Reading the classics:
This is my application to become a member of the inspiring Classics Club:
theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com
My plan is not as precise as it might be. It may have glaring omissions that have been caused by my recent reading. I hope to read at least one novel by novelists and a significant number of poems by poets. With people like George Meredith and Thomas Hardy, I plan to do some of each. When I have not specified titles it is because I have read the books in the past and will do rereading. I’ve read everything by Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Dickens. Rereading is always in order but how to tell if on any particular day I long for Daniel Deronda or Adam Bede? Books I have completed are indicated in purple text. I am only indicating the books read from 2016 forward.
- Lewis, Sinclair: a significant number of works. Our Mr. Wrenn; The Innocents, Main Street, Babbitt
- Marquand, John P: The Late George Apley
- Stendahl: The Charterhouse of Parma
- Arnold Bennett
- Barbara Pym Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women, Jane and Prudence
- Elizabeth Taylor Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
- Willkie Collins
- John Galsworthy
- Thomas Hardy
- Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
- Daphne De Maurier
- Henry James
- Rose Macauley
- Somerset Maugham
- Herman Melville
- George Meredith
- Nancy Mitford
- Toni Morrison
- Iris Murdoch
- Vladimir Nabokov Pnin
- VS Naipaul
- Edward Rutherfurd
- Carol Shields
- CP Snow
- Leo Tolstoy
- William Trevor
- Anthony Trollope The Last Chronicle of Barset
- Sarah Waters
- Thornton Wilder
- AN Wilson
- George Eliot
- Gibbon (excerpts)
- Thackeray
- Updike
- Roth
- Richard Yates
- Joyce, Ulysses
- Dickens
- Mann: Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain
- Conrad
- Faulkner
- Hemingway
- Turgenev
- Pushkin
- Robert Penn Warren
- Dostoevsky
- Jane Austen
- John Cheever
- Peter Taylor
- Pulitzer Prize winners—fiction and poetry and drama
- Man Booker winners and short list and long list selections
STORIES:
Chekhov
Katherine Mansfield
Jane Gardam
Poetry
- Anthony Hecht, both early and late poems
- Wordsworth: shorter poems and The Prelude
- Keats: the Great Odes
- Robert Browning: significant dramatic monologues
- Seamus Heaney
- Tennyson
- Robert Frost
- Yeats
- TS Eliot
- Wallace Stevens
- George Szirtes
- ee cummings
- WH Auden
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Philip Larkin
- Theodore Roethke
- John Berryman
- Shakespeare’s sonnets
- Thomas Hardy
- George Meredith
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Algernon Charles Swinburns
- Matthew Arnold
- DG & Christina Rossetti
- John Hollander
DRAMA:
Shakespeare
Ibsen
Williams
Pinter The Caretaker
Ben Jonson
Chekhov
What an impressive list! Listing authors rather than titles is a great idea. It gives you much more flexibility. I look forward to reading your posts.
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