Sunday, September 3, 2006

Part Three

  1. William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, Complete Works.
  2. John Donne, 1573-1631, Selected Works.
  3. Anonymous, published 1618, The Plum in the Golden Vase (Chin P'ing Mei).
  4. Galileo Galilei, 1574-1642, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.
  5. Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, Levianthan.
  6. Rene Descartes, 1596-1650, Discourse on Method.
  7. John Milton, 1608-1674, Paradise Lost, Lycidas, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Sonnets, Areopagitica.
  8. Moliere, 1622-1673, Selected Plays.
  9. Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, Thoughts (Pensees).
  10. John Bunyan, 1628-1688, Pilgrim's Progress.
  11. John Locke, 1632-1704, Second Treatise of Government.
  12. Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
  13. Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731, Robinson Crusoe.
  14. Jonathon Swift, 1667-1745, Gulliver's Travels.
  15. Voltaire, 1694-1778, Candide and other works.
  16. David Hume, 1711-1776, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
  17. Henry Fielding, 1707-1754, Tom Jones.
  18. Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in, 1715-1763, The Dream of the Red Chamber (The Story of the Stone).
  19. Jean-Jacque Rousseau, 1712-1778, Confessions.
  20. Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768, Tristram Shandy.
  21. James Boswell, 1740-1795, The Life of Samuel Johnson.
  22. Thomas Jefferson and others, Basic Documents in American History.
  23. Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1787.
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  1. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2007 at 7:24 AM

    Before Shakespeare, add
    Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene
    Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesy
    Christopher Marlow's Doctor Faustus and The Jew of Malta
    (This is Renaissance Literature)
    If we decide we don't want to read all of Shakespear, Kantor suggests
    The Taming of the Shrew
    As You Like It
    Twelfth Night
    The Merchant of Venice
    Henry IV (Parts I and II)
    Henry V
    Hamlet
    Macbeth
    Othello
    King Lear
    Sonnets

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2007 at 7:30 AM

    In 1600s before John Milton add
    John Donne's Songs and Sonnets, Holy Sonnets
    George Herbert's The Temple
    Thomas Browne's Religio Medici
    Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress"

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2007 at 7:45 AM

    Around Jonathan Swift add
    John Dryden's
    Absalom
    Achitophel
    MacFlecknoe
    Alexander Pope's
    The Rape of the Lock
    The Dunciad

    Before James Boswell add
    Samuel Johnson's Preface to his Shakespeare edition
    Then
    Samuel Richardson's Clarissa
    Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
    Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
    These are Restoration and 18th Century.

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