Bretonne)
Monsieur Nicolas_1
originally published in 16 volumes, 1794-7French
*Rexroth*
- Giacomo Casanova
Histoire de Ma Vie Jusqu'à l'An 1797_2
The Story of My Life
German translation published in part, 1822-4; abridged and censored version of the original French published 1826-38; original French published in its entirety, 1960-2French
*France* *Rexroth*
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Foundation* *Norway* *Great*
- Thomas More
Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia_14
Utopia
1516Latin
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Educated*
- Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation_1
written ca. 1534English
*Rexroth*
- William Roper
The Life of Sir Thomas More_2
1626English
*Eliot* *Rexroth*
- Stendhal
Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle_18
The Red and the Black
1830French
*Powys* *Classics* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Newman* *Deposit*
- William Shakespeare
Macbeth_16
ca. 1607English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Apuleius
Metamorphoseon_6
Asinus Aureus; The Golden Ass
Second CenturyLatin
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Utne* *Great* *Newman*
Caius Julius Caesar
- Commentarii de Bello Gallico_4
ca. 40 B CLatin
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Great*
- Commentarii de Bello Civili_2
ca. 40 B CLatin
*Classics* *Rexroth*
- John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come_18
1678English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
- Marco Polo and Rustichello da Pisa
Livre des Merveilles du Monde_3
ca. 1300French
*Rexroth* *Downs* *Ward*
- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass_20
1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892English
*Powys* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei_13
The Communist Manifesto
1848German
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *Educated*
Karl Marx
- Das Kapital, Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie_12
originally published in three volumes: 1867, 1885, and 1894German
*Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *World*
- Ökonomisch-Philosophische Manuskripte aus dem Jahre 1844_1
written 1844German
*Rexroth*
- William Shakespeare
The Tempest_20
1611English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
Journal des Goncourt: Memoires de la Vie Litteraire_1
1887-96French
*Rexroth*
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brat'â Karamazovy_23
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
*Powys* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman*
Ben Jonson
- Volpone_6
1606English
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- The Alchemist_8
1610English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Bartholomew Fayre_5
1614English
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Gustave Flaubert
L'Éducation Sentimentale_8
1869French
*Classics* *France* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *Newman*
Arthur Rimbaud
late Nineteenth CenturyFrench
*France* *Rexroth* *Ward*
two letters written May 1871French
*Rexroth*
Poems_3
Eighth CenturyChinese
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Utne*
- John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi_4
ca. 1613-14English
*Eliot* *Rexroth* *Bloom* *Dirda*
--
1952; English translations by Helen WaddellLatin
*Rexroth* *Ward*
--
Eleventh-Twelfth centuries; some works in German and FrenchLatin
*Rexroth*
--
hymn attributed to either Jacopone da Todi or Innocent III; Thirteenth CenturyLatin
*Rexroth*
- Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_23
1884English
*Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling_19
1749English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
Plays_3
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuriesRussian
*Rexroth* *Good* *Dirda*
--
Greek
*Classics* *Rexroth*
--
- Kalevala_3
compiled by Elias Lönnrot; 1835; revised 1849Finnish
*Baldwin* *Rexroth* *Ward*
--
- "Classical Japanese Poetry"_1
Japanese
*Rexroth*
Poems_1
late Seventh-early Eighth centuriesJapanese
*Rexroth*
- Izaak Walton
The Compleat Angler_4
1653; revised through sixth edition, 1676English
*Baldwin* *Rexroth* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Vyasa
Mahabharata_13
includes Bhagavad Gita; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth CenturySanskrit
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Rexroth* *Oriental* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *World* *Graphic*
- Leo Tolstoy
Voyna i Mir"_25
War and Peace
originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869Russian
*Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Newman*
- Herodotus
Historiē_25
History
Fifth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *World* *Educated*
- Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura_19
On the Nature of Things
First Century B.CLatin
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_23
originally published in six volumes: first, 1776; second-third, 1781; fourth-sixth, 1788English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Telegraph* *World* *Educated*
- Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman_14
originally published in nine volumes, 1759-67English
*Powys* *Durant* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
- Catullus
Poems_6
First Century B.CLatin
*Powys* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Newman*
Pierre Abélard
- Historia Calamitatum_5
written ca. 1132; includes the letters of Abélard and Héloïse d'ArgenteuilLatin
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Newman* *Graphic*
Twelfth CenturyLatin
*Rexroth*
- Francis Parkman
France and England in North America_2
originally published in seven volumes: Pioneers of France in the New World, 1865; The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century, 1867; The Discovery of the Great West, 1869; The Old Regime in Canada, 1874; Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV, 1877; Montcalm and Wolfe, 1884; A Half-Century of Conflict, 1892English
*Rexroth* *Bloom*
- Ford Madox Ford
Parade's End_4
originally published in four volumes: Some Do Not..., 1924; No More Parades, 1925; A Man Could Stand Up, 1926; Last Post, 1928English
*Rexroth* *List* *Bloom* *Zane*
William Blake
- Tiriel_4
written ca. 1789; originally published 1874 as part of The Poetical Works of William BlakeEnglish
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul_11
published in part, 1789, as Songs of Innocence; in its entirety, 1794English
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Educated*
- The Book of Thel_5
ca. 1789-90English
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*
- America a Prophecy_4
1793English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Visions of the Daughters of Albion_4
1793English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Europe a Prophecy_4
1794English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*
- The Book of Urizen_5
originally entitled The First Book of Urizen, published 1794English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Utne* *Newman*
- The Book of Ahania_4
1795English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*
- The Book of Los_4
1795English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*
- The Song of Los_4
1795English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Vala, or The Four Zoas_4
written ca. 1797-1807English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Milton_5
ca. 1811English
*Van Doren* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion_6
1820English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Graphic* *Newman*
"Sherlock Holmes"_1
Unspecified selectionEnglish
*Rexroth*
- Gilbert White
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne_2
1789English
*Lubbock* *Rexroth*
- Euripides
Hippolytos _11
428 B CGreek
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- Jean Racine
Phèdre_11
1677French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *O'Hear* *Newman*
- Lǎozǐ (Lao-tzu) (Laocius)
Dàodéjīng_11
Tao te Ching
ca. Sixth Century B CChinese
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Oriental* *Good* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Utne* *Dirda* *Great* *World* *Graphic*
- Choderlos de Laclos
Les Liaisons Dangereuses_6
The Dangerous Liaisons
1782French
*France* *Rexroth* *Bloom* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic*
La Comédie Humaine_5
collective name for 91 finished and 46 unfinished works; Nineteenth CenturyFrench
*Powys* *France* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Trinity*
- Ivan Turgenev
Otcy i Deti_11
Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons
originally published Feb. 1862 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Newman*
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid_26
First Century B C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fagles's English translationLatin
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Bhagavad Gita_8
part of the Mahabharata; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth CenturySanskrit
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- Daniel Defoe
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner_21
originally anonymously published 1719English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Great* *Zane* *Deposit* *Newman*
- John Woolman
The Journal of John Woolman_3
1774English
*Eliot* *Rexroth* *Trinity*
--
written ca. Seventh-Fifteenth centuriesIrish
*Rexroth*
- Charles Dickens
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club_14
The Pickwick Papers
originally published serially Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837 under the pseudonym, BozEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman*
--
- Reliques of Ancient English Poetry_1
compiled by Thomas Percy; 1765English
*Rexroth*
--
- The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border_1
compiled by Walter Scott; originally published in three volumes, 1802-03English
*Rexroth*
--
- The English and Scottish Popular Ballads_1
compiled by Frances James Child; originally published in ten volumes, 1882-98English
*Rexroth*
--
- Danmarks Gamle Folkeviser_1
Ancient Danish Ballads
compiled by Sven Grundtvig, Axel Olrik, and Hakon Harald Grüner-Nielsen; originally published in twelve volumes, 1853-1976Danish
*Rexroth*
--
- One Hundred English Folksongs_1
compiled by Cecil Sharp; 1916English
*Rexroth*
--
- English Folk Songs From the Southern Appalachians_1
compiled by Cecil Sharp; 1932English
*Rexroth*
- Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave_6
1845English
*Rexroth* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Smart* *Educated*
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin_6
1852English
*Downs* *Rexroth* *Recommended* *Smart* *Taylor* *Educated*
- Aristotle
Peri Poiêtikês_15
De Poetica; Poetics
Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Smart* *Educated*
- Jonathan Swift
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships_29
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735English
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Poems_7
late Eighteenth CenturyEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Rexroth* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Newman*
--
Song of Solomon; Canticles
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth*
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust_27
originally published in two volumes: first, Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil, published in part, 1790; in its entirey, 1808; revised 1829; second, Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, 1832German
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman*
- Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War_23
early Fifth Century B.CGreek
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Poems_1
Nineteenth CenturyFrench
*Rexroth*
Thomas Aquinas
- Summa Theologiae_13
Summa Theologica
written 1265-74Latin
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- 'Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium'_1
Thirteenth CenturyLatin
*Rexroth*
Thirteenth CenturyLatin
*Rexroth*
- 'Verbum Supernum Prodiens'_1
Thirteenth CenturyLatin
*Rexroth*
H G Wells
- The Time Machine_5
1895English
*Rexroth* *Magill* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Telegraph*
- The Island of Doctor Moreau_2
1896English
*Rexroth* *Dirda*
- The Invisible Man_2
originally published serially 1897 in Pearson's MagazineEnglish
*Rexroth* *Dirda*
- The War of the Worlds_4
originally published serially 1897 in Pearson's MagazineEnglish
*Rexroth* *Learning* *Recommended* *Dirda*
- When the Sleeper Awakes_1
originally published serially 1898-1903 in the Graphic; revised and retitled, The Sleeper Awakes, 1910English
*Rexroth*
- The First Men in the Moon_2
1901English
*Rexroth* *Dirda*
- Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul_1
1905English
*Rexroth*
- In the Days of the Comet_1
1906English
*Rexroth*
- The War in the Air_1
originally published serially 1908 in the Pall Mall MagazineEnglish
*Rexroth*
- Tono-Bungay_2
1909English
*Hundred* *Rexroth*
- Ann Veronica_1
1909English
*Rexroth*
- The History of Mr. Polly_1
1910English
*Rexroth*
- The New Machiavelli_1
originally published serially 1910 in the English ReviewEnglish
*Rexroth*
- The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind_1
originally entitled A Prophetic Trilogy, published serially Jan.-Mar. 1914 in the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine; retitled for publication in book form, 1914English
*Rexroth*
- The Research Magnificent_1
1915English
*Rexroth*