Classics Revisited

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Selected by Kenneth Rexroth for his book Classics Revisited, a volume of brief, radiant essays discussing 60 key books that are for him "basic documents in the history of the imagination."
Work
The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides (458 BCE) by Aeschylus
Njal's Saga (1350) by Anonymous
The Golden Ass (159) by Apuleius
Meditations (170) by Marcus Aurelius
Baudelaire: Poems (1993) by Charles Baudelaire
Beowulf (10) by Beowulf poet
The Conquest of Gaul (44) by Julius Caesar
History of My Life, Vols. 1 & 2 (1997) by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
The Canterbury Tales (14) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Plays (1912) by Anton Chekhov
Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems Selected and Translated with an Introduction and Notes (1973) by Arthur Cooper
The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Euripides I by Euripides
Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding
Sentimental Education (1869) by Gustave Flaubert
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1788) by Edward Gibbon
The Epic of Gilgamesh (1700 BCE) by Gilgamesh Poet
Pages from the Goncourt Journal (1962) by Edmond de Goncourt
The Histories (420 BCE) by Herodotus
The Iliad (750 BCE) by Homer
Haiku: Gems of Intimate Beauty in a New Collection of Classic Japanese Poetry (1970) by Mary Dawson Hughes
Volpone, or The Fox (1606) by Ben Jonson
History of Rome, books 1-5 [in translation] (27 BCE) by Titus Livy
Kalevala (1849) by Elias Lönnrot
On the Nature of Things (54 BCE) by Titus Lucretius Carus
The Prince (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli
Le Morte d'Arthur (1485) by Thomas Malory
The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx
The Book of Job (1986) by Stephen Mitchell
Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays (1580) by Michel de Montaigne
Utopia (1553) by Thomas More
The Tale of Genji (2015) by Shikibu Murasaki
The Satyricon (1) by Petronius Arbiter
The Last Days of Socrates (399 BCE) by Plato
The Republic (380 BCE) by Plato
Plutarch's Lives (100) by Plutarch
The Travels of Marco Polo (1298) by Marco Polo
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532) by François Rabelais
Rimbaud: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (1994) by Aurthur Rimbaud
Sappho: A New Translation (580) by Sappho
The Tempest (1610) by William Shakespeare
Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus (442 BCE) by Sophocles
The Red and the Black (1830) by Stendhal
The Histories (100) by P. Cornelius Tacitus
The History of the Peloponnesian War (400 BCE) by Thucydides
War and Peace (1868) by Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
Mahābhārata {retold by William Buck} (1973) by Vyasa
Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (1929) by Helen Waddell
The Compleat Angler (1653) by Izaak Walton
The Duchess of Malfi (1614) by John Webster
Leaves of Grass (1855) by Walt Whitman
Dream of the Red Chamber (1791) by Cao Xueqin

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