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Heydrick's List of Recommended Reading

From Benjamin Heydrick’s 1903 book: How to Study Literature: A Guide to the Intensive Study of Literary Masterpieces

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1. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
2.
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 Truth (Ballad of Good Counsel)  
3.
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 Complaint to His Purse  
4. Sir Patrick Spens and Other Ballads
by Sir Patrick Spens
  
6.
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 The Nut Brown Maid  
7.
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 Ye Ancient Ballad of Chevy-Chase
by 'R J'
  
8.
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 Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne  
9.
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 Waly, Waly  
10.
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 King Estmere  
11.
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 Edom o' Gordon  
12.
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 Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, etc.  
13.
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 The Heir of Linne  
14.
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 Fair Margaret and Sweet William  
15. The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics)
by Edmund Spenser
  
16.
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 Epithalamion
by Edmund Spenser
  
17.
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 The Oak and the Brere  
18. The Essays: Francis Bacon
by Francis Bacon
  
20. Doctor Faustus (Signet Classics, Cq452. the Signet Classic World Drama Series)
by Christopher Marlowe
  
21. The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
22. As You Like It (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
23. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
24. The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
25. Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
26. King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare
  
27. Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
28. Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
29. Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
30. Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
31. Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
32. Richard II (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
33. Henry IV, Part I (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
34. Henry IV, Part II (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
35. Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
36. The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick  
37. Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
by John Milton
  
38. Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity
by John Milton
  
39.
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 Milton's L'Allegro, Il Penseroso Comus, and Lycidas.
by Philo Melvin (Editor) Buck
  
40. The Sonnets Of John Milton
by John Milton
  
41. The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
by John Bunyan
  
42. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: In a Faithful Account of the Life and Death of John Bunyan
by John Bunyan
  
43. Alexander's Feast, MacFlecknoe, And St. Cecilia's Day
by John Dryden
  
44.
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 Lines under the Portrait of Milton  
45.
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 ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL
by DRYDEN
  
46. Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
by Jonathan Swift
  
47. The Journal to Stella
by Jonathan Swift
  
48.
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 The De Coverley Papers: From the Spectator (Academic Classics)  
49. Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
50. An Essay on Man
by Alexander Pope
  
51. The Rape of the Lock (Vintage Classic)
by Alexander Pope
  
52.
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 An Essay on Criticism  
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Created by stuffnnonsense on May 27, 2008.