Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction Richard Canning
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1 Samuel and 2 Samuel • after 960 BC Aaron Hamburger
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Gilgamesh • between 668 and 627 BC David McConnell
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Poems • c.600 BC • Sappho Maureen Duffy
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The Symposium • c.384 BC • Plato Shaun Levin
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Letters • 1798 and later • Horace Walpole Duncan Fallowell
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Moby Dick • 1851 • Herman Melville Vestal McIntyre
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Leaves of Grass • 1855 and later • Walt Whitman Philip Clark
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A Season in Hell • Une saison en enfer • 1873 • Arthur Rimbaud Kevin Killian
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The Bostonians • 1886 • Henry James Regina Marler
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A Shropshire Lad • 1896 • A. E. Housman Mark Merlis
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De Profundis • 1895–97; published 1905 and 1962 • Oscar Wilde Fenton Johnson
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Claudine at School • Claudine à l'école • 1900 • Colette Alison Smith
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