C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Homer to Livy

Homer. fl. 850 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Day Seymour The Trojan Elders and Helen Paris, Hector, and Helen Hector to his Wife Father and Son Achilles Refuses to Aid the Greeks Hector Pursued by Achilles around Troy Hector’s Funeral Rites The Episode of Nausicaa The Homeric Hymns. Critical Introduction Origin of the Lyre Power of Aphrodite Dionysus and the Pirates Close of the Hymn to Delian Apollo Hymn to Demeter Thomas Hood. 1799–1845. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Lucia Gilbert Runkle Faithless Sally Brown An Ironic Requiem A Parental Ode to my Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months A Nocturnal Sketch Ruth Fair Ines A Song: for Music The Bridge of Sighs The Song of the Shirt Ode to Melancholy The Death-Bed I Remember, I Remember Stanzas Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft. 1581–1647. Critical and Biographical Introduction Anacreontic Theodore Hook. 1788–1841. Critical and Biographical Introduction The March of Intellect Horace. 65–8 B.C. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston To Leuconoë To Thaliarchus To the Ship of State To Chloe To Virgil To Quintus Dellius Ad Amphoram To Phidyle An Invitation to Mæcenas Horrida Tempestas Satire Contentment Horace’s Farm To His Book The Art of Poetry Richard Henry Hengist Horne. 1802–1884. Critical and Biographical Introduction Morning Joseph Howe. 1804–1873. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Archibald MacMechan Oration on Shakespeare Julia Ward Howe. 1819–1910. Critical and Biographical Introduction Battle Hymn of the Republic Our Orders Pardon ‘Hamlet’ at the Boston Theatre A New Sculptor William Dean Howells. 1837–1920. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Carl Van Doren The Bewildered Guest Hope Society Another Day A Midsummer-Day’s Dream The Street-Car Strike Arrival and First Days in Venice Thomas Hughes. 1822–1896. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Boat Race The Fight between Tom Brown and Williams Victor Hugo. 1802–1885. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Adolphe Cohn The Cities of the Plain The Sacking of the City Old Ocean Prayer My Thoughts of Ye Napoleon The Retreat from Moscow The Lions The Conspiracy The Chain-Gang for the Galleys The Combat with the Octopus Alexander von Humboldt. 1769–1859. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Beauty and Unity of Nature The Study of the Natural Sciences David Hume. 1711–1776. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Michael Andrew Mikkelsen Of Refinement in the Arts Leigh Hunt. 1784–1859. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ernest Rhys Jaffár The Nile To Hampstead To the Grasshopper and the Cricket Abou Ben Adhem Rondeau The Old Lady The Old Gentleman Thomas Henry Huxley. 1825–1895. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Sir E. Ray Lankester On a Piece of Chalk Materialism and Idealism Evolution and Ethics On the Physical Basis of Life Westminster Abbey Joris-Karl Huysmans. 1848–1907. Critical and Biographical Introduction with Selections by Pierre Dareutiere de Bâcourt Ibn Sina (Avicenna). 980–1037. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Davidson Henrik Ibsen. 1828–1906. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Henry Carpenter From ‘The Pretenders’ From ‘A Doll’s House’ From ‘Peer Gynt’ Icelandic Literature. The Sagas (Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries) by William Sharp Háconamál Karl Leberecht Immermann. 1796–1840. Critical and Biographical Introduction A Wedding and a Betrothal Indian Literature. Critical Introduction by Edward Washburn Hopkins Hymns of the Rig-Veda A Late Vedic Hymn to Starlit Night Vedic Hymn to the Twin Horsemen, the Açvins (Dioskuroi) A Late Vedic Hymn to Vāta, the Wind Burial Hymn (To Yama and the Dead) A Late Vedic Philosophical Hymn A Late Vedic Hymn of Creation A Late Vedic Mystic Hymn to Vāc (Speech, Logos) An Incantation Legend of the Flood Dialogue of Yājñavalkya and Māitreyī The Wisdom of Death Specimen of the [Dogmatic] Jain Literature Citations from Buddhistic Literature Conversation of the Herdsman Dhaniya and Buddha The Death of Buddha Epic Literature Specimen of the Didactic Poetry of the Mahābharata Specimen of the Rāmāyana Specimen of Fable Literature Specimen of Drama Extract from Kālidāsa’s ‘Çakuntalā’ Song from the Lyric Act of the ‘Vikramorvaçī’ Specimens of Lyric Poetry Specimens of the Religious-Erotic Lyric of the Twelfth Century Specimen of the Religious Poetry of the Modern Sects Jean Ingelow. 1820–1897. Critical and Biographical Introduction Divided Sand Martins The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire Cold and Quiet Lettice White Bernhard Severin Ingemann. 1789–1862. Critical and Biographical Introduction Carl of Risé and the Kohlman Morning Song Robert Green Ingersoll. 1833–1899. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Roscoe Conkling Ensign Brown Decoration Day Oration The Music of Wagner Life Oration at a Child’s Grave The Irish Literary Renascence. Critical Introduction by Lloyd R. Morris Washington Irving. 1783–1859. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edwin Wilson Morse The Good Old Days of Knickerbocker Life The Legend of Sleepy Hollow A Moorish Palace The Stage Coach Jorge Isaacs. 1837–1895. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Jaguar Hunt Helen Hunt Jackson. 1830–1885. Critical and Biographical Introduction Revenues Habeas Corpus My Hickory Fire Poppies in the Wheat Burnt Ships Spinning A May-Day in Albano Henry James. 1843–1916. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Stuart Pratt Sherman The Madonna of the Future The New Novel William James. 1842–1910. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Horace Meyer Kallen The Moral Equivalent of War Jāmī. 1414–1492. Critical and Biographical Introduction by A. V. Williams Jackson Love Beauty Zulīkhā’s First Dream Silent Sorrow Thomas Allibone Janvier. 1849–1913. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Episode of the Marques de Valdeflores Love Lane Japanese Literature. Critical Introduction by Clay MacCauley Archaic Writings Age of the Prose Classics Mediæval Literature Modern Literature under the Tokugawa Shōgunate Jacques Jasmin. 1798–1864. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston A Simple Story The Siren with the Heart of Ice The Blind Girl of Castèl-Cuillè Jayadeva. c. Twelfth Century. Critical and Biographical Introduction by A. V. Williams Jackson Rādhā and Krishna Jean Paul (J. P. F. Richter). 1763–1825. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Payson Evans Extra Leaf on Consolation The New-Year’s Night of a Miserable Man From ‘First Flower Piece’ Aphorisms from Richter’s Works Richard Jefferies. 1848–1887. Critical and Biographical Introduction Hill Visions The Breeze on Beachy Head Thomas Jefferson. 1743–1826. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Paul Leicester Ford The Declaration of Independence On Fiction The Moral Influence of Slavery Letter to Mr. Hopkinson Letter to Dr. Styles Letter to James Madison Douglas William Jerrold. 1803–1857. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Tragedy of the Till Sarah Orne Jewett. 1849–1909. Critical and Biographical Introduction Miss Tempy’s Watchers The Brandon House Samuel Johnson. 1709–1784. Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Birkbeck Hill From ‘The Vanity of Human Wishes’ Letter to Lord Chesterfield as to the ‘Dictionary’ Dr. Johnson’s Last Letter to his Aged Mother From a Letter to his Friend Mr. Joseph Baretti, at Milan Dr. Johnson’s Farewell to his Mother’s Aged Servant Three Letters to James Boswell, Esq. To Mrs. Lucy Porter in Lichfield To Mr. Perkins From a Letter to James Boswell, Esq. To Mrs. Thrale A Private Prayer by Dr. Johnson Wealth Old Age and Death A Study of Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ Richard Malcolm Johnston. 1822–1898. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Early Majority of Mr. Thomas Watts Mór Jókai. 1825–1904. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Emil Reich The Landslide and the Train Wreck Ben Jonson. 1572–1637. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Barrett Wendell On Style On Shakespeare To the Memory of my Beloved Master, William Shakespeare From ‘Sejanus’ Soliloquy of Sejanus From ‘The Silent Woman’ Prologue from ‘Every Man in His Humour’ Song to Celia Song—That Women are but Men’s Shadows Song from ‘Volpone’ An Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy On my First Daughter From ‘Cynthia’s Revels’ The Noble Nature Josephus. 37–100. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edwin Knox Mitchell Moses as a Legislator Solomon’s Wisdom Alexander’s Conquest of Palestine The Greek Version of the Hebrew Scriptures The Death of James, the Brother of our Lord Preface to the ‘Jewish Wars’ Agrippa’s Appeal to the Jews Josephus’s Surrender to the Romans The Destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem The Hebrew Faith, Worship, and Laws Origin of the Asamonean or Maccabæan Revolt Joseph Joubert. 1754–1824. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Of Man Of the Nature of Minds Of Virtue and Morality Of the Family Of Education Of the Passions Of Society Of Different Ages Of Poetry Of Style Of the Qualities of the Writer Literary Judgments Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz. 1651–1695. Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Malone On the Contrarieties of Love Learning and Riches Death in Youth The Divine Narcissus Sylvester Judd. 1813–1853. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Snow-Storm Juvenal. c. 55–127. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Bond Lindsay Umbricius’s Farewell to Rome Terrors of Conscience Parental Influence The Kabbalah. Critical Introduction by Samuel Augustus Binion The Kalevala. Critical Introduction by William Sharp The Proem The Passing of Wåinåmoinen Kālidāsa. c. 4th Century. Critical and Biographical Introduction by A. V. Williams Jackson From the ‘Mālavikāgnimitra’ From the ‘Raghuvança’ From ‘Çakuntalā; or the Lost Ring’ From the ‘Meghadūta,’ or ‘Cloud Messenger’ Immanuel Kant. 1724–1804. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Josiah Royce A Comparison of the Beautiful with the Pleasant and the Good Of Reason in General How Is Metaphysics Possible as Science John Keats. 1795–1821. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Louise Imogen Guiney From ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ From ‘Endymion’ From ‘Hyperion’ Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn Fancy To Autumn La Belle Dame Sans Merci Sonnet: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Sonnet: On Seeing the Elgin Marbles Sonnet: Written on a Blank Page in Shakespeare’s Poems John Keble. 1792–1866. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Nightingale Christ in the Garden Morning Evening Hymn Gottfried Keller. 1819–1890. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Founding of a Family Omar Khayyám. 1048–1131. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole Rubáiyát Additional Rubáiyát Alexander Kielland. 1849–1906. Critical and Biographical Introduction At the Fair Grace Elizabeth King. 1852–1932. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Glorious Eighth of January Alexander William Kinglake. 1809–1891. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Desert The Charge of the Light Brigade Charles Kingsley. 1819–1875. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Merry Lark was Up and Singing The Dead Church The Sands of Dee Youth and Age A Myth Longings Andromeda and the Sea-nymphs A Farewell Waiting for the Armada A Puritan Crusader The Salmon River Rudyard Kipling. 1865–1936. Critical and Biographical Introduction Without Benefit of Clergy “Fuzzy-Wuzzy” Danny Deever Mandalay The Galley-Slave Heinrich von Kleist. 1777–1811. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Harvey Genung Michael Kohlhaas Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. 1724–1803. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Kuno Francke The Rose-Wreath The Summer Night Hermann and Thusnelda The Two Muses Prophecy From ‘The Spring Festival’ To Young My Recovery The Choirs From ‘The Messiah’ The Koran. Critical Introduction by Henry Preserved Smith The Opening Chapter The Chapter of the Night The Chapter of the Dawn The Chapter of the Most High The Chapter of the Zodiacal Signs The Chapter of the Cleaving Asunder The Chapter of Those Sent The Chapter of the Ginn The Chapter of the Kingdom The Chapter of the Ant Karl Theodor Körner. 1791–1813. Critical and Biographical Introduction My Native Land Prayer during the Battle Summons Lützow’s Wild Chase Sword Song The Three Stars Zygmunt Krasiński. 1812–1859. Critical and Biographical Introduction Invocation to Poetry Pancras’s Monologue Count Henry’s Monologue Introduction to the last Act Aristocracy’s Last Stand The Triumph of Christianity Appeal to Poland Édouard René Lefebvre Laboulaye. 1811–1883. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Twelve Months The Story of Coquerico Jean de La Bruyère. 1645–1696. Critical and Biographical Introduction Of Fashion The Character of Cydias Madame de La Fayette. 1634–1693. Critical and Biographical Introduction Husband and Wife Jean de La Fontaine. 1621–1695. Critical and Biographical Introduction by George McLean Harper Death and the Woodcutter The Oak and the Reed The Grasshopper and the Ant The Wolf and the Dog The Two Doves The Cat, the Weasel, and the Young Rabbit The Cobbler and the Financier The Lark and the Farmer The Heron The Animals Sick of the Plague Selma Lagerlöf. 1858–1940. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Dorothy Brewster The Beggar A Christmas Guest Alphonse de Lamartine. 1790–1869. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Alcée Fortier The Fisherman’s Daughter To My Lamp Ode to the Lake of B—— Far from the World Charles Lamb. 1775–1834. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Alfred Ainger The Old Familiar Faces Hester On an Infant Dying as soon as Born In My Own Album Imperfect Sympathies Dream Children: A Revery A Quakers’ Meeting Mrs. Battle’s Opinions on Whist Félicité Robert de Lamennais. 1782–1854. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Grace Elizabeth King A Spiritual Allegory Chapters from ‘Words of a Believer’ Friedrich, Baron de La Motte-Fouqué. 1777–1843. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Marriage of Undine The Last Appearance of Undine Song from ‘Minstrel Love’ Archibald Lampman. 1861–1899. Critical and Biographical Introduction by James Cobourg Hodgins A Thunderstorm Winter Uplands At Dusk The Largest Life To a Millionaire Peccavi, Domine Heat Walter Savage Landor. 1775–1864. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Cranston Lawton Imaginary Correspondence of Pericles and Aspasia The Sack of Carthage Godiva’s Plea A Dream Allegory Rose Aylmer Farewell to Italy Art Criticism Lines from ‘Gebir’ The Life of Flowers A Welcome to Death Farewell Andrew Lang. 1844–1912. Critical and Biographical Introduction From ‘A Bookman’s Purgatory’ From ‘Letter to Monsieur de Molière, Valet de Chambre du Roi’ Les Roses de Sâdi The Odyssey Sidney Lanier. 1842–1881. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Richard Burton A Ballad of Trees and the Master Song of the Chattahoochee Tampa Robins Evening Song Life and Song From ‘The Marshes of Glynn’ From the Flats A Song of the Future The Stirrup Cup François, duc de La Rochefoucauld. 1613–1680. Critical and Biographical Introduction Selected Maxims Selected Reflections Latin-American Literature. I. Before 1888. Critical Introduction by Marathon Montrose Ramsey II. After 1888. Critical Introduction by Alfred Coester Sir Wilfrid Laurier. 1841–1919. Critical and Biographical Introduction by George McKinnon Wrong On the Use of the French Language in Canada On the Death of Gladstone On the Death of Queen Victoria Hersart de la Villemarqué. 1815–1895. The Heroic and Legendary Literature of Brittany Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Sharp The Wine of the Gauls and the Dance of the Sword The Tribute of Noménoë The Foster-Brother Stephen Leacock. 1869–1944. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Bernard Keble Sandwell Boarding-House Geometry “Q.” A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural The Train for Mariposa William Edward Hartpole Lecky. 1838–1903. Critical and Biographical Introduction by John White Chadwick The Moral Influence of Gladiatorial Shows on the Roman People Systematic Charity as a Moral Outgrowth, Past and Present The Moral and Intellectual Differences between the Sexes Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle. 1818–1894. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Manchy Pan The Bulls Richard Le Gallienne. 1866–1947. Critical and Biographical Introduction Dedication to ‘Prose Fancies’ A Seaport in the Moon Essay-Writing François Élie Jules Lemaître. 1853–1914. Critical and Biographical Introduction On the Influence of Recent Northern Literature Giacomo Leopardi. 1798–1837. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Katharine Hillard Sylvia Night-Song of a Wandering Asian Shepherd Alain René Lesage. 1688–1747. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Jane Grosvenor Cooke Gil Blas Enters the Service of Dr. Sangrado Gil Blas Becomes the Archbishop’s Favorite, and the Channel of All His Favors The Vintner’s Story Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. 1729–1781. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Payson Evans Names Epigram Thunder Benefits On Mr. R—— From ‘Nathan the Wise’ On Love of Truth The Meaning of Heresy The Education of the Human Race The Differing Spheres of Poetry and Painting The Limitations of “Word-Painting” Lessing’s Estimate of Himself Charles Lever. 1806–1872. Critical and Biographical Introduction The Battle on the Douro George Henry Lewes. 1817–1878. Critical and Biographical Introduction Goethe and Schiller Robespierre in Paris, 1770 Jonas Lie. 1833–1908. Critical and Biographical Introduction Elizabeth’s Choice Detlev von Liliencron. 1844–1909. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ludwig Lewisohn Who Knows Where After the Hunt From Childhood In a Winter Night Abraham Lincoln. 1809–1865. Critical and Biographical Introduction by Hamilton Wright Mabie The Perpetuation of our Political Institutions From His Speech at the Cooper Institute From the First Inaugural Address The Gettysburg Address The Second Inaugural Address Carl Linnaeus. 1707–1778. Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Muir Lapland Observations The Author Visits the Lapland Alps Livy. 59 B.C.–17 A.D. Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Cranston Lawton Horatius Cocles at the Sublician Bridge The Character of Hannibal The Battle of Lake Trasimene A Characteristic Episode of Classical Warfare

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