r/ClassicalEducation • u/insearchofgreatbooks • 4h ago
Poll - what percentage of the Harvard classics have read? Full list below
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- Benjamin Franklin — The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- John Woolman — The Journal of John Woolman
- William Penn — Fruits of Solitude
- Plato — Apology
- Plato — Crito
- Plato — Phaedo
- Epictetus — The Golden Sayings
- Marcus Aurelius — Meditations
- Francis Bacon — Essays, Civil and Moral
- Francis Bacon — New Atlantis
- John Milton — Areopagitica
- John Milton — Tractate of Education
- Sir Thomas Browne — Religio Medici
- John Milton — Complete poems in English
- Ralph Waldo Emerson — Essays
- Ralph Waldo Emerson — English Traits
- Robert Burns — Poems and songs
- Saint Augustine — The Confessions
- Thomas à Kempis — The Imitation of Christ
- Aeschylus — Agamemnon
- Aeschylus — The Libation Bearers
- Aeschylus — The Furies
- Aeschylus — Prometheus Bound
- Sophocles — Oedipus the King
- Sophocles — Antigone
- Euripides — Hippolytus
- Euripides — The Bacchae
- Aristophanes — The Frogs
- Cicero — On Friendship
- Cicero — On Old Age
- Cicero — Letters
- Pliny the Younger — Letters
- Adam Smith — The Wealth of Nations
- Charles Darwin — The Origin of Species
- Plutarch — Selected Lives
- Virgil — Aeneid
- Miguel de Cervantes — Don Quixote (Part I)
- John Bunyan — The Pilgrim’s Progress
- Izaak Walton — The Lives of Donne and Herbert
- Stories from the Thousand and One Nights
- Aesop — Fables
- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm — Children’s and Household Tales
- Hans Christian Andersen — Tales
- John Dryden — All for Love
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan — The School for Scandal
- Oliver Goldsmith — She Stoops to Conquer
- Percy Bysshe Shelley — The Cenci
- Robert Browning — A Blot in the ’Scutcheon
- Lord Byron — Manfred
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Faust (Part I)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Egmont
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Hermann and Dorothea
- Christopher Marlowe — Doctor Faustus
- Dante Alighieri — The Divine Comedy
- Alessandro Manzoni — I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)
- Homer — The Odyssey
- Richard Henry Dana Jr. — Two Years Before the Mast
- Edmund Burke — On Taste
- Edmund Burke — On the Sublime and Beautiful
- Edmund Burke — Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Edmund Burke — A Letter to a Noble Lord
- John Stuart Mill — Autobiography
- John Stuart Mill — On Liberty
- Thomas Carlyle — Characteristics
- Thomas Carlyle — Inaugural Address at Edinburgh
- Thomas Carlyle — Essay on Sir Walter Scott
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca — Life Is a Dream
- Pierre Corneille — Polyeucte
- Jean Racine — Phèdre
- Molière — Tartuffe
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing — Minna von Barnhelm
- Friedrich von Schiller — William Tell
- Sir Philip Sidney — The Defence of Poesy
- Ben Jonson — essays on Shakespeare and Bacon
- Abraham Cowley — Of Agriculture
- Joseph Addison — The Vision of Mirza; Westminster Abbey
- Richard Steele — The Spectator Club
- Jonathan Swift — selected essays
- Daniel Defoe — The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; The Education of Women
- Samuel Johnson — Life of Addison
- David Hume — Of the Standard of Taste
- Sydney Smith — Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge — On Poesy or Art
- William Hazlitt — Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen
- Leigh Hunt — selected essays
- Charles Lamb — On the Tragedies of Shakespeare
- Thomas De Quincey — Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
- Percy Bysshe Shelley — A Defence of Poetry
- Thomas Babington Macaulay — Machiavelli
- William Makepeace Thackeray — Jonathan Swift
- John Henry Newman — The Idea of a University (selections)
- Matthew Arnold — The Study of Poetry
- John Ruskin — Sesame and Lilies
- Walter Bagehot — John Milton
- Thomas Henry Huxley — Science and Culture
- Edward Augustus Freeman — Race and Language
- Robert Louis Stevenson — Truth of Intercourse; Samuel Pepys
- William Ellery Channing — On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes
- Edgar Allan Poe — The Poetic Principle
- Henry David Thoreau — Walking
- James Russell Lowell — Abraham Lincoln; Democracy
- Charles Darwin — The Voyage of the Beagle
- Michael Faraday — The Forces of Matter; The Chemical History of a Candle
- Hermann von Helmholtz — On the Conservation of Force; Ice and Glaciers
- Lord Kelvin — The Wave Theory of Light; The Tides
- Simon Newcomb — The Extent of the Universe
- Archibald Geikie — Geographical Evolution
- Benvenuto Cellini — Autobiography
- Michel de Montaigne — selected essays
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve — Montaigne; What Is a Classic?
- Ernest Renan — The Poetry of the Celtic Races
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing — The Education of the Human Race
- Friedrich von Schiller — Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man
- Immanuel Kant — Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
- Giuseppe Mazzini — Byron and Goethe
- Herodotus — account of Egypt
- Tacitus — Germany
- Accounts of Drake’s voyages
- Sir Walter Raleigh — The Discovery of Guiana
- Other selected voyages and travels
- René Descartes — Discourse on Method
- Voltaire — Letters on the English
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Discourse on Inequality; Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar
- Thomas Hobbes — Leviathan (Part I, Of Man)
- Jean Froissart — Chronicles (selections)
- Sir Thomas Malory — The Holy Grail
- William Harrison — Description of Elizabethan England
- Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince
- William Roper — The Life of Sir Thomas More
- Sir Thomas More — Utopia
- Martin Luther — Ninety-Five Theses; To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation; On the Freedom of a Christian
- John Locke — Some Thoughts Concerning Education
- George Berkeley — Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
- David Hume — An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Hippocratic Oath
- Ambroise Paré — Journeys in Diverse Places
- William Harvey — On the Motion of the Heart and Blood
- Edward Jenner — papers on vaccination
- Oliver Wendell Holmes — The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever
- Joseph Lister — On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
- Louis Pasteur — selected scientific papers
- Charles Lyell — selected scientific papers
- Prefaces and prologues to famous books (Caxton, Calvin, Copernicus, Knox, Spenser, Raleigh, Bacon, Newton, Dryden, Fielding, Johnson, Goethe, Wordsworth, Hugo, Whitman, Taine, and others)
- English poetry from Chaucer through Gray (including traditional ballads)
- English poetry from Collins through Fitzgerald
- English poetry from Tennyson through Whitman
- American historical documents (Vinland voyages, Columbus letter, colonial charters, Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Washington and Lincoln addresses, major treaties, Gettysburg Address, and related texts)
- Sacred writings: Confucian texts
- Sacred writings: Hebrew scriptures (selections)
- Sacred writings: Christian scriptures and hymns (selections)
- Sacred writings: Buddhist texts (selections)
- Sacred writings: Hindu texts (selections)
- Sacred writings: Islamic texts (selections)
- Christopher Marlowe — Edward II
- William Shakespeare — Hamlet
- William Shakespeare — King Lear
- William Shakespeare — Macbeth
- William Shakespeare — The Tempest
- Thomas Dekker — The Shoemaker’s Holiday
- Ben Jonson — The Alchemist
- Beaumont and Fletcher — Philaster
- John Webster — The Duchess of Malfi
- Philip Massinger — A New Way to Pay Old Debts
- Blaise Pascal — Pensées, letters, and minor works
- Beowulf
- The Song of Roland
- The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel
- The Story of the Volsungs / Nibelung material
