Anglo-Saxon poets (anonymous)
English, 7th-8th centuries
(This image is of a scop, or Anglo-Saxon minstrel, from the 10th century Junius 11 Manuscript, folio 54, located in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The character represented is Jubal, a Biblical character said to be the ancestor of those who play the harp and flute.)
The Dream of the Rood
Chansons de Geste writers (anonymous)
French, 11th-14th centuries
(This image is of a minstrel playing an oud, from the E Codex of the 13th century Cantigas de Santa Maria, housed now in the Real Biblioteca de San Lorenzo de El Escorial in Spain)
The Song of Roland
Icelandic Saga writers (anonymous)
Iceland, 13th-14th centuries
(This image is of Gunnar, a character from Njáls Saga. It is a detail from a tapestry in the Skógasafn, or Skógar museum, in Iceland.)
Njáls Saga
The West Midlands Poet (anonymous)
English, 14th century
(This image is from an illustration of the Pearl poem’s narrator in the manuscript Cotton Nero A.x)
Pearl
Matthew Arnold
English, 1822-1888
Arnold’s early poems
Bédier, Joseph
French, 1864-1938
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Burke, Edmund
Irish, 1729-1797
“On Taste”
Descartes, René
French, 1596-1650
Discourse on Method
Dickens, Charles
English, 1812-1870
Great Expectations
Donne, John
English, 1572-1631
Songs and Sonets
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Scottish, 1859-1930
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Euripides
Greek, 480-406 BC
Hippolytus
Faulkner, William
American, 1897-1962
Go Down, Moses
Ferber, Edna
American, 1885-1968
Cimarron
Fielding, Henry
English, 1707-1754
Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave
French, 1821-1880
Madame Bovary
Gautier, Théophile
French, 1811-1872
One of Cleopatra’s Nights
Gordimer, Nadine
South African, 1923-2014
July’s People
Graham Greene
English, 1904-1991
The Honorary Consul
Hardy, Thomas
English, 1840-1928
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
American, 1804-1864
Passages from the American Notebooks
Hugo, Victor
French, 1802-1885
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Kafka, Franz
Czech, 1883-1924
Leopold, Aldo
American, 1887-1948
A Sand County Almanac
Orczy, Baroness Emmuska
Hungarian-English, 1865-1947
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Parkman, Francis
American, 1823-1893
The Oregon Trail
Plato
Greek, 420s BC – 348-7 BC
Apology of Socrates
Pliny the Younger
Roman, 61-112 AD
Pliny’s Letters
Polo, Marco
Italian, 1254-1324
The Travels
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
French, 1900-1944
The Little Prince
Salinger, J. D.
American, 1919-2010
The Catcher in the Rye
Sappho
Greek, 7th-6th centuries BC
William Saroyan
Armenian-American, 1908-1981
My Name Is Aram
Sayers, Dorothy L.
English, 1893-1957
Whose Body?
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
American, 1811-1896
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Thoreau, Henry David
American, 1817-1862
Walden
Tolkien, J. R. R.
English, 1892-1973
“On Fairy-stories”
Turgenev, Ivan
Russian, 1818-1883
First Love
Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)
American, 1835-1910
Twain’s stories
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.
American, 1922-2007
Breakfast of Champions
Wells, H. G.
English, 1866-1946
The History of Mr. Polly
The Time Machine
Wolfe, Tom
American, 1931-2018
The Right Stuff
Wordsworth, William
English, 1770-1850
Lyrical Ballads, and other early poems
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