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Gateway to the Great Books volume 5

Series: Gateway to the great books 10 volumes Vol. V Published by : Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois ) Physical details: 411 p. ISBN:37762.
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Year: 1963
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Basement 808.8 Gat (Browse shelf) Available 37762

. 5. Critical Essays --
How Should One Read a Book? / Virginia Woolf --
The Study of Poetry / Matthew Arnold --
Sweetness and Light / Matthew Arnold --
What Is a Classic? / Sainte-Beuve --
Montaigne / Sainte-Beuve --
Of Beauty / Francis Bacon --
Of Discourse / Francis Bacon --
Of Studies / Francis Bacon --
Of the Standard of Taste / David Hume --
On Style / Arthur Schopenhauer --
On Some Forms of Literature / Arthur Schopenhauer --
On the Comparative Place of Interest and Beauty in Works of Art / Arthur Schopenhauer --
On Simple and Sentimental Poetry / Friedrich Schiller --
A Defence of Poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
Preface to Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman --
My First Acquaintance with Poets / William Hazlitt --
On Swift / William Hazlitt --
Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen / William Hazlitt --
My First Play / Charles Lamb --
Dream Children, a Reverie / Charles Lamb --
Sanity of True Genius / Charles Lamb --
Preface to Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson --
Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power / Thomas De Quincey --
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth / Thomas De Quincey --
Dante / Thomas Stearns Eliot --
Tradition and the Individual Talent / Thomas Stearns Eliot.

Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works.

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