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Marianne Moore's list
Marianne Moore (1887-1972),
one of the most famous American poets of the 20th century, compiled
this list of greatest literary works for the book Pour une Bibliotheque
Ideale, edited by Raymond Queneau.
Many thanks to Lena Friesen in Toronto for contributing this
list to LiteraryCritic.com
Auden, W. H.. The Double Man; Collected
Shorter Poems
Blake, William. Poems.
Burke, Edmund. Speeches.
Byron. Letters.
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Cavalcanti, Guido. Donna Mi Prega.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. Troilus and Cressida;
Canterbury Tales.
Cocteau, Jean. Poemes; Theatre; Essais
critiques.
Coleridge, Samuel. Poems; Biographia Literaria.
Comtesse de Segur. Les Malheurs de Sophie.
Corbiere, Tristan. Les Amours jaunes.
Cummings, e. e.. Eimi; Poems.
Dante. The Divine Comedy; La Vita Nuova.
Donne, John. Letters; Poems.
Dumas, Alexandre. Les Trois Mousquetiers.
Eliot, T. S.. Poems; Plays; The Use of
Poetry and the Use of Criticism.
Fabre, Jean-Henri. Souvenirs entomologiques;
Littre
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary
Goldsmith, Oliver. Vicar of Wakefield;
Plays; Poems.
Gregory, Horace. Criticism.
Hardy, Thomas. Poems; Tess of the d'Urbervilles;
A Pair of Blue Eyes.
Hawthorne, Nathanial. Notebooks; Fiction.
Henryson, Robert. Poems and Fables.
Hopkins, Gerald Manley. Poems; Letters.
James, Henry. Prefaces; Letters; Novels.
Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the Poets.
Joyce, James. Poems; Novels; Dubliners.
Keats, John. Letters; Poems.
Lamb, Charles. Letters.
Lear, Edward. The Owl and the Pussycat.
Levin, Harry. Studies of Joyce; Stendhal;
Flaubert; Balzac.
Maritain, Jacques. "Religion and the Intellectuals"
(Partisan Review Symposium).
Melville, Herman. Poems; Short novels.
Moliere. Theatre.
Nash, Ogden. Poems.
Niebuhr,Reinhold. The Dilemma of Modern
Man
Pascal. Pensees.
Perrault, Charles. Contes.
Perse, Saint-John. Eloges; Exil.
Plato. The Dialogues
Plutarch. Pope, Alexander. Essay on Criticism.
Potter, Beatrix. Peter Rabbit; Squirrel
Nutkin.
Pound, Ezra. Translations of the Analects
of Confucius; Poems.
Proust, Marcel. Maxims.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Italian Poets
before Dante.
Sainte-Beuve. Portraits contemporains.
Saintsbury, George. A Short History of
English Literature; The English Novel.
Seneca. Shakespeare, William. Sonnets;
Midsummer Night's Dream; Hamlet; Macbeth.
Sidney, Sir Philip. Defense of Poesie;
Poems.
Smart, Christopher. Poems.
Stein, Gertrude. The Making of Americans;
The Geographical History of America.
Stendhal. Le Rouge et le Noir; De l'Amour;
Memoires d'un Touriste.
Stevens, Wallace. Poems; Prose commentaries.
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver; Journal.
Trollope, Anthony. Autobiography; Phineas
Finn.
Valery, Paul. La Soiree avec M. Teste;
Poemes; Variete; Introduction a la Methode de Leonard de Vinci.
Various: Greek Reader (Viking Press). Voltaire. Correspondance.
Wilson, Edmund. Joyce; Axel's Castle.
Xenophon. On Hunting; Hipparchicus; On
Horsemanship.
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