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:

• Shakespeare’s Plutarch, Vol. 2 (Sir Thomas North)
• Shakespeare’s Sonnets And A Lover’s Complaint (William Shakespeare)
• The Shi King, the Old “Poetry Classic” of the Chinese (Confucius)
• Some Love Songs (Francesco Petrarch)
• The Story of Burnt Njal (Rasmus B. Anderson)
• The Tale of Beowulf, sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats (Alfred John Wyatt)
• The Tragedies of Sophocles (Sophocles)
• Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works (Arthur W. Ryder)
• Twenty-Five Sonnets of Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
• A Vedic Reader for Students (Arthur Anthony Macdonell)
• The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, 10 vols. (Mrs. Russell Barrington)
• The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, vol. 1 (Memoir, Early Essays) (Mrs. Russell Barrington)
• The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, vol. 2 (Historical & Financial Essays) (Mrs. Russell Barrington)
• The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, vol. 3 (Historical & Literary Essays) (Mrs. Russell Barrington)
• The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, vol. 4 (Political, Literary, & Literary Essays) (Mrs. Russell Barrington)
• The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 8 (Letters and Social Aims) (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 9 (Poems) (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 10 (Lectures and Biographical Sketches) (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 11 (Miscellanies) (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 12 (Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers) (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• The Works of Christopher Marlowe 3 vols. (Arthur Henry Bullen)
• The Works of Christopher Marlowe vol. 1 (Christopher Marlowe)
• The Works of Christopher Marlowe, vol. 2 (Arthur Henry Bullen)
• The Works of Christopher Marlowe, vol. 3 (Poems) (Christopher Marlowe)
• The Works of Voltaire. A Contemporary Version, in 21 vols. (Voltaire)