novels {completed}
Cervantes: Don Quixote (1605) [read twice]
Bunyan: The Pilgrim's Progress in Modern English (1679) re-read review
Swift: Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1815) re-read review
Dickens: Oliver Twist (1838)
Brontë: Jane Eyre (1847) [read twice]
Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (1850) [read twice]
Melville: Moby-Dick (1851) [read twice]
Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly (1851) [read three times]
Flaubert: Madame Bovary (1857) re-read review
Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment (1866) [read twice]
Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (1877) [read twice]
Hardy: The Return of the Native (1878) [read twice]
James: The Portrait of a Lady (1881) [tried to read again but bailed]
Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) [read twice]
Crane: The Red Badge of Courage (1895) [read twice]
Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1902)
Wharton: The House of Mirth (1905) re-read review
Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925) re-read review
Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
Kafka: The Trial (1925)
Wright: Native Son (1940)
Camus: The Stranger (1942)
Orwell: 1984 (1949) re-read review
Ellison: Invisible Man (1952)
Bellow: Seize the Day (1956)
Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) [read twice]
Cavino: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1972)
Morrison: Song of Solomon (1977) [DNF - read one chapter]
DeLillo: White Noise (1985)
Byatt: Possession (1990)
biographies {completed}
Augustine: Confessions (AD c. 400)
Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1430)
Montaigne: The Complete Essays (1580)
Descartes: Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings (1641)
Rousseau: Confessions (1781)
Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791)
Thoreau: Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1854)
Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
Douglass: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)
Washington: Up From Slavery (1901)
Nietzsche: Ecce Homo (1908)
Hitler: Mein Kampf (1925)
Gandhi: An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1929)
Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
Merton: The Seven Story Mountain (1948)
Lewis: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
Sarton: Journal of a Solitude (1973)
Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago (1973)
Colson: Born Again (1977)
Rodriguez: Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)
Conway: The Road from Coorain (1989)
Wiesel: All Rivers Run to the Sea (1995)
histories {completed}
Herodotus: The Histories (441 BC)
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War (c. 400 BC)
Plato: The Republic (c. 375 BC) [DNF - read 100 pages]
McPherson: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988) [did not even attempt]
Ulrich: A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary (1990) [DNF - read 30%]
Fukuyama: The End of History and the Last Man (1992) [DNF - read 30%]
plays
Aeschylus: Agamemnon (c. 458 BC)
Sophocles: Oedipus the King (c. 450 BC)
Euripides: Medea (c. 431 BC)
Aristophanes: The Birds (c. 400 BC)
Aristotle: Poetics (c. 330 BC)
Everyman (14th c.)
Marlowe: Doctor Faustus (1588)
Shakespeare: Richard III (1592-93) / A Midsummer Night's Dream (1594-95) / Hamlet (1600)
Molière: Tartuffe (1669)
Congreve: The Way of the World (1700)
Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer (1773)
Sheridan: The School for Scandal (1777)
Ibsen: A Doll's House (1879)
Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest (1899)
Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Shaw: Saint Joan (1924)
Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
Wilder: Our Town (1938)
O'Neill: Long Day's Journey Into Night (1940)
Satre: No Exit (1944)
Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
Miller: Death of a Salesman (1949)
Beckett: Waiting for Godot (1952)
Bolt: A Man for All Seasons (1960)
Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967)
Shaffer: Equus (1974)
poetry {completed}
Unk: The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 BC)
Homer: The Iliad / The Odyssey (c. 800 BC)
Greek Lyricists (c. 600 BC)
Horace: Odes (65-8 BC)
Unk: Beowulf (c. 1000)
Alighieri: Inferno (1265-1321) [read in 2021]
Unk: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1350)
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (c. 1343-1400) [read 111 pages and bailed]
Shakespeare: Sonnets (1564-1616) [read selected]
John Donne (1572-1631) [read selected]
King James Bible: Psalms (1611)
Milton: Paradise Lost (1608-1674)
Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1757-1827)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
John Keats (1795-1821) [read selected]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) [read selected]
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1883) [read selected]
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass (1819-1892) [read]
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) [read selected]
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) [read selected]
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) [read selected]
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) [read selected]
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
After the Modernists:
Philip Larkin
Allen Ginsberg
Sylvia Plath
Mark Strand
Adrienne Rich
Seamus Heaney
Robert Pinsky
Jane Kenyon
Rita Dove
I wonder why she didn’t include Ted Hughes and Patrick Kavanagh? There are not many modern poets there. I am not very keen on modern poetry, unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteWell, I went through the poetry section in Bauer's WEM, but I found nowhere her reasoning for choosing poets, though she wrote extensively on modern poetry. It is possible it is at the beginning of her WEM, as I recall she discussed how she chose which authors from the Great Books List. She does encourage readers to explore other poets not on her list after the moderns.
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