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POETRY / VERSE 1. Gilgamesh (trans. David Ferry) 2. The Iliad - Homer (trans. Richmond Lattimore) 3. The Odyssey - Homer (trans. Robert Fitzgerald) 4. The Works and Days - Hesiod (trans. Richmond Lattimore) 5. Theogony - Hesiod (trans. Richmond Lattimore) 7. The Odes - Pindar (trans. Richmond Lattimore) 9. Idylls - Theocritus (trans. Daryl Hine) 10. The Way Things Are - Lucretius (trans. Rolfe Humphries) 11. Odes - Horace (trans. James Michie) 12. Epistles - Horace 13. Satires - Horace 14. Satires - Persius (trans. W.S. Merwin) 15. Attis - Catullus (trans. Horace Gregory) 17. The Aeneid - Virgil (trans. Robert Fitzgerald) 18. Eclogues - Virgil (trans. John Dryden) 19. Georgics - Virgil (trans. John Dryden) 20. Pharsalia - Lucan 21. Metamorphoses - Ovid (trans. George Sandys) 22. The Art of Love - Ovid 23. Epistulae heroidum - Ovid (trans. Daryl Hine) 24. Satires - Juvenal 25. Epigrams - Martial (trans. James Michie) 26. The Poetic Edda (trans. Lee Hollander) 27. The Nibelungen Lied 28. Parzival - Wolfram con Eschenbach 29. Yvain: The Knight of the Lion - Chretien de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel) 30. Beowulf (trans. Charles W. Kennedy) 31. The Poem of the Cid (trans. W.S. Merwin) 32. The Divine Comedy - Dante (trans. Laurence Binyon) 33. The New Life - Dante (trans. Dante Gabriel Rossetti) 34. Lyric Poems - Petrarch (trans. Robert M. Durling) 36. Orlando innamorato - Matteo Maria Boiardo 37. Orlando furioso - Ludovico Ariosto 38. Sonnets and Madrigals - Michelangelo Buonarroti (trans. Wordsworth Longfellow, Em 40. Jerusalem Delivered - Torquato Tasso 41. Poems - Tommaso Campanella 42 The Lusiads - Luis de Camoens (trans. Leonard Bacon) 6. Poems by Archilocos, Sappho, and Alkman (trans. Guy Davenport) 8. Hymns and Epigrams - Callimachus 16. Other poems trans. By Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, and others 35. Selected Poems by Petrarch (trans. Mark Musa) 39. Sonnets and Madrigals - Gaspara Stampa 43. Poetry by Antonio Ferreira (trans. T.F. Earle in the book "The Muse Reborn")

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POETRY / VERSE1. Gilgamesh (trans. David Ferry) 2. The Iliad - Homer (trans. Richmond Lattimore)3. The Odyssey - Homer (trans. Robert Fitzgerald)4. The Works and Days - Hesiod (trans. Richmond Lattimore)5. Theogony - Hesiod (trans. Richmond Lattimore)

7. The Odes - Pindar (trans. Richmond Lattimore)

9. Idylls - Theocritus (trans. Daryl Hine)10. The Way Things Are - Lucretius (trans. Rolfe Humphries)11. Odes - Horace (trans. James Michie)12. Epistles - Horace 13. Satires - Horace14. Satires - Persius (trans. W.S. Merwin)15. Attis - Catullus (trans. Horace Gregory)

17. The Aeneid - Virgil (trans. Robert Fitzgerald)18. Eclogues - Virgil (trans. John Dryden)19. Georgics - Virgil (trans. John Dryden)20. Pharsalia - Lucan21. Metamorphoses - Ovid (trans. George Sandys)22. The Art of Love - Ovid23. Epistulae heroidum - Ovid (trans. Daryl Hine)24. Satires - Juvenal25. Epigrams - Martial (trans. James Michie)26. The Poetic Edda (trans. Lee Hollander)27. The Nibelungen Lied28. Parzival - Wolfram con Eschenbach29. Yvain: The Knight of the Lion - Chretien de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)30. Beowulf (trans. Charles W. Kennedy)31. The Poem of the Cid (trans. W.S. Merwin)32. The Divine Comedy - Dante (trans. Laurence Binyon)33. The New Life - Dante (trans. Dante Gabriel Rossetti)34. Lyric Poems - Petrarch (trans. Robert M. Durling)

36. Orlando innamorato - Matteo Maria Boiardo37. Orlando furioso - Ludovico Ariosto38. Sonnets and Madrigals - Michelangelo Buonarroti (trans. Wordsworth Longfellow, Emerson, and others)

40. Jerusalem Delivered - Torquato Tasso41. Poems - Tommaso Campanella42 The Lusiads - Luis de Camoens (trans. Leonard Bacon)

6. Poems by Archilocos, Sappho, and Alkman (trans. Guy Davenport)

8. Hymns and Epigrams - Callimachus

16. Other poems trans. By Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, and others

35. Selected Poems by Petrarch (trans. Mark Musa)

39. Sonnets and Madrigals - Gaspara Stampa

43. Poetry by Antonio Ferreira (trans. T.F. Earle in the book "The Muse Reborn")

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44. Coplas - Jorge Manrique (trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

46. Poems - Fray Luis de Leon (trans. Willis Barnstone)47. Poems - St. John of the Cross (trans. John Frederick Nims)48. Sonnets - Luis de Gongora 49. Soledades - Luis de Gongora50. Poems - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz51. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer 52. Troilus and Criseyde - Geoffrey Chaucer53. Poems - William Dunbar54. Poems - John Skelton55. Poems - Sir Thomas Wyatt56. Poems - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey57. Astrophel amd Stella - Sir Philip Sidney58. Poems - Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke59. The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser60. The Minor Poems - Edmund Spenser61. Poems - Sir Walter Raleigh62. Poems - Christopher Marlow63. Poems - Michael Drayton64. Poems - Samuel Daniel65. Poems - William Shakespeare66. Songs - Thomas Campion67. Poems - John Donne68. Poems - Ben Johnson69. Poems - Robert Herrick70. Poems - Thomas Carew71. Poems - Richard Lovelace72. Poems - Andrew Marvell73. The Temple - George Herbert74. Poems - Thomas Traherne75. Thanksgivings - Thomas Traherne76. Poetry - Henry Vaughan77. Poems - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester78. Poems - Richard Crashaw79. Poems - George Chapman80. Paradise Lost - John Milton81. Paradise Regained - John Milton82. Lycidas - John Milton83. Hudibras - Samuel Butler84. Poetry - John Dryden85. Poems - Jonathan Swift86. Poems - Alexander Pope

88. Poems - William Collins

45. Satirical Letter of Censure - Francisco de Quevedo (in J.M. Cohen's Penguin Book of Spanish Verse)

87. Poems - Samuel Johnson

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89. Poems - Thomas Gray90. Jubilate Agno - Christopher Smart91. A Song to David - Christopher Smart92. The Traveller - Oliver Goldsmith93. The Deserted Village - Oliver Goldsmith94. Poetical Works - William Cowper95. Poetical Works - George Crabbe96. The Song of Roland97. Poems - Francois Villon (trans. Galway Kinnell)98. The Regrets - Joachim Du Bellay (trans. C.H. Sisson)99. Delie - Maurice Sceve100. Odes - Pierre de Ronsard101. Elegies - Pierre de Ronsard102. Sonnets - Pierre de Ronsard103. Les Tragiques - Agrippa d'Aubigne104. The Art of Poetry - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux105. Lutrin - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux106. The Lisbon Earthquake - Voltaire107. Poems - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. Michael Hamburger, Christopher Middleton, and others)108. Roman Elegies - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. Michael Hamburger)109. Venetian Epigrams - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. Michael Hamburger)110. West-Eastern Divan - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. Michael Hamburger)111. Hymns and Fragments - Friedrich Holderlin (trans. Richard Sieburth)112. Selected Poems - Friedrich Holderlin (trans. Michael Hamburger)113. On Sepulchres - Ugo Foscolo (trans. Thomas G. Bergin)114. Odes - Ugo Foscolo115. The Graces - Ugo Foscolo116. Poems - Giacomo Leopardi117. Roman Sonnets - Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli (trans. Harold Norse)118. Hymn to Satan - Giosue Carducci119. Barbarian Odes - Giosue Carducci120. Rhymes and Rhythms - Giosue Carducci121. Poems - Gustavo Adolfo Becquer122. Meditations - Alphonse de Lamartine123. Poems - Aldred de Vigny124. The Distance, The Shadows: Selected Poems - Victor Hugo (trans. Harry Guest)125. The End of Satan - Victor Hugo126. God - Victor Hugo127. Poems - Alfred de Musset128. The Chimeras - Gerard de Nerval (trans. Peter Jay)129. Enamels and Cameos - Theophile Gautier130. The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire (trans. Richard Howard)131. Paris Spleen - Charles Baudelaire132. Selected Poetry - Stephane Mallarme133. Selected Poems - Paul Verlaine

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134. Complete Works - Arthur Rimbaud (trans. Paul Schmidt)135. Les Amours jaunes - Tristan Corbiere136. Selected Writings - Jules Laforgue (trans. William Jay Smith)137. Poems - Robert Burns138. The Complete Poetry - William Blake139. Poems - William Wordsworth140. The Prelude - William Wordsworth141. Poems - Samuel Taylor Coleridge142. Don Juan - Lord Byron143. Poems - Lord Byron144. Poems - Walter Savage Landor145. Poems - Percy Bysshe Shelley146. Poems - John Clare147. Poems - John Keats148. Poems - Thomas Lovell Beddoes149. Nepenthe - George Darley150. Poems - George Darley151. Poems - Thomas Hood152. Poems - Thomas Wade153. Poems - Robert Browning154. The Ring and the Book - Robert Browning155. Poems - Alfred, Lord Tennyson156. Poems - Dante Gabriel Rossetti

158. Poems - Matthew Arnold159. Poems - Arthur Hugh Clough160. Poems - Christina Rossetti161. Poems - Gerard Manley Hopkins162. Sartor Resartus - Thomas Carlyle163. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Edward FitzGerald

165. Complete Nonsense - Edward Lear166. Poems - Algernon Charles Swinburne167. Poems - Emily Bronte168. Poems - George Meredith169. Poems - Francis Thompson170. Poems - Lionel Johnson171. Poems - Robert Bridges172. Collected Poems - Gilbert Keith Chesterton173. Bab Ballads - W.S. Gilbert174. Odes - Coventry Patmore175. The City of Dreadful Night - James Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis)176. Ballads and Songs - John Davidson177. Complete Poems - Ernest Dowson

157. Translations of Early Italian and French Poets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

164. Poems in the Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

178. Verses in the Early Romances by William Morris

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179. Poems - William Morris180. The Earthly Paradise - William Morris181. Hymns to the Night - Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenburg)182. Selected Poems - Eduard Morike (trans. Christopher Middleton)183. Poems - Theodor Storm184. Complete Poems - Heinrich Heine185. Selected Poems - Stefan George186. Collected Poetry - Aleksandr Pushkin (trans. Walter Arndt)187. Eugene Onegin - Aleksandr Pushkin (trans. Charles Johnston)188. Narrative Poems - Aleksandr Pushkin (trans. Charles Johnston)189. Narrative Poems - Mikhail Lermontov (trans. Charles Johnston)190. The Twelve and Other Poems - Aleksandr Blok (trans. Anselm Hollo)191. Collected Poems - William Cullen Bryant192. Collected Poems - John Greenleaf Whittier193. Poems - Ralph Waldo Emerson194. Complete Poems - Emily Dickinson195. Leaves of Grass, first edition - Walt Whitman196. Leaves of Grass, third edition - Walt Whitman197. The Complete Poems - Walt Whitman198. Collected Poems - Herman Melville199. Clarel - Herman Melville

202. The Cricket and Other Poems - Frederick Goddard Tuckerman203. Poems - David Henry Thoreau204. Selected Poems - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow205. Poems - Sidney Lanier206. Poems - Stephen Crane207. Poems - Trumbull Stickney

200. Poems in Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe201. Poetry inEssays and Poems by Jones Very

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2. The Oresteia - Aeschylus (trans. Robert Fagles)3. Seven against Thebes - Aeschylus (trans. Anthony Hecht and Helen H. Bacon)4. Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus5. The Persians - Aeschylus6. The Suppliant Women - Aeschylus7. Oedipus the King - Sophocles (trans. Stephen Berg and Diskin Clay)8. Oedipus at Colonus - Sophocles (trans. Robert Fitzgerald)9. Antigone - Sophocles (trans. Robert Fagles)10. Electra - Sophocles11. Ajax - Sophocles12. Women of Trachis - Sophocles13. Philoctetes - Sophocles14. Cyclops - Euripides (trans. William Arrowsmith)15. Heracles - Euripides (trans. William Arrowsmith)16. Alcestis - Euripides (trans. William Arrowsmith)17. Hecuba - Euripides (trans. William Arrowsmith)18. The Bacchae - Euripides (trans. William Arrowsmith)19. Orestes - Euripides (trans. William Arrowsmith)20. Andromache - Euripides (trans. William Arrowsmith)21. Medea - Euripides (trans. Rex Warner)22. Ion - Euripides (trans. H.D.)23. Hippolytus - Euripides (trans. Robert Bagg)24. Helen - Euripides (trans. Richmond Lattimore)25. Iphigeneia at Aulis - Euripides (trans. W.S. Merwin and George Dimock)26. The Birds - Aristophanes (trans. William Arrowsmith)27. The Clouds - Aristophanes (trans. William Arrowsmith)28. The Frogs - Aristophanes29. Lysistrata - Aristophanes30. the Knights - Aristophanes31. The Wasps - Aristophanes

33. The Girl from Samos - Menander (trans. Eric G. Turner)34. Pseudolus - Plautus35. The Braggart Soldier - Plautus36. The Rope - Plautus37. Amphitryon - Plautus38. The Girl from Andros - Terence39. The Eunuch - Terence40. The Mother-in-Law - Terence41. Medea - Seneca42. Hercules furens - Seneca (trans. Thomas Heywood)43. Troades - Seneca

1. Dramatic version of The Mahabharata - Jean-Claude Carriere (trans. Peter Brook)

32. The Assemblywomen (or The Parliament of Women) - Aristophanes

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44. Phoenissae - Seneca45. Phaedra - Seneca46. Thyestes - Seneca47. Hercules Oetaeus - Seneca48. Agamemnon - Seneca49. Oedipus - Seneca50. The Mandrake, a Comedy - Niccolo Machiavelli51. The Servant of Two Masters - Carlo Goldoni52. Saul - Vittorio Alfieri53. La Celestina - Fernando de Rojas (trans. James Mabbe, adapted by Eric Bentley)54. La Dorotea - Lope de Vega (trans. Alan S. Trueblood and Edwin Honig)55. Fuente ovejuna - Lope de Vega (trans. Roy Cambell)56. Lost in a Mirror - Lope de Vega (trans. Adrian Mitchell)57. The Knight of Olmedo - Lope de Vega (trans. Willard F. King)58. The Trickster of Seville - Tirso de Molina (trans. Roy Campbell)59. Life Is a Dream - Pedro Calderon de la Barca (trans. Roy Campbell)60. The Mayor of Zalamea - Pedro Calderon de la Barca61. The Mighty Magician - Pedro Calderon de la Barca62. The Doctor of His Own Honor - Pedro Calderon de la Barca63. Dido, Queen of Carthage - Christopher Marlowe64. Tamburlaine, Part 1 and 2 - Christopher Marlowe65. The Jew of Malta - Christopher Marlowe66. Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe67. Edward II - Christopher Marlowe68. The Massacre at Paris - Christopher Marlowe69. The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd70. The Two Gentlemen of Verona - William Shakespeare71. The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare72. Henry VI Parts 1, 2, and 3 - William Shakespeare73. Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare74. Richard III - William Shakespeare75. The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare76. Love's Labours Lost - William Shakespeare77. Richard II - William Shakespeare78. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare79. A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare80. King John - William Shakespeare81. The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare82. Henry IV Part 1 and 2 - William Shakespeare83. The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare84. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare85. Henry V - William Shakespeare86. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare87. As You Like It - William Shakespeare88. Hamlet - William Shakespeare

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89. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare90. Troilus and Cressida - William Shakespeare91. Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare92. Othello - William Shakespeare93. King Lear - William Shakespeare94. Timon of Athens - William Shakespeare95. Macbeth - William Shakespeare96. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare97. All's Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare98. Pericles, Prince of Tyre - William Shakespeare99. Coriolanus - William Shakespeare100. The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare101. Cymbeline - William Shakespeare102. The Tempest - William Shakespeare103. Henry VIII - William Shakespeare104. The Two Noble Kinsmen - William Shakespeare105. A Tale of a Tub - Ben Johnson106. The Isle of Dogs - Ben Johnson107. The Case is Altered - Ben Johnson108. Every Man in his Humor - Ben Johnson109. Every Man out of his Humor - Ben Johnson110. Cynthia's Revels - Ben Johnson111. The Poetaster - Ben Johnson112. Sejanus his Fall - Ben Johnson113. Eastward Ho - Ben Johnson114. Volpone - Ben Johnson115. Epicoene, or the Silent Woman - Ben Johnson116. The Alchemist - Ben Johnson117. Catiline His Conspiracy - Ben Johnson118. Bartholomew Fair - Ben Johnson119. The Devil is an Ass - Ben Johnson120. The Staple of News - Ben Johnson121. The New Inn, or The Light Heart - Ben Johnson122. The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled - Ben Johnson123. The Sad Shepherd - Ben Johnson124. Mortimer His Fall - Ben Johnson125. Masques - Ben Johnson126. The Woman Hater - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher127. Cupid's Revenge - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher128. Philaster, or Love Lies A-Bleeding - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher129. The Maid's Tragedy - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher130. A King and No King - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher131. The Captain - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher132. The Scornful Lady - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher133. Love's Pilgrimage - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

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134. The Noble Gentleman - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher135. Thierry and Theodoret - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher136. The Coxcomb - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher137. Beggars' Bush - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher138. Love's Cure - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher139. The Blind Beggar of Alexandria - George Chapman140. An Humorous Day's Mirth - George Chapman141. All Fools - George Chapman142. May-day - George Chapman143. The Gentleman Usher - George Chapman144. Monsieur D'Olive - George Chapman 145. The Widow's Tears - George Chapman146. The Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn - George Chapman147. The Ball - George Chapman148. Sir Giles Goosecap - George Chapman149. Bussy D'Ambois - George Chapman150. The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois - George Chapman151. The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron - George Chapman152. Chabot, admiral of France - George Chapman153. Caesar and Pompey - George Chapman154. Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany - George Chapman155. Revenge for Honour - George Chapman156. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore - John Ford157. The Malcontent - John Marston158. The White Devil - John Webster159. The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster160. The Changeling - Thomas Middleton and William Rowley161. The Revenger's Tragedy - Cyril Tourneur162. A New Way To Pay Old Debts - Philip Massinger163. Comus - John Milton164. Samson Agonistes - John Milton165. The Wild Gallant - John Dryden166. The Indian Emperour - John Dryden167. The Tempest - John Dryden168. An Evening's Love - John Dryden169. Tyrannick Love - John Dryden170. The Conquest of Granada - John Dryden171. The Assignation - John Dryden172. Marriage a la mode - John Dryden173. Amboyna - John Dryden174. The Mistaken Husband - John Dryden175. Aureng-zebe - John Dryden176. All for Love - John Dryden177. Oedipus - John Dryden178. Amphitryon - John Dryden

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179. Venice Preserv'd - Thomas Otway180. The Way of the World - William Congreve181. Love for Love - William Congreve182. The Man of Mode - Sir George Etherege183. The Beggar's Opera - John Gay184. The Beaux' Stratagem - George Farquhar185. The Recruiting Officer - George Farquhar186. The Country Wife - William Wycherley187. The Plain Dealer - William Wycherley188. She Stoops to Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith189. The School for Scandal - Richard Brinsley Sheridan190. The Rivals - Richard Brinsley Sheridan191. Mark Antony - Robert Garnier (trans. Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke)192. The Jewesses - Robert Garnier193. The Cid - Pierre Corneille194. Polyeucte - Pierre Corneille195. Nicomede - Pierre Corneille196. Horace - Pierre Corneille197. Cinna - Pierre Corneille198. Rodogune - Pierre Corneille199. The Misanthrope - Moliere (trans. Richard Wilbur)200. Tartuffe - Moliere (trans. Richard Wilbur)201. The School for Wives - Moliere (trans. Richard Wilbur)202. The Learned Ladies - Moliere (trans. Richard Wilbur)203. Don Juan - Moliere (trans. Donald Frame)204. School for Husbands - Moliere (trans. Donald Frame)205. Ridiculous Precieuses - Moliere (trans. Donald Frame)206. The Would-Be Gentleman - Moliere207. The Miser - Moliere208. The Imaginary Invalid - Moliere209. Phaedra - Jean Racine (trans. Richard Wilbur)210. Andromache - Jean Racine (trans. Richard Wilbur)211. Britannicus - Jean Racine (trans. C.H. Sisson)212. Athaliah - Jean Racine (trans. C.H. Sisson)213. Robin, bachelor of love - Pierre Carlet de Marivaux214. Double infidelity - Pierre Carlet de Marivaux215. The game of love and chance - Pierre Carlet de Marivaux216. The wiles of love - Pierre Carlet de Marivaux217. Sylvia hears a secret - Pierre Carlet de Marivaux218. The test - Pierre Carlet de Marivaux219. Faust, Parts 1 and 2 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. Stuart Atkins)220. Egmont - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. Willard Trask)221. Iphigenia in Tauris - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe222. Torquato Tasso - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. Michael Hamburger)223. The Natural Daughter - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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224. Pandora - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. Michael Hamburger)225. Hermann and Dorothea - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 226. The Robbers - Friedrich Schiller227. Mary Stuart - Friedrich Schiller228. Wallenstein - Friedrich Schiller229. Don Carlos - Friedrich Schiller230. Nathan the Wise - Gotthold Lessing231. Amphitryon - Heinrich von Kleist (trans. Martin Greenberg)232. The Broken Jug - Heinrich von Kleist (trans. Martin Greenberg)233. Prince of Homburg - Heinrich von Kleist (trans. Martin Greenberg)234. The Tragedy of Robert Guiscard - Heinrich von Kleist (trans. Martin Greenberg)235. Chatterton - Alfred de Vigny236. Lorenzaccio - Alfred de Musset237. Brand - Henrik Ibsen (trans. Geoffrey Hill)238. Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen (trans. Rolf Fjelde)239. Emperor and Galilean - Henrik Ibsen240. Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen241. The Master Builder - Henrik Ibsen242. The Lady from the Sea - Henrik Ibsen243. When We Dead Awaken - Henrik Ibsen244. To Damascus - August Strindberg245. Miss Julie - August Strindberg246. The Father - August Strindberg247. The Dance of Death - August Strindberg248. The Ghost Sonata - August Strindberg249. A Dream Play - August Strindberg250. Death's Jest-Book - Thomas Lovell Beddoes251. La Guida di Bragia - Lewis Carroll252. Thespis - W.S. Gilbert253. Trial by Jury - W.S. Gilbert254. The Sorcerer - W.S. Gilbert255. H.M.S. Pinafore - W.S. Gilbert256. The Pirates of Penzance - W.S. Gilbert257. Patience - W.S. Gilbert258. Iolanthe - W.S. Gilbert259. Princess Ida - W.S. Gilbert260. The Mikado - W.S. Gilbert261. Ruddigore - W.S. Gilbert262. The Yeomen of the Guard - W.S. Gilbert263. The Gondoliers - W.S. Gilbert264. Utopia, Limited - W.S. Gilbert265. The Grand Duke - W.S. Gilbert266. Vera; or, The Nihilist - Oscar Wilde267. The Duchess of Padua - Oscar Wilde268. Lady Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde

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269. A Florentine Tragedy - Oscar Wilde270. A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde271. Salome - Oscar Wilde272. La Sainte Courtesane - Oscar Wilde273. An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde274. The Importance of Being Earnet - Oscar Wilde275. Danton's Death - Georg Buchner276. Woyzeck - Georg Buchner277. The Ring of the Nibelung - Richard Wagner278. Boris Godunov - Aleksandr Pushkin279. The Government Inspector - Nikolay Gogol (trans. Adrian Mitchell)280. A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev281. The Power of Darkness - Leo Tolstoy282. The Storm - Aleksandr Ostrovsky283. The Sea Gull - Anton Chekhov284. Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov285. Three Sisters - Anton Chekhov286. The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov

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PROSE NARRATIVE / NOVEL1. Fables - Aesop2. Satyricon - Petronius3. The Golden Ass - Apuleius (trans. Robert Graves)4. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night5. The Prose Edda - Snorri Sturluson6. Prison of Love - Diego de San Pedro7. The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio8. Lazarillo de Tormes (trans. W.S. Merwin)9. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (trans. Samuel Putnam)10. Exemplary Stories - Miguel de Cervantes11. Le Morte D'Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory12. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia - Sir Philip Sidney13. The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe14. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan15. A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift16. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift17. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia - Samuel Johnson18. The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith19. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe20. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe21. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe22. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson23. Pamela - Samuel Richardson24. Sir Charles Grandison - Samuel Richardson25. Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding26. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Henry Fielding27. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett28. The Adventures of Roderick Random - Tobias Smollett29. The Life and Opinons of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne30. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy - Laurence Sterne31. Evelina - Fanny Burney32. Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais (trans. Donal Frame)33. Heptameron - Marguerite de Navarre34. Fables - Jean de La Fontaine35. La Nouvelle Heloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau36. Zadig - Voltaire37. Candide - Voltaire38. Manon Lescaut - Abbe Prevost (trans. Donald Frame)39. The Princess of Cleves - Madame de La Fayette40. Dangerous Liaisons - Choderlos de Laclos41. Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe42. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Mayer, and W.H. Auden)43. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship - Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

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44. Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering - Johan Wolfgang von Goethe45. Stories - Heinrich von Kleist46. Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis - Ugo Foscolo47. The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni48. Little Novels of Sicily - Giovanni Verga (trans. D.H. Lawrence)49. Mastro-Don Gesualdo - Giovanni Verga (trans. D.H. Lawrence)50. The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga (trans. Raymond Rosenthal)51. The She-Wold and Other Stories - Giovanni Verga (trans. Giovaqnni Cecchetti)52. Fortunata and Jacinta - Benito Perez Galdos53. La Regenta - Leopoldo Alas ("Clarin")54. The Maias - Jose Maria de Eca de Queiros55. Adolphe - Benjamin Constant56. Atala - Francois-Auguste-Rene de Chateaubriand (trans. Irving Putter)57. Rene - Francois-Auguste-Rene de Chateaubriand (trans. Irving Putter)58. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo59. Notre-Dame of Paris - Victor Hugo60. Toilers of the Sea - Victor Hugo61. Sylvie - Gerard de Nerval62. Mademoiselle de Maupin - Theophile Gautier63. The Girl with the Golden Eyes - Honore de Balzac64. Louis Lambert - Honore de Balzac65. The Wild Ass's Skin - Honore de Balzac66. Old Goriot - Honore de Balzac67. Cousin Bette - Honore de Balzac68. A Harlot High and Low - Honore de Balzac69. Eugenie Grandet - Honore de Balzac70. Ursule Mirouet - Honore de Balzac71. The Red and the Black - Stendhal72. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal73. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (trans. Francis Steegmuller)74. Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert75. Salammbo - Gustave Flaubert76. A Simple Soul - Gustave Flaubert77. The Haunted Pool - George Sand78. Selected Short Stories - Guy de Maupassant79. Germinal - Emile Zola80. L'Assommoir - Emile Zola81. Nana - Emile Zola82. Waverley - Sir Walter Scott83. The Heart of Midlothian - Sir Walter Scott84. Redgauntlet - Sir Walter Scott85. Old Mortality - Sir Walter Scott86. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen87. Emma - Jane Austen88. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

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89. Persuasion - Jane Austen90. Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth91. The Entail - John Galt92. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell93. Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell94. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell95. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified sinner - James Hogg96. Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Maturin97. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley98. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club - Charles Dickens99. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens100. The Adventures of Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens101. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens102. Bleak House - Charles Dickens103. Hard Times - Charles Dickens104. Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens105. Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens106. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens107. Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens108. Christmas Stories - Charles Dickens109. Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens110. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens111. The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens112. Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock113. Gryll Grange - Thomas Love Peacock114. Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater115. The Warden - Anthony Trollope116. Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope117. Doctor Thorne - Anthony Trollope118. Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope119. The Small House at Allington - Anthony Trollope120. The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope121. Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope122. Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope123. The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope124. Phineas Redux - Anthony Trollope125. The Prime Minister - Anthony Trollope126. The Duke's Children - Anthony Trollope127. Orley Farm - Anthony Trollope128. The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope

130. New Grub Street - George Gissing131. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte132. Villette - Charlotte Bronte133. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

129. Prose narratives and Novels in the Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

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134. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray135. The History of Henry Esmond - William Makepeace Thackeray136. The Egoist - George Meredith137. The Man Who Was Thursday - Gilbert Keith Chesterton138. Erewhon - Samuel Butler139. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler140. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins141. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins142. No Name - Wilkie Collins143. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde144. Adam Bede - George Eliot145. Silas Marner - George Eliot146. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot147. Middlemarch - George Eliot148. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot149. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson150. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson151. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson152. The New Arabian Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson153. The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson154. Weir of Hermiston - Robert Louis Stevenson

156. The Well at the World's End - William Morris157. News from Nowhere - William Morris158. Dracula - Bram Stoker159. Lilith - George Macdonald160. At the Back of the North Wind - George Macdonald161. Fairy Tales - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm162. Mozart on His Way to Prague - Eduard Morike163. Immensee - Theodor Storm164. Green Henry - Gottfried Keller165. Tales - Gottfried Keller166. The Devil's Elixir - E.T.W. Hoffmann167. Tales - E.T.W. Hoffmann168. The Black Spider - Jeremias Gotthelf169. The Indian Summer - Adalbert Stifter170. Tales - Adalbert Stifter171. Effi Briest - Theodor Fontane172. Complete Prose Tales - Aleksandr Pushkin173. The Complete Tales - Nikolay Gogol174. Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol175. A Hero f Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov176. A Family Chronicle - Sergey Aksakov177. Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov178. A Sportsman's Notebook - Ivan Turgenev (trans. Charles and Natasha Hepburn)

155. Prose in the Early Romances of William Morris

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179. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev180. On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev181. First Love - Ivan Turgenev182. Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky183. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky184. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky185. The Possessed (The Devils) - Fyodor Dostoevsky186. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky187. Short Novels - Fyodor Dostoevsky188. The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy189. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy190. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy191. Short Novels - Leo Tolstoy192. Tales - Nikolay Leskov193. What Is to Be Done? - Nikolay Chernyshevsky194. The Tales - Anton Chekhov

196. The Deerslayer - James Fenimore Cooper197. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne198. Tales and Sketches - Nathaniel Hawthorne199. The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne200. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville201. The Piazza Tales - Herman Melville202. Billy Budd - Herman Melville

204. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym - Edgar Allan Poe

206. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott207. The Short Fiction - Charles W. Chesnutt208. The Awakening - Kate Chopin209. The Rise of Silas Lapham - William Dean Howells210. A Modern Instance - William Dean Howells211. The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane212. Stories - Stephen Crane213. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James214. The Bostonians - Henry James215. The Princess Casamassima - Henry James216. The Awkward Age - Henry James217. Short Novels and Tales - Henry James218. The Ambassadors - Henry James219. The Wings of the Dove - Henry James220. The Golden Bowl - Henry James221. The Damnation of Theron Ware - Harold Frederic222. The Complete Short Stories - Mark Twain223. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

195. Short stories in The Sketch Book by Washington Irving

203. Prose in Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

205. Prose narratives in the Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce

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224. The Devil's Racetrack - Mark Tawin225. Number Forty-Four: The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain226. Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain227. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain228. The Octopus - Frank Norris229. The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories - Sarah Orne Jewett

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LITERARY NONFICTION1. The Histories - Herodotus2. The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides3. Lives - Plutarch (trans. John Dryden)4. Satires - Lucian5. Selections - Petrarch (trans. Mark Musa)6. Notebooks - Leonardo da Vinci7. The Book of the Courtier - Baldassare Castiglione8. Lives of the Painters - Giorgio Vasari9. Autobiography - Benvenuto Cellini10. Essays - Francis Bacon11. The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton12. Religio Medici - Sir Thomas Browne13. Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall - Sir Thomas Browne14. The Garden of Cyrus - Sir Thomas Browne15. The Compleat Angler - Izaak Walton16. Brief Lives - John Aubrey17. Shorter Prose Works - Jonathan Swift18. Life of Johnson - James Boswell19. Journals - James Boswell

21. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon22. The Spectator - Joseph Addison and Richard Steele23. Chronicles - Jean Froissart24. Essays - Michel de Montaigne (trans. Donald Frame)25. Memoirs - Philippe de Commynes26. Maxims - Francois de La Rochefoucauld27. Funerary Orations - Jacques-Benigne Bossuet28. The Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau29. Letters on England - Voltaire30. Dichtung und Wahrheit - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe31. Italian Journey - Johan Wolfgang von Goethe32. Essays and Dialogues - Giacomo Leopardi (trans. Giovanni Cecchetti)33. The Moral Essays - Giacomo Leopardi (trans. Howard Norse)34. The Red Notebook - Benjamin Constant35. Aurelia - Gerard de Nerval36. On Love - Stendhal37. Selected Prose - Stephen Mallarme38. The Complete Prose - William Blake

40. The Grasmere Journal - Dorothy Wordsworth41. Essays - William Hazlitt42. Imaginary Conversations - Walter Savage Landor43. Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey

20. Prose (esp. essays, letters, journal entries) in the complete Works of Samuel Johnson

39. Autobiographical material in the Prose of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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44. Selected Prose - Thomas De Quincey45. Essays - Charles Lamb46. Letters - John Keats47. Essays - Matthew Arnold48. Prose - Gerard Manley Hopkins49. Selected Prose - Thomas Carlyle50. Modern Painters - John Ruskin51. The Stones of Venice - John Ruskin52. Unto This Last - John Ruskin53. Imaginary Portraits - Walter Pater54. Autobiography - John Stuart Mill

56. Letters - Algernon Charles Swinburne57. Letters - Oscar Wilde58. Essays - Robert Louis Stevenson59. My Past and Thoughts - Aleksandr Herzen60. From the Other Shore - Aleksandr Herzen61. The Frigate Pallada - Ivan Goncharov

63. Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson64. Essays: First Series - Ralph Waldo Emerson65. Essays: Second Series - Ralph Waldo Emerson66. Representative Men - Ralph Waldo Emerson67. The Conduct of Life - Ralph Waldo Emerson68. Journals - Ralph Waldo Emerson69. Specimen Days - Walt Whitman70. Notebooks - Nathaniel Hawthorne

73. Walden - Henry David Thoreau74. Essays - Henry David Thoreau75. Two Years before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.76. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - Frederick Douglass77. France and England in North America - Francis Parkman78. The California and Oregon Trail - Francis Parkman79. The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams80. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres - Henry Adams

55. Mathematical writings in the Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

62. Essays in The Sketch Book by Washington Irving

71. Creative non-fiction writings in Essays and Reviews by Edgar Allan Poe72. Creative non-fiction writings in Essays and Poems by Jones Very

81. Creative non-fiction writings in the Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce

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PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION1. The Egyptian Book of the Dead2. The Holy Bible (Authorized King James Version)3. The Apocrypha4. Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth; trans. R. Travers Herford)5. The Mahabharata6. The Bhagavad-Gita (trans. Barbara Stoler Miller)7. The Ramayana

10. Dialogues - Plato11. Ethics - Aristotle12. Moralia - Plutarch13. On the Gods - Cicero14. The City of God - Saint Augustine15. The Confessions - Saint Augustine16. Al-Qur'an (trans. Ahmad Ali)17. The Book of the City of Ladies - Christine de Pisan (trans. Earl Richards)18. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli19. The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast - Giordano Bruno20. The City of the Sun - Tommaso Campanella21. Principles of a New Science - Giambattista Vico22. Visions - Francisco de Quevedo (trans. Roger L'Estrange)23. Utopia - Sir Thomas More24. Sermons - John Donne25. Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes26. Centuries - Thomas Traherne27. Holy Dying - Jeremy Taylor28. Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund Burke29. Pensees - Blaise Pascal30. Emile - Jean-Jacques Rousseau31. Products of the Perfected Civilization - Sebastian-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort (trans. W.S. Merwin)32. Rameau's Nephew - Denis Diderot33. In Praise of Folly - Erasmus34. The Genius of Christianity - Francois-Auguste-Rene de Chateaubriand

37. On Liberty - John Stuart Mill38. Apologia pro Vita Sua - John Henry Newman39. A Grammar of Assent - John Henry Newman40. The Idea of a University - John Henry Newman41. Aphorisms - Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenburg)42. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche43. On the Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche

8. Fragments of Heraclitus9. Fragments of Empedocles

35. Religious writings and commentaries in the works of Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins36. Religious writings in the Selected Prose of Thomas Carlyle

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44. The Will to Power - Friedrich Nietzsche45. A Confession - Leo Tolstoy46. Eureka - Edgar Allan Poe47. The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James48. Pragmatism - William James

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LITERARY CRITICISM1. Poetics - Aristotle2. On the Sublime - Longinus3. An Apology for Poetry - Sir Philip Sidney4. A Defence of Ryme - Samuel Daniel5. Areopagitica - John Milton6. Critical Essays - John Dryden

8. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful - Edmund Burke9. An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff - Maurice Morgann10. On the Naïve and Sentimental in Literature - Friedrich Schiller11. Laocoon - Gotthold Lessing12. On the Historical Novel - Alessandro Manzoni13. William Shakespeare - Victor Hugo

15. Criticism - William Hazlitt16. A Defence of Poetry - Percy Bysshe Shelley

18. The Queen of the Air - John Ruskin19. Studies in the History of the Renaissance - Walter Pater20. Appreciations - Walter Pater21. The Artist as Critic - Oscar Wilde22. Criticisms - Friedrich Schlegel23. Aphorisms - Friedrich Schlegel24. The Birth of Tragedy - Friedrich Nietzsche

7. Critical writings in the Works of Samuel Johnson (including his commentary of William Shakespeare's plays)

14. Critical writings in the Prose of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

17. Criticism in the Essays of Matthew Arnold

25. Critical works in Essays and Reviews by Edgar Allan Poe

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