Classics Revisited

53 Works 435,287 Books 4,509 Reviews ½ 3.9
Selected by Kenneth Rexroth for his book Classics Revisited, a volume of brief, radiant essays discussing 60 key books that are for him "basic documents in the history of the imagination."
Værk
Orestien (458 BCE) af Aeschylus
Njals saga 1 - 2 (1350) af Anonymous
The Golden Ass (159) af Apuleius
Kejser Marcus Aurelius tanker til sig selv (170) af Marcus Aurelius
Baudelaire: Poems (1993) af Charles Baudelaire
Beowulf (10) af Beowulf poet
Gallerkrigen (44) af Julius Caesar
History of My Life, Vols. 1 & 2 (1997) af Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
Canterbury Fortællinger (14) af Geoffrey Chaucer
Plays (1912) af Anton Chekhov
Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems Selected and Translated with an Introduction and Notes (1973) af Arthur Cooper
Brødrene Karamasov (1880) af Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Euripides I af Euripides
Tom Jones (1749) af Henry Fielding
Følelsernes opdragelse (1869) af Gustave Flaubert
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1788) af Edward Gibbon
Gilgamesh (1700 BCE) af Gilgamesh Poet
Pages from the Goncourt Journal (1962) af Edmond de Goncourt
Herodots Historie (420 BCE) af Herodotus
Homers Iliade (750 BCE) af Homer
Haiku: Gems of Intimate Beauty in a New Collection of Classic Japanese Poetry (1970) af Mary Dawson Hughes
Volpone, or The Fox (1606) af Ben Jonson
History of Rome, books 1-5 [in translation] (27 BCE) af Titus Livy
Kalevala (1849) af Elias Lönnrot
Om verdens natur (54 BCE) af Titus Lucretius Carus
Fyrsten (1513) af Niccolò Machiavelli
Le Morte d'Arthur (1485) af Thomas Malory
Det kommunistiske manifest (1848) af Karl Marx
The Book of Job (1986) af Stephen Mitchell
Essais 1-3 (1580) af Michel de Montaigne
Utopia (1553) af Thomas More
The Tale of Genji (2015) af Shikibu Murasaki
The Satyricon (1) af Petronius Arbiter
Sokrates' domfældelse og død (399 BCE) af Plato
Staten (380 BCE) af Plato
Plutarch's Lives (100) af Plutarch
The Travels of Marco Polo (1298) af Marco Polo
Gargantua og Pantagruel, 1-5 (1532) af François Rabelais
Rimbaud: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (1994) af Aurthur Rimbaud
Sappho: A New Translation (580) af Sappho
Uvejret (1610) af William Shakespeare
Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus (442 BCE) af Sophocles
Rødt og sort (1830) af Stendhal
The Histories (100) af P. Cornelius Tacitus
The History of the Peloponnesian War (400 BCE) af Thucydides
Krig og fred (1868) af Leo Tolstoy
Huckleberry Finn (1884) af Mark Twain
Mahābhārata {retold by William Buck} (1973) af Vyasa
Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (1929) af Helen Waddell
Den fuldkomne fisker (1653) af Izaak Walton
The Duchess of Malfi (1614) af John Webster
Leaves of Grass (1855) af Walt Whitman
Dream of the Red Chamber (1791) af Cao Xueqin

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