Listings 71-79
In collection: How to Read a Book
Works
- 71. Alexander Pope
- 72. Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
- 73. Voltaire
- 74. Henry Fielding
- 75. Samuel Johnson
- The Vanity of Human Wishes
- Dictionary
- The Prince of Abyssinia (or, Rasselas)
- The Lives of the Poets (esp. Milton and Pope)
- 76. David Hume
- 77. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 78. Laurence Sterne
- 79. Adam Smith
- St. Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1033-1109)
- Omar Khayyam (1048-1131)
- (The Mabinogion) (c. 1050?)
- Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
- St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
- (The Song of Roland) (c. 1100)
- Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)
- (The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs) (12th century)
- St. Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226)
- (The Nibelungenlied) (c. 1200)
- Brother Ugolino of Montegiorgio (c. 1210?-1274)
- (Magna Carta) (1215)
- St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
- (The Saga of Burnt Njal) (13th century)
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
- (The Cloud of Unknowing) (c. 1300)
- Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)
- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)
- St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
- Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471)
- (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) (Late 14th century)
