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A

Adams, Henry: Democracy - An American Novel.

Adrian IV (Pope): "Laudabiliter" Bull empowering Henry II to conquer Ireland

Aeschylos: Agamemnon - Eumenides - The Persians - Prometheus - Seven against Thebes - Suppliants.

Aesop: The Fables of Aesop

Albertus Magnus: On cleaving to God

Alcott, Louisa M: An Old-fashioned Girl  - Little Women

Alexander of Cappadocia: Selections from his Epistles.

Alexander of Lycopolis: On the Manicheans.

Alighieri, Dante: The Divine Comedy  - Hell - Purgatory - Paradise

Ambrose of Milan: On the Duties of the Clergy - On the Holy Spirit - On the death of his brother, Satyrus - Exposition of the Christian Faith - On the Mysteries - On Repentance - On Virginity - On Widows - Against Auxentius - Selected Letters.

Anatolius of Alexandria: Regulations about Easter (The Paschal Canons)

Andersen, Hans Christian: Andersen's Fairy Tales.

Anonymous (Patristic era): The Apostolic Constitutions (300 A.D.) - Epistle to Diognetus (c. 130) - The Didache.

Anonymous (14th C.): The Cloud of Unknowing

Anonymous (15th c.): The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Anselm of Canterbury: Proslogium  - Monologium - Cur Deus Homo

Aphrahat the Persian: Demonstrations of the Christian Faith

Apocryphal Works (post New Testament): Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs - Clementine Literature: Pseudo-Clementine Letters - Recognitions of Clement - The Clementine Homilies – New Testament Apocrypha: Acts of Andrew - Acts of Philip - Gospel of Mary's Nativity - Veronica's Veil - Acts of Andrew & Matthias - Acts of Pilate - Gospel of Peter - Vision of Paul  -  Acts of Andrew & Peter - Acts of Thaddaeus  -  Gospel of the Infancy (Arabic) - Vision of Shadrach - Acts of Barnabas  -  Acts of Thomas - Gospel of Pseudo Matthew - Warnings from Mary - Acts of Bartholomew  -  Apocalypse of Ezra - Gospel of Thomas - Acts of John  -  Apocalypse of Pseudo-John - Handing over of Pilate - Acts of Matthew  -  Apocalypse of Moses - History of Joseph  -  Acts of Paul & Perpetua - Apocalypse of Paul - Joseph of Arimathea's Story - Acts of Paul & Thecla - Dormition of Mary - Letter of Pontius Pilate - Acts of Peter & Paul - Transitus Mariae - Protevangelium of James

Apuleius, Lucius: The Golden Asse.

Aquinas, Thomas: Catena Aurea, on the Gospel of Matthew - Catena Aurea, on the Gospel of Mark - The Summa Theologica - The Summa Contra Gentiles

Aristotle of Stagira: Interpretation - Nature of Animals - Athenian Constitution - Logic - The Parts of Animals  -  Rhetoric - Interpretation - Nature of Animals - Athenian Constitution - Logic - The Parts of Animals - Rhetoric - Categories - Longevity  -  Physics - Sense & the Sensible - Dreams - Reminiscence - Poetics - The Soul - Sleep & Insomnia - Metaphysics - Politics - Sophistical Refutations - Gait of Animals - Meteorology - Posterior Analytics - Topics (Logic) - Generation & Corruption - Motion of Animals - Prior Analytics - Virtues & Vices - The Heavens - Nicomachean Ethics - Prophesying By Dreams - Youth, Age, Life & Death

Arnobius of Carthage: Against the Heathen ("Adversus Gentes")

Athanasius of Alexandria: Against the pagans - On the Incarnation - The text deposing Arius - The Athanasian Creed  -  Circular, to his fellow bishops - Apologia against the Arians - Defence of the Nicene Definition - Of the Opinion of Dionysius - Life of St. Anthony - To the bishops of Egypt - Defence before Constantius - Defence of his Flight - History of the Arians - Against the Arians (4 Discourses) - On the Synods - Synodal Letter to the people of Antioch.

Athenagoras of Alexandria: Plea for Justice for the Christians - Treatise on the Resurrection of the Dead.

Augustine of Hippo: Autobiographical: Letters - Confessions - The City of God. Theological: De Doctrina Christiana  -  On the Trinity  -  Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Love - On Catechising the Uninstructed - Treatise on Faith & the Creed - Faith in things not seen - On the value of believing - On the Creed (to catechumens). Polemical: On the morals of the Catholic Church - On the morals of the Manicheans - On Two Souls, vs the Manicheans - Against the Epistle of Manichaeus - Disputation vs Fortunatus the Manichean - Against Faustus: in defence of the Old Testament - On the true Nature of the Good - Response to Petilian (Donatist) - Correction of the Donatists - On Merit and the Forgiveness of Sins - Nature and Grace - Man's Perfection in Righteousness. Moral: The Spirit & the Letter - Perseverance  -  Continence  -  Concupiscence  -  On the Good of Marriage  -  Virginity  -  Widowhood - On Lying - Against Lying - Monks - Patience - Care for Dead - Morals of the Church. Exegetical: Sermon on the Mount - Harmony of the Gospel - Sermons on N.T. Texts - Homilies on the 4th Gospel - Homilies on 1 John - Homilies on the Psalms.

Austen, Jane: Mansfield Park - Northanger Abbey - Persuasion - Pride and Prejudice - Sense and Sensibility - Emma - Lady Susan

 

B

Bacon, Francis: Essays (Counsels, Civil and Moral) - The Advancement of Learning.

Bacon, Roger: On Experimental Science.

Ballantyne, R. M: The Coral Island.

Balzac, Honore de: Eugenie Grandet - A Daughter of Eve - The Vicar of Tours.

Baring, Maurice: Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories.

Barnabas (anon.): Epistle of (c. 110)

Barrie, James M: Peter Pan

Baum, Lyman F.: The Wizard of Oz; The Adventures of Santa Claus

Bede (the Venerable): The Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Beerbohm, Max: Zuleika Dobson

Belloc, Hilaire: The Great Heresies - Poetry (6 Poems)

Bennett, Arnold: The Grand Babylon Hotel - Literary Taste and how to Form It

Bentham, Jeremy: Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Berkeley, George: Principles of Human Knowledge.

Bernard of Clairvaux: On Loving God

Bible (Books of the): Acts of the Apostles - Amos - Baruch -  Chronicles (1) - Chronicles (2) - Colossians - Corinthians (1) - Corinthians (2) - Daniel - Deuteronomy - Ecclesiastes - Ephesians - Esther - Exodus - Ezekiel - Ezra - Galatians - Genesis - Habakkuk - Haggai - Hebrews - Hosea - Isaiah - James - Jeremiah - Job - Joel - John (Epis) - John (Gosp.) - Jonah - Joshua - Jude - Judges - Judith - Kings (1) - Kings (2) - Lamentations - Leviticus - Luke - Maccabees (1) - Maccabees (2) - Malachi - Mark - Matthew -  Micah - Nahum - Nehemiah - Numbers - Obadiah - Peter (1) - Peter (2) - Philemon - Philippians - Proverbs - Psalms - Qoheleth - Revelation - Romans - Ruth - Samuel (1) - Samuel (2) - Song of Songs - Thessalonians (1) - Thessalonians (2) - Timothy (1) - Timothy (2) - Titus - Tobit - Wisdom - Zechariah - Zephaniah.

Biggs, Walter: Drake's Great Armada.

Blackmore. R. D.: Lorna Doone

Blake, William: Songs of Innocence - Songs of Experience.

Boccaccio, Giovanni: The Decameron

Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy.

Bonaventure St.: The Journey of the Mind to God.

Boswell, James: Life of Samuel Johnson

Brontë, Anne: Agnes Grey - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre - The Professor.

Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights.

Brooke, Rupert: Poems, 1905-1908 - Poems 1908-1911 - Town and Country - Experiments - 1914 - The South Seas - Other Poems.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Sonnets from the Portuguese.

Browning, Robert: Dramatic Lyrics - Earth's Immortalities (collection of poems).

Buchan, John: The Thirty-Nine Steps.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward: The Last Days of Pompeii

Bunyan, John: Grace Abounding

Burckhardt, Jacob: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden; Little Lord Fauntleroy; A Little Princess

Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes - The Beasts of Tarzan

Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh - Erewhon - Essays on Life, Art and Science

Byron, George: Don Juan.

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Caesar, Iulius: De Bello Gallico/The Gallic War

Caius of Rome: Against Artemon - New Testament books

Calderon, Pedro: Life is a Dream.

Calvin, John: On the Life of a Christian.

Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Casanova, Giacomo: Discussions with Voltaire.

Cassian, John: Institutes of the Coenobitical Life - Conferences on the Monastic Life - The Incarnation of the Lord.

Catherine of Siena: On Divine Providence - On Discretion - On Prayer - On Obedience

Cervantes, Miguel De: Don Quixote.

Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales - The Love Unfeigned - Balade - Merciles Beaute.

Checkov, Anton: Uncle Vanya. - The Witch, The Wife, and other Stories

Chesterton, G. K.: Orthodoxy - The Innocence of Father Brown - The Wisdom of Father Brown - Lepanto (and other poems)

Christie, Agatha: The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Churchill, Winston: Crewe's Career.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius: An Essay on Friendship - Reflections on Old Age - First Oration Against Catiline - The Prosecution of Verres.

Clement of Alexandria: Exhortation to the Heathen - The Instructor - Stromata - On the salvation of the Rich.

Clement of Rome: Epistle to the Corinthians

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Frost at Midnight, Christabel - Kubla Khan - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Collins, Wilkie: After Dark.

Collodi, Carlo: The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Commodianus: Instructions on Christian Discipline.

Congregation for the Faith: Catechism of the Catholic Church

Connor, Ralph: The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail.

Conrad, Joseph: Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard.

Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans.

Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage.

Cunninghame-Graham, R. B: The Jesuits in Paraguay.

Cyprian of Carthage: Life and Passion of Cyprian - Letters of Cyprian - Twelve Treatises of Cyprian - The Precepts of the Lord - Public Spectacles - The Glory of Martyrdom - The Practice of Chastity - Exhortation to Repentance.

Cyril of Alexandria: Commentary on the orthodox Creed - Letters against Nestorianism.

Cyril of Jerusalem: Catechetical Lectures (Mystagogic Catechesis)

 

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Damascene, John: On the Orthodox Faith

Darwin, Charles: The Origin of Species - The Voyage of the Beagle

de Caussade, Jean Pierre: Abandonment to Divine Providence - Letters of Spiritual Guidance

de Sales, Francis: Treatise on the Love of God - Introduction to the Devout Life.

Defoe, Daniel: Journal of the Plague Year - Moll Flanders - Robinson Crusoe.

Descartes, René: Discourse on Method.

Dewey, John: Democracy and Education

Dickens, Charles: Dombey and Son - David Copperfield - The Old Curiosity Shop - The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Our Mutual Friend - Hard Times - Nicholas Nickleby - The Pickwick Papers - Oliver Twist - A Tale of Two Cities - Bleak House - Christmas Stories- American Notes

Dickinson, Emily: Life - Love - Nature - Time and Eternity

Dionysius of Alexandria: The Promises (extant fragments) - On Providence - On the generation of Matter, vs. Sabellius - Epistles, or Fragments of Epistles - Interpretation of some Gospel texts.

Dorr, Donal: Divine Energy

Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment - The Idiot - The Brothers Karamazov - The Gambler

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: Twelve Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie.

Dumas, Alexander: The Count of Monte Cristo

Durant, Will: Francis Bacon and the Modern Era - Spinoza and Historical Criticism - Three American Philosophers.

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Easton, M. G.: An Illustrated Dictionary of the Bible (updated for this CD)

Eddy, Mary Baker: Science and Health.

Egeria the Pilgrim: The Pilgrimage of Egeria

Eliot, George: Middlemarch - Silas Marner - Adam Bede.

Eliot, T. S: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

Ephrem of Syria: Selection of his Hymns - Three of his Homilies.

Epictetus, the Stoic: Philosophical Discourses (4 Books)

Erasmus, Desiderius: In Praise of Folly ("Moriae Encomium", 1509)

Euripides: Alcestis - Andromache - Bacchantes - Cyclops - Hecuba - Helen of Troy - Heracleidae - Hercules - Hippolytus - Iphigenia at Aulis - Iphigenia in Tauris - Medea - Orestes - Rhesus - Suppliants - Women of Troy

Eusebius of Caesarea: History of the Church (10 vols.) - Life of Constantine - Eulogy to Constantine, on the 30th anniversary of his accession.

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Fenelon, Bishop: Ways of Spiritual Progress - Letters of Spiritual Direction

Feuerbach, Ludwig: The Essence of Christianity

Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott: This Side of Paradise - Head and Shoulders - May Day - Winter Dreams

Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary.

Flavius Josephus: Autobiography - Antiquities of the Jews - The Jewish War - Against Apion - On Hades.

Ford, Madox Ford: The Good Soldier.

Forster, E. M: A Room with a View - Howards End.

Foxe, John: Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Freud, Sigmund: The Interpretation of Dreams.

Frost, Robert: The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

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Galsworthy, John: The Eldest Son.

Garrigou-Lagrange, R.: Divine Providence.

Gaskell, Elizabeth: The Poor Clare.

Gay, John: The Beggar's Opera.

Gennadius of Marseilles: Additions to Jerome's De Viris Illustribus.

Gibbon, Edward: The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

Gibran, Kahlil:The Prophet

Gilbert, W.S.: The Mikado

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Faust, Part 1 - The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Gogol, Nikolai V: Dead Souls.

Goldsmith, Oliver: The Vicar of Wakefield - She Stoops to Conquer

Goodspeed, E. J.:The Formation of the New Testament

Gorky, Maxim: Through Russia

Grant, Robert: A Historical Introduction to the New Testament

Gregory Nazianzen: Occasional Orations - Panegyric on St.Basil - On Christ, the holy light - On the death of his Father - Theological Orations - True faith in the Son of God - On the Second Adam - On the Holy Spirit - Selected Letters.

Gregory of Nyssa: Against Eunomius - Answer to Eunomius' 2nd book - On the Holy Spirit - On the Holy Trinity - On the Faith - On Virginity - On the early deaths of Infants - On Pilgrimages - On the Making of Man - On the Soul and the Resurrection - Great Catechism

Gregory Thaumaturgus: Declaration of Faith - Paraphrase of Ecclesiasticus -Letter of Canons - Panegyric to Origen - Theophany, at Christ's Baptism - Homilies on the Annunciation - Homily on All Saints - On Mt 6:22 ("The Eye of the Body")

Grimm, Jakob & Wilhelm: Grimm's Fairy Tales

 

H

Haaren, J. & Poland, A.: Famous Men of The Middle Ages.

Haggard, Rider: King Solomon's Mines.

Hammurabi: Code of (Babylonian) Law

Hardy, Thomas: Fiction: The Mayor of Casterbridge - Jude the Obscure - Far from the Madding Crowd - The Return of the Native - Tess of the d'Urbervilles - The Trumpet-Major - The Woodlanders.

Poetry: The Temporary, the All - Amabel - HAP - "In Vision I Roamed" - At a Bridal - Postponement - Confession To A Friend In Trouble - Neutral Tones - She At His Funeral - Her Initials - Her Dilemma - Revulsion - She, To Him - Exeunt Omnes - A Poet - Postscript: "Men who March Away"

Harris, Frank: Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, Vol. 1

Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter.

Henty, G. A: With Lee in Virginia

Herbert, George: Virtue - Easter - Discipline - A Dialogue - The Pulley - Love - My God, where is that ancient heat towards thee? - Roses and Lilies Speak Thee - Holy Baptism - Prayer - The Holy Scriptures (I) - The Holy Scriptures (II) - Sin - The Sinner - Redemption - Joseph's Coat - The Son - Christmas - The Answer.

Hermas, Shepherd of: Visions - Commandments - Similitudes.

Herodotus: History of the Greek World

Hesse, Hermann: Siddharta.

Hilary of Poitiers: On the Faith of the Easterns ("De Synodis") - On the Trinity - Three Homilies on the Psalms (Pss 1, 53, 130)

Hindu Mystics: The Bhagavad-Gita

Hippocrates: Ancient Medicine - Fistulae - Sacred Disease (madness) - Acute Diseases - Aphorisms - Head Injuries - Surgery - Airs, Waters, Places - Epidemics - Medical Law - Ulcers

Hippolytus of Rome: Refutation of all heresies - Fragments from Hippolytus.

Hobbes, Thomas: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic - Leviathan.

Hogg, James: Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.

Homer of Chios: The Iliad - The Odyssey.

Hopkins, Gerald Manley: God's Grandeur - Spring - Pied Beauty - The Caged Skylark - The Windhover - Thou Art Indeed Just

Horace (Horatius Flaccus): Selected Odes

Hughes, Philip: History of the General Councils, 325-1870.

Hughes, Thomas*: Tom Brown's Schooldays

Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Les Miserables.

Hume, David: A Treatise of Human Nature, vol. 1 - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow - Brave New World

Hymn-Writers: Hymnal, with 250 traditional Christian Hymns

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Ibsen, Henrik: A Doll's House.

Ignatius of Antioch: to the Ephesians - to the Magnesians - to the Trallians - to the Romans - to the Philadelphians - to the Smyrnaeans - to Polycarp.

Irenaeus of Lyons: Against the Heresies ("Adversus Haereses")

Irving, Washington: A Tour of the Prairies - Tales of a Traveller

Irving, H. B: A Book of Remarkable Criminals.

Irwin, Will: The City That Was - A requiem of Old San Francisco.

J

James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady - Daisy Miller - The Ambassadors - The Aspern Papers - Turn of the Screw - The Europeans - The American - The Diary of a Man of Fifty - Washington Square.

James, William: Essays in Radical Empiricism - The Varieties of Religious Experience.

Jefferson, Thomas & Co.: The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America.

Jerome of Bethlehem: Letters - Lives of Illustrious Men - Response to Rufinus - Life of Paul the Hermit - Life of St. Hilarion - Life of Malchus - Against the Luciferians - On Mary's Virginity - Against Jovinian - Against Vigilantius - Against John of Jerusalem - Against the Pelagians - Prefaces to several of Jerome's works - Excerpts from the Vulgate (Latin Bible)

Jerome, Jerome K: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Three Men in a Boat - All Roads Lead to Calvary.

John of the Cross: The Ascent of Mount Carmel

John of Ruysbroeck: The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage - The Sparkling Stone - The Book of Supreme Truth

John Cassian: Institutes of the Coenobitical Life - Conferences on the Monastic Life - The Incarnation of the Lord.

John Chrysostom: [Letters & homilies]: Selection of his Letters - On the Christian Priesthood - Instructions to Catechumens - None can harm who does not harm himself - Assorted Homilies - 21 Homilies "on the Statues"

[Exegetical.]: Gospel of Matthew - Acts of the Apostles - Epistle to the Romans - First Corinthians - Second Corinthians - Paul to the Galatians

Johnson, Samuel: Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Josephus, Flavius: Autobiography - Antiquities of the Jews - The Jewish War - Against Apion - On Hades.

Joyce, James:  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Dubliners - Chamber Music - Exiles.

Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love

Julius Africanus: The Genealogy of Christ - Chronology - Events in Persia at the Birth of Christ.

Justin, Martyr: First Apologia - Second Apologia - Dialogue with Trypho - Discourse to the Greeks.

 

K

Kafka, Franz: The Metamorphosis

Kant, Immanuel: The Critique of Practical Reason - The Critique of Pure Reason - The Science of Right.

Keats, John: To one who has been long in city pent - Fancy - Ode on Melancholy - Ode on the Mermaid Tavern - Ode on a Grecian Urn - Ode to Psyche - On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Again - Ode To Autumn - Ode to a Nightingale - To Homer - When I have fears that I may cease to be.

Kempis, Thomas a-:The Imitation of Christ.

Khayyam, Omar: Rubaiyat (longer & shorter)

Kierkegaard, Soren: On Fear and Trembling.

Kingsley, Charles: The Ancient Regime in France.

Kipling, Rudyard: Kim, A Tale of India - The "Just So" Stories - Plain Tales from the Hills.

 

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Lactantius:  The Divine Institutes - Epitome of the Divine Institutions - Treatise on the Wrath of God - God's workmanship: the formation of man - How the Persecutors died.

Lamb, Charles: Tales from Shakespeare - Essays Of Elia - The Adventures of Ulysses

Lawrence, D. H: The Snake - Sons and Lovers.

Le Roy, Edouard: The Philosophy of Henri Bergson.

Leibniz, Gottfried: The Monadology.

Lewis, Sinclair: Babbitt - Arrowsmith

Lincoln, Abraham: The Gettysburg Address - Writings of Abraham Lincoln.

Livy (Titus Livius): The History of Rome

Locke, John: Concerning Civil Government.

Loisy, Alfred: The Birth of the Christian Religion

London, Jack: The Call Of The Wild - Before Adam - Tales of the Klondyke - South Sea Tales.

Longfellow, Henry W: The Song of Hiawatha - Paul Revere's Ride - Mezzo cammin - Voices Of The Night - Hymn to the Night - A Psalm of Life - The Reaper and the Flowers - The Light of Stars - Footsteps of Angels - Flowers - The Beleaguered City - Midnight Mass for the Dying Year - An April Day - Autumn - Woods in Winter - Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem - Sunrise on the Hills - The Spirit of Poetry - Burial of the Minnisink - L'Envoi - The Skeleton in Armor - The Wreck of the Hesperus - The Village Blacksmith - Endymion - It is not always May - The Rainy Day - God's-Acre - To the River Charles - The Goblet of Life - Maidenhood - Excelsior - The Slave's Dream - The Good Part, that Shall Not Be Taken Away - The Slave in the Dismal Swamp - The Slave Singing at Midnight - The Witnesses - The Quadroon Girl - The Warning - The Belfry of Bruges - A Gleam of Sunshine - The Arsenal at Springfield - Nuremberg - The Norman Baron - Rain in summer - To a child - The Occultation of Orion - The bridge - The Day is Done - Afternoon in February - To an old Danish Song-book - Walter von der Vogelweide - Drinking Song - The old clock on the stairs - The arrow and the Song - The Evening Star - Dante - Curfew - The building of the Ship - Seaweed - Chrysaor - The Secret of the Sea - Twilight - The Lighthouse - Resignation - The Builders - Sand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass - The Open Window - King Witlaf's Drinking-Horn - Gaspar Becerra - On Mrs. Kemble's Readings From Shakespeare - The Singers - Suspiria - Hymn, For My Brother's Ordination

Lucretius Carus: On the Nature of Things.

Luther, Martin: The 95 Theses on Indulgences - Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians - On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church - The Small Catechism - Treatise on Good Works.

 

M

McDonagh, Sean: To Care for the Earth

MacCaffrey, James: The Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution - The Reformation in England and Ireland

Macaulay, Thomas Babington: The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Critical and Historical Essays (2 vols.)

Macchiavelli, Niccolo: On Republican Government (Commentary on Livy's History of Rome) - The Prince  - A History of Florence - The Art of War

Mahomet (Muhammed): The Koran (Qur'an)

Malchion of Antioch: Epistle against Paul of Samosata.

Malthus, Thomas: An Essay on the Principle of Population

Marcus Aurelius: Philosophic Meditations.

Marlowe, Christopher: Doctor Faustus (1) - Doctor Faustus (2) - The Jew of Malta.

Marx, Karl: The Communist Manifesto - The Alienation of Labour

Maugham, Somerset: Of Human Bondage

Maupassant, Guy de: Short Stories

Melancthon, Phillip: Confession of Augsburg - The Life and Acts of Martin Luther.

Melville, Herman: Moby Dick.

Methodius of Tyre: Dialogue on Free Will and Salvation - Discourse on the Resurrection - Jonah, symbol of the Resurrection - On not casting pearls before swine - Simeon, Anna and the Virgin Mary - Oration on Palm Sunday - Fragments from a Homily on the Cross of Christ.

Mill, John Stuart: A System of Logic - Autobiography - Utilitarianism.

Milton, John: Paradise Lost - Paradise Regained - Ten Shorter Poems - Areopagitica (against censorship).

Minucius Felix: Octavius' Defence of Christianity.

Montaigne, Michel de: Essays.

Montgomery, Lucy Maud: Anne of Green Gables

Moore, Thomas: Melodies of Ireland

More, Thomas: Utopia.

 

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Newman, John Henry: On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Of Scripture & Creed - On the Inspiration of Scripture - On the Development of Doctrine - On The Development of Religious Error - The Church of the Fathers - The Dream of Gerontius - The Idea of A University

Nichols, Philip: Sir Francis Drake Revived.

Nietzsche, Friedrich: Beyond Good and Evil - Thus Spake Zarathustra.

Norris, W. and others: Stories by English Authors in Italy.

Novatian of Rome: On the Jewish food-laws - Treatise on the Holy Trinity - Anonymous Treatise against Novatian.

 

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Ó Riordáin, John: Irish Catholic Spirituality

Orczy, Baroness: The Elusive Pimpernel.

Origen of Alexandria: On Principles (De Principiis) - On Interpreting the Holy Scripture - Commentary St. John's Gospel - Comm. on St.Matthew's Gospel - Against Celsus.

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso): Metamorphoses, Book 1

Owen, Wilfrid: Strange Meeting - Another Version - Greater Love - Apologia pro Poemate Meo - The Show - Mental Cases - Arms and the Boy - Anthem for Doomed Youth - The Send-off - Insensibility - Dulce et Decorum est - The Sentry - The Dead-Beat - Exposure - Spring Offensive - The Chances - Futility - Smile, Smile, Smile - 23rd September 1918 - "A Terre" - Wild with all Regrets - Disabled - The End.

 

P

Paine, Albert B.

Mark Twain, A Biography

Paine, Thomas: Common Sense.

Papacy: The Code of Canon Law (1983)

Papacy: Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992)

Papacy: Encyclicals: Aeterni Patris (1879) - Rerum Novarum (1891) - Communium rerum (1909) - Hum. Gen. Redemptionem (1917) - Quod Iam Diu (1918) - Spiritus Paraclitus (1920) - Casti Connubii (1930) - Non abbiamo bisogno (1931) - Mit Brennender Sorge (1937) - Divino Afflante Spiritu (1943) - Mystici Corporis Christi (1943) - Humani Generis (1950) - Ad Caeli Reginam (1943) - Mater et Magistra (1961) - Paenitentiam Agere (1962) - Pacem in Terris (1963) - Mysterium Fidei (1965) - Populorum Progressio (1967) - Humanae Vitae (1968) - Dives in Misericordia (1980) - Redemptoris Mater (1987) - Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (1987) - Veritatis Splendor (1993) - Fides et Ratio (1999) -  Ecclesia De Eucharistia (2003)

Pamphilus of Beirut: Dividing Luke-Acts into sections.

Papias of Hierapolis: Exposition of the Lord's Oracles.

Pascal, Blaise: Pensées - Provincial Letters.

Paterson, "Banjo": The Man from Snowy River

Patrick of Ireland, St: Confession of Saint Patrick - Dearbhú Naomh Pádraig  - Saint Patrick's Breastplate

Paul of the Cross, St.: The Letters of Saint Paul of the Cross

Peter of Alexandria: Fragments.

Philo of Alexandria: The Creation of the World - The Embassy to Gaius (Caligula) - On the Essenes.

Plato of Athens: Autobiographical Letter - Apologia of Socrates - Charmides - Cratylus - Critias - Crito - Euthydemus - Euthyphro - Gorgias - Ion - Laches - Laws - Lysis - Meno - Parmenides - Phaedo - Protagoras - The Republic - The Sophist - The Statesman - The Symposium - Theaetetus - Timaeus.

Pliny the Younger: Selected Letters of Pliny the Younger

Plotinus of Alexandria: The Enneads

Plutarch of Athens: Lives of noble Greeks and Romans (47 biographies) - Comparisons (the "Parallel Lives")

Poe, Edgar Allan: The Raven - Short Stories, (2 vols)

Polybius of Sparta: The Rise of Rome

Polycarp of Smyrna: Epistle to the Philippians - The Martyrdom of Polycarp.

Pope, Alexander: The Rape of the Lock - An Essay on Man - Moral Essays - Satires.

Proust, Marcel: A La Recherche du Temps Perdu

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Quiller-Couch, Arthur: Anthology of Poetry, 1250-1900 - On the Art of Writing

Ratzinger, Joseph: The Ecclesiology of Vatican II

Reed, John: Ten Days That Shook the World (the Russian Revolution)

Renan, Enest: A Life Of Jesus

Rickaby, Joseph: The Story of Scholastic Philosophy.

Rhineland Mystics: "Theologia Germanica"

Rostand, Edmond: Cyrano de Bergerac.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques: Confessions of a Solitary Stroller - The Social Contract - On the Origin of Inequality of Mankind

Rufinus of Aquileia: Commentary on the Apostles' Creed - Additions to the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius - Preface to translation of Origen's commentary on Psalms - Preface to translation of Origen's commentary on Romans - Peroration appended to Origen's commentary on Romans - Preface to (Origen's) commentary on Numbers.

Russell, Bertrand: The Problems of Philosophy - Proposed Roads to Freedom

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Sabatini, Raphael: The Life of Cesare Borgia.

Saki (H. H. Munro): Reginald.

Sallust, Gaius: The War on Jugurtha

Sanger, Margaret: The Pivot of Civilization

Sangster, Margaret E.: Cross Roads

Schaff, Philip: History of the Christian Church

Schweizer, Albert: The Quest of the Historical Jesus

Sartre, Jean-Paul: Existentialism is a Humanism.

Schopenhauer, Arthur: On the Sufferings of the World.

Schweitzer, Albert: The Quest of the Historical Jesus

Schreiber, Bernhard: The Men Behind Hitler

Second Vatican Council: Documents of the Council.

Seneca, L. Annaeus: On Good Works (De Beneficiis)

Service, Robert: The Spell of the Yukon - Rhymes of a Rolling Stone

Sewell, Anna: Black Beauty

Shackleton, Ernest: South: Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition

Shakespeare, William:

The Comedies: All's Well that Ends Well - As You Like It - Comedy of Errors - Cymbeline - Love's Labour's Lost - Measure For Measure - Merchant Of Venice - Merry Wives Of Windsor - Midsummer Night's Dream - Much Ado About Nothing - Taming Of The Shrew - The Tempest - Troilus and Cressida - Twelfth Night - Two Gentlemen Of Verona - A Winter's Tale

The Tragedies: Antony & Cleopatra - Julius Caesar - Coriolanus - Titus Andronicus - King Lear - Macbeth Pericles, Prince of Tyre Othello - Romeo & Juliet - Timon of Athens Hamlet - Sir Thomas More.

The Histories: King Edward III - Henry IV (1) - Henry IV (2) - Henry V - Henry VI (1) - Henry VI (2) - Henry VI (3) - Henry VIII - King John - Richard II - Richard III

Poetry: Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece; The Phoenix and the Turtle; A Lover's Complaint; 154 Sonnets

Shaw, George Bernard: Plays: Mrs. Warren's Profession - Caesar and Cleopatra - Arms and the Man - The Devil's Disciple - John Bull's Other Island - Man and Superman - Misalliance

Essays: A Treatise of Parents and Children - An Unsocial Socialist

Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein.

Shelley, Percy Bysse: Hymn of Pan - The Invitation - Hellas - To a Skylark - The Moon - Ode to the West Wind - The Indian Serenade - Night - From the Arabic - Lines - To - - The Question - Remorse - Music, when Soft Voices die

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley: The School For Scandal.

Sidney, Philip:  A Defence of Poesy - Join mates in mirth to me - Dispraise of Courtly Life - Dirge - Stanzas, to Love - Remedy for Love - O Sweet! When I do look on thee - You Better Sure Shall Live - Edward Dyer's Sonnet - Sidney's Sonnet in Reply - Must Love Lament? - Who hath his fancy pleased - The Smokes of Melancholy - When, to my deadly pleasure - No, no, no, no - All my sense thy sweetness gained - What Changes Here - The dart, the beams, the sting - Virtue, beauty, and speech, did strike - Wooing-Stuff - I yield, O Love - When Love puffed up with rage - The Nightingale - Sleep, Baby Mine - A Farewell - The seven Wonders of England

Sienkiewicz, Henryk: Quo Vadis?

Smith, Adam: The Wealth of Nations

Smith, William: A Smaller History of Greece.

Socrates Scholasticus: History of the Church, from 323 to 438 (7 vols.)

Songwriters of Ireland: Anthology of Traditional Irish Songs

Sophocles: Electra - Ajax - Antigone - Philoctetes - Oedipus the King

Southey, Robert: After Blenheim - The Old Man's Complaints - My Days among the Dead are Past - God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop

Sozomen Salaminius: Church History, 323-425 (9 vols.)

Spencer, H: First Principles.

Spenser, Edmund: Prothalamion - Epithalamion - Whilst it is prime - In praise of Eliza - Daphnaida - Easter - Cards and Kisses

Spinoza, Baruch: On the Improvement of the Understanding.

Stendhal: The Red and the Black.

Stephens, James: The Crock of Gold

Stephenson, Nathaniel W.: The Day of the Confederacy - Lincoln's Personal Life.

Sterne, Laurence: A Sentimental Journey - Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

Stevenson, Robert Louis: In the South Seas - Treasure Island - Kidnapped.

Stoker, Bram: Dracula

Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Strabo the Geographer: Geography of Ancient Greece

Strachey, Lytton: Eminent Victorians - Queen Victoria.

Stopes, Marie: Married Love

Suetonius of Rome: Julius Caesar - Augustus - Tiberius - Caligula - Claudius - Nero - Terence - Flaccus - Lucan - Horace - Virgil

Sulpicius Severus: Life of St. Martin of Tours - Three Letters of Sulpicius - Three Dialogues (on virtue and miracles) - Sacred History.

Suso, Henry: A Little Book of Eternal Wisdom

Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels - A Modest Proposal.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles: A Century of Roundels (57 Poems)

Synge, J.M.: The Playboy of the Western World

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Tacitus, Publius C.: The Annals - The Histories - Life of Julius Agricola - Description of Germany

Taine, Hippolyte: The Origins of Contemporary France

Tauler, John: The Inner Way

Thucydides : The Peloponnesian War.

Tagore, Rabindranath: The Hungry Stones & Other Stories.

Taine, Hippolyte A: The Ancient Regime.

Tatian of Syria: Address to the Greeks.

Tennyson, Alfred: In Memoriam - The Charge of the Light Brigade - Mariana - The Lady of Shalott - The Miller's Daughter - Song of the Lotos-Eaters - St. Agnes' Eve - Blow, Bugle, blow - Summer Night - Come down, O Maid - Maud - O that 'twere possible

Teresa of Avila: The Interior Castle.

Tertullian of Carthage: Apologetics: Apologia to Roman Rulers - On Idolatry - On Public Shows (De Spectaculis) - On wearing the Laurel Crown - To Scapula (on the common good) - Ad Nationes. The gods of the Heathen (fragment) - An Answer to the Jews - The Testimony of the Soul to God. Doctrinal: On Heresy - Against Marcion - Against the Gnostics - On the Trinity of God - Antidote to the Scorpion's Sting - On Repentance - On Baptism. Hortatory: On Prayer - Martyrdom of Perpetua & Felicity - Of Patience - On the Pallium - On the apparel of women - On the veiling of virgins - To his wife - Exhortation to chastity - On Monogamy - On Modesty - On Fasting - On not Fleeing from Persecution.

Theodoret of Cyrus: Ecclesiastical History - Dialogues with Eranistes - "That God the Word is Immutable" - Letters.

Theophilus of Antioch: Apologia, to Autolycus.

Thomas a Kempis: The Imitation of Christ.

Thompson, Francis: The Hound of Heaven - O World Invisible!

Tillich, Paul: The Shaking of the Foundations.

Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina - War and Peace - Father Sergius

Trollope, Anthony: Autobiography - Last Chronicle of Barset - The Warden.

Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer - Tom Sawyer Abroad - Life on the Missippi  - The Innocents Abroad

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Various Authors: Key Historic Texts (Treaties, etc.)

Van Dyke, Henry: Fisherman's Luck.

Van Loon, Hendrik: The Story of Mankind

Vatican (Congregation for the Faith): Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992)

Vatican (Jurisdiction): The Code of Canon Law (1983)

Vatican (Magisterium): Papal Encyclicals (1879-2000)

Verne, Jules: 800 Leagues on the Amazon - Around the World in 80 Days - 20000 Leagues Under the Seas

Victorinus of Pettau: On the Creation of the World.

Vincent of Lerins: Commonitory: Hallmarks of the Catholic Faith.

Virgil (Publius Virgilius Naso): The Aeneid - The Georgics.

Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet): Letters on England.

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Wallace, Edgar: The Clue of the Twisted Candle.

Washington, Booker T: Up From Slavery.

Washington, George: Constitution of the United States - Bill of Rights

Webster, John: The Duchess of Malfi.

Wesley, John and Charles: Hymns.

Wells, H. G.: A Short History of the World

Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence.

Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass

Whittier, John Greenleaf: Autograph - In Schooldays - The Worship of Nature - What the Bird Said.

Wilde, Oscar: Plays: An Ideal Husband - The Importance of Being Earnest - Lady Windermere's Fan

Poetry: Flowers of Gold (1881) - The Fourth Movement (1881) - Wind Flowers (1881) - Prose Poems - The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Essays: Selected Essays and Prose Pieces - De Profundis

Fiction: The Happy Prince, and other Tales - The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Wollstonecraft, Mary: Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Woolf, Virginia: Monday or Tuesday - To the Lighthouse

Wordsworth, William: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads - She was a phantom of delight - The Green Linnet - The Prelude (I): Childhood - The Prelude (II): School-time - The Primrose of the Rock - The Daffodils - Upon Westminster Bridge - The World is too much With Us - Evening on Calais Beach - There is a change - Above Tintern Abbey - Most sweet it is - Intimations of Immortality - She dwelt among the untrodden ways - To a Highland Girl - I know not which way I must look - To a Skylark - The Solitary Reaper - Three Years she Grew.

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Xenophon: Anabasis (The Homeward March)

Yeats, William Butler: Poems: A Dialogue Of Self And Soul - A Prayer For My Daughter - A Song - Adam's Curse - All Souls' Night - Among School Children - An Appointment - An Irish Airman foresees his death - Anne Gregory - Are You Content? - At The Abbey Theatre - Baile and Aillinn - Beautiful Lofty Things - Black Tower - Broken Dreams - Brown Penny - Church and State - Civil War Meditations - Colonel Martin - Countess Cathleen In Paradise - Crazy Jane On The Mountain - Cuchulain Comforted - Curse Of Cromwell - Dedication To A Book Of Stories From Irish Novelists - Demon And Beast - Do Not Love Too Long - Dream Of Death - Dulac (On A Picture Of A Black Centaur By Edmund Dulac) - Easter, 1916 - Ephemera - Eva Gore-Booth & Constance Markiewicz - Faeryland - Falling of the Leaves - Fergus (Who Goes With Fergus?) - Fisherman (The) - Fragments - Gift Of Harun Al-Rashid - Glendalough - Happy Shepherd (Song Of The) - Harp Of Aengus - He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace - He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge - He Remembers Forgotten Beauty - He Tells Of A Valley Full Of Lovers - He Thinks Of His Past Greatness - He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven - High Talk - His Phoenix - Host Of The Air - Imitated From The Japanese - In The Seven Woods - Into The Twilight - The Lake Isle Of Inishfree - Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner - Lapis Lazuli (For Harry Clifton) - Long-Legged Fly - Lover Asks Forgiveness Because Of His Many Moods - Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends - Madness Of King Goll - Man And The Echo - Meditation Of The Old Fisherman - Men Improve With The Years - Michael Robartes (The Double Vision Of) - Michael Robartes And The Dancer - Mohini Chatterjee - The Mother Of God - Nativity - News For The Delphic Oracle - No Second Troy - The Old Stone Cross - Parnell's Funeral - Peace - "The Player Queen" (A Song from) - Politics - In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen - Presences - Quarrel In Old Age - Reconciliation - Remorse For Intemperate Speech - Results Of Thought - Roger Casement - Rose Of Battle - The Rose Of The World - Salley Gardens (Down by the) - The Seven Sages - The Shadowy Waters - Sixteen Dead Men - The Song Of Wandering Aengus - The Statues - To Some I Have Talked With By The Fire. - When You are Old - Where My Books Go.

Yonge, Charlotte M: Countess Kate - Heartsease

Young, Filson: Christopher Columbus and the New World

Zola, Emile: Nana - The Miller's Daughter

 

Poets in Quiller-Couch's poetry Anthology: Joseph Addison; Hew Ainslie; Mark Akenside; William Alexander; Henry Alford; William Allingham; Matthew Arnold; Thomas Ashe; Robert Ayton; Grisel Baillie; Joanna Baillie; Anna Laetitia Barbauld; John Barbour; Richard Barnefield; William Barnes; James Beattie; Francis Beaumont; John Beaumont; Aphra Behn; William Bell; Arthur Christopher Benson; Laurence Binyon; William Blake; Wilfrid Blunt; William Bowles; Mark Boyd; Nicholas Breton; Robert Bridges; Alexander Brome; Emily Bronte; William Broome; Thomas Edward Brown; William Browne; Elizabeth Browning; Robert Browning; John Bunyan; Robert Burns; George Byron; Jeremiah Callanan; Thomas Campbell; Thomas Campion; Thomas Carew; Henry Carey; Bliss Carman; William Cartwright; George Chapman; Thomas Chatterton; Geoffrey Chaucer; John Clare; Arthur Hugh Clough; Hartley Coleridge; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Sara Coleridge; William Collins; William Congreve; William Cory; Charles Cotton; Abraham Cowley; William Cowper; George Crabbe; Richard Crashaw; Allan Cunningham; Robert Cunninghame; Henry Cust; Samuel Daniel; George Darley; William Davenant; John Davidson; John Davies; Aubrey De Vere; Thomas Dekker; Sydney Dobell; Henry Austin Dobson; George Dodington; John Donne; Michael Drayton; William Drummond; John Dryden; Helen Dufferin; William Dunbar; Theodore Dunton; Thomas D'Urfey; Richard Edwardes; Jane Elliot; Ebenezer Elliott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; George Etherege; Richard Fanshawe; Samuel Ferguson; Edward Fitzgerald; Thomas Flatman; Giles Fletcher; John Fletcher; Phineas Fletcher; John Ford; George Gascoigne; John Gay; Oliver Goldsmith; Edmund Gosse; James Graham; Thomas Gray; Robert Greene; Fulke Greville; Gerald Griffin; Nicholas Grimald; William Habington; Bret Harte; Stephen Hawes; Robert Hawker; Felicia Hemans; William Henley; Robert Henryson; George Herbert; Robert Herrick; John Heywood; Thomas Heywood; Thomas Hoccleve; James Hogg; Thomas Hood; Richard Horne; Henry Howard; William Howells; Alexander Hume; Leigh Hunt; Douglas Hyde; Richard Jago; Samuel Johnson; Ebenezer Jones; William Jones; Ben Jonson; Thomas Jordan; John Keats; John Keble; Henry Clarence Kendall; Henry King; Charles Kingsley; Rudyard Kipling; Charles Lamb; Mary Lamb; Frederick Lampson; Walter Landor; Andrew Lang; Richard LeGallienne; Anne Lindsay; Thomas Lodge; John Logan; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Richard Lovelace; John Lydgate; John Lyly; George Lyttelton; Edward Lytton; Thomas Babington Macaulay; George MacDonald; Francis Mahony; James Clarence Mangan; Robert Mannyng; Christopher Marlowe; Andrew Marvell; Jasper Mayne; George Meredith; Alice Meynell; Richard Milnes; John Milton; Alexander Montgomerie; Thomas Sturge Moore; Thomas Moore; William Morris; Carolina Nairne; Thomas Nashe; Henry Newbolt; Caroline Norton; John Oldham; William Oldys; John Boyle O'Reilly; Arthur O'Shaughnessy; Thomas Otway; Isobel Pagan; Gilbert Parker; Thomas Parnell; Coventry Patmore; Thomas Peacock; George Peele; Katherine Philips; William Philpot; Edgar Allan Poe; Alexander Pope; Winthrop Praed; Matthew Prior; Francis Quarles; Walter Raleigh; Allan Ramsay; Thomas Randolph; William Rands; Christina Rossetti; Dante Rossetti; Henry Rowe; John Ruskin; George Russell; Charles Sackville; James I of Scotland; Alexander Scott; Walter Scott; Charles Sedley; William Shakespeare; John Sheffield; Percy Bysshe Shelley; James Shirley; William Sidney Walker; Dora Sigerson; John Skelton; Christopher Smart; Alexander Smith; George Smollett; Caroline Southey; Robert Southey; Robert Southwell; Edmund Spenser; Thomas Stanley; Robert Louis Stevenson; William Stevenson; William Strode; John Suckling; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Joshua Sylvester; Henry Taylor; Alfred Tennyson; Frederick Tennyson; William Thom; Francis Thompson; James Thomson; James Thomson; Edward Thurlow; John Todhunter; Thomas Traherne; Charles Turner; Katharine Tynan; Henry Vaughan; Thomas Wade; Edmund Waller; William Walsh; William Watson; Isaac Watts; Charles Webbe; John Webster; Robert Wever; Walt Whitman; John Greenleaf Whittier; John Wilmot; George Wither; Charles Wolfe; Margaret Woods; William Wordsworth; Henry Wotton; Thomas Wyatt; William Butler Yeats.