Classics Revisited by Kenneth Rexroth

Some of Rexroth's essays from Classics Revisited are available at Bureau of Public Secrets

1. The Epic of Gilgamesh
2. Homer. The Iliad
3. Homer. The Odyssey
4. Beowulf
5. Njal's Saga
6. Job
7. The Mahabharata
8. The Kalevala
9. Sappho. Poems
10. Aeschylus. The Oresteia
11. Sophocles. The Theban Plays
12. Euripides
13. Herodotus. History
14. Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War
15. Plato. The Trial and Death of Socrates
16. Plato. The Republic
17. The Greek Anthology
18. Lucretius. On the Nature of Things
19. Livy. Early Rome
20. Julius Caesar. The War in Gaul
21. Petronius. The Satyricon
22. Tacitus. Histories
23. Plutarch. Parallel Lives
24. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations
25. Apuleius. The Golden Ass
26. Medieval Latin Lyrics
27. Tu Fu. Poems
28. Classic Japanese Poetry
29. Lady Murasaki. The Tale of Genji
30. Chaucer. Canterbury Tales
31. Rabelais. The Adventures of Gargantua and Pantagruel
32. Marco Polo. The Travels of Marco Polo
33. Thomas More. Utopia
34. Machiavelli. The Prince
35. Malory. Le Morte d'Arthur
36. Montaigne. Essays
37. Cervantes. Don Quixote
38. Shakespeare. Macbeth
39. Shakespeare. The Tempest
40. Webster. The Duchess of Malfi
41. Ben Jonson. Volpone
42. Izaak Walton. The Compleat Angler
43. John Bunyan. Pilgrim's Progress
44. Tsao Hsueh Chin. The Dream of the Red Chamber
45. Giacomo Casanova. History of My Life
46. Henry Fielding Tom Jones
47. Laurence Sterne. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent
48. Restif de la Bretonne. Monsieur Nicolas
49. Edward Gibbon. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
50. Stendhal. The Red and the Black
51. Baudelaire. Poems
52. Karl Marx. The Communist Manifesto
53. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass
54. Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov
55. Gustave Flaubert. A Sentimental Education
56. Tolstoy. War and Peace
57. Rimbaud. Poems
58. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt. Journal
59. Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn
60. Chekhov. Plays

Source: Rexroth, Kenneth. Classics Revisited. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968. © 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 Kenneth Rexroth

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