| Fernán Caballero (Cecilia Böhl de Faber).
1796–1877. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Bull-Fight |
| In the Home Circle |
| George Washington Cable.
1844–1925. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| “Posson Jone’” |
| Julius Cæsar.
100–44 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Howell Westcott |
| The Defeat of Ariovistus and the Germans |
| Of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Gauls and Germans |
| The Two Lieutenants |
| Epigram on Terentius |
| Hall Caine.
1853–1931. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Pete Quilliam’s First-Born |
| Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
1600–1681. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Maurice Francis Egan |
| The Lovers |
| Cyprian’s Bargain |
| Dreams and Realities |
| The Dream Called Life |
| John Caldwell Calhoun.
1782–1850. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Peterfield Trent |
| Remarks on the Right of Petition |
| State Rights |
| Of the Government of Poland |
| Urging Repeal of the Missouri Compromise |
| Callimachus.
c. 310–240 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Hymn to Jupiter |
| Epitaph, I |
| Epigram |
| Epitaph on Heracleitus |
| Epitaph, II |
| The Misanthrope |
| Epitaph upon Himself |
| Epitaph upon Cleombrotus |
| Charles Stuart Calverley.
1831–1884. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘An Examination Paper,’ ‘The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club’ |
| Ballad: ‘The auld wife sat at her ivied door’ |
| Lovers, and a Reflection |
| Visions |
| Changed |
| Thoughts at a Railway Station |
| “Forever” |
| John Calvin.
1509–1564. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Arthur Cushman McGiffert |
| Prefatory Address to the ‘Institutes’ |
| Election and Predestination |
| Freedom of the Will |
| Luís de Camões.
c. 1524–1580. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Henry Roseman Lang |
| From ‘The Lusiads’ |
| The Canzon of Life |
| Adieu to Coimbra |
| Thomas Campbell.
1777–1844. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Hope |
| The Fall of Poland |
| The Slave |
| Death and a Future Life |
| Lochiel’s Warning |
| The Soldier’s Dream |
| Lord Ullin’s Daughter |
| The Exile of Erin |
| Ye Mariners of England |
| Hohenlinden |
| The Battle of Copenhagen |
| From the ‘Ode to Winter’ |
| Thomas Campion.
1567–1620. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ernest Rhys |
| A Hymn in Praise of Neptune |
| Of Corinna’s Singing |
| From ‘Divine and Moral Songs’ |
| To a Coquette |
| Songs from ‘Light Conceits of Lovers’ |
| George Canning.
1770–1827. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Rogero’s Soliloquy |
| The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder |
| On the English Constitution |
| On Brougham and South America |
| Cesare Cantù.
1804–1895. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Execution |
| Giosuè Carducci.
1835–1907. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frank Sewall |
| Roma |
| Homer |
| In a Gothic Church |
| On the Sixth Centenary of Dante |
| The Ox |
| Dante |
| To Satan |
| To Aurora |
| Ruit Hora |
| The Mother |
| Thomas Carew.
1595?–1639? |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Song: ‘Ask me no more where Jove bestows’ |
| The Protestation |
| Song: ‘Would you know what’s soft?’ |
| The Spring |
| The Inquiry |
| Thomas Carlyle.
1795–1881. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Sir Leslie Stephen |
| Labor |
| The World in Clothes |
| Dante |
| Cromwell |
| The Procession |
| The Siege of the Bastille |
| Charlotte Corday |
| The Scapegoat |
| Bliss Carman.
1861–1929. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts |
| Hack and Hew |
| At the Granite Gate |
| A Sea Child |
| Edward Carpenter.
1844–1929. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Dorothy Brewster |
| From ‘Except the Lord Build the House’ |
| Brief Is Pain |
| Lewis Carroll.
1832–1898. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Alice, the Pig-Baby, and the Cheshire Cat |
| The Mock-Turtle’s Education |
| A Clear Statement |
| The Walrus and the Carpenter |
| The Baker’s Tale |
| You Are Old, Father William |
| Giacomo Casanova.
1725–1798. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Casanova’s Escape from the Ducal Palace |
| Bartolomé de las Casas.
1474–1566. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Of the Island of Cuba |
| Baldassare Castiglione.
1478–1529. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Of the Court of Urbino |
| Cato the Elder.
234–149 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| On Agriculture |
| From the ‘Attic Nights’ of Aulus Gellius |
| Jacob Cats.
1577–1660. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Fear After the Trouble |
| “A Rich Man Loses his Child, a Poor Man Loses his Cow” |
| Gaius Valerius Catullus.
c. 84–c. 54 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John William Mackail |
| Dedication for a Volume of Lyrics |
| A Morning Call |
| Home to Sirmio |
| Heart-Break |
| To Calvus in Bereavement |
| The Pinnace |
| An Invitation to Dinner |
| A Brother’s Grave |
| Farewell to his Fellow-Officers |
| Verses from an Epithalamium |
| Love Is All |
| Elegy on Lesbia’s Sparrow |
| “Fickle and Changeable Ever” |
| Two Chords |
| Last Word to Lesbia |
| Madison Cawein.
1865–1914. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Joyce Kilmer |
| Aubade |
| Preludes |
| In the Shadow of the Beeches |
| In the Lane |
| Feud |
| March |
| Benvenuto Cellini.
1500–1571. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Escape from Prison |
| The Casting of Perseus |
| A Necklace of Pearls |
| How Benvenuto Lost his Brother |
| An Adventure in Necromancy |
| Benvenuto Loses Self-Control under Severe Provocation |
| Celtic Literature. |
Critical Introduction by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys |
| I. Irish: |
Critical Introduction by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys |
| The Miller of Hell |
| Signs of Home |
| Oisin in Tirnanoge |
| From ‘The Coming of Cuculain’ |
| The Mystery of Amergin |
| The Song of Fionn |
| Vision of a Fair Woman |
| From ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’ by William Butler Yeats |
| The Madness of King Goll by William Butler Yeats |
| II. Scottish: |
Critical Introduction by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys |
| St. Bridget’s Milking Song by Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp) |
| Prologue to Gaul |
| Columcille Fecit |
| In Hebrid Seas |
| III. Welsh: |
Critical Introduction by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys |
| IV. Cornish: |
IV. Cornish: Critical Introduction by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys |
| From ‘The Poem of the Passion’ |
| From ‘Origo Mundi,’ in the ‘Ordinalia’ |
| Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
1547–1616. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Santayana |
| Treating of the Character and Pursuits of Don Quixote |
| Of What Happened to Don Quixote When he Left the Inn |
| Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Sally Forth: and the Adventure with the Windmills |
| Sancho Panza and his Wife Teresa Converse Shrewdly |
| Of Sancho Panza’s Delectable Discourse with the Duchess |
| Sancho Panza as Governor |
| The Ending of All Don Quixote’s Adventures |
| Adelbert von Chamisso.
1781–1838. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Bargain |
| From ‘Woman’s Love and Life’ |
| William Ellery Channing.
1780–1842. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Passion for Power |
| The Causes of War |
| Spiritual Freedom |
| George Chapman.
1559?–1634. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Ulysses and Nausicaa |
| The Duke of Byron is Condemned to Death |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand.
1768–1848. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Christianity Vindicated |
| Description of a Thunder-Storm in the Forest |
| Thomas Chatterton.
1752–1770. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Final Chorus from ‘Goddwyn’ |
| The Farewell of Sir Charles Baldwin to his Wife |
| Mynstrelles Songe |
| An Excelente Balade of Charitie |
| The Resignation |
| Geoffrey Chaucer.
c. 1340–1400. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury |
| From Prologue to the ‘Canterbury Tales’ |
| The Temples of Venus, Mars, and Diana |
| The Passing of the Fairies |
| From ‘The Pardoner’s Tale’ |
| The Nun’s Priest’s Tale |
| Truth—Ballade of Good Counsel |
| Anton Chekhov.
1860–1904. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Johnston |
| The Trousseau |
| The Incapables |
| André Chénier.
1762–1794. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Katharine Hillard |
| The Young Captive |
| Ode: ‘May fewer roses calls her own’ |
| Victor Cherbuliez.
1829–1899. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Silent Duel |
| Samuel Brohl Gives up the Play |
| Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield.
1694–1773. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘Letters to His Son’ |
| The Choice of a Vocation |
| G. K. Chesterton.
1874–1936. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Stuart Pratt Sherman |
| The Dickens Period |
| To Edmund Clerihew Bentley |
| The Ethics of Elfland |
| A Defense of Nonsense |
| A Sermon on Inns |
| The Literature of China. |
Critical Introduction by Sir Robert K. Douglas |
| Selected Maxims of Morals, Philosophy of Life, Character, Circumstances, etc. |
| Rufus Choate.
1799–1859. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Albert Stickney |
| The Puritan in Secular and Religious Life |
| The New-Englander’s Character |
| Of the American Bar |
| Daniel Webster |
| Saint John Chrysostom.
c. 347–407. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Malone |
| That Real Wealth Is from Within |
| On Encouragement during Adversity |
| Concerning the Statutes |
| Winston Churchill.
1871–1947. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edgar White Burrill |
| Stephen Brice Hears the Speech at Freeport |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero.
106–43 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Cranston Lawton |
| Of the Offices of Literature and Poetry |
| Honors Proposed for the Dead Statesman Sulpicius |
| Old Friends Better than New |
| Honored Old Age |
| Death Is Welcome to the Old |
| Great Orators and their Training |
| From Letters: To Tiro; To Atticus |
| Sulpicius Consoles Cicero after his Daughter Tullia’s Death |
| Cicero’s Reply to Sulpicius |
| A Homesick Exile |
| Cicero’s Vacillation in the Civil War |
| From Cicero’s Correspondents |
| The Dream of Scipio |
| El Cid.
c. 1043–1099. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Sprague Smith |
| From ‘The Poem of My Cid’ |
| Edward Hyde, Lord Clarendon.
1609–1674. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Character of Lord Falkland |
| Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke.
1846–1881. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| How a Penal System can Work |
| The Valley of the Shadow of Death |
| Matthias Claudius.
1740–1815. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Speculations on New Year’s Day |
| Rhine Wine |
| Winter |
| Night Song |
| Henry Clay.
1777–1852. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Robert Procter |
| Public Spirit in Politics |
| On the Greek Struggle for Independence |
| South-American Independence as Related to the United States |
| From the Valedictory to the Senate, Delivered in 1842 |
| From the Lexington ‘Speech on Retirement to Private Life’ |
| Cleanthes.
331–232 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Hymn to Zeus |
| Arthur Hugh Clough.
1819–1861. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Eliot Norton |
| There Is No God |
| The Latest Decalogue |
| To the Unknown God |
| Easter Day—Naples, 1849 |
| It Fortifies My Soul to Know |
| Say Not, the Struggle Naught Availeth |
| Come Back |
| As Ships Becalmed |
| The Unknown Course |
| The Gondola |
| The Poet’s Place in Life |
| On Keeping within One’s Proper Sphere |
| Consider It Again |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
1772–1834. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Edward Woodberry |
| Kubla Khan |
| The Albatross |
| Time, Real and Imaginary |
| Dejection: An Ode |
| The Three Treasures |
| To a Gentleman |
| Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire |
| The Pains of Sleep |
| Song, by Glycine |
| Youth and Age |
| Phantom or Fact? |
| William Collins.
1721–1759. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| How Sleep the Brave |
| The Passions |
| To Evening |
| Ode on the Death of Thomson |
| William Wilkie Collins.
1824–1889. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Sleep-Walking |
| Count Fosco |
| George Colman the Elder.
1732–1794. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Eavesdropping |
| Johann Amos Comenius.
1592–1670. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Burke Aaron Hinsdale |
| Author’s Preface to the ‘Orbis Pictus’ |
| School of Infancy—Claims of Childhood |
| Philippe de Commines.
c. 1447–1511. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Virtues and Vices of King Louis XI. |
| The Virtues of the Duke of Burgundy and the Time of His House’s Prosperity |
| The Last Days of Louis XI. |
| Character of Louis XI. |
| Auguste Comte.
1798–1857. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Evolution of Belief |
| The Study of Law Substituted for That of Causes |
| Subjection of Self-Love to Social Love |
| The Cultus of Humanity |
| The Domination of the Dead |
| The Worship of Woman |
| William Congreve.
1670–1729. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Mrs. Foresight and Mrs. Frail Come to an Understanding |
| Angelica’s Proposal |
| Almeria in the Mausoleum |
| Joseph Conrad.
1857–1924. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Leland Hall |
| From ‘Lord Jim’ |
| Victory over Death |
| Hendrik Conscience.
1812–1883. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Sharp |
| The Horse-Shoe |
| The Patient Waiter |
| From ‘The Lost Glove’ |
| The Iron Tomb |
| Siska van Roosemael |
| A Painter’s Progress |
| Rose Terry Cooke.
1827–1892. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Reverend Thomas Tucker as a Parson |
| James Fenimore Cooper.
1789–1851. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Julian Hawthorne |
| The Privateer |
| The Brigantine’s Escape through Hell-Gate |
| The Doom of Abiram White |
| The Bison Stampede |
| Running the Gauntlet |
| The Prairie Fire |
| Nicolaus Copernicus.
1473–1543. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Singleton Holden |
| François Coppée.
1842–1908. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Robert Louis Sanderson |
| The Parricide |
| The Substitute |
| Pierre Corneille.
1606–1684. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frederick Morris Warren |
| The Lovers |
| Don Rodrigue Describes to King Fernando his Victory over the Moors |
| The Wrath of Camilla |
| Paulina’s Appeal to Severus |
| Victor Cousin.
1792–1867. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Pascal’s Skepticism |
| Madame de Longueville |
| Madame de Chevreuse |
| Comparison between Madame de Hautefort and Madame de Chevreuse |
| Abraham Cowley.
1618–1667. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury |
| Of Myself |
| On the Death of Crashaw |
| On the Death of Mr. William Hervey |
| A Supplication |
| Epitaph on a Living Author |
| William Cowper.
1731–1800. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Cricket |
| The Winter Walk at Noon |
| On the Loss of the Royal George |
| Imaginary Verses of Alexander Selkirk |
| The Immutability of Human Nature |
| From a Letter to Rev. John Newton |
| George Crabbe.
1754–1832. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Isaac Ashford |
| The Parish Workhouse and Apothecary |
| Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
1826–1887. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Night Attack |
| Philip, My King |
| Too Late |
| Now and Afterwards |
| Madame Augustus Craven (Pauline de la Ferronays).
1808–1891. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Albert’s Last Days |
| A Generous Enemy |
| Francis Marion Crawford.
1854–1909. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Ghost in the Berth |
| A Thwarted Plan |
| Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon.
1674–1762. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Robert Louis Sanderson |
| The Bloody Banquet |
| Mother and Daughter |
| The Matricide |
| The Reconciliation |
| Benedetto Croce.
1866–1952. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Arthur Livingston |
| “What is Art?” |
| Samuel Rutherford Crockett.
1860–1914. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Ensamples to the Flock |
| Sawny Bean; and the Cave of Death |
| George Croly.
1780–1860. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Firing of Rome |
| A Wife’s Influence |
| The Lily of the Valley |
| George Cupples.
1822–1891. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| In the Tropics |
| Napoleon at St. Helena |
| George William Curtis.
1824–1892. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Cary |
| The Mist at Newport |
| Nazareth |
| Aurelia as a Grandmother |
| Prue’s Magnolia |
| Our Cousin the Curate |
| The Charm of Paris |
| “Pharisaism of Reform” |
| The Call of Freedom |
| Robert Browning in Florence |
| Ernst Curtius.
1814–1896. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Causes of Dislike toward Socrates |
| Socrates as an Influence and as a Man |
| Georges Cuvier.
1769–1832. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Spencer Trotter |
| Of Changes in the Structure of the Earth |
| Of the Fabulous Animals of the Ancient Writers |
| Felix Dahn.
1834–1912. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Young Wife |
| The Vengeance of Gothelindis |
| Olof von Dalin.
1708–1763. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Henry Carpenter |
| From the Swedish Argus |
| Richard Henry Dana, Sr.
1787–1879. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Island |
| The Doom of Lee |
| Paul and Abel |
| Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
1815–1882. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Dry Gale |
| Every-Day Sea Life |
| A Start; and Parting Company |
| Gabriele D’Annunzio.
1863–1938. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Drowned Boy |
| To an Impromptu of Chopin |
| India |
| Mila and Aligi in the Cavern |
| Address to the American People |
| Dante Alighieri.
1265–1321. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Eliot Norton |
| From ‘The New Life’ |
| From the ‘Convito’ |
| From the ‘Divine Comedy’ |
| James Darmesteter.
1849–1894. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Ernest Renan |
| Judaism |
| Charles Darwin.
1809–1882. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Sir E. Ray Lankester |
| Impressions of Travel |
| Genesis of ‘The Origin of Species’ |
| Curious Atrophy of Æsthetic Taste |
| Private Memorandum concerning his Little Daughter |
| Religious Views |
| Selected Letters |
| The Struggle for Existence |
| The Geometrical Ratio of Increase |
| Of the Nature of the Checks to Increase |
| The Complex Relations of All Animals and Plants to Each Other in the Struggle for Existence |
| Of Natural Selection: or the Survival of the Fittest |
| Progressive Change Compared with Independent Creation |
| Creative Design |
| The Origin of the Human Species |
| Alphonse Daudet.
1840–1897. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Augustin Filon |
| The Two Tartarins |
| Of “Mental Mirage,” as Distinguished from Lying |
| The Death of the Dauphin |
| Jack is Invited to Take Up a “Profession” |
| The City of Iron and Fire |
| The Wrath of a Queen |
| Edmondo De Amicis.
1846–1908. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Light |
| Resemblances |
| Birds |
| Cordova |
| The Land of Pluck |
| The Dutch Masters |
| Daniel Defoe.
1661?–1731. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Frederick Johnson |
| Selections from ‘Robinson Crusoe’ |
| From ‘History of the Plague in London’ |
| From ‘Colonel Jack’ |
| The Devil Does Not Concern Himself with Petty Matters |
| Defoe Addresses His Public |
| Engaging a Maid-Servant |
| The Devil |
| There Is a God |
| José-Maria de Heredia.
1842–1905. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Maurice Francis Egan |
| The Conquerors |
| The Samurai |
| On Pierre Ronsard’s Book of Love |
| On an Antique Medal |
| Sunset |
| To the Tragedian Rossi |
| Michelangelo |
| After Petrarch |
| Epitaph |
| ‘’Tis Noon; the Light is Fierce’ |
| Richard Dehmel.
1863–1920. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ludwig Lewisohn |
| Vigil |
| Sudden Hope |
| Before the Storm |
| Eduard Douwes Dekker (Multatuli).
1820–1887. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Multatuli’s Last Words to the Reader |
| Idyll of Saïdjah and Adinda |
| Thomas Dekker.
c. 1570–1632. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘The Gul’s Horne Booke’ |
| The Praise of Fortune |
| Content |
| Rustic Song |
| Lullaby |
| Casimir Delavigne.
1793–1843. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frédéric Loliée |
| The Confession of Louis XI. |
| William De Morgan.
1839–1917. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edgar White Burrill |
| Of Joe Vance’s Father |
| Of the Great Fire |
| A Chapter that Had to be Written |
| Old Jane in the Insane Ward |
| Demosthenes.
384–322 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Robert Sharp |
| The Third Philippic |
| Invective against License of Speech |
| Justification of His Patriotic Policy |
