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Kenneth Rexroth's Classics Revisited

In the 1960s, poet, translator, and polymath Kenneth Rexroth selected sixty works that he considered "basic documents in the history of the imagination".
"Life may not be optimistic, but it certainly is comic, and the greatest literature presents man wearing the two conventional masks: the grinning and the weeping faces that decorate theater prosceniums. What is the face behind the double mask? Just a human face - yours or mine. That is the irony of it all - the irony that distinguishes great literature: it is all so ordinary."
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Classics Revisited (Kenneth Rexroth)
Classics Revisited
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Kenneth Rexroth
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Anonymous
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
3
Homer
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
4
Homer
Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
5
Anonymous
Njal's Saga
Njal's Saga
6
The Book of Job (Anonymous)
The Book of Job
7
Anonymous
The Mahabharata (Vyasa)
The Mahabharata
8
Vyasa
The Kalevala (Anonymous)
The Kalevala
9
Anonymous
The Complete Poems of Sappho (Sappho)
The Complete Poems of Sappho
10
Sappho
The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
The Oresteia
11
Aeschylus
The Theban Plays (Sophocles)
The Theban Plays
12
Sophocles
Euripides
Euripides
13
Herodotus -- The Histories (Histories)
Herodotus -- The Histories
14
Histories
The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
The Peloponnesian War
15
Thucydides
The Trial and Death of Socrates
The Trial and Death of Socrates
16
The Republic (Plato)
The Republic
17
Plato
The Greek Anthology (Multiple)
The Greek Anthology
18
Multiple
On the Nature of Things
On the Nature of Things
19
The Early History of Rome (Livy)
The Early History of Rome
20
Livy
The Conquest of Gaul (Gaius Julius Caesar)
The Conquest of Gaul
21
Gaius Julius Caesar
The Satyricon (Petronius)
The Satyricon
22
Petronius
Histories (Tacitus)
Histories
23
Tacitus
Lives (Plutarch)
Lives
24
Plutarch
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Meditations
25
Marcus Aurelius
The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
The Golden Ass
26
Apuleius
Medieval Latin Lyrics (Various)
Medieval Latin Lyrics
27
Various
The Selected Poems of Tu Fu (Tu Fu)
The Selected Poems of Tu Fu
28
Tu Fu
100 Poems From the Japanese (Kenneth Rexroth, Trans.)
100 Poems From the Japanese
29
Kenneth Rexroth, Trans.
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji
30
Murasaki Shikibu
Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Canterbury Tales
31
Geoffrey Chaucer
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Francois Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
32
Francois Rabelais
The Travels of Marco Polo (Marco Polo)
The Travels of Marco Polo
33
Marco Polo
Utopia (Sir Thomas More)
Utopia
34
Sir Thomas More
The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli)
The Prince
35
Niccolo Machiavelli
Le Morte D'Arthur (Thomas Malory)
Le Morte D'Arthur
36
Thomas Malory
Complete Essays (Michel De Montaigne)
Complete Essays
37
Michel De Montaigne
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
38
Miguel De Cervantes
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth
39
William Shakespeare
The Tempest (Shakespeare)
The Tempest
40
Shakespeare
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