Lists of Bests: Heydrick's List of Recommended Reading http://www.listsofbests.com/list/55578 From Benjamin Heydrick's 1903 book: How to Study Literature: A Guide to the Intensive Study of Literary Masterpieces Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:26:02 GMT en-us 0 50 68 50 0 The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> Truth (Ballad of Good Counsel) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4004806 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Complaint to His Purse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4004818 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Sir Patrick Spens and Other Ballads http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4004837 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4004837"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xPG%2BQVYEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sir Patrick Spens</div> The Nut Brown Maid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4004856 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Ye Ancient Ballad of Chevy-Chase http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4004865 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by 'R J'</div> Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4004870 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Waly, Waly http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4004885 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> King Estmere http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4004890 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Edom o' Gordon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4004892 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, etc. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4004893 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Heir of Linne http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4004900 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Fair Margaret and Sweet William http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4004901 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224141 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224141"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140422072.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122532576_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edmund Spenser</div> Epithalamion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4004905 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edmund Spenser</div> The Oak and the Brere http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4004906 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Essays: Francis Bacon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/553561 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/553561"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1595479643.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francis Bacon</div> Doctor Faustus (Signet Classics, Cq452. the Signet Classic World Drama Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2364217 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2364217"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0451524772.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056444879_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Marlowe</div> The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42344 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42344"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743477561.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> As You Like It (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74917 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74917"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/074348486X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21551 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21551"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743477545.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21573 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21573"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743482832.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21568 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21568"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743482743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21570 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21570"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074348276X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21549 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21549"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743477111.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21548 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21548"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743477103.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21552 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21552"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743477553.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21550 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21550"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074347712X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74923 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74923"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743484878.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Richard II (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/169522 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/169522"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743484916.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Henry IV, Part I (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74924 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74924"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743485041.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46476462_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Henry IV, Part II (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74925 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74925"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074348505X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114282 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114282"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671722875.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3843249 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3843249"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51m7rgeTf5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3150 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3150"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424393.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Milton</div> Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006820 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006820"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413WKW2AZ8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Milton</div> Milton's L'Allegro, Il Penseroso Comus, and Lycidas. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2507680 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philo Melvin (Editor) Buck</div> The Sonnets Of John Milton http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006821 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006821"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31aOCo8hDuL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Milton</div> The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60691 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60691"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486426750.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Bunyan</div> Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: In a Faithful Account of the Life and Death of John Bunyan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3046531 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3046531"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11GDU6gffeL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Bunyan</div> Alexander's Feast, MacFlecknoe, And St. Cecilia's Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006822 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006822"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31iD5TnvOIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Dryden</div> Lines under the Portrait of Milton http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006823 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006824 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by DRYDEN</div> Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3510 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3510"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439491.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> The Journal to Stella http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2824928 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2824928"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01TaE4oA4wL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> The De Coverley Papers: From the Spectator (Academic Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006825 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9355 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9355"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757325.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> An Essay on Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006826 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006826"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31fNqYGqKFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Pope</div> The Rape of the Lock (Vintage Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2836113 <div id="position">51</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2836113"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01BvJozpb%2BL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Pope</div> An Essay on Criticism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006827 <div id="position">52</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div>