The Theocratic Age “Since the literary canon is at issue here, I include only those religious, philosophical, historical, and scientific writings that are themselves of great aesthetic interest. I would think that, of all the books that are in this first list, once the reader is conversant with the Bible, Homer, Plato, the Athenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is the Koran...

“I have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures and fundamental literary texts, because of their influence on the Western canon. The immense wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly a sphere apart from Western literary tradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in the translations available to us.” (p. The Ancient Greeks Iliad; Odyssey. Works and Days; Theogony. Archilochos Alkman Pindar. Oresteia; Seven Against Thebes; Prometheus Bound; Persians; Suppliant Women. Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone; Electra; Ajax; Women of Trachis; Philoctetes.

In the mid-20th Century, the Frenchman Jean Anouilh wrote a well-regarded version of the play, also called 'Antigone'.

Cyclops; Heracles; Alcestis; Hecuba; Bacchae; Orestes; Andromache; Medea; Ion; Hippolytus; Helen; Iphigenia at Aulis. The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata; The Knights; The Wasps; The Assemblywomen. The Histories. The Peloponnesian Wars.

The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles) Dialogues. Poetics; Ethics. The Aristocratic Age “It is a span of five hundred years from Dante's Divine Comedy through Goethe's Faust, Part Two [1321-1832], an era that gives us a huge body of reading in five major literatures: Italian, Spanish, English, French, and German. “In this and in the remaining lists, I sometimes do not mention individual works by a canonical master, and in other instances I attempt to call attention to authors and books that I consider canonical but rather neglected. “From this list onward, many good writers who are not quite central are omitted....

Italy The Divine Comedy; The New Life. Lyric Poems; Selections. Avid Pro Tools 9 Free Download Full Crack Windows 8 on this page. The Decameron. Orlando Innamorato. Orlando Furioso.

Michelangelo Buonarroti Sonnets and Madrigals. Wu Tang The Swarm RARE. The Prince; The Mandrake, a Comedy. Leonardo da Vinci Notebooks. Baldassare Castiglione The Book of the Courtier.

Gaspara Stampa Sonnets and Madrigals. Giorgio Vasari Lives of the Painters. Torquato Tasso Jerusalem Delivered. Giordano Bruno The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast. Poems; The City of the Sun.

Giambattista Vico Principles of a New Science. Carlo Goldoni The Servant of Two Masters. Vittorio Alfieri Saul. England and Scotland The Canterbury Tales; Troilus and Criseyde. Le Morte D'Arthur.

William Dunbar Poems. John Skelton Poems.

Thomas Wyatt. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Poems. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia; Astrophel and Stella; An Apology for Poetry. Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke Poems. The Faerie Queene; The Minor Poems.

Walter Ralegh, Poems. Poems and Plays. Michael Drayton Poems. Samuel Daniel Poems; A Defence of Ryme. The Unfortunate Traveller. Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy.

Plays and Poems. Thomas Campion Songs. Poems; Sermons. Poems, Plays, and Masques. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Religio Medici; Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall; The Garden of Cyrus.

Thomas Carew Poems. Richard Lovelace Poems. Uplay Cd Key Generator. George Herbert The Temple. Thomas Traherne Centuries, Poems, and Thanksgivings. Henry Vaughan Poetry. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Richard Crashaw Poems.

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. George Chapman Comedies, Tragedies, Poems. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. John Marston The Malcontent. The White Devil; The Duchess of Malfi.

Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. The Changeling. Cyril Tourneur The Revenger's Tragedy. Philip Massinger A New Way to Pay Old Debts. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress. The Compleat Angler.