Readings are grouped (generally) by type.
Click on the title of the reading you wish below:

 

Poetry

"The Chimney Sweep" by William Blake

"The World is too Much with us" by William Wordsworth

"When I have Fears" by John Keats

"She Walks in Beauty" by George Gordon Lord Byron

"Kubla Khan" by Samual Taylor Coleridge

"Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments" by William Shakespeare

"Dulce et Decorum est" by Wilfred Owen

from "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg

 

Miscellaneous Readings

Discussion of Kant's Antinomies of Reason by Thelma Z. Lavine

"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus

Two famous "life as universal drama" speeches by William Shakespeare

Analysis of "Death Constant Beyond Love" by Sarah Lawall

 

e-texts

A number of our readings are available online; here are a few sites with complete works now in public domain:

Candide by Voltaire

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe

"The Queen of Spades" by Pushkin

"A Simple Heart" by Flaubert

"Metamorphosis" by Kafka

"Six Characters in Search of an Author" by Pirandello

Note: there are other sites on the internet with complete texts by these authors; for example www.grtbooks.com has Candide, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Metamorphosis. Most of the poets have their works on various WEB sites as well; a quick GOOGLE or YAHOO! search will lead you to many of them. Buchner's Woyzeck seems only available in German on the WEB, and the newer works are still protected by copyright and are not printed online.