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

Note: there are other sites on the internet with complete texts by these authors. Some of the newer work is still protected by copyright and are not printed online (the PK Dick and Haruki Murakami novels, for example. Those are easily found (even used) online and/or at local public libraries in various forms: book book, e-book, even autiobook formats.

 

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

"Archaic Torso of Apollo" by Rainer Maria Rilke

"Requim" by Anna Akhmatova

"Lament" by Federico Garcia Lorca

 

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

"Woyzeck"
Special Note: this is the original German, be sure click "English" on the Google Translate box :) I do also have an English version in the Files section on Canvas

"Metamorphosis" by Kafka

"Six Characters in Search of an Author" by Pirandello

"In a [Bamboo] Grove" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa