Literature

About this Collection

Serious discussions of liberty are not limited to academic works. Poets, playwrights, and novelists have had much to contribute as well.

See also the extracts, chapters, and introductions in the Literature section of the Ideas page.

Members:

• The Aeneid (Dryden trans.) (Virgil)
• Areopagitica (1644) (Jebb ed.) (John Milton)
• Autobiography (Edward Gibbon)
• The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh (Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge)
• The Barber of Seville, or the Useless Precaution (Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais)
• Beowulf (original lang.) (Beowulf)
• The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon (Charles Wilkins)
• BOLL 51: Percy Bysshe Shelley, “On Liberty” (1810-22) (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• BOLL 69: John Thelwall, “Political Songs” (1795) (John Thelwall)
• Candide, ou l’Optimisme; traduit de l’Allemand de M. le Docteur Ralph (Voltaire)
• Cato. A Tragedy (1713 ed.) (Joseph Addison)
• Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays (Joseph Addison)
• Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, 3 vols. (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury)
• Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, vol. 1 (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury)
• Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, vol. 2 (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury)
• Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, vol. 3 (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury)
• The Chinese Classics (James Legge)
• The Chinese Classics: Vol. 1. The Life and Teachings of Confucius (Confucius)
• The Chinese Classics: Vol. 2 The Life and Teachings of Mencius (Mencius)
• The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume I - Autobiography and Literary Essays (John Stuart Mill)
• The Colloquies 2 vols. (Desiderius Erasmus)
• The Comedies of Aristophanes, 2 vols. (Aristophanes)
• The Comedies of Aristophanes, vol. 1 (Aristophanes)
• The Comedies of Aristophanes, vol. 2 (Aristophanes)
• The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (Alexander Pope)