Harvard Classics

The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909.[1]

The Harvard Classics

The first 10 volumes of The Harvard Classics
Editor	Charles W. Eliot
Original title	Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf
Publisher	P. F. Collier and Son
Publication date	1909

Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot shelf.) The publisher P. F. Collier and Son saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works, and the Harvard Classics was the result.[2]

Eliot worked for one year with William A. Neilson, a professor of English; Eliot determined the works to be included and Neilson selected the specific editions and wrote introductory notes.[1] Each volume had 400–450 pages, and the included texts are "so far as possible, entire works or complete segments of the world's written legacies."[3] The collection was widely advertised by Collier and Son, in Collier's and elsewhere, with great success.

Vol. 1-10

Volumes 1-10

Vol. 1: FRANKLIN, WOOLMAN, PENN "The Harvard classics Volume 1". Internet Archive. Retrieved 11 April 2019. His Autobiography,[4] by Benjamin Franklin The Journal of John Woolman,[5] by John Woolman (1774 and subsequent editions) Fruits of Solitude,[6] by William Penn Vol. 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS "The Harvard classics Volume 2". Internet Archive. Retrieved 11 April 2019. The Apology,[7] Crito,[8] and Phaedo,[9] by Plato The Golden Sayings,[10] by Epictetus The Meditations,[11] by Marcus Aurelius Vol. 3. BACON, MILTON'S PROSE, THOS. BROWNE "The Harvard classics Volume 3". Internet Archive. 19 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Essays, Civil and Moral,[12] and New Atlantis,[13] by Francis Bacon Areopagitica[14] and Tractate of Education,[15] by John Milton Religio Medici,[16] by Sir Thomas Browne Vol. 4. COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON "The Harvard classics Volume 4". Internet Archive. 20 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Complete poems written in English,[17] by John Milton Vol. 5. ESSAYS AND ENGLISH TRAITS, EMERSON "The Harvard classics Volume 5". Internet Archive. 20 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Essays and English Traits,[18] by Ralph Waldo Emerson Vol. 6. POEMS AND SONGS, BURNS "The Harvard classics Volume 6". Internet Archive. 20 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Poems and songs,[19] by Robert Burns Vol. 7. CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, IMITATION OF CHRIST "The Harvard classics Volume 7". Internet Archive. Retrieved 21 February 2018. The Confessions,[20] by Saint Augustine The Imitation of Christ,[21] by Thomas á Kempis Vol. 8. NINE GREEK DRAMAS "The Harvard classics Volume 8". Internet Archive. 21 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Agamemnon,[22] The Libation Bearers,[23] The Furies,[24] and Prometheus Bound,[25] by Aeschylus Oedipus the King[26] and Antigone,[26] by Sophocles Hippolytus[27] and The Bacchae,[27] by Euripides The Frogs,[28] by Aristophanes Vol. 9. LETTERS AND TREATISES OF CICERO AND PLINY "The Harvard classics Volume 9". Internet Archive. 4 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. On Friendship,[29] On Old Age,[29] and Letters,[30] by Cicero Letters,[31] by Pliny the Younger Vol. 10. WEALTH OF NATIONS, ADAM SMITH "The Harvard classics Volume 10". Internet Archive. 4 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. The Wealth of Nations,[32] by Adam Smith

Vol. 11-20

Volumes 11-20

Vol. 11. ORIGIN OF SPECIES, DARWIN "The Harvard classics Volume 11". Internet Archive. 4 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. The Origin of Species,[33] by Charles Darwin Vol. 12. PLUTARCH'S LIVES "The Harvard classics Volume 12". Internet Archive. 4 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Lives,[34] by Plutarch Vol. 13. AENEID, VIRGIL "The Harvard classics Volume 13". Internet Archive. 6 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Aeneid,[35] by Virgil Vol. 14. DON QUIXOTE, PART 1, CERVANTES "The Harvard classics Volume 14". Internet Archive. 5 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Don Quixote,[36] part 1, by Miguel de Cervantes Vol. 15. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, DONNE & HERBERT, BUNYAN, WALTON "The Harvard classics Volume 15". Internet Archive. 5 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. The Pilgrim's Progress,[37] by John Bunyan The Lives of Donne and Herbert,[38] by Izaak Walton Vol. 16. THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS "The Harvard classics Volume 16". Internet Archive. 21 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Stories from the Thousand and One Nights,[39] translated by Edward William Lane, revised by Stanley Lane-Poole Vol. 17. FOLKLORE AND FABLE, AESOP, GRIMM, ANDERSEN "The Harvard classics Volume 17". Internet Archive. 5 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Fables,[40] by Aesop Children's and Household Tales,[41] by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Tales,[42] by Hans Christian Andersen Vol. 18. MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA "The Harvard classics Volume 18". Internet Archive. 5 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. All for Love,[43] by John Dryden The School for Scandal,[44] by Richard Brinsley Sheridan She Stoops to Conquer,[45] by Oliver Goldsmith The Cenci,[46] by Percy Bysshe Shelley A Blot in the 'Scutcheon,[47] by Robert Browning Manfred,[48] by Lord Byron Vol. 19. FAUST, EGMONT, ETC. DOCTOR FAUSTUS, GOETHE, MARLOWE "The Harvard classics Volume 19". Internet Archive. 6 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Faust, part 1,[49] Egmont,[50] and Hermann and Dorothea,[51] by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dr. Faustus,[52] by Christopher Marlowe Vol. 20. THE DIVINE COMEDY, DANTE "The Harvard classics Volume 20". Internet Archive. 6 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. The Divine Comedy,[53] by Dante Alighieri

Vol. 21-30

Volumes 21-30

Vol. 21. I PROMESSI SPOSI, MANZONI "The Harvard classics Volume 21". Internet Archive. 13 October 2009. Retrieved 25 August 2019. I Promessi Sposi,[54] by Alessandro Manzoni Vol. 22. THE ODYSSEY, HOMER "The Harvard classics Volume 22". Internet Archive. 13 October 2009. Retrieved 25 August 2019. The Odyssey,[55] by Homer Vol. 23. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, DANA "The Harvard classics Volume 23". Internet Archive. 6 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Two Years Before the Mast,[56] by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Vol. 24. ON THE SUBLIME, FRENCH REVOLUTION, ETC., BURKE "The Harvard classics Volume 24". Internet Archive. 6 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution, and A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke Vol. 25. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETC., ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES, J.S. MILL, T. CARLYLE "The Harvard classics Volume 25". Internet Archive. 6 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Autobiography and On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, and Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle Vol. 26. CONTINENTAL DRAMA "The Harvard classics Volume 26". Internet Archive. 9 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Life is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille Phèdre, by Jean Racine Tartuffe, by Molière Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing William Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller Vol. 27. ENGLISH ESSAYS: SIDNEY TO MACAULAY "The Harvard classics Volume 27". Internet Archive. 9 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Vol. 28. ESSAYS: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN "The Harvard classics Volume 28". Internet Archive. 9 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Vol. 29. VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE, DARWIN "The Harvard classics Volume 29". Internet Archive. 9 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin Vol. 30. FARADAY, HELMHOLTZ, KELVIN, NEWCOMB, ETC "The Harvard classics Volume 30". Internet Archive. 9 January 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2018. The Forces of Matter and The Chemical History of a Candle, by Michael Faraday On the Conservation of Force and Ice and Glaciers, by Hermann von Helmholtz The Wave Theory of Light and The Tides, by Lord Kelvin The Extent of the Universe, by Simon Newcomb Geographical Evolution, by Sir Archibald Geikie

Vol. 31-39

Volumes 31-39

Vol. 31. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BENVENUTO CELLINI "The Harvard Classics Volume 31". Internet Archive. 10 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol. 32. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS "The Harvard Classics Volume 32". Internet Archive. 10 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. Essays, by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Montaigne and What is a Classic?, by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve The Poetry of the Celtic Races, by Ernest Renan The Education of the Human Race, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, by Friedrich von Schiller Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant Byron and Goethe, by Giuseppe Mazzini Vol. 33. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS "The Harvard Classics Volume 33". Internet Archive. 7 September 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2019. An account of Egypt from The Histories, by Herodotus Germany, by Tacitus Sir Francis Drake Revived, by Philip Nichols Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World, by Francis Pretty Drake's Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland, by Edward Haies The Discovery of Guiana, by Sir Walter Raleigh Vol. 34. FRENCH AND ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS, DESCARTES, VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU, HOBBES "The Harvard Classics Volume 34". Internet Archive. 10 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. Discourse on Method, by René Descartes Letters on the English, by Voltaire On the Inequality among Mankind and Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes Vol. 35. CHRONICLE AND ROMANCE, FROISSART, MALORY, HOLINSHEAD "The Harvard Classics Volume 35". Internet Archive. 10 January 2006. Retrieved 25 August 2019. Chronicles, by Jean Froissart The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison Vol. 36. MACHIAVELLI, MORE, LUTHER "The Harvard Classics Volume 36". Internet Archive. 10 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper Utopia, by Sir Thomas More The Ninety-Five Theses, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, and On the Freedom of a Christian, by Martin Luther Vol. 37. LOCKE, BERKELEY, HUME "The Harvard Classics Volume 37". Internet Archive. 10 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, by George Berkeley An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume Vol. 38. HARVEY, JENNER, LISTER, PASTEUR "The Harvard Classics Volume 38". Internet Archive. 23 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. The Oath of Hippocrates Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward Jenner The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, by Oliver Wendell Holmes On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister Scientific papers, by Louis Pasteur Scientific papers, by Charles Lyell Vol. 39. PREFACES AND PROLOGUES TO FAMOUS BOOKS "The Harvard Classics Volume 39". Internet Archive. 23 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. "Title, Prologue and Epilogues to the Recuyell of the Histories of Troy", by William Caxton "Epilogue to Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers", by William Caxton "Prologue to Golden Legend", by William Caxton "Prologue to Caton", by William Caxton "Epilogue to Aesop", by William Caxton "Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales", by William Caxton "Prologue to Malory's King Arthur" "Prologue to Virgil's Eneydos", by William Caxton "Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin "Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies" by Nicolaus Copernicus "Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland", by John Knox "Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on The Faerie Queene", by Edmund Spenser "Preface to the History of the World" by Sir Walter Raleigh "Prooemium, Epistle Dedicatory, Preface, and Plan of the Instauratio Magna, etc.", by Francis Bacon "Preface to the Novum Organum", by Francis Bacon "Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays" by Heminge and Condell "Preface to the Philosophiae Naturalis Pricipia Mathematica", by Sir Isaac Newton "Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern", by John Dryden "Preface to Joseph Andrews", by Henry Fielding "Preface to the English Dictionary", by Samuel Johnson "Preface to Shakespeare", by Samuel Johnson "Introduction to the Propylaen", by J.W. von Goethe "Prefaces to Various Volumes of Poems", by William Wordsworth "Appendix to Lyrical Ballads", by William Wordsworth "Essay Supplementary to Preface", by William Wordsworth "Preface to Cromwell", by Victor Hugo "Preface to Leaves of Grass", by Walt Whitman "Introduction to the History of English Literature", by H.A. Taine

Vol. 40

Volume 40

Vol. 40. ENGLISH POETRY 1: CHAUCER TO GRAY "The Harvard Classics Volume 40". Internet Archive. 11 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. Geoffrey Chaucer "The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales" The Nun's Priest's Tale Traditional Ballads "The Douglas Tragedy" "The Twa Sisters" "Edward" "Babylon; or, The Bonnie Banks o Fordie" "Hind Horn" "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet" "Love Gregor" "Bonny Barbara Allan" "The Gay Goss-Hawk" "The Three Ravens" "The Twa Corbies" "Sir Patrick Spence" "Thomas Rymer and the Queen of Elfland" "Sweet William's Ghost" "The Wife of Usher's Well" "Hugh of Lincoln" "Young Bicham" "Get Up and Bar the Door" "The Battle of Otterburn" "Chevy Chase" "Johnie Armstrong" "Captain Car" "The Bonny Earl of Murray" "Kinmont Willie" "Bonnie George Campbell" "The Dowy Houms o Yarrow" "Mary Hamilton" "The Baron of Brackley" "Bewick and Grahame" "A Gest of Robyn Hode" Anonymous "Balow" "The Old Cloak" "Jolly Good Ale and Old" Sir Thomas Wyatt "A Supplication" "The Lover's Appeal" Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover" "The Means to Attain Happy Life" George Gascoigne "A Lover's Lullaby" Nicholas Breton "Phillida and Coridon" Anonymous "A Sweet Lullaby" "Preparations" "The Unfaithful Shepherdess" Anthony Munday "Beauty Bathing Richard Edwardes "Amantium Irae" Sir Walter Raleigh "His Pilgrimage" "The Lie" "Verses" "What Is Our Life" Sir Edward Dyer "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" John Lyly "Cupid and Campaspe" "Spring's Welcome" Sir Philip Sidney "Song" "A Dirge" "A Ditty" "Loving in Truth" "Be Your Words Made, Good Sir, of Indian Ware" "To Sleep" "To the Moon" Thomas Lodge "Rosalind's Madrigal" "Rosaline" "Phillis" George Peele "Paris and none" Robert Southwell "The Burning Babe" Samuel Daniel "Beauty, Time, and Love Sonnets" "To Sleep" Michael Drayton "Agincourt" "To the Virginian Voyage" "Love's Farewell" Henry Constable "Diaphenia" Edmund Spenser Prothalamion Epithalamion "A Ditty" "Perigot and Willie's Roundelay" "Easter" "What Guile Is This?" "Fair Is My Love" "So Oft as I Her Beauty do Behold" "Rudely Thou Wrongest My Dear Heart's Desire" "Like as the Culver, on the Bared Bough" William Habington "To Roses in the Bosom of Castara" "Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam" Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" "Her Reply" (Written by Sir Walter Raleigh) Richard Rowlands "Our Blessed Lady's Lullaby" Thomas Nashe "In Time of Pestilence" "Spring" William Shakespeare "Winter" "O Mistress Mine" "Fancy" "Under the Greenwood Tree" "A Lover and His Lass" "Silvia" "Spring" "Lullaby" "Ophelia's Song" "Where the Bee Sucks" "Take, O Take" "A Madrigal" "Amiens' Song" "Dawn Song" "Dirge of Love" "Fidele's Dirge" Sonnets 18, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 54, 55, 57, 60, 64, 65, 66, 71, 73, 87, 90, 94, 97, 98, 104, 106, 107, 109, 110, 111, 116, 129, 146, 148. Robert Greene "Content" Richard Barnfield "The Nightingale" Thomas Campion "Cherry-ripe" "Follow your Saint" "When to Her Lute Corinna Sings" "Follow thy Fair Sun" "Turn All thy Thoughts to Eyes" "Integer Vitae" Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex "A Passion of my Lord of Essex" Sir Henry Wotton "Elizabeth of Bohemia" "Character of a Happy Life" Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford "A Renunciation" Ben Jonson "Simplex Munditiis" "The Triumph" "The Noble Nature" "To Celia" "A Farewell to the World" "A Nymph's Passion" "Epode" "Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H." "On Lucy, Countess of Bedford" "An Ode to Himself" "Hymn to Diana" "On Salathiel Pavy" "His Supposed Mistress" "To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare and What He Hath Left Us" John Donne "The Funeral" "A Hymn to God the Father" "Valediction, Forbidding Mourning" "Death" "The Dream" "Song" "Sweetest Love, I do not Go" "Lover's Infiniteness" "Love's Deity" "Stay, O Sweet" "The Blossom" "The Good Morrow" "Present in Absence" Joshua Sylvester "Love's Omnipresence" William Alexander, Earl of Stirling "To Aurora" Richard Corbet "Farewell, Rewards and Fairies" Thomas Heywood "Pack, Clouds, Away" Thomas Dekker "Country Glee" "Cold's the Wind" "O Sweet Content" Francis Beaumont "On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey" "Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson" John Fletcher "Aspatia's Song" "Melancholy" John Webster "Call for the Robin-Redbreast" Anonymous "O Waly, Waly" "Helen of Kirconnell" "My Love in Her Attire" "Love Not Me" William Drummond "Saint John Baptist" "Madrigal" "Life" "Human Folly" "The Problem" "To His Lute" "For the Magdalene" "Content and Resolute" "Alexis, Here She Stayed; Among These Pines" "Summons to Love" George Wither "I Loved a Lass" "The Lover's Resolution" William Browne (?) "On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke" Robert Herrick "Cherry-Ripe" "A Child's Grace" "The Mad Maid's Song" "To the Virgins" "To Dianeme" "A Sweet Disorder" "Whenas in Silks" "To Anthea who may Command Him Any Thing" "To Daffodils" "To Blossoms" "Corinna's Maying" Francis Quarles "An Ecstasy" George Herbert "Love" "Virtue" "The Elixir" "The Collar" "The Flower" "Easter Song" "The Pulley" Henry Vaughan "Beyond the Veil" "The Retreat" Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban "Life" James Shirley "The Glories of our Blood and State" "The Last Conqueror" Thomas Carew "The True Beauty" "Ask Me No More" "Know, Celia" "Give Me More Love" Sir John Suckling "The Constant Lover" "Why So Pale and Wan" Sir William D'Avenant "Dawn Song" Richard Lovelace "To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars" "To Althea from Prison" "To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas" Edmund Waller "On a Girdle" "Go, Lovely Rose!" William Cartwright "On the Queen's Return from the Low Countries" James Graham, Marquis of Montrose "My Dear and Only Love" Richard Crashaw "Wishes for the Supposed Mistress" "Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa" Thomas Jordan "Let Us Drink and Be Merry" Abraham Cowley "A Supplication" "Cheer Up, My Mates" "Drinking" "On the Death of Mr. William Hervey" Alexander Brome "The Resolve" Andrew Marvell "A Garden" "The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers" "Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" "Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda" "Thoughts in a Garden" Anonymous "Love Will Find Out the Way" "Phillada Flouts Me" Earl of Rochester "Epitaph on Charles II" Sir Charles Sedley "Chloris" "Celia" John Dryden "Ode" "Song to a Fair Young Lady, Going Out of the Town in the Spring" "Song for St. Cecilia's Day" "Alexander's Feast" "On Milton" Matthew Prior "To a Child of Quality" "Cloe" "The Dying Adrian to His Soul" "Epigram" Isaac Watts "True Greatness" Lady Grisel Baillie "Werena My Heart Licht I Wad Dee" Joseph Addison "Hymn" Allan Ramsay "Peggy" John Gay "Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing" "Black-Eyed Susan" Henry Carey "Sally in our Alley" Alexander Pope "Solitude" "On a Certain Lady at Court" An Essay on Man Ambrose Philips "To Charlotte Pulteney" Colley Cibber "The Blind Boy" James Thomson "Rule, Britannia" "To Fortune" Thomas Gray Elegy "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" "Hymn to Adversity" "Ode on the Spring" "The Progress of Poesy" "The Bard" "Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude" "On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe "Shorten Sail"

Vol. 41

Volume 41

Vol. 41. ENGLISH POETRY 2: COLLINS TO FITZGERALD "The Harvard Classics Volume 41". Internet Archive. 23 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. William Collins "Fidele" "Ode Written in MDCCXLVI" "The Passions" "To Evening" George Sewell "The Dying Man in His Garden" Alison Rutherford Cockburn "The Flowers of the Forest" Jane Elliot "Lament for Flodden" Christopher Smart "A Song to David" Anonymous "Willy Drowned in Yarrow" John Logan "The Braes of Yarrow" Henry Fielding "A Hunting Song" Charles Dibdin "Tom Bowling" Samuel Johnson "On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet" "A Satire" Oliver Goldsmith "When Lovely Woman Stoops" "Retaliation" "The Deserted Village" "The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society" Robert Graham of Gartmore "If Doughty Deeds" Adam Austin "For Lack of Gold" William Cowper "Loss of the Royal George" "To a Young Lady" "The Poplar Field" "The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk" "To Mary Unwin" "To the Same" "Boadicea: An Ode" "The Castaway" "The Shrubbery" "On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture Out of Norfolk" "The Diverting History of John Gilpin" Richard Brinsley Sheridan "Drinking Song" Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Life" Isobel Pagan "Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes" Lady Anne Lindsay "Auld Robin Gray" Thomas Chatterton "Song from Ælla" Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne "The Lond o' the Leal" "He's Ower the Hills that I Lo'e Weel" "The Auld House" "The Laird o' Cockpen" "The Rowan Tree" "Wha'll be King but Charlie?" "Charlie Is My Darling" Alexander Ross "Wooed and Married and A'" John Skinner "Tullochgorum" Michael Bruce "To the Cuckoo" George Halket "Logie o' Buchan" William Hamilton of Bangour "The Braes of Yarrow" Hector MacNeil "I Lo'ed Ne'er a Laddie but Ane" "Come Under My Plaidie" Sir William Jones "An Ode" "On Parent Knees a Naked New-born Child" Susanna Blamire "And Ye Shall Walk in Silk Attire" Anne Hunter "My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair" John Dunlop "The Year, That's Awa'" Samuel Rogers "A Wish" "The Sleeping Beauty" William Blake "The Tiger" "Ah! Sun-flower" "To Spring" "Reeds of Innocence" "Night" "Auguries of Innocence" "Nurse's Song" "Holy Thursday" "The Divine Image" "Song" John Collins "To-Morrow" Robert Tannahill "Jessie, the Flower o' Dunblane" "Gloomy Winter's Now Awa'" William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" "My Heart Leaps Up" "The Two April Mornings" "The Fountain" "Written in March" "Nature and the Poet" "Ruth: Or the Influence of Nature" "A Lesson" "Michael" "Yarrow Unvisited" "Yarrow Visited" "Yarrow Revisited" "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" "The Daffodils" "To the Daisy" "To the Cuckoo" "The Green Linnet" "Written in Early Spring" "To the Skylark" "The Affliction of Margaret" "Simon Lee the Old Huntsman" "Ode to Duty" "She Was a Phantom of Delight" "To the Highland Girl of Inversneyde" "The Solitary Reaper" "The Reverie of Poor Susan" "To Toussaint L'Ouverture" "Character of the Happy Warrior" "Resolution and Independence" "Laodamia" "We Are Seven" "Lucy" "The Inner Vision" "By the Sea" "Upon Westminster Bridge" "To a Distant Friend" "Desiseria" "We Must Be Free or Die" "England and Switzerland" "On the Extonction of the Venetian Republic" "London, MDCCCII" "The Same" "When I Have Borne" "The World is Too Much With Us" "Within King's College Chapel, Cambridge" "Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon" "Composed at Neidpath Castle, the Property of Lord Queensbury" "Admonition to a Traveller" "To Sleep" "The Sonnet" William Lisle Bowles "Dover Cliffs" Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner "Kubla Khan" "Youth and Age" "Love" "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni" Christabel "Dejection: an Ode" Robert Southey "After Blenheim" "The Scholar" Charles Lamb "The Old Familiar Faces" "Hester" "On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born" Sir Walter Scott "The Outlaw" "To a Lock of Hair" "Jock of Hazeldean" "Eleu Loro" "A Serenade" "The Rover" "The Maid of Neidpath" "Gathering Song of Donald the Black" "Border Ballad" "The Pride of Youth" "Coronach" "Lucy Ashton's Song" "Answer" "Rosabelle" "Hunting Song" "Lochinvar" "Bonny Dundee" "Datur Hora Quieti" "Here's a Health to King Charles "Harp of the North, Farewell!" James Hogg "Kilmeny" "When the Kye Comes Hame" "The Skylark" "Lock the Door, Lariston" Robert Surtees "Barthram's Dirge" Thomas Campbell "The Soldier's Dream" "To the Evening Star" "Ode to Winter" "Lord Ullin's Daughter" "The River of Life" "To the Evening Star" "The Maid of Neidpath" "Ye Mariners of England" "Battle of the Baltic" "Hohenlinden" J. Campbell "Freedom and Love" Allan Cunningham "Hame, Hame, Hame" "A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea" George Gordon, Lord Byron "Youth and Age" "The Destruction of Sennacherib" "Elegy on Thyrza" "When We Two Parted" "For Music" "She Walks in Beauty" "All for Love" "Elegy" "To Augusta" "Epistle to Augusta" "Maid of Athens" "Darkness" "Longing" "Fare Thee Well" The Prisoner of Chillon "On the Castle of Chillon" "Song of Saul, Before His Last Battle" "The Isles of Greece" "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year" Thomas Moore "The Light of Other Days" "Pro Patria Mori" "The Meeting of the Waters" "The Last Rose of Summer" "The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls" "A Canadian Boat-Song" "The Journey Onwards" "The Young May Moon" "Echo" "At the Mid Hour of Night" Charles Wolfe "The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna Percy Bysshe Shelley "Hymn of Pan" Hellas "Invocation" "Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples" "I Fear Thy Kisses" "Lines to an Indian Air" "To a Skylark" "Love's Philosophy" "To the Night" "Ode to the West Wind" "Written Among the Euganean Hills, North Italy" "Hymn to the Spirit of Nature" "A Lament" "A Dream of the Unknown" "The Invitation" "The Recollection" "To the Moon" "A Widow Bird" "To a Lady, with a Guitar" "One Word is Too Often Profaned" "Ozymandias of Egypt" "The Flight of Love" "The Cloud" "Stanzas–April, 1814" "Music, When Soft Voices Die" "The Poet's Dream" "The World's Wanderers" Adonaïs James Henry Leigh Hunt "Jenny kiss'd Me" "Abou Ben Adhem" John Keats "The Realm of Fancy" "Ode on the Poets" "The Mermaid Tavern" "Happy Insensibility" "Ode to a Nightingale" "Ode on a Grecian Urn" "Ode to Autumn" "Ode to Psyche" "Ode on Melancholy" "The Eve of St. Agnes" "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" "On the Grasshopper and Cricket" "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" "To Sleep" "The Human Seasons" "Great Spirits Now on Earth are Sojourning" "The Terror of Death" "Last Sonnet" Walter Savage Landor "Rose Aylmer" "Twenty Years Hence" "Proud Word You Never Spoke" "Absence" "Dirce" "Corinna to Tanagra, from Athens" "Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel" "Well I Remember" "No, My Own Love" "Robert Browning" "The Death of Artemidora" "Iphigeneia" "'Do You Remember Me?'" "For an Epitaph at Fiesole" "On Lucretia Borgia's Hair" "On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday" "To My Ninth Decade" "Death Stands Above Me" "On Living Too Long" Thomas Hood "Fair Ines" "The Bridge of Sighs" "The Death Bed" "Past and Present" Sir Aubrey de Vere "Glengariff" Hartley Coleridge "She Is Not Fair" Joseph Blanco White "To Night" George Darley "The Loveliness of Love" Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay "The Armada" "A Jacobite's Epitaph" Sir William Edmondstoune Aytoune "The Refusal of Charon" Hugh Miller "The Babie" Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin "Lament of the Irish Emigrant" Charles Tennyson Turner "Letty's Globe" Sir Samuel Ferguson "The Fair Hills of Ireland" Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument" "Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1-44" "The Sleep" Edward Fitzgerald "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishápúr"

Vol. 42

Volume 42

Vol. 42. ENGLISH POETRY 3: TENNYSON TO WHITMAN "The Harvard classics Volume 42". Internet Archive. 26 January 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2019. Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott" "Sweet and Low" "Tears, Idle Tears" "Blow, Bugle Blow" "Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead" "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal" "O Swallow, Swallow" "Break, Break, Break" "In the Valley of Cauteretz" "Vivien's Song" "Enid's Song" "Ulysses" "Locksley Hall" "Morte D'Arthur" "The Lotos-Eaters" "You Ask Me, Why" "Love Thou Thy Land" "Sir Galahad" "The Higher Pantheism" "Flower in the Crannied Wall" "Wages" "The Charge of the Light Brigade" "The Revenge" "Rizpah" "To Virgil" "Maud" "Crossing the Bar" Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton "Sonnet" William Makepeace Thackray "The End of the Play" Charles Kingsley "Airly Beacon" "The Sands of Dee" "Youth and Old" "Ode to the North-east Wind" J. Wilson "The Canadian Boat Song" Robert Browning "Prospice" "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" The Lost Leader Home-thoughts, from Abroad "Home-thoughts, from the Sea" "Parting at Morning" "The Lost Mistress" "The Last Ride Together" "Pippa's Song" "You'll Love Me Yet" "My Last Duchess" "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" "Evelyn Hope" "A Toccata of Galuppi's" "Memorabilia" "The Patriot" "The Grammarian's Funeral" "Andrea del Sarto" "One Word More" "Abt Volger" "Rabbi Ben Ezra" Dedication of The Ring and the Book "Epilogue" Emily Brontë Last Lines "The Old Stoic" Robert Stephen Hawker "And Shall Trelawny Die?" Coventry Patmore "Departure" William (Johnson) Cory Heraclitus "Mimnermus in Church" Sydney Dobell "The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston" William Allingham "The Fairies" George Mac Donald "That Holy Thing" "Baby" Edward, Earl of Lytton "The Last Wish" Arthur Hugh Clough "Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth" "The Stream of Life" "In a London Square" "Qua Cursum Ventus" "Where Lies the Land" Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman" "The Song of the Callicles" "To Marguerite" "Requiescat" "Rugby Chapel" "Memorial Verses" "Dover Beach" "The Better Part" "Worldly Place" "The Last Word" George Meredith "Love in the Valley" Alexander Smith "Barbara" Charles Dickens "The Ivy Green" Thomas Edward Brown "My Garden" James Thomson (B.V.) "Gifts" Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel" "The Kings Tragedy" "Lovesight" "Heart's Hope" "Genius in Beauty" "Silent Noon" "Love-Sweetness" "Heart's Compass" "Her Gifts" Christina Georgina Rossetti "Song" "Remember" "Up-Hill" "In the Round Tower at Jhansi" William Morris "The Defence of Guenevere" Prologue of The Earthly Paradise "The Nymph's Song to Hylas" "The Day Is Coming" "The Days That Were" John Boyle O'Reilly "A White Rose" Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy "Ode" Robert Williams Buchanan "Liz" Algernon Charles Swinburne Chorus from "Atalanta" "Itylus" "The Garden of Proserpine" "A Match" "A Forsaken Garden" William Ernest Henley "Margaritæ Sorori" "Invictus" "England, My England" Robert Louis Stevenson "In the Highlands" "The Celestial Surgeon" "Requiem" William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis" "Robert of Lincoln" "Song of Marion's Men" "June" "The Past" "To a Waterfowl" "The Death of Lincoln" Edgar Allan Poe "Lenore" "The Haunted Palace "To Helen" "The Raven" "Ulalume" "The Bells" "To My Mother" "For Annie" "Annabel Lee" "The Conqueror Worm" Ralph Waldo Emerson "Good-Bye" "The Apology" "Brahma "Days" "Give All to Love" "Concord Hymn" "The Humble-Bee" "The Problem" "Woodnotes" "Boston Hymn" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "A Psalm of Life" "The Light of Stars" "Hymn to the Night" "Footsteps of Angels" "The Wreck of the Hesperus" "The Village Blacksmith" "Serenade" "The Rainy Day" "The Day is Gone" "The Bridge" "Resignation" "Children" "The Building of the Ship" "My Lost Youth" "The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz" "The Children's Hour" "Paul Revere's Ride" "Killed at the Ford" Evangeline John Greenleaf Whittier "The Eternal Goodness" "Randolph of Roanoke" "Massachusetts to Virginia" "Barclay of Ury" "Maud Muller" "The Barefoot Boy" "Skipper Ireson's Ride" "The Pipes at Lucknow" "Barbara Frietchie" Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus" "Old Ironsides" "The Last Leaf" "Contentment" James Russell Lowell "The Present Crisis" "The Pious Editor's Creed" "The Courtin'" "Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration" Sidney Lanier "The Marshes of Glynn" "The Revenge of Hamish" "How Love Looked for Hell" Bret Harte "The Reveille" Walt Whitman "One's Self I Sing" "Beat! Beat! Drums!" "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" "The Wound Dresser" "Give me the Splendid Silent Sun" "O Captain! My Captain!" "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" "Prayer of Columbus" "The Last Invocation"

Vol. 43-49

Volumes 43-49

Vol. 43. AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS "The Harvard Classics Volume 43". Internet Archive. 12 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. Introductory Note "The Voyages to Vinland" (c. 1000) "The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery" (1493) "Amerigo Vespucci’s Account of His First Voyage" (1497) "John Cabot’s Discovery of North America" (1497) "First Charter of Virginia" (1606) "The Mayflower Compact" (1620) "The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut" (1639) "The Massachusetts Body of Liberties" (1641) "Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from that Aspersion", by John Winthrop (1644) "The Instrument of Government" (1653) "A Healing Question", by Sir Henry Vane" (1656) "John Eliot’s "Brief Narrative" (1670) "Declaration of Rights" (1765) "The Declaration of Independence" (1776) "The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence" (1775) "Articles of Confederation" (1777) "Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown" (1781) "Treaty with Great Britain" (1783) "Constitution of the United States" (1787) "The Federalist", Nos. 1 and 2 (1787) "Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall, in the Case of McCulloch vs. the State of Maryland" (1819) "Washington’s First Inaugural Address" (1789) "Treaty with the Six Nations" (1794) "Washington’s Farewell Address" (1796) "Treaty with France (Louisiana Purchase)" (1803) "Treaty with Great Britain (End of War of 1812)" (1814) "Arrangement as to the Naval Force to Be Respectively Maintained on the American Lakes" (1817) "Treaty with Spain (Acquisition of Florida)" (1819) "The Monroe Doctrine" (1823) "Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Great Britain" (1842) "Treaty with Mexico (1848) "Fugitive Slave Act" (1850) "Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address" (1861) "Emancipation Proclamation" (1863) "Haskell’s Account of the Battle of Gettysburg" "Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address" (1863) "Proclamation of Amnesty" (1863) "Lincoln’s Letter to Mrs. Bixby" (1864) "Terms of Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox" (1865) "Lee’s Farewell to His Army" (1865) "Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address" (1865) "Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End" (1866) "Treaty with Russia (Alaska Purchase)" (1867) "Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands" (1898) "Recognition of the Independence of Cuba" (1898) "Treaty with Spain (Cession of Porto Rico and the Philippines)" (1898) "Convention Between the United States and the Republic of Panama" (1904) Vol. 44. SACRED WRITINGS: VOLUME I "The Harvard Classics Volume 44". Internet Archive. 14 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. Confucian The Sayings of Confucius[57] Hebrew The Book of Job[58] The Book of Psalms[59] Ecclesiastes; Or, The Preacher[60] Christian, (Part I) The Gospel According to Luke[61] The Acts of the Apostles[62] Vol. 45. SACRED WRITINGS: VOLUME II "The Harvard Classics Volume 45". Internet Archive. 12 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. Christian, (Part II) The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians[63] The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians Hymns of the Christian Church[64] Hymns based on Psalms Psalms XIX Psalms XXIII Psalms LXXII Psalms XC Psalms C Psalms CIV Greek hymns Gloria in Excelsis—Shepherd of Tender Youth The Day is Past and Over The Day of Resurrection Art Thou Weary? Latin hymns Te Deum Laudamus Veni Creator Spiritus Hie Breve Vivitur Urbs Sion Aurea Jesu, Dulcis Memoria—Jesu, Dulcedo Cordium Dies Iræ, Dies Illa Stabat Mater Adeste Fideles O Deus, Ego Amo Te Modern hymns A Mighty Fortress Is Our God Now Thank We All Our God Be Not Dismayed—In Temptation Christmas Hymn Light Shining out of Darkness The Future Peace and Glory of the Church Early Piety The Holy Trinity Epiphany—Sun of my Soul, Thou Savior Dear Abide with Me Pillar of cloud Nearer, My God, to Thee My Faith Looks Up to Thee A Sun-Day Hymn The Pilgrims of the Night Let There Be Light Buddhist Buddhist Writings,[65] Translated and Annotated by Henry Clarke Warren The Buddha The story of Sumedha The birth of the Buddha The attainment of Buddhaship First events after the attainment The Buddha's daily habits The death of the Buddha The Doctrine Questions which tend not to edification There is no ego The middle doctrine Karma Fruitful and barren karma Good and bad karma Rebirth is not transmigration Death’s messengers The Devoted Wife The hare-mark in the moon The way of purity Concentration The conversion of animals Love for animals Sariputta and the two demons The summum bonum The Trance of Cessation The attainment of nirvana The Order The Admission and Ordination Ceremonies[66] The Mendicant Ideal “And Hate Not His Father and Mother” The Story of Visakha Hindu The Bhagavad Gita or Song Celestial,[67] Translated by Sir Edwin Arnold Mohammedan Chapters from the Koran,[68] Translated and Annotated by E. H. Palmer Mecca Suras Medina Suras Vol. 46. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 1 "The Harvard Classics Volume 46". Internet Archive. 12 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest, by William Shakespeare Vol. 47. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 2 "The Harvard Classics Volume 47". Internet Archive. 14 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. The Shoemaker's Holiday, by Thomas Dekker The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger Vol. 48. THOUGHTS AND MINOR WORKS, PASCAL "The Harvard Classics Volume 48". Internet Archive. 17 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. Thoughts, letters, and minor works, by Blaise Pascal Vol. 49. EPIC AND SAGA "The Harvard Classics Volume 49". Internet Archive. 16 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. Beowulf The Song of Roland The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs Songs from The Elder Edda

Vol. 50

Volume 50

Vol. 50. INTRODUCTION, READER'S GUIDE, INDEXES "The Harvard Classics Volume 50". Internet Archive. 17 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. The Editor's Introduction to the Harvard Classics Reader's Guide to the Harvard Classics Class I The History of Civilization Race and Language Ancient Egypt The East in Patriarchal Time Ancient Greece: Legendary Ancient Greece: Historic Ancient Rome: Republican Ancient Rome: Imperial Germanic Peoples in Primitive Times Ireland in Primitive Times The Early Christian Church The Mohammedan East The Middle Ages The Renaissance Modern Europe America Religion and Philosophy Hebrew Greek Roman Chinese Hindu Christian: Primitive and Medieval Mohammedan Christian: Modern Modern Philosophers Education Montaigne...Huxley Science Hippocrates...Geikie Politics Plutarch...American Historical Documents Voyages and Travels Herodotus...Emerson Criticism of Literature and the Fine Arts Caxton...Stevenson Class II Drama Greek English Spanish French German Biography and Letters Plutarch...Stevenson Essays Montaigne...Stevenson Narrative Poetry and Prose Fiction Homer...Lanier An Index of the First Lines of Poems, Songs and Choruses, Hymns and Psalms General Index Chronological Index Vol. 50: Charles Eliot's Selections from the Five-Foot Shelf of Books: For Boys and Girls from Twelve to Eighteen Years of Age Volume Author Title Title Title Title Title XVII Æsop Fables XVII Grimm Tales XVII Andersen Tales XXII Homer The Odyssey XIII Virgil The Æneid XVI The Arabian Knights XLIX The Song of Roland XL Robin Hood XL Traditional Ballads Selections at pleasure XXXV Malory, Sir Thomas The Holy Grail XXXIII Voyages and Travels I Benjamin Franklin Autobiography XV John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress XLVI Shakespeare Macbeth The Tempest XLVII Thomas Dekker The Shoemaker's Holiday XII Plutarch Lives XXXV Froissart XXXVIII Ambroise Paré Journeys XXI Manzoni The Betrothed XXIII R. H. Dana Two Years Before the Mast XXIX Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle XXVII Joseph Addison The Vision of Mirza XVIII Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer XLI Goldsmith The Deserted Village XXVI Schiller William Tell XIX Goethe Hermann and Dorothea XL Michael Drayton Agincourt To the Virginian Voyage XLI Cowper John Gilpin XLI Wordsworth Michael XLI Sir Walter Scott Poems XLI Macaulay XLI COLERIDGE XLI JAMES HOGG XLI THOMAS CAMPBELL XLI LORD BYRON The Prisoner of Chillon The Destruction of Sennacherib The Isles of Greece XLI THOMAS MOORE Poems XLI LEIGH HUNT Abou Ben Adhem XLI KEATS The Eve of St. Agnes XLII TENNYSON Morte d' Arthur Sir Galahad The Charge of the Light Brigade The Revenge XXVIII RUSKIN Sesame and Lilies XLII THACKERAY The End of the Play XLII ROBERT BROWNING How They Brought the Good News XLII SYDNEY DOBELL The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston XLII DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI The King's Tragedy XLII WILLIAM E. HENLEY England, My England XLII BRYANT Robert of Lincoln To a Waterfowl XLII HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poems XLII JOHN G. WHITTIER Randolph of Roanoke Barclay of Ury The Barefoot Boy The Pipes at Lucknow Barbara Frietchie XLII OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The Chambered Nautilus Old Ironsides XLII SIDNEY LANIER The Revenge of Hamish XLIII FRANK A. HASKELL The Battle of Gettysburg XLIII ABRAHAM LINCOLN Speech at Gettysburg XLIV SELECTIONS From Sacred Writings XLV SELECTIONS Some representation of each of the six religions

Vol. 51

Volume 51

Vol. 51. LECTURES "The Harvard Classics Volume 51". Internet Archive. 17 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2018. The last volume contains sixty lectures introducing and summarizing the covered fields:[69] History "General Introduction", by Robert Matteson Johnston "Ancient History", by William Scott Ferguson "The French Revolution", by Robert Matteson Johnston "The Renaissance", by Murray Anthony Potter "The Territorial Development of the United States", by Fredrick Jackson Turner Poetry "General Introduction", by Carlton Noyes "Homer and the Epic", by Charles Burton Gulick "Dante", by Charles Hall Grandgent "The Poems of John Milton", by Ernest Bernbaum "The English Anthology", by Carleton Noyes Natural Science "General Introduction", by Lawrence Joseph Henderson "Astronomy", by Lawrence Joseph Henderson "Physics and Chemistry", by Lawrence Joseph Henderson "The Biological Sciences", by Lawrence Joseph Henderson "Kelvin on 'Light' and 'The Tides'", by William Morris Davis Philosophy "General Introduction", by Ralph Barton Perry "Socrates, Plato, and the Roman Stoics", by Charles Pomeroy Parker "The Rise of Modern Philosophy", by Ralph Barton Perry "Introduction to Kant", by Ralph Barton Perry "Emerson", by Chester Noyes Greenough Biography "General Introduction", William Roscoe Thayer, "Plutarch", by William Scott Ferguson, "Benvenuto Cellini", by Chandler Rathfon Post "Franklin and Woolman", by Chester Noyes Greenough "John Stuart Mill", by Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Prose Fiction "General Introduction" by William Allan Neilson, "Popular Prose Fiction" by Fred Norris Robinson, "Malory", by Gustavus Howard Maynadier "Cervantes", by Jeremiah D. M. Ford "Manzoni" by Jeremiah D. M. Ford Criticism and the Essay "General Introduction", by Bliss Perry "What the Middle Ages Read", by William Allan Neilson "Theories of Poetry", by Bliss Perry "Æsthetic Criticism in Germany", by William Guild Howard "The Composition of a Criticism", by Ernest Bernbaum Education "General Introduction", by Henry Wyman Holmes "Francis Bacon", by Ernest Bernbaum "Locke and Milton", by Henry Wyman Holmes "Carlyle and Newman", by Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey "Huxley on Science and Culture", by A. O. Norton Political Science "General Introduction", by Thomas Nixon Carver "Theories of Government in the Renaissance", by O. M. W. Sprague "Adam Smith and 'The Wealth of Nations'", by Charles J. Bullock "The Growth of the American Constitution" by William Bennett Munro "Law and Liberty", by Roscoe Pound Drama "General Introduction", by George Pierce Baker "Greek Tragedy", by Charles Burton Gulick "The Elizabethan Drama", by William Allan Neilson "The Faust Legend", by Kuno Francke "Modern English Drama", by Ernest Bernbaum Voyages and Travel "General Introduction", by Roland Burrage Dixon "Herodotus on Egypt", by George H. Chase "The Elizabethan Adventurers", by William Allan Neilson "The Era of Discovery", by William Bennett Monro "Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle", by George Howard Parker Religion "General Introduction", by Ralph Barton Perry "Buddhism", by Charles Rockwell Lanman "Confucianism", by Dwight Sheffield "Greek Religion", by Clifford Herschel Moore "Pascal", by Charles Henry Conrad Wright

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction was selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD (1834-1926), with notes and introductions by William Allan Neilson. It also features an index to Criticisms and Interpretations.

Charles William Eliot, compiler and editor of The Harvard Classics anthology.

• Vol. 1. HENRY FIELDING 1
  • The History of Tom Jones, part 1, by Henry Fielding
• Vol. 2. HENRY FIELDING 2
  • The History of Tom Jones, part 2, by Henry Fielding
• Vol. 3. LAURENCE STERN, JANE AUSTEN
  • A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne
  • Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
• Vol. 4. SIR WALTER SCOTT
  • Guy Mannering, by Sir Walter Scott
• Vol. 5. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 1
  • Vanity Fair, part 1, by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Vol. 6. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 2
  • Vanity Fair, part 2, by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Vol. 7. CHARLES DICKENS 1
  • David Copperfield, part 1, by Charles Dickens
• Vol. 8. CHARLES DICKENS 2
  • David Copperfield, part 2, by Charles Dickens
• Vol. 9. GEORGE ELIOT
  • The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
• Vol. 10. HAWTHORNE, IRVING, POE, BRET HARTE, MARK TWAIN, HALE
  • The Scarlet Letter and Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
  • Eleonora, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, and The Idyl of Red Gulch, by Francis Bret Harte
  • Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, by Samuel L. Clemens
  • The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale
• Vol. 11. HENRY JAMES, JR.
  • The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
• Vol. 12. VICTOR HUGO
  • Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Marie Hugo
• Vol. 13. BALZAC, SAND, DE MUSSET, DAUDET, DE MAUPASSANT
  • Old Goriot, by Honoré Balzac
  • The Devil's Pool, by George Sand
  • The Story of a White Blackbird, by Alfred de Musset
  • The Siege of Berlin, The Last Class—The Story of a Little Alsatian, The Child Spy, The Game of Billiards, and The Bad Zouave, by Alphonse Daudet
  • Walter Schnaffs’ Adventure and Two Friends, by Guy de Maupassant
• Vol. 14. JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE
  • Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
• Vol. 15. GOETHE, KELLER, STORM, FONTANE
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
  • The Banner of the Upright Seven, by Gottfried Keller
  • The Rider on the White Horse, by Theodor Storm
  • Trials and Tribulations, by Theodor Fontane
• Vol. 16. LEO NIKOLAEVITCH TOLSTOY 1
  • Anna Karenina, part 1, by Leo Tolstoy
• Vol. 17. LEO NIKOLAEVITCH TOLSTOY 2
  • Anna Karenina, part 2, and Ivan the Fool, by Leo Tolstoy
• Vol. 18. FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
  • Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Vol. 19. IVAN TURGENEV
  • A House of Gentlefolk and Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev
• Vol. 20. VALERA, BJØRNSON, KIELLAND
  • Pepita Jimenez, by Juan Valera
  • A Happy Boy, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
  • Skipper Worse, by Alexander L. Kielland

Enduring success

As Adam Kirsch, writing for Harvard magazine in 2001, notes, "It is surprisingly easy, even today, to find a complete set of the Harvard Classics in good condition. At least one is usually for sale on eBay, the Internet auction site, for $300 or so, a bargain at $6 a book. The supply, from attics or private libraries around the country, seems endless — a tribute to the success of the publisher, P.F. Collier, who sold some 350,000 sets within 20 years of the series' initial publication".[1]

The Five-Foot Shelf, with its introductions, notes, guides to reading, and exhaustive indexes, may claim to constitute a reading course unparalleled in comprehensiveness and authority.

— Notes on the Lectures by William Allan Neilson

The main function of the collection should be to develop and foster in many thousands of people a taste for serious reading of the highest quality, outside of The Harvard Classics as well as within them.

— Charles W. Eliot, LLD[70]

Similar compendia

• The concept of education through systematic reading of seminal works themselves (rather than textbooks) was carried on by John Erskine at Columbia University, and in the 1930s Mortimer Adler and Robert Hutchins at the University of Chicago carried this idea further with the concepts of education through study of the "great books" and "great ideas" of Western civilization. This led to the publication in 1952 of Great Books of the Western World, which is still in print and actively marketed. In 1937, under Stringfellow Barr, St. John's College introduced a curriculum based on the direct study of "great books". These sets are popular today with those interested in homeschooling.
• Gateway to the Great Books[71] was designed as an introduction to the Great Books of the Western World, published by the same organization and editors in 1952.
• Palgrave's The Golden Treasury[71] is a popular anthology of English poetry, originally selected for publication by Francis Turner Palgrave in 1861.
• The Oxford Book of English Verse[71] is an anthology of English poetry that had a very substantial influence on popular taste and perception of poetry for at least a generation.
• The Loeb Classical Library is a series of books, today published by Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience.
• The Book of Life[72] offers a contemporary self-education in transcribing pragmatic lessons from some of the greatest philosophical and literary minds, stretching as far back as Ancient Greece.
• The Sacred Books of the East is a monumental 50-volume set of English translations of Asian religious writings published by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. It incorporates the essential sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam.
• The Delphian Society created the 10 Volume Delphian Course of Reading--with the Harvard Classics editor Dr. Eliot in mind--for young and developing minds.[73]
• The Thinker's Library is a selection of essays, literature, and extracts from greater works by various classical and contemporary humanists and rationalists, continuing in the tradition of the Renaissance that were published between 1929 and 1951 for the Rationalist Press Association by Watts & Co., London, a company founded by Charles Albert Watts.

See also

• Books in the United States
• Cassell's National Library
• Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Everyman's Library
• Great Books
• Great Conversation
• Harvard Oriental Series
• How to Read a Book: Reading List
• Lifetime Reading Plan
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• The Englishman's Library
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics
• The Guide to Modern World Literature
• The School of Life

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Further reading

• "Dr. Eliot". "An Ongoing Review and Discussion of the Harvard Classics". Dr. Eliot's Five Feet.
• "From the History Files: A Love of Libraries – Harvard Classics". schoolofabraham.com. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012.
• Mehegan, David (December 23, 2006). "The reading of life: A story about a grandfather, a box of old books, and the meaning of success". Boston Globe. Retrieved September 26, 2007.
• "100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man's Library". The Art of Manliness. 14 May 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
• Walters, Natalie; Smith, Jacquelyn (22 March 2016). "24 Books That Will Make You A More Well-Rounded Person". Business Insider. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
• "110 best books: The perfect library". The Telegraph. 6 April 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
• "Harvard Book Store Top 100 Books". Harvard Book Store. 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
• "Great Books Lists: As seen in A Guide to Oriental Classics, Whole Earth magazine, Winter 2002". Robert Teeter's Home Page. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
• "Other Lists of Great Books: Great (and Good) Books". Robert Teeter's Home Page. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
• "The Greatest Books". The Greatest Books. Retrieved 24 February 2018. This list is generated from 114 "best of" book lists from a variety of great sources
• Adler, Mortimer J.; Doren, Charles Van (1972) [1940]. "Appendix A. A Recommended Reading List". How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (PDF) (Revised ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 350–362. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Almost every work on the list is available in some other form, and many are available in several additions...

External links

• "The Complete Harvard Classics By Volume – Free PDF Downloads".
• "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf". Metafilter.
• Eliot, Charles W. (ed.). "The Harvard Classics and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. 1909–1917". Bartleby. (Online version.)
• "The Harvard Classics". Feedbooks.
  • "The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction". Feedbooks.
• "Harvard Classics Available at MobileRead". MobileRead. (The Complete Harvard Classics, in 52 volumes plus Index. Free downloads in Sony BBeB/LRF, Mobipocket/PRC, and eBookwise/IMP formats.)
  • "The complete MobileRead edition of the Harvard Classics is now available!". MobileRead. (Discussion thread about the page, "Harvard Classics Available at MobileRead.)
• "Harvard Classics (Bookshelf)". Project Gutenberg. (The Harvard Classics and The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction)
• "The Harvard Classics / Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf". Internet Archive. (All volumes.)
• Greater Books – a site documenting lists of "great books," classics, and canons, including Harvard Classics
• Wagner, David Paul (2005–2017). "Publishing History: Book Series". publishinghistory. C/o, ANBRC, PO Box 74, North Richmond NSW 2754, Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2018. Publishing History • Book Collecting • Research MaterialsCS1 maint: location (link)
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• "The Western Canon". Interleaves. 1994. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
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