| Christina Georgina Rossetti.
1830–1894. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne |
| Hope Is Like a Harebell |
| Dream-Land |
| A Birthday |
| Remember |
| After Death |
| Echo |
| Song: ‘When I am dead, my dearest’ |
| Rest |
| Up-Hill |
| The Three Enemies |
| Old and New Year Ditties |
| Amor Mundi |
| Life Hidden |
| Whitsun Eve |
| Heaven Overarches |
| The Heart Knoweth Its Own Bitterness |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
1828–1882. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne |
| The Blessèd Damozel |
| The Double Betrayal |
| The Second-Sight |
| The Card-Dealer |
| Sudden Light |
| The Woodspurge |
| The Sea-Limits |
| The Cloud Confines |
| Song of the Bower |
| Sonnets from ‘The House of Life’ |
| On Refusal of Aid between Nations |
| For ‘A Venetian Pastoral,’ by Giorgione, in the Louvre |
| Edmond Rostand.
1868–1918. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Curtis Hidden Page |
| The Poet-Duellist |
| Metternich Encounters Napoleon’s Shadow |
| Chanticleer’s Hymn to the Sun |
| The Dawn |
| Chanticleer’s Avowal |
| Chanticleer’s Consolation |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau.
1712–1778. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Édouard Rod |
| Foreword from ‘The Social Contract’ |
| The People |
| From ‘Émile’ |
| On the Uses of Travel |
| In the Isle of St. Peter |
| Friedrich Rückert.
1788–1866. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Hour-Glass of Ashes |
| Amaryllis |
| Sad Spring |
| The Sun and the Brook |
| The Dying Flower |
| Nature More than Science |
| Greediness Punished |
| The Patriot’s Lament |
| Barbarossa |
| The Drum |
| Gone in the Wind |
| Told by a Brahmin |
| Giovanni Domenico Ruffini.
1807–1881. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Idyl at a Close |
| Jalāl-ad-dīn Rūmī.
1207–1273. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by A. V. Williams Jackson |
| The Song of the Reed, or Divine Affections |
| The Merchant and the Parrot |
| The Chinese and Roman Artists |
| To God the Compassionate |
| Johan Ludvig Runeberg.
1804–1877. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne |
| Ensign Stål |
| The Village Girl |
| The Old Man’s Return |
| The Swan |
| The Work-Girl |
| My Life |
| Idyll |
| Counsels |
| John Ruskin.
1819–1900. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Charles van Dyke |
| On Womanhood |
| The Uses of Ornament |
| Landscapes of the Poets |
| The Throne |
| Description of St. Mark’s |
| Calais Spire |
| The Fribourg District, Switzerland |
| The Mountain Gloom |
| Description of Nature |
| Leaves Motionless |
| Cloud-Balancings |
| William Clark Russell.
1844–1911. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Storm and a Rescue |
| Russian Lyric Poetry. |
Critical Introduction by Prince Serge Wolkonsky |
| Alexander Pushkin.
1799–1837. |
The Black Shawl |
| The Rose |
| To —— |
| My Studies |
| Caucasus |
| The Bard |
| A Monument |
| Ya Perezhil Svoï Zhelanya |
| The Free Life of the Bird |
| The Angel |
| Mikhail Lermontov.
1814–1841. |
The Prisoner |
| The Cloud |
| The Cup of Life |
| The Angel |
| Nikolay Nekrasov.
1821–1877. |
The Russian Soldier |
| The Prophet |
| Vasily Zhukovsky.
1783–1852. |
Happiness in Slumber |
| The Coming of Spring |
| Night |
| Ivan Kozlov.
1779–1840. |
The Vesper Bells |
| Fyodor Tyutchev.
1803–1873. |
Spring Waters |
| Sunrise |
| Evening |
| The Leaves |
| Aleksey Khomyakov.
1804–1860. |
Russian Song |
| Apollon Maykov.
1821–1897. |
The Easter Kiss |
| The Alpine Glacier |
| The Kiss Refused |
| Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy.
1817–1875. |
Believe It Not |
| Renewal |
| Yakov Polonsky.
1819–1898. |
On Skobelev |
| Afanasy Fet (Shenshin).
1820–1892. |
Tryst |
| A Russian Scene |
| Aleksey Apukhtin.
1840–1893. |
Folk-Songs |
| Anonymous. |
Sorrow |
| Russian Realistic School of Poetry. |
Critical Introduction by Eugene Mark Kayden |
| Alekseï Koltsov.
1809–1842. |
The Peasant’s Musing |
| Song: ‘Cease thy song, nightingale’ |
| The Ploughman’s Song |
| Nikolay Nekrasov.
1821–1877. |
When from thy Shame |
| Home from Work |
| Mothers |
| Semyon Nadson.
1862–1887. |
Wherefore? |
| Ah, Tell me not he Passed |
| Hans Sachs.
1494–1576. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung |
| Under the Pressure of Care or Poverty |
| From ‘The Nightingale of Wittenberg’ |
| The Unlike Children of Eve |
| Tale. How the Devil Took to Himself an Old Wife |
| Sa’dī.
c. 1213–1291. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by A. V. Williams Jackson |
| A Meditation |
| The Orphan |
| Humility |
| Moral Education and Self-Control |
| Keep Your Own Secret |
| Bringing up a Son |
| Humanity |
| Sa’dī and the Ring |
| Sa’dī at the Grave of his Child |
| Sa’dī the Captive Gets a Wife |
| How the Student Saved Time |
| A Powerful Voice |
| A Valuable Voice |
| For God’s Sake! Read Not |
| The Grass and the Rose |
| A Witty Philosopher Rewarded |
| The Penalty of Stupidity |
| The Death of the Poor Is Repose |
| Thy Worst Enemy |
| Maxims |
| Shabli and the Ant |
| Sa’dī’s Interview with Sultan Ābāqā-ān |
| Supplication |
| Be Content |
| Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve.
1804–1869. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Benjamin W. Wells |
| A Critic’s Account of His Own Critical Method |
| Alfred de Musset |
| Goethe: and Bettina Brentano |
| Joseph Xavier Boniface Saintine.
1798–1865. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘Picciola’ |
| Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.
1737–1814. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Home in Martinique |
| The Shipwreck |
| Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon.
1675–1755. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Marriage |
| The Portrait |
| Madame de Maintenon at the Review |
| A Paragon of Politeness |
| A Modern Harpy |
| Sallust.
c. 86–c. 34/35 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Catiline and his Plot |
| Catiline’s Address to his Soldiers before the Battle of Pistoria |
| A Numidian Defeat |
| Speech of Marius |
| George Sand.
1804–1876. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Th. Bentzon (Thérèse Blanc) |
| The Convent of the English Augustines |
| From ‘Lélia’ |
| A Traveler’s Letters |
| From ‘Simon’ |
| François the Field-Foundling |
| The Budding Author |
| Leonard Sylvain Jules Sandeau.
1811–1883. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| How the History of Penarvan was Written |
| Sappho.
fl. c. 610–580 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Davidson |
| To Aphrodite |
| To the Beloved |
| Francisque Sarcey.
1827–1899. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| How a Lecture is Prepared |
| Further Hints on Lecturing |
| Victorien Sardou.
1831–1908. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harvey Hatcher Hughes |
| From ‘Scrap of Paper’ |
| From ‘Patrie!’ |
| Joseph Viktor von Scheffel.
1826–1886. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Rejection and Flight |
| Song of the Ichthyosaurus |
| Declaration and Departure |
| Song: Farewell |
| Songs of Hiddigeigei, the Tom-Cat |
| Edmond Henri Adolphe Schérer.
1815–1889. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Victor Charbonnel |
| The Eighteenth Century |
| A Literary Heresy |
| Friedrich von Schiller.
1759–1805. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Payson Evans |
| To Laura |
| The Knight Toggenburg |
| The Sharing of the Earth |
| The Best State |
| German Art |
| The Maiden’s Lament |
| The Maiden from Afar |
| Punch Song |
| Worth of Women |
| Riddles |
| The Power of Song |
| Hymn to Joy |
| The Gods of Greece |
| From ‘The Artists’ |
| Extracts from ‘The Song of the Bell’ |
| The Epic Hexameter |
| The Distich |
| My Creed |
| Kant and his Interpreters |
| From ‘Wallenstein’s Death’ |
| The Iconoclasts |
| The Last Interview of Orange with Egmont |
| From ‘On the Æsthetic Education of Man’ |
| August Wilhelm von Schlegel.
1767–1845. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Romantic Drama |
| Friedrich von Schlegel.
1772–1829. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Of Romance: Spenser and Shakespeare |
| Arthur Schnitzler.
1862–1931. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ludwig Lewisohn |
| A Christmas Present |
| Doctor and Priest |
| Arthur Schopenhauer.
1788–1860. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne |
| From ‘The World as Will and Idea’ |
| On Books and Readings |
| On Criticism |
| On Authorship |
| The Value of Personality |
| Olive Schreiner.
1855–1920. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Shadows from Child Life |
| Three Dreams in a Desert |
| Carl Schurz.
1829–1906. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by James Ford Rhodes |
| Clay the Citizen |
| Clay the Statesman |
| Two Popular Leaders |
| The First American |
| Sir Walter Scott.
1771–1832. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Andrew Lang |
| Cheapening Fish; and the Village Post-Office |
| The Covenanter |
| The Meeting of Jeanie and Effie Deans |
| A Royal Rival |
| The Tournament |
| The Hermit—Friar Tuck |
| Richard and Saladin |
| The Last Minstrel |
| Lochinvar |
| Ellen Douglas’s Bower |
| The Disclosure |
| Song: Jock o’ Hazeldean |
| Highland Song: Pibroch of Donuil Dhu |
| Nora’s Vow |
| The Ballad of ‘The Red Harlaw’ |
| Song: Brignall Banks |
| Bonny Dundee |
| Flora MacIvor’s Song |
| Augustin Eugène Scribe.
1791–1861. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Merlin’s Pet Fairy |
| The Price of Life |
| John Selden.
1584–1654. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From the ‘Table-Talk’ |
| Étienne Pivert de Senancour.
1770–1846. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Alpine Scenery |
| Conditions of Happiness |
| Obermann’s Isolation |
| Seneca.
c. 4 B.C.–65 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Time Wasted |
| Independence in Action |
| Praises of the Rival School in Philosophy |
| Inconsistency |
| On Leisure |
| Accommodation to Circumstances |
| The Wooing of Megara |
| Matilde Serao.
1856–1927. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ |
| The Boarding-School |
| The Schoolgirls’ Vow |
| Madame de Sévigné.
1626–1696. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Selected Letters to her Cousin, M. de Coulanges |
| Selected Letters to her Daughter, Madame de Grignan |
| William Shakespeare.
1564–1616. |
William Shakespeare the Poet by Edward Dowden |
| William Shakespeare the Man and the Actor by John Malone |
| Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ernest Hunter Wright |
| Songs and Their Settings: |
Ariel |
| Ariel’s Songs |
| Marriage Song |
| Silvia |
| Falstaff Tormented by the Supposed Fairies |
| Song: Take, Oh! Take |
| Balthazar’s Song |
| Lady Hero’s Epitaph |
| White and Red |
| Love’s Rhapsody |
| Song: Spring and Winter |
| Puck |
| The Diversions of the Fairies |
| The Fairies’ Wedding Charm |
| Where Is Fancy Bred? |
| Under the Greenwood Tree |
| Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind |
| Love in Springtime |
| One in Ten |
| Sweet and Twenty |
| Love’s Lament |
| The Rain It Raineth |
| When Daffodils Begin to Peer |
| What Maids Lack |
| Sweet Music |
| Doubt Not |
| Dead and Gone |
| Ophelia’s Lament |
| In the Church-Yard |
| Iago’s Soldier-Songs |
| Desdemona’s Last Song |
| Hark! Hark! the Lark |
| Fear No More |
| Time’s Glory |
| Selected Sonnets |
| Attributed Songs: |
Crabbed Age and Youth |
| Beauty |
| Live with Me |
| Threnos |
| Scenes from the Comedies and Histories: |
Dogberry Captain of the Watch |
| Shylock and Antonio |
| Launcelot and Old Gobbo |
| The Quality of Mercy |
| Lorenzo and Jessica |
| Rosalind, Orlando, Jaques |
| Richard II. in Prison |
| Falstaff and Prince Hal |
| Falstaff’s Army |
| Falstaff in Battle |
| Henry’s Wooing of Katharine |
| Gloster and Anne: Gloster’s Soliloquy |
| Scenes from the Tragedies: |
The Parting of Romeo and Juliet |
| Antony’s Speech over Cæsar’s Body |
| Cleopatra on the Cydnus |
| The Death of Cleopatra |
| The Opening Scene of ‘Hamlet’ |
| Hamlet Meditates Suicide |
| Hamlet’s Revenge Accomplished |
| Othello’s Story of his Wooing |
| The Murder of Desdemona |
| Lear’s Recovery |
| The Death of Lear |
| Macbeth before the Deed |
| The Murder Scene |
| The Sleep-Walking Scene |
| Macbeth’s Despair |
| The Death of Young Siward |
| Vishnu Sharma (Pilpay).
c. 1000 B.C.? |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Rockwell Lanman |
| The Talkative Tortoise |
| The Golden Goose |
| The Gratitude of Animals |
| The Dullard and the Plow-Shaft |
| The Widow’s Mite |
| What’s in a Name? |
| The Buddhist Duty of Courtesy to Animals |
| Monkeys in the Garden |
| The Antelope, the Woodpecker, and the Tortoise |
| Prince Five-Weapons |
| An “Example” of the Evils of Rashness |
| The Lion-Makers |
| The King and the Hawk |
| The Ass in the Lion’s Skin |
| The Hare-Mark in the Moon |
| Count Not your Chickens before they be Hatched |
| The Transformed Mouse |
| The Greedy Jackal |
| “How Plausible” |
| The Man in the Pit |
| George Bernard Shaw.
1856–1950. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Clayton Meeker Hamilton |
| The Choice |
| Cæsar, the Sphinx, and Cleopatra |
| The Woman Triumphs |
| Englishman and Irishman |
| The Death of the Artist |
| The Meaning of Love |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley.
1792–1822. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Edward Woodberry |
| From ‘Prometheus Unbound’ |
| Last Hour of Beatrice |
| Adonais |
| Hymn to Intellectual Beauty |
| Ozymandias |
| The Indian Serenade |
| Ode to the West Wind |
| The Sensitive Plant: Part First |
| The Cloud |
| To a Skylark |
| Arethusa |
| Hymn of Pan |
| To Night |
| To —— |
| William Shenstone.
1714–1763. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Pastoral Ballad |
| Song: ‘I told my nymph, I told her true’ |
| Disappointment |
| Hope |
| Much Taste and Small Estate |
| From ‘The Schoolmistress’ |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
1751–1816. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Brander Matthews |
| Mrs. Malaprop’s Views |
| Sir Lucius Dictates a Cartel |
| The Duel |
| The Scandal Class Meets |
| Matrimonial Felicity |
| Sir Peter and Lady Teazle Agree to Disagree |
| Auctioning Off One’s Relatives |
| The Pleasures of Friendly Criticism |
| Rolla’s Address to the Peruvian Warriors |
| John Henry Shorthouse.
1834–1903. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Inglesant Visits Mr. Ferrar’s Religious Community |
| The Visit to the Astrologer |
| John Inglesant Makes a Journey, and Meets his Brother’s Murderer |
| Sir Philip Sidney.
1554–1586. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Pitts Duffield |
| The Arrival in Arcadia |
| From ‘Astrophel and Stella’ |
| Sonnets to Stella |
| Henryk Sienkiewicz.
1846–1916. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung |
| Zagloba Captures a Banner |
| Podbipienta’s Death |
| Basia Works a Miracle |
| Basia and Michael Part |
| The Funeral of Pan Michael |
| Edward Rowland Sill.
1841–1887. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Opportunity |
| Home |
| The Fool’s Prayer |
| A Morning Thought |
| Strange |
| Life |
| William Gilmore Simms.
1806–1870. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Doom of Occonestoga |
| The Burden of the Desert |
| Simonides.
c. 556–468 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Walter Miller |
| Danaë’s Lament |
| From the ‘Epinician Ode for Scopas’ |
| Inscription for an Altar Dedicated to Artemis |
| Epitaph for Those Who Fell at Thermopylæ |
| Fragment of a Scolion |
| Time Is Fleeting |
| Virtue Coy and Hard to Win |
| Epitaphs |
| Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi.
1773–1842. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Humphrey J. Desmond |
| Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’ |
| The Troubadour |
| Italy in the Thirteenth Century |
| A Fifteenth-Century Soldier: Francesco Carmagnola |
| The Ruin of Florence and its Republic: 1530 |
| Annie Trumbull Slosson.
1838–1926. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Butterneggs |
| Juliusz Słowacki.
1809–1849. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘Mindowe’ |
| I Am So Sad, O God! |
| Adam Smith.
1723–1790. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Richard Theodore Ely |
| The Prudent Man |
| Of the Wages of Labor |
| Home Industries |
| Of Military and General Education |
| Francis Hopkinson Smith.
1838–1915. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘Colonel Carter of Cartersville’ |
| Goldwin Smith.
1823–1910. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| John Pym |
| The Puritan Colonies |
| Sydney Smith.
1771–1845. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Education of Women |
| John Bull’s Charity Subscriptions |
| Wisdom of Our Ancestors |
| Latin Verses |
| Mrs. Siddons |
| Dogs |
| Hand-Shaking |
| Small Men |
| Macaulay |
| Specie and Species |
| Daniel Webster |
| Review of the Novel ‘Granby’ |
| Tobias George Smollett.
1721–1771. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Pitts Duffield |
| A Naval Surgeon’s Examination in the Eighteenth Century |
| Roderick is “Pressed” into the Navy |
| Roderick Visits a Gaming-House |
| Old-Fashioned Love-Making: An Old-Fashioned Wedding |
| Humphrey Clinker is Presented to the Reader |
| Denton Jaques Snider.
1841–1925. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Battle of Marathon |
| Socrates.
469–399 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Herbert Weir Smyth |
| Socrates Refuses to Escape from Prison |
| Socrates and Euthydemus |
| Duty of Politicians to Qualify Themselves |
| Before the Trial |
| Solomon ibn Gabirol (Avicebron).
1021?–1058. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| On Matter and Form |
| Solon.
c. 630–560 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Defense of his Dictatorship |
| Solon Speaks his Mind to the Athenians |
| Two Fragments |
| Sophocles.
c. 496–406 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Pentland Mahaffy |
| Robert Southey.
1774–1843. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Holly-Tree |
| Stanzas Written in my Library |
| The Inchcape Rock |
| The Battle of Blenheim |
| The Old Woman of Berkeley |
| The Curse |
| Émile Souvestre.
1806–1854. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Washerwomen of Night |
| The Four Gifts |
| Herbert Spencer.
1820–1903. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frederick Howard Collins |
| Manners and Fashion |
| Edmund Spenser.
1552?–1599. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by James Douglas Bruce |
| Prothalamion |
| Belphœbe the Huntress |
| The Cave of Mammon |
| Sir Guyon and the Palmer Visit and Destroy the Bower of Bliss |
| Friedrich Spielhagen.
1829–1911. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘Quisisana’ |
| Baruch Spinoza.
1632–1677. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Josiah Royce |
| From ‘On the Improvement of the Understanding’ |
| Mental Freedom |
| Superstition and Fear |
| Harriet Prescott Spofford.
1835–1921. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Godmothers |
| The King’s Dust |
| On an Old Woman Singing |
| At the Potter’s |
| Equations |
| “When First You Went” |
| Statius.
c. 45–c. 96 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Cranston Lawton |
| A Royal Banquet |
| To my Wife: An Invitation to a Journey |
| To Sleep |
| Saturnalia |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman.
1833–1908. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Hand of Lincoln |
| Provençal Lovers—Aucassin and Nicolette |
| Ariel: In Memory of Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Mors Benefica |
| Toujours Amour |
| Pan in Wall Street |
| The Discoverer |
| Cavalry Song |
| The Future of American Poetry |
| Sir Richard Steele.
1672–1729. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| On Behavior at Church |
| Mr. Bickerstaff Visits a Friend |
| On Coffee-Houses; Succession of Visitors; Character of Eubulus |
| On the Effects of Public Mourning: Plainness in Dress |
| On the Art of Growing Old |
| On Flogging at Schools |
| The Art of Story-Telling |
| Stendhal.
1783–1842. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frederic Taber Cooper |
| Princess Sanseverina’s Interview |
| Clélia Aids Fabrice to Escape |
| Sir Leslie Stephen.
1832–1904. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ernest Hunter Wright |
| Laurence Sterne.
1713–1768. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Widow Wadman Lays Siege to Uncle Toby’s Heart |
| The Story of Le Fevre |
| The Start |
| The Monk |
| The Dead Ass |
| The Pulse: Paris |
| The Starling |
| In Languedoc: An Idyl |
| Robert Louis Stevenson.
1850–1894. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Robert Bridges |
| Bed in Summer |
| Travel |
| The Land of Counterpane |
| Northwest Passage |
| “If This Were Faith” |
| Requiem |
| To Will. H. Low |
| “The Tropics Vanish” |
| Tropic Rain |
| Christmas at Sea |
| A Fable |
| Striving and Failing |
| We Pass the Forth |
| A Night among the Pines |
| A Lodging for the Night |
| William James Stillman.
1828–1901. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Billy and Hans: A True History |
| Frank Richard Stockton.
1834–1902. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Franklin Thomas Baker |
| From ‘The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine’ |
| Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard.
1823–1902. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Great Gale |
| A Summer Night |
| El Manalo |
| Mercedes |
| Nameless Pain |
| On the Campagna |
| On my Bed of a Winter Night |
| Richard Henry Stoddard.
1825–1903. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Song: ‘You know the old Hidalgo’ |
| A Serenade |
| The Yellow Moon |
| The Sky Is a Drinking-Cup |
| The Two Brides |
| The Flight of Youth |
| The Sea, I |
| The Sea, II |
| Along the Grassy Slope I Sit |
| The Shadow of the Hand |
| Pain in Autumn |
| Birds |
| The Dead |
| Theodor Storm.
1817–1888. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| After Years |
| William Wetmore Story.
1819–1895. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Ghetto in Rome |
| The King of the Beggars |
| Spring in Rome |
| Cleopatra |
| The Chiffonier |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe.
1811–1896. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Spring Merriam |
| How Sam and Andy Helped Haley to Pursue Eliza |
| Eliza’s Flight |
| Topsy |
| Aaron Burr and Mary |
| A Spiritual Love |
| Miss Prissy Takes Candace’s Counsel |
| The Minister’s Sacrifice |
| David Friedrich Strauss.
1808–1874. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Development of Græco-Roman Cultivation |
| August Strindberg.
1849–1912. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ludwig Lewisohn |
| From ‘There Are Crimes and Crimes’ |
| Ruth McEnery Stuart.
1856–1917. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Widder Johnsing |
| William Stubbs.
1825–1901. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ehrman Syme Nadal |
| Social Life in the Fifteenth Century |
| Transition from the Age of Chivalry |
| Sir John Suckling.
1609–1642. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Song: ‘Why so pale and wan, fond lover?’ |
| A Bride |
| The Honest Lover |
| The Constant Lover |
| Verses |
| The Metamorphosis |
| Song: ‘I prithee send me back my heart’ |
| Hermann Sudermann.
1857–1928. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Critical Introduction to Sudermann’s Later Work by Ludwig Lewisohn |
| Returning from the Confirmation Lesson |
| The Trial |
| Freed from Dame Care |
| From ‘Magda’ |
| Honor in the Kitchen |
| Honor in the Drawing Room |
| Eugène Sue.
1804–1857. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Land’s End of Two Worlds |
| The Panther Fight |
| The Chastisement |
| Suetonius.
c. 69–c. 122 A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Caligula’s Madness |
| Cowardice and Death of Nero |
| Vitellius |
| Sully Prudhomme (René François Armand Prudhomme).
1839–1907. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Firmin Roz |
| To the Reader |
| Unknown Friends |
| The Missal |
| La Charpie |
| Enfantillage |
| Au Bord de l’Eau |
| Ce Qui Dure |
| If You but Knew |
| Separation |
| The Death Agony |
| Charles Sumner.
1811–1874. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| In Time of Peace Prepare for War |
| Some Changes in Modern Life |
| Peroration of the Oration on ‘The True Grandeur of Nations’ |
| Spirit of Classical and of Modern Literature |
| The Dignity of the Jurist |
| Allston in Italy |
| Emanuel Swedenborg.
1688–1772. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frank Sewall |
| The Contiguity and Harmony of the World |
| Individuality Eternal |
| The Perfect Man the True Philosopher |
| On the Internal Sense of the Word |
| How by the Word, Heaven and Earth are Brought into Association |
| The Church Universal |
| The Ethics of Swedenborg: The Spiritual Life: How it is Acquired |
| The Ethics of Swedenborg: The Social Good |
| Marriage Love |
| The Second Coming of the Lord |
| Jonathan Swift.
1667–1745. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Anna McClure Sholl |
| An Argument to Prove that the Abolishing of Christianity in England |
| Gulliver among the Pigmies |
| Gulliver among the Giants |
| The Houyhnhnms |
| The Struldbrugs |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne.
1837–1909. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne |
| Dedication |
| Hymn to Proserpine |
| The Garden of Proserpine |
| Hesperia |
| In Memory of Walter Savage Landor |
| A Forsaken Garden |
| The Pilgrims |
| Super Flumina Babylonis |
| Mater Triumphalis |
| From ‘Athens’ |
| Of Such Is the Kingdom of Heaven |
| The Salt of the Earth |
| A Child’s Future |
| Adieux à Marie Stuart |
| Love at Sea |
| A Match |
| Étude Réaliste |
| Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva).
1843–1916. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Fodder-Time |
| The Sower |
| The Boatman’s Song |
| The Country Letter-Carrier |
| The Stone-Cutter |
| The Post |
| Dimbovitza |
| Longing |
| Carmen |
| John Addington Symonds.
1840–1893. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Italian Art in its Relation to Religion |
| The Invasion of Italy by Charles VIII. of France |
| The Genius of Greek Art |
| Ravenna |
| Venice |
| The Nightingale |
| Farewell |
| The Feet of the Beloved |
| Eyebright |
| John Millington Synge.
1871–1909. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Lloyd R. Morris |
| From ‘Riders to the Sea’ |
| From ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ |
