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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 (Kenneth Rexroth)
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad (Homer)
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The Odyssey
The Odyssey
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Beowulf
Beowulf
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Njal's Saga
Njal's Saga
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The Book of Job (Anonymous)
The Book of Job (Anonymous)
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The Mahabharata (Vyasa)
The Mahabharata (Vyasa)
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The Kalevala (Anonymous)
The Kalevala (Anonymous)
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The Complete Poems of Sappho (Sappho)
The Complete Poems of Sappho (Sappho)
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The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
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The Theban Plays (Sophocles)
The Theban Plays (Sophocles)
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Euripides
Euripides
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Herodotus -- The Histories (Histories)
Herodotus -- The Histories (Histories)
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The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
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The Trial and Death of Socrates
The Trial and Death of Socrates
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The Republic (Plato)
The Republic (Plato)
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The Greek Anthology (Multiple)
The Greek Anthology (Multiple)
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On the Nature of Things
On the Nature of Things
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The Early History of Rome (Livy)
The Early History of Rome (Livy)
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The Conquest of Gaul (Gaius Julius Caesar)
The Conquest of Gaul (Gaius Julius Caesar)
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The Satyricon (Petronius)
The Satyricon (Petronius)
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Histories (Tacitus)
Histories (Tacitus)
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Lives (Plutarch)
Lives (Plutarch)
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Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
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The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
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Medieval Latin Lyrics (Various)
Medieval Latin Lyrics (Various)
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The Selected Poems of Tu Fu (Tu Fu)
The Selected Poems of Tu Fu (Tu Fu)
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100 Poems From the Japanese (Kenneth Rexroth, Trans.)
100 Poems From the Japanese (Kenneth Rexroth, Trans.)
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The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
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Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
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Gargantua and Pantagruel (Francois Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Francois Rabelais)
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The Travels of Marco Polo (Marco Polo)
The Travels of Marco Polo (Marco Polo)
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Utopia (Sir Thomas More)
Utopia (Sir Thomas More)
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The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli)
The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli)
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Le Morte D'Arthur (Thomas Malory)
Le Morte D'Arthur (Thomas Malory)
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Complete Essays (Michel De Montaigne)
Complete Essays (Michel De Montaigne)
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
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MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
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The Tempest (Shakespeare)
The Tempest (Shakespeare)
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