More Classics Revisited by Kenneth Rexroth

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  1. The Song of Songs
  2. Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching
  3. Euripides. Hippolytus
  4. Aristotle. Poetics
  5. Euclid, Archimedes. Apollonius
  6. The Bhagavad-Gita
  7. Ssu-Ma Chien. Records of the Grand Historian of China
  8. Catullus
  9. Virgil. The Aeneid
  10. The Early Irish Epic
  11. Sei Shonagon. The Pillow Book
  12. Abelard and Heloise
  13. Heike Monogatari
  14. St. Thomas Aquinas
  15. The English and Scottish Popular Ballad
  16. Racine. Phedre
  17. Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
  18. Daniel Defoe. Moll Flanders
  19. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels
  20. Edward Gibbon. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  21. Choderlos de Laclos. Dangerous Acquaintances
  22. Gilbert White. A Natural History and Antiquity of Selbourne
  23. Robert Burns
  24. William Blake
  25. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  26. Honoré de Balzac
  27. The Journal of John Woolman
  28. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers
  29. Francis Parkman. France and England in North America
  30. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
  31. Frederick Douglass
  32. Ivan Turgenev. Fathers and Sons
  33. Arthur Conan Doyle. "Sherlock Holmes"
  34. Alexander Berkman
  35. Leo Tolstoy. The Kingdom of God Is Within You
  36. H.G. Wells
  37. William Butler Yeats. Plays
  38. Ford Madox Ford. Parade's End
  39. Franz Kafka. The Trial
  40. Herbert Read. The Green Child
  41. William Carlos Williams. Poems

Source: Rexroth, Kenneth. More Classics Revisited. Ed. by Bradford Morrow. New York: New Directions, 1989. © 1954, 1959, 1960, 1973, 1978 Kenneth Rexroth © 1970 Herder & Herder, Inc. © 1989 Kenneth Rexroth Trust © 1989 Bradford Morrow

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