Volume1: Ancient World -- General introduction / A Bartlett Giamatti -- Old Testament: Creation -- Fall of man -- Flood -- Book of Job -- Psalms 8, 22, 23, 137 -- Song of songs -- Illiad -- Odyssey / Homer -- History / Herodotus -- Agamemnon / Aeschylus -- History of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides -- Oedipus the king / Sophocles -- Bacchae / Euripides -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes -- Apology -- Phaedo / Plato -- Greek And Roman Poetry -- Works and days / Hesiod -- To Aphrodite -- To a girl -- Love / Sappho -- First Pythian ode: to Hieron / Pindar -- Harvest feast / Theocritus -- To Lesbia -- Invitation to love -- To Lesbia kind -- On her falsehood / Catullus -- Fourth eclogue / Virgil -- To Pyrrha / Horace -- Metamorphoses / Ovid -- On the nature of things / Lucretius -- Dream of Scipio / Cicero -- Aeneid / Virgil -- New Testament: Birth and youth of Christ -- Sermon on the mount -- Parables of Jesus -- Christ's betrayal, denial, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection -- Saul's conversion -- Revelation -- Satyricon / Petronius -- Annals / Tacitus -- Confessions / St Augustine.
Volume 2: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment -- General introduction / A Bartlett Giamatti -- Medieval And Renaissance Love Lyrics -- Poem / Jaufre Rudel -- Ballata X / Guido Cavalcanti -- Sonnet / Dante Alighieri -- Sonnet 3 -- Sonnet 364 / Francesco Petrarch -- Ballade of the ladies of time past / Francois Villon -- Poem / Clement Marot -- Who so list to hunt / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Sonnet / Pierre de Ronsard -- Sonnet / Sir Philip Sidney -- Sonnet 9 / Edmund Spenser -- Sonnet 73 -- Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare -- Three Poems Of Passionate Shepherds -- Passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe -- Nymph's reply to the shepherd / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Bait / John Donne -- Valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvel -- Inferno / Dante Alighieri -- Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio -- Canterbury Tales / General prologue / Nun's priest tale / Pardoner's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Gargantua and Pantagruel / Francois Rabelais -- Othello / William Shakerspeare -- Don Quixote / Miguel Cervantes -- Misanthrope / Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) -- Paradise Lost / John Milton -- Gulliver's travels, book four / Jonathan Swift -- Candide / Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet).
Volume 3: Modern World -- General introduction / A Bartlett Giamatti -- Reveries of a solitary / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Faust, part 1 / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Selected Poems Of William Wordsworth -- Tintern Abbey -- Simplon pass -- Slumber did my spirit seal -- Composed upon Westminster Bridge -- Solitary reaper -- Immortality ode -- Romantic Poetry -- Mock on, mock on / William Blake -- Promethus / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- When I have fears -- Ode to a nightingale -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- Ode to the west wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- To the Parcae / Friedrich Holderlin -- Shipwrecked / Heinrich Heine -- Mors / Victor Hugo -- Infinite / Giacomo Leopardi -- Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Pent-up aching rivers / Walt Whitman -- Facino Cane / Honore de Balzac -- Diary of a madman / Nikolai Gogol -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Simple heart / Gustave Flaubert -- Dream of a ridiculous man / Fydor Dostoevksy -- Real thing / Henry James -- Master builder / Henrik Ibsen -- Malaria / Giovanni Verga -- Tristan / Thomas Mann -- Selected Poems Of William Butler Yeats -- No second Troy -- Sailing to Byzantium -- Leda and the swan -- Among school children -- Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop -- Acre of grass -- Symbolist And Modernist Poetry -- Spleen / Charles Baudelaire -- Dawn / Arthur Rimbaud -- Le Cygne / Stephane Mallarme -- After great pain, a formal feeling comes / Emily Dickinson -- Portrait d'une femme / Ezra Pound -- Love song of J Alfre Prufrock / T S Eliot -- Self-portrait / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Twelve / Alexander Blok -- Casida of flight / Federico Garcia Lorca -- Sunflower / Eugenio Montale -- Final soliloquy of the interior paramour / Wallace Stevens -- Araby / James Joyce -- Tickets, please / D H Lawrence -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello -- Return of the prodigal son / Andre Gide -- Hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- Clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- Guest / Albert Camus -- Babylon lottery / Jorge Luis Borges -- Old glory: Benito Cereno / Robert Lowell.
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