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''The Harvard Classics'', originally marketed as Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, is a 50-volume series of classic works of world literature, important speeches, and historical documents compiled and edited by
The "Five-foot Shelf" Reconsidered
''Harvard Magazine'', Volume 103, Number 2. November–December 2001. Eliot believed that a careful reading of the series and following the eleven reading plans included in Volume 50 would offer a reader, in the comfort of the home, the benefits of a liberal education, entertainment and counsel of history's greatest creative minds. The initial success of ''The Harvard Classics'' was due, in part, to the branding offered by Eliot and Harvard University. Buyers of these sets were apparently attracted to Eliot's claims. The General Index contains upwards of 76,000 subject references. The first 25 volumes were published in 1909 followed by the next 25 volumes in 1910. The collection was enhanced when the ''Lectures on The Harvard Classics'' was added in 1914 and ''Fifteen Minutes a Day - The Reading Guide'' in 1916.New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Departmen, Collier v. Jones, 140 A.D. 911 (October 21, 1910) The ''Lectures on The Harvard Classics'' was edited by Willam A. Neilson, who had assisted Eliot in the selection and design of the works in Volumes 1–49. Neilson also wrote the introductions and notes for the selections in Volumes 1–49. The Harvard Classics is often described as a "51 volume" set, however, P.F. Collier & Son consistently marketed the Harvard Classics as 50 volumes plus Lectures and a Daily Reading Guide. Both ''The Harvard Classics'' and ''The Five-Foot Shelf of Books'' are registered trademarks of P.F. Collier & Son for a series of books used since 1909. Collier advertised ''The Harvard Classics'' in U.S. magazines including ''
In a June 1909 issue of '' Collier's Weekly'', P.F. Collier & Son announced it would publish a series of books selected by Eliot, without disclosing the list of included works, that would be approximately five feet in length and would supply the readers a liberal education. A few days after the announced intent to publish Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, several newspapers published an incomplete list of selected works to be included. Eliot felt the publications were unauthorized and asked Collier's Weekly publishers to publish his letter to the editors explaining the initial list and selection process in the July 24, 1909, edition of ''Collier's''. Eliot describes his goal in helping publish The Harvard Classics as motivated by an educational purpose and he explains why the English Bible was not selected. In January 1910, P.F. Collier & Son announced in a "Publishers' Statement" that the 50 volumes were almost complete and offered a "Statement from the Editor" (Eliot) describing the origins of process resulting in the first sets of The Harvard Classics. The first editions printed by P.F. Collier & Son in three separate styles of bindings were first offered for sale on October 13, 1909.
The collection was marketed so as to advertise in all the principal magazines published in the United States resulting in a combined circulation of almost 3,000,000 for the initial marketing effort. The sales were initiated using 3,000 agents who were supplied a prospectus or "Announcement of The Harvard Classics" so that leads could be followed up by the agents. Most advertisements encouraged an interest notice be mailed back to the publisher offering a targeted and highly successful marketing campaign for the series. The intent by the publisher was to offer The Harvard Classics as a subscription with only some of the volumes being sent initially and the remaining to follow in subsequent shipment. This was strategic since the complete 50 volumes had not yet been supplied by Eliot and Neilson to the publisher and would not be supplied until late in 1910.
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
President Charles W. Eliot.Adam KirschThe "Five-foot Shelf" Reconsidered
''Harvard Magazine'', Volume 103, Number 2. November–December 2001. Eliot believed that a careful reading of the series and following the eleven reading plans included in Volume 50 would offer a reader, in the comfort of the home, the benefits of a liberal education, entertainment and counsel of history's greatest creative minds. The initial success of ''The Harvard Classics'' was due, in part, to the branding offered by Eliot and Harvard University. Buyers of these sets were apparently attracted to Eliot's claims. The General Index contains upwards of 76,000 subject references. The first 25 volumes were published in 1909 followed by the next 25 volumes in 1910. The collection was enhanced when the ''Lectures on The Harvard Classics'' was added in 1914 and ''Fifteen Minutes a Day - The Reading Guide'' in 1916.New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Departmen, Collier v. Jones, 140 A.D. 911 (October 21, 1910) The ''Lectures on The Harvard Classics'' was edited by Willam A. Neilson, who had assisted Eliot in the selection and design of the works in Volumes 1–49. Neilson also wrote the introductions and notes for the selections in Volumes 1–49. The Harvard Classics is often described as a "51 volume" set, however, P.F. Collier & Son consistently marketed the Harvard Classics as 50 volumes plus Lectures and a Daily Reading Guide. Both ''The Harvard Classics'' and ''The Five-Foot Shelf of Books'' are registered trademarks of P.F. Collier & Son for a series of books used since 1909. Collier advertised ''The Harvard Classics'' in U.S. magazines including ''
Collier's
''Collier's'' was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter F. Collier, Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as ''Collier's Once a Week'', then renamed in 1895 as ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'', shortened i ...
'' and '' McClure's'', offering to send a pamphlet to prospective buyers. The pamphlet, entitled ''Fifteen Minutes a Day - A Reading Plan'', is a 64-page booklet that describes the benefits of reading, gives the background on the book series, and includes many statements by Eliot about why he undertook the project. In the pamphlet, Eliot states:
Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books
The idea of the Harvard Classics was presented in speeches by then President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University. Several years prior to 1909, Eliot gave a speech in which he remarked that a three-foot shelf would be sufficient to hold enough books to give a liberal education to anyone who would read them with devotion. He was inundated with requests for the list of those book titles that would fill the three-foot shelf. After many attempts to support his initial claim, he decided that the shelf would need to be lengthened to five feet - but a definitive list of works was not declared. A well-known publisher Peter Fenelon Collier and his son,Robert J. Collier
Robert Joseph Collier (June 17, 1876 – November 8, 1918) was the son of Peter Fenelon Collier and a principal in the publishing company P. F. Collier & Son. Upon his father's death, he became head of the company and, for a time, was editor of ...
, saw a financial opportunity and asked that Eliot make good on his statement by selecting 50 volumes (400 to 500 pages each). Collier representatives proposed the name for the series as either "The Harvard Library" or "The Harvard Classics" pending approval by Harvard University. The proposal, presented to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, was unanimously approved as a useful undertaking from an educational point of view.
In February 1909 with his approaching retirement as President of Harvard University, Eliot accepted the proposal of P.F. Collier & Son. The agreement allowed Eliot to engage an assistant. He chose William A. Neilson, Professor of English at Harvard University. The English Bible
Partial Bible translations into languages of the English people can be traced back to the late 7th century, including translations into Old and Middle English. More than 100 complete translations into English have been written.
In the United S ...
was excluded because Eliot and Neilson felt that most every household would already possess at least one copy. The contributions of living authors (other than scientific contributions) were excluded because Eliot and Neilson considered the "verdict of the educated world" was not yet final. Works of modern fiction were felt to be readily accessible and thus excluded. English and American literature as well as documents related to American social and political ideas were more likely to be selected because the Harvard Classics were intended primarily for American readers.
Eliot retired as President of Harvard University in May 1909 and devoted much of the next year to organizing the 50 volumes and selecting the list of included works. The first half of the included works was provided to P.F. Collier & Son in 1909. However, Eliot and Neilson did not make the remaining selections, write the introductions for each selection, or finish the general index until 1910. Consequently, P.F. Collier & Son printed volumes 1 to 25 in 1909 and volumes 26 to 50 in 1910. An advertisement for The Harvard Classics appeared in ''Collier's'' on April 30, 1909, stating the "Complete Official Contents Now Ready." With the help of more than 50 Harvard professors and instructors and the general library of Harvard University and its department libraries, Eliot and Neilson believed that the title "The Harvard Classics" was well deserved.
Release and marketing
In a June 1909 issue of '' Collier's Weekly'', P.F. Collier & Son announced it would publish a series of books selected by Eliot, without disclosing the list of included works, that would be approximately five feet in length and would supply the readers a liberal education. A few days after the announced intent to publish Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, several newspapers published an incomplete list of selected works to be included. Eliot felt the publications were unauthorized and asked Collier's Weekly publishers to publish his letter to the editors explaining the initial list and selection process in the July 24, 1909, edition of ''Collier's''. Eliot describes his goal in helping publish The Harvard Classics as motivated by an educational purpose and he explains why the English Bible was not selected. In January 1910, P.F. Collier & Son announced in a "Publishers' Statement" that the 50 volumes were almost complete and offered a "Statement from the Editor" (Eliot) describing the origins of process resulting in the first sets of The Harvard Classics. The first editions printed by P.F. Collier & Son in three separate styles of bindings were first offered for sale on October 13, 1909.
The collection was marketed so as to advertise in all the principal magazines published in the United States resulting in a combined circulation of almost 3,000,000 for the initial marketing effort. The sales were initiated using 3,000 agents who were supplied a prospectus or "Announcement of The Harvard Classics" so that leads could be followed up by the agents. Most advertisements encouraged an interest notice be mailed back to the publisher offering a targeted and highly successful marketing campaign for the series. The intent by the publisher was to offer The Harvard Classics as a subscription with only some of the volumes being sent initially and the remaining to follow in subsequent shipment. This was strategic since the complete 50 volumes had not yet been supplied by Eliot and Neilson to the publisher and would not be supplied until late in 1910.
Printing history
Volumes 1-49 of The Harvard Classics include reprints of hundreds of authors' works that may have been in the public domain (e.g., because of expiredcopyrights
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educati ...
) or covered by existing copyright holders such as other publishing companies. In either case, Collier filed copyrights for the 49 volumes and for The Harvard Classics complete series in 1909 and 1910 and obtained, when necessary, permission to reprint selected works included in one of the 49 volumes. Collier's copyrighted Volume 50 was in 1910, the ''Lectures on The Harvard Classics'' in 1914, and ''Fifteen Minutes a Day - The Reading Guide'' in 1916.
P.F. Collier & Son asserts in many early adverstisements of The Harvard Classics that 20,000 sets of The Harvard Classics were first printed to offer a "tremendous savings" to buyers and that these first printings include the word "Eliot" as a watermark on every page. To help the chronological obsession about the print runs of The Harvard Classics, clues regarding how many of first edition printings are offered in a trademark dispute case between P.F. Collier and E. Milton Jones in 1909 that was later ruled on in appeal in 1910 (in favor of P.F. Collier & Son). In testimony, Robert J. Collier states that the first sets of The Harvard Classics printed and sold were "bound in full morocco...one set, bound in three-quarters morocco...and the remaining set, bound in buckram...". Advertisements in 1910 also state Collier prepared editions for those who demand luxurious limited editions as well as for the readers who want less expensive sets.
The first editions of The Harvard Classics were known as "De Luxe" sets. Most were limited-quantity print runs and some "autographed" editions (only Volume 1 is authographed) include signatures by Eliot and in some cases Robert J. Collier. The first print runs in 1909 were for volumes 1 to 25. Another print run was needed in 1910 for volumes 26 to 50 because those volumes were not selected and edited by Eliot until the middle of 1910. The first editions include Japanese vellum paper with "Eliot" watermarks (made by S.D. Warren & Co. of Boston), deckled pages, silk moire endpapers, sewn in bookmarks, and top edged gilt pages. Each was appealing to buyers for the elaborate illustrations, frontispieces, plates, portraits, facsimiles, and crimson silk page markers (features unlikely to be found in later printings). The colophon found on the ultimate page of content of first editions notes these sets were "planned and designed by William Patten" (the Book Manager at P.F. Collier & Son).
The exact numbers of each of the three bindings making up the 20,000 first sets are unclear. Four different sets in full morocco leather were printed with raised bands, Harvard University insignia, and volume names in gilt lettering on the spines. The four variations in full leather include: (1) the "Alumni Autograph Edition" limited to 200 numbered sets (Volume 1 is autographed by Eliot), (2) the "Eliot Edition" limited to 1,000 numbered sets (Volume 1 is autographed by Eliot), (3) the "Alumni Edition De Luxe" (unsigned) limited to 1,000 numbered sets, and (4) the "Edition De Luxe" sets that are numbered and stated as being limited editions (but the number printed is not shown). The full morocco sets sold for at least $345. The Edition De Luxe sets in full morocco leather were sold many years (after the limited-quantity runs were sold out) as some include the "Lecture" volume added in 1914.
The second binding type of the first editions of The Harvard Classics were printed in three-quarters morocco leather binding over cloth boards. The first edition three-quarters morocco leather sets have similar variations as the full morocco leather sets including a (1) set limited to 1,000 numbered and autographed "Cambridge Editions" signed by Eliot and, interestingly, the publisher Robert J. Collier also signed the sets numbered from 412 to 973 over mottled cream boards, (2) set limited to 1,000 numbered and autographed "Eliot Edition" books over green cloth boards, and (3) a set limited to 1,000 (unsigned) called the "Alumni Edition" on the spine bound over crimson boards, and (4) a set of unknown number called the "Library Edition" (stated as limited edition, but number of printings is not shown) over crimson boards. The "Library Editions" do not paper with "Eliot" watermarks, but appear to have the same high-quality Japanese vellum paper. Each of these limited-quantity three-quarter morocco sets sold for $195.
The third type of binding of the first editions of The Harvard Classics were printed in fine buckram (green and crimson). The green buckram set of "Alumni Edition" printings is a numbered set limited to 1,000 numbered copies. The green buckram has gilt lettering with crimson and gold Harvard insignia on both the spine and front board. The first editions show "Alumni Edition De Luxe" are numbered and limited to 1,000 sets and include embossed bands on the spine. The remaining first edition set of The Harvard Classics, printed in fine crimson buckram cloth, is another version called the "Eliot Edition" - a limited quantity printing of 1,000. The crimson buckram "Eliot Edition" with Eliot's signature on the front board is printed with raised bands on the spine, "Eliot" watermarked pages, and include illustrations, frontispieces, plates, portraits, and facsimiles. This set does not include page markers. Both buckram first edition sets sold for $100. Another set almost identical to the limited-quantity green buckram sets, is also in green buckram and has "Alumni Edition" on the spine. This set was sold for many years and was limited to 10,000 printings. These second print runs of this set are almost identical to the first editions except the pastedown papers have much more faint printings, the limited edition page shows the editions as "Edition De Luxe," and watermarked "Eliot" pages are not included.
In 1910, Collier began printing The Harvard Classics in a limited quantity set called the Renaissance edition. This beautifully bound set includes 10 different bindings consisting of reproductions of the artistic bindings of Royal Monarchs of Europe from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Collier also began printing the National (1910) and Popular (1912) editions with lower price points in an effort, claimed by Collier in many advertisements, to honor the wishes of Eliot that The Harvard Classics are priced within everybody's reach. An extremely popular crimson-colored silk cloth set similar to the look of the De Luxe Morocco edition began printing in 1914 and was called the Cambridge edition. Variations of the Cambridge edition were printed for over a decade in cloth over hardboards and later (after 1919) in an imitation leather binding material called fabrikoid.
In 1919 Collier announced a new binding material for The Harvard Classic sets with the printing of a new set called the Southwark edition (in flexible dark green fabrikoid or imitation leather). The first set of the Southwark edition was printed in July 1919 and given to the Du Pont
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company. The set carries an inscription "This is the first set of Harvard Classics published by P.F. Collier & Son Company to be bound in DuPont Fabrikoid...". The set was named after the birthplace of one of the founders of Harvard College, John Harvard, who was born in London Borough of Southwark. The set is often referred to as the "Veritas" edition; however, the "Veritas" edition is bound in a dark crimson color promoted by DuPont. The new binding material, called fabrikoid, offered less weight, flexible boards, and bindings that were more durable than the cloth or leather bindings of the early editions. Fabrikoid bindings were used in editions published from the 1920s to 1950's such as the varicolored Gemston edition which has five different colors of bindings and for larger editions with increased font sizes called the (home) Library editions that were marketed as being easier to read.
The "Eliot Foundation of Adult Education" set, which appears to have been first printed around 1932 (based on included educational materials dated 1932 and later), is a rare numbered set bound in dark blue pebbled cloth. This set has gold gilt lettering with a profile of Eliot on the spine. The set was the focus of a set of materials for adult education with syllabi, instructions for study, and classroom discussions points. The set has an embossed symbol used in many of the education materials developed by the Eliot Foundation on the front board with ''Versitas Scientia Humanitas'' (trans. trust, knowledge, and culture). The number of printings of this rare set is unknown. Later editions (with names such as Gemstone, Deluxe Registered, Veritas, Home Library, and Great Literature editions) were not quite as unique as price points were further lowered to make the Harvard Classics more affordable. These later editions were printed in various sizes and binding materials such as cloth, fabrikoid, bonded leather, and even later in various types of imitation and genuine leather often printed to imitate earlier editions.
P.F. Collier & Son printed the 50th edition (that is, different set) of The Harvard Classics in 1956. Owners and prospective buyers of The Harvard Classics editions are often interested in the printing year of a particular edition. As mentioned before, not even the first editions were fully printed in 1909. First editions were printed in 1909 and 1910, and all subsequent editions were printed in 1910 or later. A printer's key could be used to describe the print run, but these were not used in the U.S. until the middle of the twentieth century. Copyright dates for book reprints are unlikely to identify the year of printing excepts for first four editions. For The Harvard Classics series, copyright pages of The Harvard Classics have no information about the printing year (or run) until 1956 when the publisher began including information about the year of the print run.
Collier's renewed the copyrights for The Harvard Classics 28 years after filing the first copyrights for The Harvard Classics (as was customary at the time, as it offered some legal advantages) in 1936 and 1937. Coliier's again renewed the copyrights in 1956 and 1959, and several times in the sixties as editions were printed in different page sizes and fonts (resulting is different pagination than described in initial copyright filings) and because some editions were printed and sold with fewer than 50 volumes. In sum, copyright dates of The Harvard Classics editions offer misleading information about the printing date or printing year after the first editions were printed in 1909 and 1910. For example, print runs following the publications of the first editions and until 1937 include copyrights dates of 1909 or 1910 although the printing year could be over 20 years later (or more).
Some clues about the printing history can help identify the print run year. For example, the inclusion of the "Lectures" began in 1914. Additionally, the "Editor's Introduction" in volume 50 includes a second "Editor's Introduction" that is dated in 1917. Fabrikoid was first used as binding for The Harvard Classics in 1919. Lastly, the publishing company marketed a larger size of books with the Home Library edition. This set of The Harvard Classics and subsequent editions are 15 percent larger than previous editions. None of these clues allow for an exact printing year, but each can be used to establish that the printing could not have occurred before a certain year, and of course, the printing cannot have occurred before the most recent copyright date.
The last edition of The Harvard Classics printed by P.F. Collier & Son (then a subsidiary of Crowell Collier & Macmillan, Inc.) was the 63rd printing in 1970 of a 22-volume called the "Great Literature Edition" in green fibrated (essentially bonded) leather with 22K decor that sold for $3.78 per volume ($1 each for the first three volumes). The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint in 1972 against Crowell Collier for deceptive selling practices of The Harvard Classics. In a statement responding to the complaint, Crowell Collier stated that it no longer sells The Harvard Classics. On March 24, 1973, the FTC provisionally accepted a consent order from Crowell Collier (now called Crowell, Collier and MacMillan, Inc.) that the publisher would stop trying to sell The Harvard Classics in one bulk shipment. The publisher ended the subscription plan used since 1909 and stated that it had no plans to sell The Harvard Classics one book at a time.
Enduring success
As Adam Kirsch, writing for ''Harvard'' magazine in 2001, notes, "It is surprisingly easy, even today, to find a complete set of the Harvard Classics in good condition. At least one is usually for sale on eBay, the Internet auction site, for $300 or so, a bargain at $6 a book. The supply, from attics or private libraries around the country, seems endless — a tribute to the success of the publisher, P.F. Collier, who sold some 350,000 sets within 20 years of the series' initial publication". Eliot and Neilson concluded that the 50 volumes were "so far as possible, entire works or complete segments of the world's written legacies" for English speaking readers.Similar compendia
* The concept of education through systematic reading of seminal works themselves (rather than textbooks) was carried on by John Erskine atColumbia University
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, and in the 1930s Mortimer Adler and Robert Hutchins at the University of Chicago carried this idea further with the concepts of education through study of the " great books" and "great ideas" of Western civilization. This led to the publication in 1952 of '' Great Books of the Western World'', which is still in print and actively marketed. In 1937, under Stringfellow Barr
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, St. John's College introduced a curriculum based on the direct study of "great books". These sets are popular today with those interested in homeschooling.
* '' Gateway to the Great Books'' was designed as an introduction to the ''Great Books of the Western World'', published by the same organization and editors in 1952.
* ''Palgrave's The Golden Treasury
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'' is a popular anthology of English poetry, originally selected for publication by Francis Turner Palgrave in 1861.
* '' The Oxford Book of English Verse'' is an anthology of English poetry that had a very substantial influence on popular taste and perception of poetry for at least a generation.
* The ''Loeb Classical Library
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'' is a series of books, today published by Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience.
* '' Sacred Books of the East'' is a 50-volume set of English translations of Asian religious writings published by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. It incorporates the essential sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam.
* The Delphian Society
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created the 10 Volume ''Delphian Course of Reading''—with the Harvard Classics editor Eliot in mind—for young and developing minds.
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.
* The Thinker's Library is a selection of essays, literature, and extracts from greater works by various classical and contemporary humanists and rationalists, continuing in the tradition of the Renaissance that were published between 1929 and 1951 for the Rationalist Press Association by Watts & Co., London, a company founded by Charles Albert Watts.
Contents
Vol. 1–10
Vol. 1: Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn
* ''His Autobiography
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'', by Benjamin Franklin
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* ''The Journal of John Woolman
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'', by John Woolman (1774 and subsequent editions)
* '' Fruits of Solitude'', by William Penn
Vol. 2. Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
* '' The Apology'', ''Crito
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'', and '' Phaedo'', by Plato
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* ''The Golden Sayings'', by Epictetus
* '' The Meditations'', by Marcus Aurelius
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Vol. 3. Bacon, Milton's Prose, Thomas Browne
* '' Essays, Civil and Moral'', and '' New Atlantis'', byFrancis Bacon
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* '' Areopagitica'' and '' Tractate of Education'', by John Milton
* '' Religio Medici'', by Sir Thomas Browne
Vol. 4. Complete Poems in English, Milton
* Complete poems written in English, by John MiltonVol. 5. Essays and English Traits, Emerson
* Essays and ''English Traits
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'', by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Vol. 6. Poems and Songs, Burns
* Poems and songs, byRobert Burns
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Vol. 7. The Confessions of St. Augustine, The Imitation of Christ
* '' The Confessions'', by Saint Augustine'' * '' The Imitation of Christ'', by Thomas á KempisVol. 8. Nine Greek Dramas
* ''Agamemnon
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'', '' The Libation Bearers'', '' The Furies'', and '' Prometheus Bound'', by Aeschylus
* '' Oedipus the King'' and '' Antigone'', by Sophocles
* '' Hippolytus'' and '' The Bacchae'', by Euripides
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* '' The Frogs'', by Aristophanes
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Vol. 9. Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny
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'', '' On Old Age'', and Letters, by Cicero
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* Letters, by Pliny the Younger
Vol. 10. Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
* '' The Wealth of Nations'', by Adam SmithVol. 11–20
Vol. 11. Origin of Species, Darwin
* '' The Origin of Species'', byCharles Darwin
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Vol. 12. Plutarch's Lives
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Vol. 13. Aeneid, Virgil
* ''Aeneid
The ''Aeneid'' ( ; la, Aenē̆is or ) is a Latin Epic poetry, epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Troy, Trojan who fled the Trojan_War#Sack_of_Troy, fall of Troy and travelled to ...
'', by Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (; traditional dates 15 October 7021 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: t ...
Vol. 14. Don Quixote, Part 1, Cervantes
* ''Don Quixote
is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, its full title is ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'' or, in Spanish, (changing in Part 2 to ). A founding work of Wester ...
'', part 1, by Miguel de Cervantes
Vol. 15. Bunyan & Walton
* '' The Pilgrim's Progress'', by John Bunyan * ''The Lives of Donne and Herbert'', byIzaak Walton
Izaak Walton (baptised 21 September 1593 – 15 December 1683) was an English writer. Best known as the author of ''The Compleat Angler'', he also wrote a number of short biographies including one of his friend John Donne. They have been colle ...
Vol. 16. The Thousand and One Nights
* Stories from the ''Thousand and One Nights
''One Thousand and One Nights'' ( ar, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, italic=yes, ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the ''Arabian ...
'', translated by Edward William Lane, revised by Stanley Lane-Poole
Stanley Edward Lane-Poole (18 December 1854 – 29 December 1931) was a British orientalist and archaeologist. Poole was from a famous orientalist family as his paternal grandmother Sophia Lane Poole, uncle Reginald Stuart Poole and great-uncle E ...
Vol. 17. Folk-Lore and Fable, Aesop, Grimm, Andersen
*Fables
Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse (poetry), verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphized, and that illustrat ...
, by Aesop
Aesop ( or ; , ; c. 620–564 BCE) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as ''Aesop's Fables''. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales cre ...
* '' Children's and Household Tales'', by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Brothers Grimm ( or ), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the ...
* Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.
Andersen's fairy tales, consist ...
Vol. 18. Modern English Drama
* '' All for Love'', by John Dryden * '' The School for Scandal'', by Richard Brinsley Sheridan * '' She Stoops to Conquer'', by Oliver Goldsmith * '' The Cenci'', by Percy Bysshe Shelley * ''A Blot in the 'Scutcheon'', by Robert Browning * ''Manfred
''Manfred: A dramatic poem'' is a closet drama written in 1816–1817 by Lord Byron. It contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. It is a typical example of a Gothic fiction.
Byr ...
'', by Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and Peerage of the United Kingdom, peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and h ...
Vol. 19. Faust, Egmont, etc., Goethe, Doctor Faustus, Marlowe
* ''Faust'', part 1, ''Egmont Egmont may refer to:
* Egmont Group, a media corporation founded and rooted in Copenhagen, Denmark
* Egmond family (often spelled "Egmont"), an influential Dutch family, lords of the town of Egmond
** Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522–1568), the bes ...
'', and ''Hermann and Dorothea
''Hermann and Dorothea'' is an epic poem, an idyll, written by German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe between 1796 and 1797, and was to some extent suggested by Johann Heinrich Voss's ''Luise'', an idyll in hexameters, which was first publishe ...
'', by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
* '' Dr. Faustus'', by Christopher Marlowe
Vol. 20. The Divine Comedy, Dante
* '' The Divine Comedy'', by Dante AlighieriVol. 21–30
Vol. 21. I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni
* '' I Promessi Sposi'', byAlessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (, , ; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. He is famous for the novel '' The Betrothed'' (orig. it, I promessi sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the maste ...
Vol. 22. The Odyssey, Homer
* '' The Odyssey'', byHomer
Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the '' Iliad'' and the '' Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of ...
Vol. 23. Two Years Before the Mast, Dana
* '' Two Years Before the Mast'', byRichard Henry Dana, Jr.
Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir ''Two Years Before the Mast''. ...
Vol. 24. On the Sublime, French Revolution, etc., Burke
* '' On Taste'', ''On the Sublime and Beautiful
''A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful'' is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. It was the first complete philosophical exposition for separating the beautiful and the sublime into th ...
'', '' Reflections on the French Revolution'', and '' A Letter to a Noble Lord'', by Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (; 12 January New Style">NS/nowiki> 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish people">Anglo-Irish Politician">statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of Parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 ...
Vol. 25. J.S. Mill and Thomas Carlyle
* Autobiography and '' On Liberty'', by John Stuart Mill * ''Characteristics'', ''Inaugural Address at Edinburgh'', and ''Sir Walter Scott'', by Thomas CarlyleVol. 26. Continental Drama
* '' Life is a Dream'', by Pedro Calderón de la Barca * ''Polyeucte
''Polyeucte'' is a drama in five acts by French writer Pierre Corneille. It was finished in December 1642 and debuted in October 1643. It is based on the life of the martyr Saint Polyeuctus (Polyeucte).Pierre Corneille
* ''
Phèdre
''Phèdre'' (; originally ''Phèdre et Hippolyte'') is a French dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.
Composition and premiere
Wi ...
'', by Jean Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ) (; 22 December 163921 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradit ...
* '' Tartuffe'', by Molière
* '' Minna von Barnhelm'', by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
* '' William Tell'', by Friedrich von Schiller
Vol. 27. English Essays, Sidney to Macaulay
*''The Defense Of Poesy'' by Sir Philip Sidney *''On Shakespeare'' by Ben Jonson *''On Bacon'' by Ben Jonson *''Of Agriculture'' by Abraham Cowley *''The Vision of Mirza'' by Joseph Addison *''Westminster Abbey'' by Joseph Addison *''The Spectator Club'' by Sir Richard Steele *''Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation'' by Jonathan Swift *''A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding'' by Jonathan Swift *''A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet'' by Jonathan Swift *''On the Death of Esther Johnson tella' by Jonathan Swift *''The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters'' by Daniel Defoe *''The Education of Women'' by Daniel Defoe *''Life of Addison, 1672-1719'' by Samuel Johnson *''Of the Standard of Taste'' by David Hume *''Fallacies of Anti-Reformers'' by Sydney Smith *''On Poesy or Art'' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge *''Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen'' by William Hazlitt *''Deaths of Little Children'' by Leigh Hunt *''On the Realities of Imagination'' by Leigh Hunt *''On the Tragedies of Shakspere'' by Charles Lamb *''Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow'' by Thomas De Quincey *''A Defence of Poetry'' by Percy Bysshe Shelley *''Machiavelli'' by Thomas Babington MacaulaVol. 28. Essays, English and American
*William Makepeace Thackery :*''Jonathan Swift'' *John Henry Newman :*''The Idea Of A University'' *Matthew Arnold :*''The Study Of Poetry'' *John Ruskin :*''Sesame And Lilies'' *Walter Bagehot :*''John Milton'' *Thomas Henry Huxley :*''Science And Culture'' *Edward Augustus Freeman :*''Race And Language'' *Robert Louis Stevenson :*''Truth Of Intercourse'' :*''Samuel Pepys'' *William Ellery Channing :*''On The Elevation Of The Laboring Classes'' *Edgar Allan Poe :*''The Poetic Principle'' *Henry David Thoreau :*''Walking'' *James Russell Lowell :*''Abraham Lincoln'' :*''Democracy''Vol. 29. Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin
* '' The Voyage of the Beagle'', byCharles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English natural history#Before 1900, naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all speci ...
Vol. 30. Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, etc.
* ''The Forces of Matter'' and ''The Chemical History of a Candle'', byMichael Faraday
Michael Faraday (; 22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic inductio ...
* ''On the Conservation of Force'' and ''Ice and Glaciers'', by Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894) was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability. The Helmholtz Associatio ...
* ''The Wave Theory of Light'' and ''The Tides'', by Lord Kelvin
* ''The Extent of the Universe'', by Simon Newcomb
* ''Geographical Evolution'', by Sir Archibald Geikie
Sir Archibald Geikie (28 December 183510 November 1924) was a Scottish geologist and writer.
Early life
Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835, the eldest son of Isabella Thom and her husband James Stuart Geikie, a musician and music critic. T ...
Vol. 31–40
Vol. 31. Autobiography, Cellini
* ''The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini''Vol. 32. Montaigne, Sainte-Beuve, Renan, etc.
* Essays, byMichel Eyquem de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem, Sieur de Montaigne ( ; ; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), also known as the Lord of Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a li ...
* ''Montaigne'' and ''What is a Classic?'', by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
* '' The Poetry of the Celtic Races'', by Ernest Renan
* '' The Education of the Human Race'', by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
* '' Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man'', by Friedrich von Schiller
* ''Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
''Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals'' (1785; german: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten; also known as the ''Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals'', ''Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals'', and the ''Grounding for the Metaphysics o ...
'', by Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aes ...
* ''Byron and Goethe
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the ...
'', by Giuseppe Mazzini
Vol. 33. Voyages and Travels
* An account of Egypt from '' The Histories'', byHerodotus
Herodotus ( ; grc, , }; BC) was an ancient Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria ( Italy). He is known for ...
* ''Germany'', by Tacitus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars.
The surviving portions of his two major works—the ...
* ''Sir Francis Drake Revived'', by Philip Nichols
* ''Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World'', by Francis Pretty
* ''Drake's Great Armada'', by Captain Walter Bigges
Walter may refer to:
People
* Walter (name), both a surname and a given name
* Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968)
* Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 19 ...
* ''Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland'', by Edward Haies
* ''The Discovery of Guiana'', by Sir Walter Raleigh
Vol. 34. Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes
* '' Discourse on Method'', byRené Descartes
René Descartes ( or ; ; Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Mathe ...
* '' Letters on the English'', by Voltaire
* '' On the Inequality among Mankind'' and '' Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar'', by Jean Jacques Rousseau
* '' Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan'', by Thomas Hobbes
Vol. 35. Froissart, Malory, Holinshead
* '' Chronicles'', by Jean Froissart * '' The Holy Grail'', by Sir Thomas Malory * ''A Description of Elizabethan England
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes'' ...
'', by William Harrison
Vol. 36. Machiavelli, More, Luther
* '' The Prince'', by Niccolò Machiavelli * ''The Life of Sir Thomas More
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in En ...
'', by William Roper
William Roper ( – 4 January 1578) was an English lawyer and member of Parliament. The son of a Kentish gentleman, he married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas More. He wrote a highly regarded biography of his father-in-law.
Life
William Roper ...
* '' Utopia'', by Sir Thomas More
* '' The Ninety-Five Theses'', '' To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation'', and '' On the Freedom of a Christian'', by Martin Luther
Martin Luther (; ; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, and professor, and Augustinian friar. He is the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation and the namesake of Luther ...
Vol. 37. Locke, Berkeley, Hume
* '' Some Thoughts Concerning Education'', by John Locke * '' Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists'', by George Berkeley * '' An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'', by David HumeVol. 38. Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur
* The Oath of Hippocrates * '' Journeys in Diverse Places'', by Ambroise Paré * '' On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals'', by William Harvey * '' The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox'', by Edward Jenner * '' The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever'', by Oliver Wendell Holmes * '' On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery'', by Joseph Lister * Scientific papers, by Louis Pasteur * Scientific papers, by Charles LyellVol. 39. Famous Prefaces
*"Title, Prologue and Epilogues to the ''Recuyell of the Histories of Troy''", by William Caxton *"Epilogue to ''Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers''", by William Caxton *"Prologue to ''Golden Legend''", by William Caxton *"Prologue to Caton", by William Caxton *"Epilogue to Aesop", by William Caxton *"Proem to Chaucer's ''Canterbury Tales''", by William Caxton *"Prologue to Malory's ''King Arthur''", by William Caxton *"Prologue to Virgil's'' Eneydos''", by William Caxton *"Dedication of the ''Institutes of the Christian Religion''" byJohn Calvin
John Calvin (; frm, Jehan Cauvin; french: link=no, Jean Calvin ; 10 July 150927 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system ...
*"Dedication of the ''Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies''" by Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (; pl, Mikołaj Kopernik; gml, Niklas Koppernigk, german: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulat ...
*"Preface to the ''History of the Reformation in Scotland''", by John Knox
*"Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on ''The Faerie Queene''", by Edmund Spenser
*"Preface to the ''History of the World''" by Sir Walter Raleigh
*"Prooemium, Epistle Dedicatory, Preface, and Plan of the Instauratio Magna, ''etc.''", by Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Bacon led the advancement of both ...
*"Preface to the ''Novum Organum''", by Francis Bacon
*"Preface to the ''First Folio Edition'' of Shakespeare's Plays" by Heminge and Condell
*"Preface to the ''Philosophiae Naturalis Pricipia Mathematica''", by Sir Isaac Newton
*"Preface to ''Fables, Ancient and Modern''", by John Dryden
*"Preface to ''Joseph Andrews''", by Henry Fielding
*"Preface to the ''English Dictionary''", by Samuel Johnson
*"Preface to Shakespeare", by Samuel Johnson
*"Introduction to the ''Propylaen''", by J.W. von Goethe
*"Prefaces to Various Volumes of Poems", by William Wordsworth
*"Appendix to ''Lyrical Ballads''", by William Wordsworth
*"Essay Supplementary to Preface", by William Wordsworth
*"Preface to ''Cromwell''", by Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...
*"Preface to ''Leaves of Grass''", by Walt Whitman
*"Introduction to the ''History of English Literature''", by H.A. Taine
Vol. 40. English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray
* Geoffrey Chaucer ** " The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales" ** '' The Nun's Priest's Tale'' *Traditional Ballads ** "The Douglas Tragedy" ** " The Twa Sisters" ** " Edward" ** " Babylon; or, The Bonnie Banks o Fordie" ** " Hind Horn" ** " Lord Thomas and Fair Annet" ** "Love Gregor" ** "Bonny Barbara Allan
"Barbara Allen" (Child 84, Roud 54) is a traditional folk song that is popular throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. It tells of how the eponymous character denies a dying man's love, then dies of grief soon after his untimely death ...
"
** " The Gay Goss-Hawk"
** " The Three Ravens"
** " The Twa Corbies"
** " Sir Patrick Spence"
** " Thomas Rymer and the Queen of Elfland"
** " Sweet William's Ghost"
** " The Wife of Usher's Well"
** "Hugh of Lincoln"
** "Young Bicham"
** " Get Up and Bar the Door"
** "The Battle of Otterburn
The Battle of Otterburn took place according to Scottish sources on 5 August 1388, or 19 August according to English sources, as part of the continuing border skirmishes between the Scots and English.
The best remaining record of the bat ...
"
** " Chevy Chase"
** " Johnie Armstrong"
** "Captain Car
Edom o Gordon or Captain Car (Child #178, Roud #80) is a traditional Scottish ballad that exists in several versions. The ballad recounts the gruesome events of Gordon's (or, in some versions, Car's) burning down of his enemy's castle that killed t ...
"
** "The Bonny Earl of Murray
"The Bonnie Earl o' Moray" (Child 181,''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'', Edited by Francis James Child in Five Volumes, Dover Publications, Minneola, New York, 2006. Roud 334) is a popular Scottish ballad, which may date from as early ...
"
** "Kinmont Willie
William Armstrong of Kinmont or Kinmont Willie was a Scottish border reiver and outlaw active in the Anglo-Scottish Border country in the last decades of the 16th century.
He lived at the Tower of Sark, close to the border between Scotland an ...
"
** " Bonnie George Campbell"
** "The Dowy Houms o Yarrow"
** " Mary Hamilton"
** "The Baron of Brackley"
** "Bewick and Grahame"
** "A Gest of Robyn Hode
''A Gest of Robyn Hode'' (also known as ''A Lyttell Geste of Robyn Hode'', and hereafter referred to as ''Gest'') is one of the earliest surviving texts of the Robin Hood tales. ''Gest'' (which meant tale or adventure) is a compilation of vari ...
"
*Anonymous
** "Balow"
** "The Old Cloak"
** "Jolly Good Ale and Old"
*Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sir Thomas Wyatt (150311 October 1542) was a 16th-century English politician, ambassador, and lyric poet credited with introducing the sonnet to English literature. He was born at Allington Castle near Maidstone in Kent, though the family wa ...
** "A Supplication"
** "The Lover's Appeal"
* Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
** "Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover"
** "The Means to Attain Happy Life"
*George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne (c. 15357 October 1577) was an English poet, soldier and unsuccessful courtier. He is considered the most important poet of the early Elizabethan era, following Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and leading to ...
** "A Lover's Lullaby"
* Nicholas Breton
** "Phillida and Coridon"
*Anonymous
** "A Sweet Lullaby"
**"Preparations"
** "The Unfaithful Shepherdess"
* Anthony Munday
** "Beauty Bathing
*Richard Edwardes
Richard Edwardes (also Edwards, 25 March 1525 – 31 October 1566) was an English poet, playwright, and composer; he was made a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and was master of the singing boys. He was known for his comedies and interludes. He ...
** "Amantium Irae"
* Sir Walter Raleigh
** "His Pilgrimage"
** " The Lie"
** "Verses"
** "What Is Our Life"
* Sir Edward Dyer
** "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
* John Lyly
** "Cupid and Campaspe"
** "Spring's Welcome"
* Sir Philip Sidney
** "Song"
** "A Dirge"
** "A Ditty"
** "Loving in Truth"
** "Be Your Words Made, Good Sir, of Indian Ware"
** "To Sleep"
** "To the Moon"
*Thomas Lodge
** "Rosalind's Madrigal"
** "Rosaline"
** "Phillis"
* George Peele
** "Paris and none"
* Robert Southwell
** "The Burning Babe"
* Samuel Daniel
** "Beauty, Time, and Love Sonnets"
** "To Sleep"
* Michael Drayton
** "Agincourt"
** "To the Virginian Voyage"
** "Love's Farewell"
* Henry Constable
** "Diaphenia"
* Edmund Spenser
** '' Prothalamion''
** '' Epithalamion''
** "A Ditty"
** "Perigot and Willie's Roundelay"
** "Easter"
** "What Guile Is This?"
** "Fair Is My Love"
** "So Oft as I Her Beauty do Behold"
** "Rudely Thou Wrongest My Dear Heart's Desire"
** "Like as the Culver, on the Bared Bough"
* William Habington
** "To Roses in the Bosom of Castara"
** "Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam"
* Christopher Marlowe
** " The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
** " Her Reply" (Written by Sir Walter Raleigh)
*Richard Rowlands
** "Our Blessed Lady's Lullaby"
* Thomas Nashe
** "In Time of Pestilence"
** "Spring"
*William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
** "Winter"
** "O Mistress Mine"
** "Fancy"
** "Under the Greenwood Tree"
** "A Lover and His Lass"
** "Silvia"
** "Spring"
** "Lullaby"
** "Ophelia's Song"
** "Where the Bee Sucks"
** "Take, O Take"
** "A Madrigal"
** "Amiens' Song"
** "Dawn Song"
** "Dirge of Love"
** "Fidele's Dirge"
** Sonnets 18, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 54, 55, 57, 60, 64, 65, 66, 71, 73, 87, 90, 94, 97, 98, 104 104 may refer to:
*104 (number), a natural number
*AD 104, a year in the 2nd century AD
* 104 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC
* 104 (MBTA bus), Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus route
*Hundred and Four (or Council of 104), a Carthagini ...
, 106 106 may refer to:
*106 (number), the number
*AD 106, a year in the 2nd century AD
*106 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC
*106 (emergency telephone number), an Australian emergency number
*106 (MBTA bus), a route of the Massachusetts Bay Transportatio ...
, 107 107 may refer to:
*107 (number), the number
*AD 107, a year in the 2nd century AD
*107 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC
*107 (New Jersey bus)
See also
*10/7 (disambiguation)
*Bohrium
Bohrium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Bh a ...
, 109 109 may refer to:
* 109 (number), the integer following 108 and preceding 110
* AD 109, a year of the Julian calendar, in the second century AD
* 109 BC, a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar
* 109 (department store), a department store in Shib ...
, 110, 111 111 may refer to:
*111 (number)
*111 BC
*AD 111
*111 (emergency telephone number)
*111 (Australian TV channel)
* Swissair Flight 111
* ''111'' (Her Majesty & the Wolves album)
* ''111'' (Željko Joksimović album)
* NHS 111
*(111) a Miller index fo ...
, 116, 129, 146, 148 148 may refer to:
*148 (number), a natural number
* AD 148, a year in the 2nd century AD
*148 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC
*148 (album), an album by C418
*148 (Meiktila) Battery Royal Artillery
*148 (New Jersey bus)
See also
* List of highway ...
.
* Robert Greene
** "Content"
* Richard Barnfield
** "The Nightingale"
* Thomas Campion
** "Cherry-ripe"
** "Follow your Saint"
** "When to Her Lute Corinna Sings"
** "Follow thy Fair Sun"
** "Turn All thy Thoughts to Eyes"
** "Integer Vitae"
*Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, KG, PC (; 10 November 1565 – 25 February 1601) was an English nobleman and a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Politically ambitious, and a committed general, he was placed under house arrest following ...
** "A Passion of my Lord of Essex"
* Sir Henry Wotton
** "Elizabeth of Bohemia"
** "Character of a Happy Life"
* Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
** "A Renunciation"
* Ben Jonson
** "Simplex Munditiis"
** "The Triumph"
** "The Noble Nature"
** " To Celia"
** "A Farewell to the World"
** "A Nymph's Passion"
** "Epode"
** "Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H."
** "On Lucy, Countess of Bedford"
** "An Ode to Himself"
** "Hymn to Diana"
** "On Salathiel Pavy"
** "His Supposed Mistress"
** "To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare and What He Hath Left Us"
* John Donne
** "The Funeral"
** " A Hymn to God the Father"
** " Valediction, Forbidding Mourning"
** "Death
Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain ...
"
** "The Dream
A dream is an experience during sleep.
Dream, The Dream, Dreams, etc. may also refer to:
Art
Paintings
* ''Le Rêve'' (Detaille), an 1888 painting by Édouard Detaille
* ''Le Rêve'' (Picasso) (''The Dream'' in French), 1932 oil painting by ...
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** "Song"
** "Sweetest Love, I do not Go"
** "Lover's Infiniteness"
** "Love's Deity"
** "Stay, O Sweet"
** "The Blossom"
** " The Good Morrow"
** "Present in Absence"
* Joshua Sylvester
** "Love's Omnipresence"
*William Alexander, Earl of Stirling
William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling (c. 1567 in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire12 February 1640) was a Scottish courtier and poet who was involved in the Scottish colonisation of Charles Fort, later Port-Royal, Nova Scotia in 1629 and Long Isl ...
** "To Aurora"
*Richard Corbet
Bishop Richard Corbet (or Corbett) (158228 July 1635) was an English clergyman who rose to be a bishop in the Church of England. He is also remembered as a humorist and as a poet, although his work was not published until after his death.
Lif ...
** "Farewell, Rewards and Fairies"
*Thomas Heywood
** "Pack, Clouds, Away"
*Thomas Dekker
** "Country Glee"
** "Cold's the Wind"
** "O Sweet Content"
* Francis Beaumont
** "On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey"
** "Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson"
* John Fletcher
** "Aspatia's Song"
** "Melancholy"
* John Webster
** "Call for the Robin-Redbreast"
*Anonymous
** " O Waly, Waly"
** " Helen of Kirconnell"
** "My Love in Her Attire"
** "Love Not Me"
* William Drummond
** "Saint John Baptist"
** "Madrigal"
** "Life"
** "Human Folly"
** "The Problem"
** "To His Lute"
** "For the Magdalene"
** "Content and Resolute"
** "Alexis, Here She Stayed; Among These Pines"
** "Summons to Love"
* George Wither
** "I Loved a Lass"
** "The Lover's Resolution"
* William Browne (?)
** "On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke"
* Robert Herrick
** " Cherry-Ripe"
** "A Child's Grace"
** "The Mad Maid's Song"
** " To the Virgins"
** "To Dianeme"
** "A Sweet Disorder"
** "Whenas in Silks"
** "To Anthea who may Command Him Any Thing"
** "To Daffodils"
** "To Blossoms"
** "Corinna's Maying"
* Francis Quarles
** "An Ecstasy"
* George Herbert
** "Love"
** "Virtue"
** "The Elixir"
** "The Collar"
** "The Flower"
** "Easter Song"
** "The Pulley"
* Henry Vaughan
** "Beyond the Veil"
** "The Retreat"
* Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban
** "Life"
* James Shirley
** "The Glories of our Blood and State"
** "The Last Conqueror"
* Thomas Carew
** "The True Beauty"
** "Ask Me No More"
** "Know, Celia"
** "Give Me More Love"
* Sir John Suckling
** "The Constant Lover"
** "Why So Pale and Wan"
*Sir William D'Avenant
Sir William Davenant (baptised 3 March 1606 – 7 April 1668), also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned bot ...
** "Dawn Song"
* Richard Lovelace
** " To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars"
** " To Althea from Prison"
** "To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas"
*Edmund Waller
Edmund Waller, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (3 March 1606 – 21 October 1687) was an English poet and politician who was Member of Parliament for various constituencies between 1624 and 1687, and one of the longest serving members of the E ...
** "On a Girdle"
** "Go, Lovely Rose!"
* William Cartwright
** "On the Queen's Return from the Low Countries"
*James Graham, Marquis of Montrose
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612 – 21 May 1650) was a Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier, Lord Lieutenant, lord lieutenant and later viceroy and captain general of Scotland. Montrose initially joined the Covenanters in the Wa ...
** "My Dear and Only Love"
* Richard Crashaw
** "Wishes for the Supposed Mistress"
** "Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa"
* Thomas Jordan
** "Let Us Drink and Be Merry"
* Abraham Cowley
** "A Supplication"
** "Cheer Up, My Mates"
** "Drinking"
** "On the Death of Mr. William Hervey"
*Alexander Brome
Alexander Brome (1620 – 30 June 1666) was an English poet.
Life
Brome was by profession an attorney, and was the author of many drinking songs and of satirical verses in favour of the Royalists and in opposition to the Rump Parliament. In 166 ...
** "The Resolve"
* Andrew Marvell
** "A Garden"
** "The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers"
** "Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
** "Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda"
** " Thoughts in a Garden"
*Anonymous
** "Love Will Find Out the Way"
** "Phillada Flouts Me"
* Earl of Rochester
** "Epitaph on Charles II"
* Sir Charles Sedley
** "Chloris"
** "Celia"
* John Dryden
** "Ode"
** "Song to a Fair Young Lady, Going Out of the Town in the Spring"
** "Song for St. Cecilia's Day"
** "Alexander's Feast Alexander's Feast may refer to:
* Alexander's Feast (Dryden)
* Alexander's Feast (Handel)
''Alexander's Feast'' ( HWV 75) is an ode with music by George Frideric Handel set to a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton. Hamilton adapted his libretto from Jo ...
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** "On Milton"
* Matthew Prior
** "To a Child of Quality"
** "Cloe"
** "The Dying Adrian to His Soul"
** "Epigram"
* Isaac Watts
** "True Greatness"
* Lady Grisel Baillie
** "Werena My Heart Licht I Wad Dee"
* Joseph Addison
** "Hymn"
*Allan Ramsay Allan Ramsay may refer to:
*Allan Ramsay (poet) or Allan Ramsay the Elder (1686–1758), Scottish poet
*Allan Ramsay (artist) or Allan Ramsay the Younger (1713–1784), Scottish portrait painter
*Allan Ramsay (diplomat) (1937–2022), British diplom ...
** "Peggy"
* John Gay
** "Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing"
** "Black-Eyed Susan"
* Henry Carey
** "Sally in our Alley"
*Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, ...
** " Solitude"
** "On a Certain Lady at Court"
** '' An Essay on Man''
* Ambrose Philips
** "To Charlotte Pulteney"
* Colley Cibber
** "The Blind Boy"
* James Thomson
** " Rule, Britannia"
** "To Fortune"
* Thomas Gray
** '' Elegy''
** "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"
** "Hymn to Adversity"
** "Ode on the Spring"
** "The Progress of Poesy"
** " The Bard"
** "Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude"
** "On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes"
* George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe
** "Shorten Sail"
Vol. 41–50
Vol. 41. English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald
* William Collins **"Fidele" **"Ode Written in MDCCXLVI" **"The Passions" **"To Evening" * George Sewell **"The Dying Man in His Garden" * Alison Rutherford Cockburn **"The Flowers of the Forest
''Flowers of the Forest'', or ''The Fluuers o the Forest'' ( Roud 3812), is a Scottish folk tune and work of war poetry commemorating the defeat of the Scottish army, and the death of James IV, at the Battle of Flodden in September 1513. Altho ...
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* Jane Elliot
**"Lament for Flodden"
* Christopher Smart
**" A Song to David"
*Anonymous
**"Willy Drowned in Yarrow"
* John Logan
**"The Braes of Yarrow"
* Henry Fielding
**"A Hunting Song"
* Charles Dibdin
**"Tom Bowling"
* Samuel Johnson
**"On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet"
**"A Satire"
* Oliver Goldsmith
**"When Lovely Woman Stoops"
**"Retaliation"
**" The Deserted Village"
**" The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society"
* Robert Graham of Gartmore
**"If Doughty Deeds"
* Adam Austin
**"For Lack of Gold"
* William Cowper
**"Loss of the Royal George"
**"To a Young Lady"
**"The Poplar Field"
**"The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk"
**"To Mary Unwin"
**"To the Same"
**"Boadicea: An Ode"
**"The Castaway"
**"The Shrubbery"
**"On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture Out of Norfolk"
**"The Diverting History of John Gilpin
''The Diverting History of John Gilpin Shewing how he went Farther than he intended, and came safe Home again'' is a comic ballad by William Cowper written in 1782. The ballad concerns a draper called John Gilpin who rides a runaway horse. Cowp ...
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* Richard Brinsley Sheridan
**"Drinking Song"
* Anna Laetitia Barbauld
**"Life"
*Isobel Pagan
Isabel Pagan (c. 1740 – 1821), also known as "Tibbie", was a Scottish poet of the Romantic Era.
Biography
Pagan was born in 1741, about 4 miles from Nith-head in the Parish of New Cumnock, where she lived until 14 years of age. Lame fro ...
**" Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes"
* Lady Anne Lindsay
**" Auld Robin Gray"
* Thomas Chatterton
**"Song from Ælla"
** Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne
**"The Lond o' the Leal"
**"He's Ower the Hills that I Lo'e Weel"
**"The Auld House"
**" The Laird o' Cockpen"
**"The Rowan Tree"
**" Wha'll be King but Charlie?"
**" Charlie Is My Darling"
* Alexander Ross
**"Wooed and Married and A'"
* John Skinner
**"Tullochgorum"
* Michael Bruce
**"To the Cuckoo"
*George Halket
George Halket or Hacket (died 1756), was a Scottish poet and songwriter.
Halket is said by Peter Buchan ("Gleanings of Scotch, English, and Irish Old Ballads") to have been a native of Aberdeenshire. In 1714 he was appointed schoolmaster, prece ...
**"Logie o' Buchan"
* William Hamilton of Bangour
**"The Braes of Yarrow"
* Hector MacNeil
**"I Lo'ed Ne'er a Laddie but Ane"
**"Come Under My Plaidie"
* Sir William Jones
**"An Ode"
**"On Parent Knees a Naked New-born Child"
*Susanna Blamire
Susanna Blamire (12 January 1747 – 1794) was an English Romantic poet, sometimes known as 'The Muse of Cumberland' because many of her poems represent rural life in the county and, therefore, provide a valuable contradistinction to those amon ...
**"And Ye Shall Walk in Silk Attire"
* Anne Hunter
**"My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair"
* John Dunlop
**"The Year, That's Awa'"
* Samuel Rogers
**"A Wish"
**"The Sleeping Beauty"
* William Blake
**"The Tiger"
**" Ah! Sun-flower"
**"To Spring
''To Spring'' is a 1936 animated musical short produced by Harman and Ising for the MGM cartoon studio's ''Happy Harmonies'' series. Although the production credit goes to Harman and Ising this short was actually the first cartoon to be directed ...
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**"Reeds of Innocence"
**"Night
Night (also described as night time, unconventionally spelled as "nite") is the period of ambient darkness from sunset
Sunset, also known as sundown, is the daily disappearance of the Sun below the horizon due to Earth's rotation. As view ...
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**" Auguries of Innocence"
**" Nurse's Song"
**" Holy Thursday"
**" The Divine Image"
**"Song"
*John Collins John Collins may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* John Collins (poet) (1742–1808), English orator, singer, and poet
* John Churton Collins (1848–1908), English literary critic
* John H. Collins (director) (1889–1918), American director an ...
**"To-Morrow"
* Robert Tannahill
**"Jessie, the Flower o' Dunblane"
**"Gloomy Winter's Now Awa'"
* William Wordsworth
**" Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
**" My Heart Leaps Up"
**"The Two April Mornings"
**"The Fountain"
**"Written in March"
**"Nature and the Poet"
**"Ruth: Or the Influence of Nature"
**"A Lesson"
**"Michael"
**"Yarrow Unvisited"
**"Yarrow Visited"
**"Yarrow Revisited"
**" Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
**" The Daffodils"
**"To the Daisy"
**"To the Cuckoo"
**"The Green Linnet"
**"Written in Early Spring"
**"To the Skylark"
**"The Affliction of Margaret"
**"Simon Lee the Old Huntsman"
**"Ode to Duty
Ode to Duty (written in 1805; published in 1807) is a poem (an ode) written by William Wordsworth.
Description
“Ode to Duty” is an appeal to the principle of morality for guidance and support. It represents in a measure a recantation of Words ...
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**"She Was a Phantom of Delight"
**"To the Highland Girl of Inversneyde"
**" The Solitary Reaper"
**"The Reverie of Poor Susan"
**"To Toussaint L'Ouverture"
**"Character of the Happy Warrior"
**" Resolution and Independence"
**" Laodamia"
**" We Are Seven"
**"Lucy"
**"The Inner Vision"
**"By the Sea"
**" Upon Westminster Bridge"
**"To a Distant Friend"
**"Desiseria"
**"We Must Be Free or Die"
**"England and Switzerland"
**"On the Extonction of the Venetian Republic"
**" London, MDCCCII"
**"The Same"
**"When I Have Borne"
**" The World is Too Much With Us"
**"Within King's College Chapel, Cambridge"
**"Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon"
**"Composed at Neidpath Castle, the Property of Lord Queensbury"
**"Admonition to a Traveller"
**"To Sleep"
**"The Sonnet"
* William Lisle Bowles
**"Dover Cliffs"
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge
**'' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''
**" Kubla Khan"
**"Youth and Age"
**"Love"
**"Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"
**'' Christabel''
**"Dejection: an Ode"
* Robert Southey
**" After Blenheim"
**"The Scholar"
* Charles Lamb
**"The Old Familiar Faces"
**"Hester"
**"On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born"
* Sir Walter Scott
**"The Outlaw"
**"To a Lock of Hair"
**"Jock of Hazeldean"
**"Eleu Loro"
**"A Serenade"
**"The Rover"
**"The Maid of Neidpath"
**"Gathering Song of Donald the Black"
**"Border Ballad"
**"The Pride of Youth"
**"Coronach"
**"Lucy Ashton's Song"
**"Answer"
**"Rosabelle"
**"Hunting Song"
**"Lochinvar"
**" Bonny Dundee"
**"Datur Hora Quieti"
**"Here's a Health to King Charles
**"Harp of the North, Farewell!"
* James Hogg
**"Kilmeny"
**"When the Kye Comes Hame"
**"The Skylark"
**" Lock the Door, Lariston"
* Robert Surtees
**"Barthram's Dirge"
* Thomas Campbell
**"The Soldier's Dream"
**"To the Evening Star"
**"Ode to Winter"
**"Lord Ullin's Daughter"
**"The River of Life"
**"To the Evening Star"
**"The Maid of Neidpath"
**"Ye Mariners of England"
**" Battle of the Baltic"
**"Hohenlinden"
*J. Campbell
**"Freedom and Love"
* Allan Cunningham
**"Hame, Hame, Hame"
**"A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea"
* George Gordon, Lord Byron
**"Youth and Age"
**"The Destruction of Sennacherib
"The Destruction of Sennacherib" is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1815 in his ''Hebrew Melodies'' (in which it was titled The Destruction of Semnacherib). The poem is based on the biblical account of the historical Assyrian siege of ...
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**"Elegy on Thyrza"
**"When We Two Parted"
**"For Music"
**" She Walks in Beauty"
**"All for Love"
**"Elegy"
**"To Augusta"
**"Epistle to Augusta"
**"Maid of Athens
"Maid of Athens, ere we part" is a poem by Lord Byron, written in 1810 and dedicated to a young girl of Athens.English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics (1909–1914) It begins:
Each stanza of the poem ends with the ...
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**"Darkness
Darkness, the direct opposite of lightness, is defined as a lack of illumination, an absence of visible light, or a surface that absorbs light, such as black or brown.
Human vision is unable to distinguish colors in conditions of very low ...
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**"Longing"
**" Fare Thee Well"
**'' The Prisoner of Chillon''
**"On the Castle of Chillon"
**"Song of Saul, Before His Last Battle"
**"The Isles of Greece"
**"On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year"
* Thomas Moore
**"The Light of Other Days"
**"Pro Patria Mori"
**"The Meeting of the Waters"
**" The Last Rose of Summer"
**"The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls"
**"A Canadian Boat-Song"
**"The Journey Onwards"
**"The Young May Moon"
**"Echo"
**"At the Mid Hour of Night"
* Charles Wolfe
**"The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna
* Percy Bysshe Shelley
**"Hymn of Pan"
**''Hellas
Hellas may refer to:
Places in Greece
*Ἑλλάς (''Ellás''), genitive Ἑλλάδος (''Elládos''), an ancient Greek toponym used to refer to:
** Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country i ...
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**"Invocation"
**"Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples"
**"I Fear Thy Kisses"
**"Lines to an Indian Air"
**" To a Skylark"
**"Love's Philosophy
"Love's Philosophy" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley published in 1819.
Background
The poem was published by Leigh Hunt in the December 22, 1819 issue of ''The Indicator'' and reprinted in ''Posthumous Poems'' in 1824 edited by Mary Shelley. It ...
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**"To the Night"
**" Ode to the West Wind"
**"Written Among the Euganean Hills, North Italy"
**"Hymn to the Spirit of Nature"
**"A Lament"
**"A Dream of the Unknown"
**"The Invitation"
**"The Recollection"
**"To the Moon"
**"A Widow Bird"
**"To a Lady, with a Guitar"
**"One Word is Too Often Profaned
One Word is Too Often Profaned
ONE word is too often profaned
For me to profane it,
One feeling too falsely disdain'd
For thee to disdain it.
One hope is too like despair
For prudence to smother,
And pity from thee mo ...
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**" Ozymandias of Egypt"
**"The Flight of Love"
**" The Cloud"
**"Stanzas–April, 1814"
**" Music, When Soft Voices Die"
**"The Poet's Dream"
**"The World's Wanderers"
**'' Adonaïs''
* James Henry Leigh Hunt
**"Jenny kiss'd Me
"Jenny kiss'd Me" (original title: ''Rondeau'') is a poem by the English essayist Leigh Hunt. It was first published in November 1838 by the ''Monthly Chronicle''.
The poem — per its original title, a rondeau — was inspired by Jane Welsh, t ...
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**"Abou Ben Adhem"
* John Keats
**"The Realm of Fancy"
**"Ode on the Poets"
**"The Mermaid Tavern"
**"Happy Insensibility"
**" Ode to a Nightingale"
**" Ode on a Grecian Urn"
**"Ode to Autumn
"To Autumn" is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821). The work was composed on 19 September 1819 and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats's poetry that included ''Lamia'' and ''The Eve of St. Agne ...
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**" Ode to Psyche"
**" Ode on Melancholy"
**" The Eve of St. Agnes"
**" La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
**"On the Grasshopper and Cricket"
**" On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
**"To Sleep"
**"The Human Seasons"
**"Great Spirits Now on Earth are Sojourning"
**"The Terror of Death"
**"Last Sonnet"
* Walter Savage Landor
**"Rose Aylmer"
**"Twenty Years Hence"
**"Proud Word You Never Spoke"
**"Absence"
**"Dirce"
**"Corinna to Tanagra, from Athens"
**"Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel"
**"Well I Remember"
**"No, My Own Love"
**"Robert Browning"
**"The Death of Artemidora"
**"Iphigeneia"
**"'Do You Remember Me?'"
**"For an Epitaph at Fiesole"
**"On Lucretia Borgia's Hair"
**"On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday"
**"To My Ninth Decade"
**"Death Stands Above Me"
**"On Living Too Long"
* Thomas Hood
**"Fair Ines"
**"The Bridge of Sighs
The Bridge of Sighs (Italian: ''Ponte dei Sospiri'', vec, Ponte de i Sospiri) is a bridge in Venice, Italy. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone, has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Priso ...
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**"The Death Bed"
**"Past and Present"
* Sir Aubrey de Vere
**"Glengariff"
* Hartley Coleridge
**"She Is Not Fair"
* Joseph Blanco White
**"To Night"
*George Darley
George Darley (1795–1846) was an Irish poet, novelist, literary critic, and author of mathematical texts. Friends with such literary luminaries as Charles Lamb, Thomas Carlyle, and John Clare, he was considered by some to be on a level wi ...
**"The Loveliness of Love"
* Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay
**"The Armada"
**"A Jacobite's Epitaph"
* Sir William Edmondstoune Aytoune
**"The Refusal of Charon"
* Hugh Miller
**"The Babie"
* Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin
**"Lament of the Irish Emigrant"
*Charles Tennyson Turner
Charles Tennyson Turner (4 July 1808 – 25 April 1879) was an English poet.
Born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, he was an elder brother of Alfred Tennyson; his friendship and the "heart union" with his brother is revealed in ''Poems by Two Brothe ...
**"Letty's Globe"
*Sir Samuel Ferguson
Sir Samuel Ferguson (10 March 1810 – 9 August 1886) was an Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant. He was an acclaimed 19th-century Irish poet, and his interest in Irish mythology and early Irish history can be seen ...
**"The Fair Hills of Ireland"
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning
**"A Musical Instrument"
**" Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1-44"
**"The Sleep"
* Edward Fitzgerald
**" Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishápúr"
Vol. 42. English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman
* Alfred, Lord Tennyson **" The Lady of Shalott" **"Sweet and Low" **" Tears, Idle Tears" **"Blow, Bugle Blow" **"Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead" **" Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal" **"O Swallow, Swallow" **" Break, Break, Break" **"In the Valley of Cauteretz" **"Vivien's Song" **"Enid's Song" **" Ulysses" **" Locksley Hall" **"Morte D'Arthur" **" The Lotos-Eaters" **"You Ask Me, Why" **"Love Thou Thy Land" **" Sir Galahad" **"The Higher Pantheism" **" Flower in the Crannied Wall" **"Wages" **"The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a failed military action involving the British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. Lord Raglan had intended to s ...
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**"The Revenge"
**"Rizpah"
**"To Virgil"
**"Maud"
**" Crossing the Bar"
* Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
**"Sonnet"
* William Makepeace Thackray
**"The End of the Play"
*Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the workin ...
**"Airly Beacon"
**"The Sands of Dee"
**"Youth and Old"
**"Ode to the North-east Wind"
*J. Wilson
J. Wilson was an English footballer who played in the Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest su ...
**" The Canadian Boat Song"
* Robert Browning
**"Prospice"
**" How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
**'' The Lost Leader''
**'' Home-thoughts, from Abroad''
**"Home-thoughts, from the Sea"
**"Parting at Morning"
**"The Lost Mistress"
**"The Last Ride Together"
**"Pippa's Song"
**"You'll Love Me Yet"
**" My Last Duchess"
**"The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church"
**"Evelyn Hope
Evelyn Hope is a poem written by Robert Browning in his work " Men and Women", 1855.
George Saintsbury
George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, FBA (23 October 1845 – 28 January 1933), was an English critic, literary historian, editor, teacher, a ...
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**" A Toccata of Galuppi's"
**"Memorabilia"
**"The Patriot"
**"The Grammarian's Funeral"
**" Andrea del Sarto"
**"One Word More"
**"Abt Volger"
**"Rabbi Ben Ezra"
**Dedication of '' The Ring and the Book''
**"Epilogue"
* Emily Brontë
**Last Lines
**"The Old Stoic"
* Robert Stephen Hawker
**" And Shall Trelawny Die?"
* Coventry Patmore
**"Departure"
* William (Johnson) Cory
**''Heraclitus''
**"Mimnermus in Church"
* Sydney Dobell
**"The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston"
* William Allingham
**"The Fairies"
* George Mac Donald
**"That Holy Thing"
**"Baby"
* Edward, Earl of Lytton
**"The Last Wish"
* Arthur Hugh Clough
**"Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth"
**"The Stream of Life"
**"In a London Square"
**"Qua Cursum Ventus"
**"Where Lies the Land"
* Matthew Arnold
**"The Forsaken Merman"
**"The Song of the Callicles"
**" To Marguerite"
**"Requiescat"
**"Rugby Chapel"
**"Memorial Verses"
**" Dover Beach"
**"The Better Part"
**"Worldly Place"
**"The Last Word"
* George Meredith
**"Love in the Valley"
* Alexander Smith
**"Barbara"
* Charles Dickens
**"The Ivy Green"
* Thomas Edward Brown
**"My Garden"
* James Thomson (B.V.)
**"Gifts"
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti
**" The Blessed Damozel"
**"The Kings Tragedy"
**"Lovesight"
**"Heart's Hope"
**"Genius in Beauty"
**"Silent Noon"
**"Love-Sweetness"
**"Heart's Compass"
**"Her Gifts"
*Christina Georgina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Brit ...
**"Song"
**"Remember"
**"Up-Hill"
**"In the Round Tower at Jhansi"
* William Morris
**"The Defence of Guenevere"
**Prologue of ''The Earthly Paradise
''The Earthly Paradise'' by William Morris is an epic poem. It is a lengthy collection of retellings of various myths and legends from Greece and Scandinavia. Publication began in 1868 and several later volumes followed until 1870. The volumes w ...
''
**"The Nymph's Song to Hylas"
**"The Day Is Coming"
**"The Days That Were"
* John Boyle O'Reilly
**"A White Rose"
* Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
**" Ode"
* Robert Williams Buchanan
**"Liz"
* Algernon Charles Swinburne
**Chorus from "Atalanta"
**"Itylus"
**"The Garden of Proserpine"
**"A Match"
**"A Forsaken Garden"
* William Ernest Henley
**"Margaritæ Sorori"
**" Invictus"
**"England, My England"
*Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as '' Treasure Island'', '' Strange Case of Dr Jekyll ...
**"In the Highlands"
**"The Celestial Surgeon"
**"Requiem"
* William Cullen Bryant
**" Thanatopsis"
**"Robert of Lincoln"
**"Song of Marion's Men"
**"June"
**"The Past"
**" To a Waterfowl"
**"The Death of Lincoln"
*Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wide ...
**" Lenore"
**" The Haunted Palace
**" To Helen"
**" The Raven"
**" Ulalume"
**" The Bells"
**"To My Mother"
**"For Annie"
**" Annabel Lee"
**" The Conqueror Worm"
*Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a cham ...
**"Good-Bye"
**"The Apology"
**"Brahma
Brahma ( sa, ब्रह्मा, Brahmā) is a Hindu god, referred to as "the Creator" within the Trimurti, the trinity of supreme divinity that includes Vishnu, and Shiva.Jan Gonda (1969)The Hindu Trinity Anthropos, Bd 63/64, H 1/2, pp ...
**"Days"
**"Give All to Love"
**" Concord Hymn"
**"The Humble-Bee"
**"The Problem"
**"Woodnotes"
**"Boston Hymn
"Boston Hymn" (full title: "Boston Hymn, Read in Music Hall, January 1, 1863") is a poem by the American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson composed the poem in late 1862 and read it publicly in Boston Music Hall on January 1, 1863. It ...
"
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
**" A Psalm of Life"
**"The Light of Stars"
**"Hymn to the Night"
**"Footsteps of Angels"
**" The Wreck of the Hesperus"
**" The Village Blacksmith"
**"Serenade"
**"The Rainy Day"
**"The Day is Gone"
**"The Bridge"
**"Resignation"
**"Children"
**"The Building of the Ship"
**"My Lost Youth"
**"The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz"
**" The Children's Hour"
**" Paul Revere's Ride"
**"Killed at the Ford"
**'' Evangeline''
* John Greenleaf Whittier
**"The Eternal Goodness"
**"Randolph of Roanoke"
**"Massachusetts to Virginia"
**"Barclay of Ury"
**"Maud Muller
"Maud Muller" is a poem from 1856 written by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892).
It is about a beautiful maid named Maud Muller. One day, while harvesting hay, she meets a judge from the local town. Each is smitten with the other. The judge t ...
"
**" The Barefoot Boy"
**"Skipper Ireson's Ride"
**"The Pipes at Lucknow"
**"Barbara Frietchie"
* Oliver Wendell Holmes
**"The Chambered Nautilus"
**" Old Ironsides"
**"The Last Leaf"
**"Contentment"
* James Russell Lowell
**"The Present Crisis"
**"The Pious Editor's Creed"
**"The Courtin'"
**"Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration"
* Sidney Lanier
**" The Marshes of Glynn"
**"The Revenge of Hamish"
**"How Love Looked for Hell"
* Bret Harte
**"The Reveille"
* Walt Whitman
**"One's Self I Sing
“One’s Self I Sing” is a poem by Walt Whitman, published in 1867 as the first poem for the final phase of '' Leaves of Grass''. Although the general attitude towards the poem was not favorable, in July 1855 Whitman received the famous letter ...
"
**"Beat! Beat! Drums!"
**"Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night"
**" Pioneers! O Pioneers!"
**"Ethiopia Saluting the Colors"
**"The Wound Dresser"
**"Give me the Splendid Silent Sun"
**"O Captain! My Captain!
"O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem written by Walt Whitman in 1865 about Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the death of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. Well received upon publication, the poem was Whitman's first to be Anth ...
"
**" When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
**"Prayer of Columbus
"Prayer of Columbus" is a poem written by American poet Walt Whitman. The poem evokes the enterprising spirit of the Christopher Columbus in a God-fearing light, who rediscovered the North American continent in 1492, leading to the colonization of ...
"
**"The Last Invocation"
Vol. 43. American Historical Documents
*Introductory Note ** " The Voyages to Vinland" (c. 1000) ** " The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery" (1493) ** " Amerigo Vespucci’s Account of His First Voyage" (1497) ** " John Cabot’s Discovery of North America" (1497) ** "First Charter of Virginia
The First Charter of Virginia, also known as the Charter of 1606, is a document from King James I of England to the Virginia Company assigning land rights to colonists for the creation of a settlement which could be used as a base to export commod ...
" (1606)
** " The Mayflower Compact" (1620)
** "The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The Fundamental Orders were adopted by the Connecticut Colony council on . The fundamental orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers. They wanted the government to have access to the op ...
" (1639)
** " The Massachusetts Body of Liberties" (1641)
** "Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from that Aspersion", by John Winthrop
John Winthrop (January 12, 1587/88 – March 26, 1649) was an English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England following Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led ...
(1644)
** " The Instrument of Government" (1653)
** "A Healing Question", by Sir Henry Vane" (1656)
** " John Eliot’s "Brief Narrative" (1670)
** " Declaration of Rights" (1765)
** " The Declaration of Independence" (1776)
** " The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence" (1775)
** " Articles of Confederation" (1777)
** "Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown" (1781)
** " Treaty with Great Britain" (1783)
** " Constitution of the United States" (1787)
** " The Federalist", Nos. 1 and 2 (1787)
** "Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall, in the Case of McCulloch vs. the State of Maryland" (1819)
** " Washington’s First Inaugural Address" (1789)
** " Treaty with the Six Nations" (1794)
** " Washington’s Farewell Address" (1796)
** " Treaty with France (Louisiana Purchase)" (1803)
** " Treaty with Great Britain (End of War of 1812)" (1814)
** " Arrangement as to the Naval Force to Be Respectively Maintained on the American Lakes" (1817)
** " Treaty with Spain (Acquisition of Florida)" (1819)
** " The Monroe Doctrine" (1823)
** " Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Great Britain" (1842)
** " Treaty with Mexico (1848)
** "Fugitive Slave Act
A fugitive (or runaway) is a person who is fleeing from custody, whether it be from jail, a government arrest, government or non-government questioning, vigilante violence, or outraged private individuals. A fugitive from justice, also know ...
" (1850)
** " Lincoln's First Inaugural Address" (1861)
** " Emancipation Proclamation" (1863)
** " Haskell’s Account of the Battle of Gettysburg"
** " Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address" (1863)
** "Proclamation of Amnesty
The ten percent plan, formally the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (), was a United States presidential proclamation issued on December 8, 1863, by President of the United States, United States President Abraham Lincoln, during the Ame ...
" (1863)
** " Lincoln’s Letter to Mrs. Bixby" (1864)
** " Terms of Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox" (1865)
** " Lee’s Farewell to His Army" (1865)
** " Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address" (1865)
** " Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End" (1866)
** " Treaty with Russia (Alaska Purchase)" (1867)
** " Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands" (1898)
** " Recognition of the Independence of Cuba" (1898)
** " Treaty with Spain (Cession of Porto Rico and the Philippines)" (1898)
** " Convention Between the United States and the Republic of Panama" (1904)
Vol. 44. Sacred Writings: Volume 1
Confucian
Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China. Variously described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or ...
*'' The Sayings of Confucius''
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
*'' The Book of Job''
*'' The Book of Psalms''
*'' Ecclesiastes; Or, The Preacher''
Christian, (Part I)
*''The Gospel According to Luke
The Gospel of Luke), or simply Luke (which is also its most common form of abbreviation). tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Together with the Acts of the Apostles, it makes up a two-vol ...
''
*'' The Acts of the Apostles''
Vol. 45. Sacred Writings: Volume 2
Christian, (Part II)Buddhist
Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and ...
* '' Buddhist Writings, Translated and Annotated by Henry Clarke Warren''
Hindu
* ''The Bhagavad Gita or Song Celestial, Translated by Sir Edwin Arnold''
Mohammedan
* ''Chapters from the Koran, Translated and Annotated by E. H. Palmer''
** Mecca Suras
** Medina Suras
Vol. 46. Elizabethan Drama 1
* '' Edward the Second'', by Christopher Marlowe * '' Hamlet'', '' King Lear'', '' Macbeth'', and '' The Tempest'', byWilliam Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
Vol. 47. Elizabethan Drama 2
* '' The Shoemaker's Holiday'', by Thomas Dekker * '' The Alchemist'', by Ben Jonson * '' Philaster'', by Beaumont and Fletcher * '' The Duchess of Malfi'', by John Webster * '' A New Way to Pay Old Debts'', by Philip MassingerVol. 48. Thoughts and Minor Works, Pascal
* ''Thoughts'', letters, and minor works, by Blaise PascalVol. 49. Epic and Saga
* ''Beowulf
''Beowulf'' (; ang, Bēowulf ) is an Old English Epic poetry, epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 Alliterative verse, alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and List of translations of Beo ...
''
* '' The Song of Roland''
* ''The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in E ...
''
* '' The Story of the Volsungs'' and '' Niblungs''
* ''Songs from The Elder Edda''
Vol. 50. Introduction, Reader's Guide, Indexes
* The Editor's Introduction to the Harvard Classics * Reader's Guide to the Harvard Classics ** Class I *** The History of Civilization **** Race and Language **** Ancient Egypt **** The East in Patriarchal Time **** Ancient Greece: ''Legendary'' **** Ancient Greece: ''Historic'' **** Ancient Rome: ''Republican'' **** Ancient Rome: ''Imperial'' **** Germanic Peoples in Primitive Times **** Ireland in Primitive Times **** The Early Christian Church **** The Mohammedan East **** The Middle Ages **** The Renaissance **** Modern Europe **** America *** Religion and Philosophy **** Hebrew **** Greek **** Roman **** Chinese **** Hindu **** Christian: ''Primitive and Medieval'' **** Mohammedan **** Christian: ''Modern'' **** Modern Philosophers *** Education **** Montaigne...Huxley *** Science **** Hippocrates...Geikie *** Politics **** Plutarch...American Historical Documents *** Voyages and Travels **** Herodotus...Emerson *** Criticism of Literature and the Fine Arts **** Caxton...Stevenson ** Class II *** Drama **** Greek **** English **** Spanish **** French **** German *** Biography and Letters ****Plutarch...Stevenson *** Essays **** Montaigne...Stevenson *** Narrative Poetry and Prose Fiction **** Homer...Lanier * An Index of the First Lines of Poems, Songs and Choruses, Hymns and Psalms * General Index * Chronological IndexLectures
Lectures on The Harvard Classics
The last volume contains sixty lectures introducing and summarizing the covered fields: *History
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...
**"General Introduction", by Robert Matteson Johnston
Robert Matteson Johnston (1867–1920) was an American historian and an important scholar of military history.
Biography
Robert Matteson Johnston was born in Paris on April 11, 1867. He was educated at Eton College and Pembroke College, Cambridg ...
**"Ancient History", by William Scott Ferguson
**"The French Revolution", by Robert Matteson Johnston
**"The Renaissance", by Murray Anthony Potter
**"The Territorial Development of the United States", by Fredrick Jackson Turner
* Poetry
**"General Introduction", by Carlton Noyes
**"Homer and the Epic", by Charles Burton Gulick
**"Dante", by Charles Hall Grandgent
Charles Hall Grandgent (born November 14, 1862 in Dorchester, Boston, Dorchester, Massachusetts; died September 11, 1939 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American Romance studies, romance philologist and Italian scholar.
Life and work
Gra ...
**"The Poems of John Milton", by Ernest Bernbaum
Ernest Bernbaum (February 12, 1879 – March 8, 1958) was an American educator, scholar, writer and an opponent of the Suffragette movement.
Biography
Ernest Bernbaum was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Ole Kruse Bernbaum and Dorothea ...
**"The English Anthology", by Carleton Noyes
* Natural Science
**"General Introduction", by Lawrence Joseph Henderson
**"Astronomy", by Lawrence Joseph Henderson
**"Physics and Chemistry", by Lawrence Joseph Henderson
**"The Biological Sciences", by Lawrence Joseph Henderson
**"Kelvin on 'Light' and 'The Tides'", by William Morris Davis
* Philosophy
**"General Introduction", by Ralph Barton Perry
Ralph Barton Perry (July 3, 1876 in Poultney, Vermont – January 22, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American philosopher. He was a strident moral idealist who stated in 1909 that, to him, idealism meant "to interpret life consistently ...
**"Socrates, Plato, and the Roman Stoics", by Charles Pomeroy Parker
**"The Rise of Modern Philosophy", by Ralph Barton Perry
**"Introduction to Kant", by Ralph Barton Perry
**"Emerson", by Chester Noyes Greenough
Chester Noyes Greenough (June 29, 1874 – February 27, 1938) was a Professor of English and Dean at Harvard University.
Biography
Chester Noyes Greenough was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, U.S., on June 29, 1874. He graduated from Harvard Co ...
*Biography
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or c ...
**"General Introduction", William Roscoe Thayer,
**"Plutarch", by William Scott Ferguson,
**"Benvenuto Cellini", by Chandler Rathfon Post
**"Franklin and Woolman", by Chester Noyes Greenough
Chester Noyes Greenough (June 29, 1874 – February 27, 1938) was a Professor of English and Dean at Harvard University.
Biography
Chester Noyes Greenough was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, U.S., on June 29, 1874. He graduated from Harvard Co ...
**"John Stuart Mill", by Oliver Mitchell Wentworth
* Prose Fiction
**"General Introduction" by William Allan Neilson
William Allan Neilson (28 March 1869 – 1946) was a Scottish-American educator, writer and lexicographer, graduated in the University of Edinburgh in 1891 and became a PhD in Harvard University in 1898. He was president of Smith College betwee ...
,
**"Popular Prose Fiction" by Fred Norris Robinson
Fred Norris Robinson (April 4, 1871 – July 21, 1966), professionally known as F. N. Robinson, was an eminent American Celticist and scholar of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Biography
Robinson received his B.A. (1891), M.A. (1892), and PhD (1894) from H ...
,
**"Malory", by Gustavus Howard Maynadier
**"Cervantes", by Jeremiah D. M. Ford
**"Manzoni" by Jeremiah D. M. Ford
* Criticism and the Essay
**"General Introduction", by Bliss Perry
**"What the Middle Ages Read", by William Allan Neilson
William Allan Neilson (28 March 1869 – 1946) was a Scottish-American educator, writer and lexicographer, graduated in the University of Edinburgh in 1891 and became a PhD in Harvard University in 1898. He was president of Smith College betwee ...
**"Theories of Poetry", by Bliss Perry
**"Æsthetic Criticism in Germany", by William Guild Howard
**"The Composition of a Criticism", by Ernest Bernbaum
*Education
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. ...
**"General Introduction", by Henry Wyman Holmes
**"Francis Bacon", by Ernest Bernbaum
**"Locke and Milton", by Henry Wyman Holmes
**"Carlyle and Newman", by Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey
**"Huxley on Science and Culture", by A. O. Norton
*Political Science
Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and ...
**"General Introduction", by Thomas Nixon Carver
**"Theories of Government in the Renaissance", by O. M. W. Sprague
**"Adam Smith and 'The Wealth of Nations'", by Charles J. Bullock
Charles Jesse Bullock (1869–1941) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Harvard University. He was an expert in public finance.
Early life
Charles J. Bullock was born in Boston on May 21, 1869. He graduated from Bos ...
**"The Growth of the American Constitution" by William Bennett Munro
William Bennett Munro (5 January 1875 – 4 September 1957) was a Canadian historian and political scientist. He taught at Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology. He was known for research on the seigneurial system in New Fr ...
**"Law and Liberty", by Roscoe Pound
*Drama
Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g ...
**"General Introduction", by George Pierce Baker
**"Greek Tragedy", by Charles Burton Gulick
**"The Elizabethan Drama", by William Allan Neilson
William Allan Neilson (28 March 1869 – 1946) was a Scottish-American educator, writer and lexicographer, graduated in the University of Edinburgh in 1891 and became a PhD in Harvard University in 1898. He was president of Smith College betwee ...
**"The Faust Legend", by Kuno Francke
**"Modern English Drama", by Ernest Bernbaum
*Voyages and Travel
**"General Introduction", by Roland Burrage Dixon
**"Herodotus on Egypt", by George H. Chase
**"The Elizabethan Adventurers", by William Allan Neilson
**"The Era of Discovery", by William Bennett Monro
**"Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle", by George Howard Parker
*Religion
Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural ...
**"General Introduction", by Ralph Barton Perry
**"Buddhism", by Charles Rockwell Lanman
**"Confucianism", by Dwight Sheffield
**"Greek Religion", by Clifford Herschel Moore
Clifford Herschel Moore (1866–1931) was an American Latin scholar.
Moore was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard (A.B., 1889) and in Europe at Munich (Ph.D., 1897). He taught classics in California (1889–92) and Massachuse ...
**"Pascal", by Charles Henry Conrad Wright
Charles Henry Conrad Wright (1869–1957) was a professor of French language and literature and author of several books, notably his 990-page ''A History of French Literature'' (1912). He specialized in French literature of the 16th and 17th centu ...
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction is a supplement of 20 volumes of modern fiction added in 1917. Items were selected for inclusion by Charles W. Eliot, with notes and introductions by William Allan Neilson. * Vol. 1. HENRY FIELDING 1 ** ''The History of Tom Jones
''The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling'', often known simply as ''Tom Jones'', is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a '' Bildungsroman'' and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 i ...
'', part 1, by Henry Fielding
* Vol. 2. HENRY FIELDING 2
** ''The History of Tom Jones'', part 2, by Henry Fielding
* Vol. 3. LAURENCE STERN, JANE AUSTEN
** '' A Sentimental Journey'', by Laurence Sterne
** ''Pride and Prejudice'', by Jane Austen
* Vol. 4. SIR WALTER SCOTT
** ''Guy Mannering'', by Sir Walter Scott
* Vol. 5. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 1
** ''Vanity Fair (novel), Vanity Fair'', part 1, by William Makepeace Thackeray
* Vol. 6. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 2
** ''Vanity Fair'', part 2, by William Makepeace Thackeray
* Vol. 7. CHARLES DICKENS 1
** ''David Copperfield (novel), David Copperfield'', part 1, by Charles Dickens
* Vol. 8. CHARLES DICKENS 2
** ''David Copperfield'', part 2, by Charles Dickens
* Vol. 9. GEORGE ELIOT
** ''The Mill on the Floss'', by George Eliot
* Vol. 10. HAWTHORNE, IRVING, POE, BRET HARTE, MARK TWAIN, HALE
** ''The Scarlet Letter'' and ''Rappaccini's Daughter'', by Nathaniel Hawthorne
** ''Rip Van Winkle'' and ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'', by Washington Irving
** ''Eleonora'', ''The Fall of the House of Usher'', and ''The Purloined Letter'', by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wide ...
** ''The Luck of Roaring Camp'', ''The Outcasts of Poker Flat'', and ''The Idyl of Red Gulch'', by Bret Harte, Francis Bret Harte
** ''Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog'', by Samuel L. Clemens
** ''The Man Without a Country'', by Edward Everett Hale
* Vol. 11. HENRY JAMES, JR.
** ''The Portrait of a Lady'', by Henry James
* Vol. 12. VICTOR HUGO
** ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Notre Dame de Paris'', by Victor Marie Hugo
* Vol. 13. BALZAC, SAND, DE MUSSET, DAUDET, DE MAUPASSANT
** ''Old Goriot'', by Honoré Balzac
** ''La Mare au Diable, The Devil's Pool'', by George Sand
** ''The Story of a White Blackbird'', by Alfred de Musset
** ''The Siege of Berlin'', ''The Last Class—The Story of a Little Alsatian'', ''The Child Spy'', ''The Game of Billiards'', and ''The Bad Zouave'', by Alphonse Daudet
** ''Walter Schnaffs’ Adventure'' and ''Two Friends'', by Guy de Maupassant
* Vol. 14. JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE
** ''Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'', by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
* Vol. 15. GOETHE, KELLER, STORM, FONTANE
** ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'', by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
** ''The Banner of the Upright Seven'', by Gottfried Keller
** ''The Rider on the White Horse'', by Theodor Storm
** ''Trials and Tribulations (novel), Trials and Tribulations'', by Theodor Fontane
* Vol. 16. LEO NIKOLAEVITCH TOLSTOY 1
** ''Anna Karenina'', part 1, by Leo Tolstoy
* Vol. 17. LEO NIKOLAEVITCH TOLSTOY 2
** ''Anna Karenina'', part 2, and ''Ivan the Fool (story), Ivan the Fool'', by Leo Tolstoy
* Vol. 18. FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
** ''Crime and Punishment'', by Fyodor Dostoevsky
* Vol. 19. IVAN TURGENEV
** ''A House of Gentlefolk'' and ''Fathers and Sons (novel), Fathers and Children'', by Ivan Turgenev
* Vol. 20. VALERA, BJØRNSON, KIELLAND
** ''Pepita Jimenez'', by Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Juan Valera
** ''A Happy Boy'', by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
** ''Skipper Worse'', by Alexander L. Kielland
Media
Television
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