Charles Van Doren, The Joy of Reading [1985]
422 entries: 249 monographical, 173 otherwise
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The Joy of Reading, published a few years after his retirement from Encyclopaedia Britannica, gave the author a chance to make his own list of books, after having worked with Mortimer Adler on the second, 1972 version of the latter's book, How to Read a Book. Whereas the Adler book discusses reading generally, with a list tagged on at the end, Van Doren's is similar to Newman's, Dirda's, Seymour-Smith's, Fadiman's, and Ward's in being a book-as-list, giving a short account of each author or work in turn. At times, Van Doren's choices violate the spirit of the endeavor: including a general entry for the Britannica and his father's poetry, for example; he also admits to being a Shakespeare denier. And includes Adler's Syntopicon from the Great Books of the Western World set; that, at least, is an appropriate self-referential move given how important the Great Books set has been to the entire phenomenon of "great books" lists. Despite these drawbacks, the book is an easy enjoyable read. I had not realized when starting this site that the book was revised in 2008, retitled The Joy of Reading: A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their Works. Eventually, I will update this list to reflect that book instead, as per the Greater Books rule of including only the final version of a work.
- Henry Adams
The United States in 1800_1
first-sixth chapters of The History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, originally published in nine volumes, 1889-91English
*Van Doren*
- Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres_5
1913English
*Durant* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Fadiman*
- The Education of Henry Adams_11
1918English
*Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Foundation* *Fadiman* *Kanigel*
- Mortimer J Adler
The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World_1
volumes 2 and 3 of The Great Books of the Western World, 1952; revised 1990 as volume 1 of the revised Great Books of the Western World, retitled Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas; Van Doren refers to the 1952 versionEnglish
*Van Doren*
- Aeschylus
Oresteia_19
The House of Atreus
458 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Zane* *Newman*
Fables_6
ca. late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B CGreek
*Baldwin* *Invitation* *Downs* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom*
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- La Chanson de Roland_9
ca. Eleventh CenturyFrench
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*
Archimedes
- On Floating Bodies [excerpted]_1
first book; Third Century B CGreek
*Van Doren*
- The Method of Mechanical Theorems_2
Third Century B CGreek
*Van Doren* *Adler*
- On the Measurement of a Circle_2
Third Century B CGreek
*Van Doren* *Adler*
- The Sand Reckoner_3
Third Century B CGreek
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
Aristophanes
- Akharneîs_5
The Acharnians
425 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Eirēnē_5
Peace
421 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Lysistrate_13
Lysistrata
411 B CGreek
*Classics* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Nephelai_11
The Clouds
423 B C; revised 417 B C; only revised version remainsGreek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Newman*
- Ornithes_13
The Birds
414 B.CGreek
*Downs* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- Bátrachoi_10
The Frogs
405 B CGreek
*Classics* *Eliot* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*
Aristotle
- Peri Poiêtikês_15
De Poetica; Poetics
Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Smart* *Educated*
- Ethika Nikomacheia_16
Nicomachean Ethics
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Reynolds*
- Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum Libri Tredecim_23
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98Latin
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *O'Hear* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Educated*
Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice_30
originally anonymously published 1813English
*Eliot* *Powys* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Emma_11
originally anonymously published 1815English
*Read* *List* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Guardian* *Zane* *Newman*
Francis Bacon
- Novum Organum Scientiarium_10
1620English
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human_6
1605English
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed_12
1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Great*
- Honoré de Balzac
Le Père Goriot_14
Father Goriot
originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de ParisFrench
*Eliot* *Powys* *Durant* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Newman*
- Charles Baudelaire
Les Fleurs du Mal_8
The Flowers of Evil
1857French
*France* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman*
- Samuel Beckett
En Attendant Godot_13
Waiting for Godot
1953French
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Joseph Bédier
Le Roman de Tristan et Iseult_1
1900French
*Van Doren*
- Claude Bernard
Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale_2
1865French
*Read* *Van Doren*
William Blake
- Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul_11
published in part, 1789, as Songs of Innocence; in its entirety, 1794English
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Educated*
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_6
ca. 1793English
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Newman*
- Milton, a Poem in 2 Books_5
ca. 1811English
*Van Doren* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion_6
1820English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Graphic* *Newman*
- Boethius
Consolatio Philosophiae_5
The Consolations of Philosophy
written ca. 524Latin
*Classics* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Reynolds*
James Boswell
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D._21
1791English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman*
written 1762-95English
*Read* *Van Doren* *Bloom*
Fernand Braudel
- La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l'Epoque de Philippe II_2
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
1949French
*Van Doren* *Fadiman*
- The Structures of Everday Life_1
1967; first volume of Civilisation Matérielle, Économie et Capitalisme, XVe-XVIIIe; complete work published 1979French
*Van Doren*
- Margaret Wise Brown
Goodnight Moon_1
1947English
*Van Doren*
Robert Browning
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom*
- Sordello_1
1840English
*Van Doren*
part of Bells and Pomegrantes No. VII: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1845English
*Van Doren*
part of Men and Women, 1855English
*Van Doren*
part of Bells and Pomegrantes No. III, Dramatic Lyrics, 1842English
*Van Doren*
part of Bells and Pomegrantes No. III, Dramatic Lyrics, 1842English
*Van Doren* *Newman*
- The Ring and the Book_4
originally published in four volumes, 1868-69English
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman*
- 'Home-Thoughts, From Abroad'_1
part of Bells and Pomegrantes No. VII: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1845English
*Van Doren*
- 'Home-Thoughts, From the Sea'_1
English
*Van Doren*
English
*Van Doren*
- 'The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church'_1
part of Bells and Pomegrantes No. VII: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1845English
*Van Doren*
- 'A Toccata of Galuppi's'_1
part of Men and Women, 1855English
*Van Doren*
- 'The Last Ride Together'_1
part of Men and Women, 1855English
*Van Doren*
part of Asolando, 1889English
*Van Doren*
part of Dramatis Personae, 1864English
*Van Doren*
Robert Burns
late Eighteenth CenturyEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Rexroth* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect_2
1786English
*Ward* *Van Doren*
- 'Green Grow the Rashes'_1
English
*Van Doren*
- 'My Luve Is Like a Red, Red Rose'_2
originally published as part of Pietro Urbani's Scots Songs, 1794English
*Van Doren* *Newman*
English
*Van Doren*
English
*Van Doren*
part of James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, 1790English
*Van Doren*
English
*Van Doren*
- 'Ae Fond Kiss and Then We Sever'_1
included in letter to Agnes Maclehose dated 27 December 1791English
*Van Doren*
- 'To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough'_1
part of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 1786English
*Van Doren*
- 'To a Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church'_1
English
*Van Doren*
- 'Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous'_1
English
*Van Doren*
- 'Charlie, He's My Darling'_1
English
*Van Doren*
- 'A Man's a Man for a' That'_1
English
*Van Doren*
- 'The Cotter's Saturday Night'_1
part of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 1786English
*Van Doren*
published Mar. 1791 in the Edinburgh Herald and the Edinburgh Magazine; included in Francis Grose's Antiquities of Scotland, 1791;English
*Van Doren*
- 'O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast'_1
English
*Van Doren*
Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
- Don Juan_8
originally published in six volumes: Jul. 1819; Aug. 1821; Jul. 1823; Aug. 1823; Dec. 1823; Mar. 1824English
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Zane* *Newman*
early Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Durant* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Great*
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_5
1812-18English
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Newman*
- 'So We'll Go No More A-Roving'_1
part of Letters and Journals, 1830German
*Van Doren*
Albert Camus
- L'Étranger_14
The Stranger
1942French
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- La Peste_8
The Plague
1947French
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell*
Lewis Carroll
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_17
1865English
*Powys* *Invitation* *France* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There_10
1871English
*Powys* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha_37
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Edith Grossman's English translationSpanish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
Geoffrey Chaucer
- Canterbury Tales_30
1478; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Nevill Coghill's modern English versionEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Troilus and Criseyde_8
written ca. 1380sEnglish
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Newman*
Arthur C Clarke
- Childhood's End_1
1953English
*Van Doren*
- Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible_1
originally published serially 1958-62; revised 1999English
*Van Doren*
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
*Read* *Van Doren* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
- Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep_4
1816English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Fadiman*
- William Congreve
The Way of the World_6
1700English
*Read* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman* *Educated*
- Nicolas Copernicus
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium_6
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
1543Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great*
- Dante
La Divina Commedia_33
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life_23
1859English
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Deposit* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Charles Galton Darwin
The Next Million Years_1
1952English
*Van Doren*
Robertson Davies
- Fifth Business_2
1970English
*Van Doren* *Bloom*
- The Manticore_2
1972English
*Van Doren* *Bloom*
- World of Wonders_2
1975English
*Van Doren* *Bloom*
Daniel Defoe
- The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner_21
originally anonymously published 1719English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Great* *Zane* *Deposit* *Newman*
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders_8
1722English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Smart* *Newman*
- A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public and Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665_6
originally anonymously published 1722English
*Classics* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Kanigel* *Dirda* *Newman*
- The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Col. Jacque, Commonly Call'd Col. Jack_1
Colonel Jack
1722English
*Van Doren*
- The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany, Being the Person Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II_2
Roxana
1724English
*Van Doren* *Newman*
- René Descartes
Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences_17
Discourse on the Method
1637French
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *World*
Charles Dickens
- A Christmas Carol_7
1843English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Taylor* *Newman*
- Hard Times - For These Times_7
originally published serially Apr. 1854-Aug. 1854 in Household WordsEnglish
*Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Newman*
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club_14
The Pickwick Papers
originally published serially Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837 under the pseudonym, BozEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman*
- Bleak House_7
originally published serially Mar. 1852-Sep. 1853English
*Classics* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Zane* *Newman*
- Little Dorrit_5
originally published serially Dec. 1855-Jun. 1857English
*Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Newman*
Emily Dickinson
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Zane* *Newman* *Educated*
- The Poems of Emily Dickinson_3
1890English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Great*
- 'Success Is Counted Sweetest'_1
part of Poems, 1890English
*Van Doren*
- 'The Heart Asks Pleasure First'_1
part of Poems, 1890English
*Van Doren*
- 'The Soul Selects Her Own Society'_1
part of Poems, 1890English
*Van Doren*
- 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death'_2
part of Poems, 1890English
*Van Doren* *Graphic*
- 'After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes'_1
part of Further Poems of Emily Dickinson, 1929English
*Van Doren*
- Isak Dinesen
Seven Gothic Tales_4
1934; Danish version entitled Syv Fantastiske Fortaellinger published 1935English
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Dirda*
John Donne
early Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
*List* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman* *Educated*
one of the Holy Sonnets; part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
*Van Doren*
- 'At the Earth's Round Imagined Corners, Blow'_1
one of the Holy Sonnets; part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
*Van Doren*
- First and Second Anniversaries_3
1612; The First Anniversary originally entitled An Anatomy of the World, published 1611; complete work also included in Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death, 1633English
*Classics* *Van Doren* *Fadiman*
- 'Song (Goe, and Catche a Falling Starre)'_1
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
*Van Doren*
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
*Van Doren*
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
*Van Doren* *Trinity*
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
*Van Doren*
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
*Van Doren*
originally entitled 'I Have Done One Braver Thing'; part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]; retitled for the second edition of Poems, 1635English
*Van Doren*
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
*Van Doren* *Trinity*
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
*Van Doren*
- 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'_3
written ca. 1611-12; part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Trinity*
- 'Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward'_2
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
*Van Doren* *Trinity*
- 'Hymn to God My God in My Sicknesse'_1
part of the second edition of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1635]English
*Van Doren*
- 'A Hymne to God the Father'_2
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
*Van Doren* *Trinity*
- Holy Sonnets [selections]_1
nos. 1, 5, 7, 10, 14, and 18 designated but Van Doren does not note which ordering of the Sonnets he refers to; he also lists two of the sonnets separately; part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
*Van Doren*
- 'Death's Duell, or, A Consolation to the Soule, Against the Dying Life, and Living Death of the Body'_1
1632; included in the author's collected sermonsEnglish
*Van Doren*
- Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and Severall Steps in My Sicknes_3
1624English
*Classics* *Van Doren* *Fadiman*
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prestuplénie i Nakazániye_23
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translationRussian
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Study in Scarlet_6
originally published 1887 in Beeton's Christmas AnnualEnglish
*Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Kanigel* *Taylor* *Telegraph*
- The Sign of the Four_4
originally published Feb. 1890 in Lippincott's MonthlyEnglish
*Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Telegraph*
- The Hound of the Baskervilles_4
1902; originally published serially Aug. 1901-Apr. 1902 in the StrandEnglish
*Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Telegraph*
- The Valley of Fear_4
1915; originally published serially Sep. 1914-Feb. 1915 in the StrandEnglish
*Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Telegraph*
- 'The Red-Headed League'_1
originally published Aug. 1891 in the Strand; included inThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892English
*Van Doren*
originally published Nov. 1891 in the Strand; included in The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesEnglish
*Van Doren*
originally published Jul. 1893 in the Strand; included in The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesEnglish
*Van Doren*
- 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'_1
originally published Feb. 1892 in the Strand; included in The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesEnglish
*Van Doren*
originally published Dec. 1893 in the Strand; included in The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesEnglish
*Van Doren*
- 'The Adventure of the Empty House'_1
originally published Sep. 1903 in Collier's; included in The Return of Sherlock HolmesEnglish
*Van Doren*
- 'The Adventure of the Devil's Foot'_1
originally published Dec. 1910 in the Strand; included in His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock HolmesEnglish
*Van Doren*
originally published Sep. 1917 in the Strand; included in His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock HolmesEnglish
*Van Doren*
George Eliot
- Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe _6
1861English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Newman*
- Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life _22
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872English
*Baldwin* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic*
T S Eliot
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Van Doren* *Good* *Educated*
originally published Oct. 1922 in the CriterionEnglish
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Ash Wednesday_7
1930English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *GlobeMail* *Newman*
- Four Quartets_10
originally published in four volumes: Burnt Norton, in Collected Poems 1909-1935, 1936; East Coker, in the New English Weekly, 1940; The Dry Salvages, in the New English Weekly, 1941; Little Gidding, in the New English Weekly, 1942English
*List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *GlobeMail* *Newman*
- 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock'_4
originally published Jun. 1915 in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse; included in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Newman* *Graphic*
originally published in Poems: 1909-1925, 1925English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Newman*
- 'Rhapsody on a Windy Night'_1
originally published Jul. 1915 in Blast; included in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917English
*Van Doren*
- 'Morning at the Window'_1
originally published Sep. 1916 in Poetry; included in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917English
*Van Doren*
- 'Sweeney Among the Nightingales'_1
part of Poems: 1920, 1920English
*Van Doren*
- Journey of the Magi_5
1927; illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer; eighth of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel PoemsEnglish
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *GlobeMail*
- Marina_5
1930; illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer; 29th of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel PoemsEnglish
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *GlobeMail*
- 'Eyes That I Last Saw in Tears'_1
originally published Nov. 1924 in Chapbook as part of Doris's Dream SongsEnglish
*Van Doren*
- Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats_2
1939English
*Van Doren* *Bloom*
1920; 20 essays, some of which originally published in the Times Literary Supplement, the Athenæum, Art and Letters, and the EgoistEnglish
*Van Doren*
- Selected Essays, 1917-1932_2
1932English
*Van Doren* *Bloom*
--
- The Encyclopædia Britannica_1
unspecified editionEnglish
*Van Doren*
- Epictetus
Diatribai_9
Discourses
compiled by Arrian; Second CenturyGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
- Euclid
Elements_6
written ca. 300 B CGreek
*Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great*
Euripides
- Alkēstis_6
Alcestis
438 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman*
- Mēdeia_17
Medea
431 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Michael Collier and Georgia Ann Machemer's English translationGreek
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- Hippolytos _11
428 B CGreek
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Iōn _5
written ca. 414-12 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom*
- Trōiades _8
The Trojan Woman
415 B CGreek
*Classics* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Bakchai _14
The Bacchae
405 B.CGreek
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *O'Hear*
- Iphigeneia en Taurois _4
Iphigeneia in Tauris
written ca. 414-12 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling_19
1749English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby_17
1925English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Zane* *Great* *Guardian* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
John Fowles
- The Magus_2
1966; revised 1977English
*Van Doren* *Recommended*
- The French Lieutenant's Woman_2
1969English
*Van Doren* *Recommended*
- Daniel Martin_1
1977English
*Van Doren*
Sigmund Freud
- Die Traumdeutung_15
The Interpretation of Dreams
1899German
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Great* *Graphic*
- Abriss der Psychoanalyse_1
An Outline of Psycho-Analysis
1940German
*Van Doren*
- Das Unbehagen in der Kultur_7
Civilization and Its Discontents
1930German
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Kanigel*
Robert Frost
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Educated*
originally published Spring 1942 in the Virginia Quarterly Review; part of A Witness Tree, 1942English
*Van Doren*
- 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'_2
originally published Mar. 1923 in the New Republic; part of New Hampshire, 1923English
*Van Doren* *Fadiman*
- 'The Death of the Hired Man'_1
part of North of Boston, 1914English
*Van Doren*
originally published Aug. 1915 in the Atlantic Monthly; part of Mountain Interval, 1916
*Van Doren* *Fadiman*
- 'Two Tramps in Mud Time'_1
originally published Oct. 1934 in the Saturday Review of Literature; part of A Further Range, 1936English
*Van Doren*
originally published Jan. 1922 in Poetry; part of New Hampshire, 1923English
*Van Doren*
part of North of Boston, 1914English
*Van Doren*
part of North of Boston, 1914English
*Van Doren*
originally published Jul. 1916 in the Century; part of Mountain Interval, 1916English
*Van Doren*
originally published Jan. 1920 in Harper's; part of New Hampshire, 1923English
*Van Doren*
originally published Dec. 1926 in the New Republic; part of West-Running Brook, 1928English
*Van Doren*
originally published Aug. 1915 in the Atlantic Monthly; part of Mountain Interval, 1916English
*Van Doren*
part of North of Boston, 1914English
*Van Doren* *Fadiman*
part of A Boy's Will, 1913English
*Van Doren*
part of Mountain Interval, 1916English
*Van Doren*
originally published Jun. 1918 in the Amherst Monthly; part of New Hampshire, 1923English
*Van Doren*
originally published Oct. 1923 in the Yale Review; part of New Hampshire, 1923English
*Van Doren*
originally published Winter 1939 in the Virginia Quarterly Review; part of A Witness Tree, 1942English
*Van Doren*
- Galileo
Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, Intorno è due Nuove Scienze_4
Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences
1638Italian
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Gabriel García Márquez
Cien Anõs de Soledad_18
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Gregory Rabassa's English translationSpanish
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_23
originally published in six volumes: first, 1776; second-third, 1781; fourth-sixth, 1788English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Telegraph* *World* *Educated*
- William Gilbert
De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure_4
On the Magnet
1600Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Étienne Gilson
Introduction aux Arts du Beau_1
1963French
*Van Doren*
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust_27
originally published in two volumes: first, Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil, published in part, 1790; in its entirey, 1808; revised 1829; second, Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, 1832German
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman*
- Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison
The Federalist Papers_11
originally published 1787-1788 in the Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily AdvertiserEnglish
*Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Great*
- Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented_14
published in part serially Jul.-Dec. 1891 in the GraphicEnglish
*Powys* *Hundred* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Deposit*
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuriesEnglish
*Van Doren*
part of Wessex Poems and Other Verses, 1898English
*Van Doren*
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter_21
1850English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Vorlesungen Über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichtem_6
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
1837; edited 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831 lecturesGerman
*Invitation* *Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
Robert A Heinlen
- The Moon Is a Harsh Witness_1
originally published serially Dec. 1965-Apr. 1966 in Worlds of IfEnglish
*Van Doren*
- Farnham's Freehold_1
originally published serially Jul.-Oct. 1964 in Worlds of IfEnglish
*Van Doren*
- The Door Into Summer_1
originally published serially Oct.-Dec. 1956 in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science FictionEnglish
*Van Doren*
Ernest Hemingway
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Van Doren* *Zane* *Newman*
- The Old Man and the Sea_8
1952English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Newman*
- 'Big, Two-Hearted River'_2
originally published May 1925 in This Quarter; included in the expanded edition of In Our Time, 1925English
*Van Doren* *Newman*
- 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place'_3
originally published 1933 in Scribner's; included in Winner Take Nothing, 1933English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Newman*
- 'Old Man at the Bridge'_1
included in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, 1938English
*Van Doren*
George Herbert
early Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
*Van Doren* *Newman*
- The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations_4
1633English
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*
- Herodotus
Historiē_25
History
Fifth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *World* *Educated*
Robert Herrick
Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Newman*
- His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, Wherein (Amongst Other Things) He Sings the Birth of His Christ: and Sighes for His Saviors Suffering on the Crosse_1
1647English
*Van Doren*
- Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq._1
1648English
*Van Doren*
part of Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq., 1648English
*Van Doren*
- 'The Argument of His Book'_1
part of Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq., 1648English
*Van Doren*
- 'Upon Master Ben. Johnson. Epigram'_1
part of Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq., 1648English
*Van Doren*
- 'To Live Merrily, and to Trust Good Verses'_1
part of Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq., 1648English
*Van Doren*
part of Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq., 1648English
*Van Doren*
part of Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq., 1648English
*Van Doren*
part of Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq., 1648English
*Van Doren*
- 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'_2
part of Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq., 1648English
*Van Doren* *Newman*
part of Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq., 1648English
*Van Doren*
- 'His Letanie, to the Holy Spirit'_1
part of His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, Wherein (Amongst Other Things) He Sings the Birth of His Christ: and Sighes for His Saviors Suffering on the Crosse, 1647English
*Van Doren*
- 'A Thanksgiving to God, for His House'_1
part of His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, Wherein (Amongst Other Things) He Sings the Birth of His Christ: and Sighes for His Saviors Suffering on the Crosse, 1647English
*Van Doren*
part of His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, Wherein (Amongst Other Things) He Sings the Birth of His Christ: and Sighes for His Saviors Suffering on the Crosse, 1647English
*Van Doren*
- 'Another Grace for a Child'_1
part of His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, Wherein (Amongst Other Things) He Sings the Birth of His Christ: and Sighes for His Saviors Suffering on the Crosse, 1647English
*Van Doren*
- Eugen Herrigel
Zen in the Art of Archery_1
1948English
*Van Doren*
- Hippocrates
Hippocratic Corpus_4
late Fifth-early Fourth centuries B CGreek
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith*
- Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil_16
1651English
*Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Telegraph* *Deposit*
Homer
- Iliad_33
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Cowan and Guinness ("Trinity") specifiy Richard Lattimore's English translation; Mallison ("Smart") notes Derek Jacobi's modern aural versionGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Odýsseia_36
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
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- Henrik Ibsen
Et Dukkehjem_14
A Doll's House
1879Norwegian
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- John Irving
The Hotel New Hampshire_1
1981English
*Van Doren*
Henry James
- The Portrait of a Lady_14
originally published serially Oct. 1880-Nov. 1881 in Macmillan's and Nov. 1880-Dec. 1881 in the Atlantic MonthlyEnglish
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Educated*
- The Golden Bowl_6
1904English
*Powys* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Zane* *Newman*
- William James
The Principles of Psychology_6
1890English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Van Doren* *Read* *Adler* *Fadiman*
- Thomas Jefferson
Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America_4
The Declaration of Independence
1776English
*Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
James Joyce
- Dubliners_10
1914English
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman*
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_14
originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the EgoistEnglish
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart* *Deposit* *Newman*
- Ulysses_20
published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922English
*Classics* *France* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic*
Franz Kafka
- Der Prozess_16
The Trial
1925German
*France* *Read* *List* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman* *Educated*
- Das Schloss_9
The Castle
1926German
*Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Smart* *Newman*
- Die Verwandlung_14
The Metamorphosis
originally published 1915 in Die Weißen Blätter; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Stanley Corngold's English translationGerman
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Norway* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit*
- In der Strafkolonie_5
In the Penal Colony
1919German
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *GlobeMail* *Smart*
Immanuel Kant
- Prolegomena zu Einer Jeden Künftigen Metaphysic, die als Wissenschaft Wird Auftreten Können_2
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
1783German
*Classics* *Van Doren*
- Kritik der Reinen Vernunft_12
Critique of Pure Reason
1781; revised 1787German
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *GlobeMail* *World*
- Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft_4
Critique of Practical Reason
1788German
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre_3
The Doctrine of Right; The Science of Right
first volume of Die Metaphysik der Sitten (The Metaphysics of Morals), 1797German
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Zum Ewigen Frieden. Ein Philosophischer Entwurf_4
Perpetual Peace
1795; expanded 1796German
*Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Trinity*
- Johannes Kepler
Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae_2
originally published in three volumes: 1617, 1620, and 1621Latin
*Read* *Van Doren*
Rudyard Kipling
- The Jungle Book_4
1894English
*Powys* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Newman*
- The Second Jungle Book_3
1895English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Newman*
- 'The Cat That Walked by Itself'_1
part of Just-So Stories, 1902English
*Van Doren*
- Jean de La Fontaine
Fables_7
originally published in 12 volumes: first-sixth, 1668; seventh-eleventh, 1678; twelfth, 1694French
*Invitation* *France* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*
C S Lewis
- Out of the Silent Planet_1
1938English
*Van Doren*
- Perelandra_1
1943English
*Van Doren*
- That Hideous Strength_1
1945English
*Van Doren*
- Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address_2
1865English
*Zulli* *Van Doren*
John Locke
- Second Treatise [second part of Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, the False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government]_8
complete work originally anonymously published 1689English
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Great* *Reynolds* *Educated*
- Epistola de Tolerantia_4
1689; English version entitled A Letter Concerning Toleration published the same yearLatin
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_9
1689English
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Reynolds*
- George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge_7
1710; revised 1734English
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great*
- David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding_10
1748English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Great* *GlobeMail* *World*
- Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura_19
On the Nature of Things
First Century B.CLatin
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe_29
The Prince
1532Italian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Educated*
- James Madison
Constitution for the United States of America_4
1787Emglish
*Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
Thomas Mann
- Der Zauberberg_12
The Magic Mountain
1924; Mallison ("Smart") specifies John E Woods's English translationGerman
*Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart*
- Der Tod in Venedig_8
Death in Venice
1911German
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Graphic*
- Tonio Kröger_2
originally published in Neue Deutsche Rundschau, Feb. 1903German
*Van Doren* *Bloom*
- Mario und der Zauberer_3
Mario and the Magician
1929German
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Fadiman*
- Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. Der Memoiren, Erster Teil_2
1954German
*Van Doren* *Bloom*
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton_17
Meditations
written 161-80Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Great*
Andrew Marvell
Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Newman*
- 'An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland'_1
written 1650English
*Van Doren*
written ca. early 1650'sEnglish
*Van Doren* *Newman* *Graphic*
English
*Van Doren*
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei_13
The Communist Manifesto
1848German
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *Educated*
Herman Melville
- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale_26
1851English
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- Billy Budd, Foretopman_9
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
1924English
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John Stuart Mill
- On Liberty_16
1859English
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- Considerations on Representative Government_3
1861English
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- Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman_6
1949English
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John Milton
- Paradise Lost_27
1667; revised 1674English
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Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
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originally published in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
*Durant* *Van Doren* *Ward*
originally published in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
*Durant* *Van Doren* *Ward*
originally published in Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, 1638; revised for inclusion in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
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- Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England_12
1644English
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Molière
- L'École des Femmes_6
The School for Wives
1662French
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- Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux_13
The Misanthrope
1666French
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- Le Médecin Malgre Lui_5
1666French
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- Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur_15
1664French
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- Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais_26
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595French
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- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
De l'Esprit des Lois_8
The Spirit of Laws
originally anonymously published 1748French
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Isaac Newton
- Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica_9
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
1687; revised 1713 and 1726Latin
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- Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light_3
1704; Latin version, 1706English
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- Christian Huygens
Traité de la Lumière_3
1690French
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey Into Night_8
1956English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
George Orwell
- Animal Farm_8
1945English
*Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Smart* *Graphic*
- Nineteen Eighty-Four_17
1949English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Graphic* *Educated*
--
- The Oxford English Dictionary_1
originally entitled A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society, published in part from 1884 in fascicles; retitled 1895; first complete edition published in ten volumes, 1928; second edition, in twenty volumes, 1989English
*Van Doren*
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées_20
Thoughts
1669French
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Plato
- Politeia_24
The Republic
early Fourth Century B.CGreek
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- Symposium_10
early Fourth Century B CGreek
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- Euthyphro_6
early Fourth Century B CGreek
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- Apologia Socratis_16
The Apology
early Fourth Century B CGreek
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- Crito_13
early Fourth Century B CGreek
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- Phaedo_14
early Fourth Century B CGreek
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- Meno_4
early Fourth Century B CGreek
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- Protagoras_5
early Fourth Century B CGreek
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- Theaetetus_4
early Fourth Century B CGreek
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- Sophist_4
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Statesman_3
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Downs* *Van Doren* *Adler*
- Plutarch
Bìoi Paràllēloi_18
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
First CenturyGreek
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- Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit_1
1902English
*Van Doren*
- Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)
Almagest_4
Second CenturyGreek
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Great*
- François Rabelais
La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel_22
originally published in five volumes: Les Horribles et Épouvantables Faits et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua, 1532; La Vie Très Horrifique du Grand Gargantua, Père de Pantagruel, 1534; Le Tiers Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1546; Le Quart Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1552; Le Cinquiesme et Dernier Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1564; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux's English translationFrench
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondements de l'Inégalité Parmi les Hommes_7
Discourse on Inequality
1755French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity* *Dirda*
- Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique_17
The Social Contract
1762French
*Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Educated*
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Le Petit Prince_4
1943French
*Van Doren* *Kanigel* *Guardian* *Deposit*
J D Salinger
- Catcher in the Rye_8
1951English
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Guardian* *Zane* *Taylor* *Graphic*
originally published 1948-53 in the New Yorker, Harper's, and the Information World ReviewEnglish
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Zane* *Harvard*
William Shakespeare
- Hamlet_27
1602English
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- The First Part of Henry IV_13
1597English
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- The Second Part of Henry IV_12
1600English
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- As You Like It_12
1603English
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- Cymbeline_6
written ca. 1609English
*Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Othello_14
ca. 1604English
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- King Lear_21
1606English
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- Sonnets_8
1609; two sonnets originally published in The Passionate Pilgrim, 1599English
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- Much Ado About Nothing_10
ca. 1598-99English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman*
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre_4
ca. 1606-08English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Newman*
- The Winter's Tale_10
ca. 1611English
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- The Tempest_20
1611English
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George Bernard Shaw
- Pygmalion_7
1913English
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- Saint Joan_8
1923English
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Sophocles
- Antigone_22
ca. 441 B CGreek
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- Oidipous Tyrannos_25
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
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- Oidipous epi Kolōnō_20
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B CGreek
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- Aias_5
Ajax
ca. 450-430 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom*
- Philoktētēs_5
Philocetes
409 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom*
- Baruch Spinoza
Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata_15
Ethics
1677Latin
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Stendhal
- Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle_18
The Red and the Black
1830French
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- Le Chartreuse de Parme_12
The Charterhouse of Parma
1839French
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Jonathan Swift
- Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships_29
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735English
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- A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public_7
originally anonymously published 1729English
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- J M Synge
The Playboy of the Western World_5
1907English
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Cornelius Tacitus
- Annales_11
written First CenturyLatin
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- Historiae_8
written ca. 100-10Latin
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- Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologiae_13
Summa Theologica
written 1265-74Latin
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- Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War_23
early Fifth Century B.CGreek
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Leo Tolstoy
- Voyna i Mir"_25
War and Peace
originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869Russian
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- Smert' Ivana Il'icha_5
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
1886Russian
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Foundation* *Norway*
1906; sections Tales for Children, 1872 (three stories); Popular Stories (four stories); A Fairy Tale: The Story of Iván the Fool, 1885; Stories Written to Pictures, 1885 (three stories); Folk-Tales Retold, all 1886 except last, 1891 (seven stories); Adaptations From the French (two stories); Stories Given to Aid the Persecuted Jews, 1903 (three stories)Russian
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- Ivan Turgenev
Pervaâ Lûbov'_3
First Love
1860—Russian
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- Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_23
1884English
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Mark Van Doren
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Van Doren*
1967English
*Van Doren*
- That Shining Place_1
1969English
*Van Doren*
- Good Morning: Last Poems_1
1973English
*Van Doren*
part of Winter Diary and Other Poems, 1935English
*Van Doren*
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid_26
First Century B C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fagles's English translationLatin
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- Voltaire
Candide, ou L'Optimisme_23
1759; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Tobias Smollett's English translationFrench
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E B White
- Stuart Little_1
1945English
*Van Doren*
- Charlotte's Web_2
1952English
*Van Doren* *Guardian*
- T H White
The Once and Future King_2
originally published in five volumes, 1938-71English
*Van Doren* *Recommended*
- Alfred North Whitehead
Introduction to Mathematics_3
1911English
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- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass_20
1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892English
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- Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire_5
1947English
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Educated*
William Wordsworth
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
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- 'Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798'_3
originally published in Lyrical Ballads, 1798English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood'_4
originally entitled 'Ode', published in Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807; retitled and revised for inclusion in Poems, 1815; revised for inclusion in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, 1820English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman*
part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807English
*Van Doren* *Fadiman*
- The Prelude or, Growth of the Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem_9
1850; earlier versions written 1799 and 1805English
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originally published as part of Poems, 1845; part of 1850 edition of The PreludeEnglish
*Van Doren*
- 'Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth'_1
originally entitled 'Growth of Genius From the Influences of Natural Objects on the Imagination, in Boyhood and Early Youth', published Dec. 1809 in The Friend; retitled for inclusion in Poems, 1815; part of The Prelude, 1850
*Van Doren*
- 'She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways'_1
one of the "Lucy poems"; originally published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical BalladsEnglish
*Van Doren*
- 'I Traveled Among Unknown Men'_1
originally published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical BalladsEnglish
*Van Doren*
- 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Steal'_1
one of the "Lucy poems"; originally published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical BalladsEnglish
*Van Doren*
part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807English
*Van Doren*
- 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge: September 3, 1802'_1
part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807English
*Van Doren*
- 'It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free'_2
part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807English
*Van Doren* *Fadiman*
part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807English
*Van Doren*
part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807English
*Van Doren*
- 'The World Is Too Much With Us'_1
part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807English
*Van Doren*
English
*Van Doren*
English
*Van Doren*
- William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems_7
1798; expanded 1800 and 1802English
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- Austin Tappan Wright
Islandia_1
1942English
*Van Doren*
William Butler Yeats
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuriesEnglish
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Newman* *Educated*
- Last Poems and Two Plays_1
1939; includes the plays, The Death of Cuchulain, and PurgatoryEnglish
*Van Doren*
published separately 1916, in the New Statesman, Oct. 1920, and the Dial, Nov. 1920; included in Michael Robertes and the Dancer, 1920English
*Van Doren* *Recommended*
- 'Among School Children'_2
part of October Blast, 1927; the entirety of that book made part of The Tower, 1928English
*Van Doren* *Newman*
- Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems_7
1932English
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part of October Blast, 1927; published Spring 1928 in the Exile; October Blast made part of The Tower, 1928English
*Van Doren* *Recommended*
originally published Feb. 1939 in the Irish Times and the Irish Independent; published in part in the Irish Press that same month; included in Last Poems and Two Plays, 1939English
*Van Doren* *Fadiman*
- 'The Ballad of Father Gilligan'_1
originally entitled 'Father Gilligan (A Legend Told by the People of Castleisland, Kerry)', published Jul. 1890 in the Scots Observer; retitled 'Father Gilligan' for inclusion in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, 1892; retitled 'The Ballad of Father Gilligan' for inclusion in Poems, 1895English
*Van Doren*
- 'To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing'_1
part of Poems Written in Discouragement, 1913; the entirety of that book made part of Responsibilities: Poems and a Play, 1914; also published May 1914 in PoetryEnglish
*Van Doren*
part of Nine Poems, 1918; that book made part of the expanded second edition of The Wild Swans at Coole, 1919English
*Van Doren*
originally published Nov. 1920 in the Dial and the Nation; included in Michael Robartes and the Dancer, 1921English
*Van Doren* *Newman* *Graphic*
originally published Jun. 1924 in the Dial and Aug. 1924 in To-Morrow; included in The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems, 1924; that book (except 'The Cat and the Moon') made part of The Tower, 1928; also published as 'Leda' in the first version of A Vision, 1926English
*Van Doren* *Recommended*
part of Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems, 1932; entitled 'For Anne Gregory' for inclusion in the Spectator, Dec. 1932English
*Van Doren* *Newman*
part of the second expanded edition of The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1912English
*Van Doren*
- 'The Wild Swans at Coole'_1
originally published Jun. 1917 in the Little Review; part of The Wild Swans, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, 1917English
*Van Doren*
originally published Jun. 1927 in the Criterion and the New Republic; part of October Blast, 1927; that book made part of The Tower, 1928English
*Van Doren*
- 'Down by the Salley Gardens'_1
part of The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, 1889; included in Poems, 1895English
*Van Doren*
part of The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, 1892; included in Poems, 1895English
*Van Doren*
originally entitled 'Romance in Ireland', published Sep. 1913 in the Irish Times; retitled for inclusion in Poems of Discouragement, 1913; that book made part of Responsibilties: Poems and a Play, 1914English
*Van Doren* *Fadiman*
- 'A Prayer for My Daughter'_1
originally published Nov. 1919 in the Irish Statesman and Poetry; included in Michael Robartes and the Dancer, 1920English
*Van Doren*