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AN INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

Jul 18, 2014
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Updated: 2 days ago

A Note Before the First.

An index of Subjects.

The subjects:

1: Kenneth Rexroth’s Classics Revisited.

2: The Tale of Genji.

3: The poetry of Daniel Huws.

4: The novels of Jonis Agee.

5: Five (or twelve) great mysteries.

6: The literature of the Blasket Islands.

7: Zen: Shunryū Suzuki, Robert Aitken, R.H. Blyth, and Brian Victoria’s Zen At War.

8: The letters of Van Gogh, Keats, Helene Hanff, and the Shaw-Terry correspondence.

9: The journals of Pepys, Thoreau and Dorothy Wordsworth.

10: The great Buddhist poets.

11: The medieval lyric.

12: The war studies of Paul Fussell.

13: City biographies (London, Paris, Barcelona, Oxford, Varanasi) and Antoni Gaudi.

14: Reading for Christmas.

15: Buddhism for absolute beginners.

16: The essays of Orwell and Camus, and the poetry of Thomas Hardy.

17: The Swallows and Amazons books of Arthur Ransome.

18: William Blake, poet and artist (and Samuel Palmer).

19: Great translations.

20: The mystery novels of Eliot Pattison, books on Tibetan history.

21: The ghost stories of M.R. James.

22: Izaak Walton and Flora Thompson.

23: The novels of Roddy Doyle and Margaret Atwood.

24: Some contemporary poets.

25: The poetry of Arthur Rimbaud.

26: The poetry of George Herbert.

27: Frederick Douglass.

28: Two novels by Muriel Spark.

29: Poetry anthologies.

30: Pauline Kael, Anthony Lane and James Agee on (mostly) movies.

31: Maria Rosa Menocal on medieval Spain, Karen Armstrong on the Axial Age.

32: Classic Chinese fiction.

33: The poetry of India: Jayadeva, Chandidas, Surdas, Mirabai, Tagore.

34: The poetry of John Clare.

35: Novels by A.S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, Dai Sijie, Michael Downing and Tobias Wolff.

36: Rosemary Mahoney.

37: The Alice books, Edward Lear and The Wind in the Willows.

38: Wordsworth’s Prelude.

39: Ovid in (readable) English.

40: Two plays by Tom Stoppard, and A.E. Housman.

41: La Rochefoucauld, Pascal and Montaigne.

42: Gibbon Sengai.

43: Baudelaire and Whitman.

44: Two biographies of Emily Dickinson.

45: Three titles from Shambhala Publishing.

46: Poems of the Irish dispossessed and William Butler Yeats.

47: Kenneth Rexroth’s literary and social essays.

48: Brideshead Revisited, Howards End, Bleak House and Cold Comfort Farm.

49: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Rabbi Nachman.

50: The picture-poems of Kenneth Patchen.

51: Two recent books on Shakespeare.

52: The work of Bill Porter/Red Pine.

53: The poetry of Robert Herrick.

54: Two Buddhist teachers: Shantideva and Atisha.

55: Memoirs of failed vocations by Karen Armstrong and Nikolai Grozni.

56: The poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

57. The poetry of Jaroslav Seifert.

58: The wives of Henry VIII and five Victorian marriages.

59: Apollinaire and the women of Modernist Paris.

60: C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed.

61: Introducing Tom Paine.

62: The poetry of Antonio Machado.

63: Paul Watkins on being an American at Eton, Karin Muller on Japan.

64: The poetry of Louise Labe.

65: The history of Victor de l’Aveyron.

66: Arthur Herman’s dual biography of Gandhi and Churchill.

67: The writings and drawings of James Thurber.

68: Orson Scott Card.

69: The Tain Bo Cuailnge in English.

70: The Knopf Guide to the Louvre.

71: On the writings of Beatrix Potter.

72: The Adventures of Tintin, boy reporter.

73: Pilgrimages: Santiago de Compostela and Mount Kailash.

74: Rereading Sherlock Holmes and The Three Musketeers.

75: The poetry of Vasko Popa.

76: Rice’s Architectural Primer.

77: Morison on the Intellectual Life of Colonial New England, and the Colonial poets.

78: Mad Mary Lamb and her brother Charles.

79: Two contrarians: Christopher Hitchens and Margaret Atwood.

80: Irish voyages: Saint Brendan, Sweeney Astray, St. Patrick.

81: Roberto Calasso on Tiepolo, Robert Hughes on Goya.

82: The Reverend Sydney Smith.

83: The poetry of John Milton.

84: The Latin translations of David Ferry.

85: Roberto Calasso on the myths of India, and the Ramayana.

86: John Boswell and Louis Crompton on gay history.

87: The paintings of Caspar David Friedrich.

88. The documents on the separation of church and state.

89: Stephen Greenblatt on the rediscovery of Lucretius.

90: Colin Cotterill’s mystery novels, set in Laos.

91: The poetry of Yosa Buson.

92: The poetry of Theophile Gautier and Jacques Prevert.

93: Poems about paintings by Paul Durcan.

94: The poetry of Sarah Binks and William McGonagall.

95: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

96: Sir Thomas Malory and the tales of King Arthur.

97: The poetry of Du Fu.

98: Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, monk and filmmaker.

99: The history of Venice, and the paintings of Canaletto.

100: The Hollander translation of Dante.

101: The poetry of Sappho, the Greek Anthology, and Cavafy.

102: Aubrey’s Brief Lives.

103: The poetry of Kabir.

104: Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno.

106: Stories and photographs of children: Roy, Mankowitz, Renard, Grahame, Doisneau.

107. The Moomintroll stories of Tove Jansson.

108: The Buddhist Pilgrimage Route.

109: Regency period portraiture.

110: Two translations of the Mahabharata.

111: Rereading Samuel Johnson.

112: The fragments of Heraclitus and Diogenes.

113: The fantasy novels of Diana Wynne Jones (and Nancy Farmer).

114: Non-fiction by Rose George.

115: The twentieth-century Buddhist master Xu Yun.

116: The poetry of T’ao Ch’ien.

117. Leonardo da Vinci and Jan Vermeer.

118. Ransom Riggs and Brian Selznick.

119. Jeeves and Wooster.

120. Islamic History for Absolute Beginners.

121. The Ashtavakra Gita.

122. Henri Cartier-Bresson.

123. Sven Birkerts on the intrusions of the Internet age.

124. Patrick Leigh Fermor on the silent life.

125. The Poetry of Hafiz.

126. The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne.

127. The Poetry of Umberto Saba.

128. The Cloisters Museum of Medieval Art, How to Read a Painting, Walafrid Strabo

129. Simon Schama on Golden Age Dutch Culture.

130. Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens

131. Gibbon and Robert Hughes on Rome.

132. The Elegies and Sonnets of Rainer Maria Rilke.

133. Tom Clark on the Great Naropa Poetry Wars.

134. The poetry of John Clare and the engravings of Thomas Bewick.

135. Fiction by Benjamin Alire Saenz and Andre Aciman.

136. The Analects of Confucius and the I Ching.

137. Virgil’s Aeneid and the poetry of Petrarch in translation.

138. The poetry of Anna Akhmatova.

139. The Human Line, by Ellen Bass.

140. Sky Burial, by Xinran.

141. The films of Jean Vigo.

142. Approaching Mallarme’s final poem.

143. The poetry of Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu.

144. The poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti.

An Interval: A Little Requiem for Notre Dame.

145. The Japanese Zen master Dogen Zenji.

146. The Beggar’s Opera, by John Gay.

147. Bubu of Montparnasse, by C.-L. Philippe.

148. The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius.

149. The films of Jacques Tati.

150. The Theatre of War, by Bryan Doerries.

151. The poetry of Rumi.

152. The N-word, history and usage.

153. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

154. Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson.

155. Napoleon Bonaparte: For and Against.

156. Joan of Arc.

157. A documentary on James Baldwin, and Ibram X. Kendi on anti-racism.

158. A memoir by Benjamin Taylor.

159. The last poetry collections of Philip Levine and Jim Harrison.

160. The poetry of Masaoka Shiki.

161. Lawrence James’s history of the British Raj.

162. More Latin Lyrics, by Helen Waddell.

163. The poetry of Chiyo-ni

164. Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo.

165. Tibetan Buddhism: Thoughts and Questions.

166. Jan Morris on the paintings of Carpaccio.

167. The animal poems of Ted Hughes.

168. The poetry of Catullus.

169: Honore de Balzac and Isak Dinesen on the subject of food.

170. Plays by Brian Friel and Sebastian Barry.

171. The poetry ofLi Po.

172. The poetry of Anselm Hollo.

173. India: Myths, Essays and Caste/the writer Arundhati Roy.

174. Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters.

175. The crime novels of Donna Leon.

176. Claudia Rankine's Citizen.

177. The films and correspondence of Francois Truffaut.

178. Philippa Pearce, Erich Kastner and Philip Pullman's essays.

179. Jan Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece.

180. The prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige.

181. The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan.

182. A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara.

183. Superiority Conceit in Buddhist Traditions, by Bhikkhu Analyo.

184. Jane Austen's Persuasion.

185. The World's Wife, by Carol Ann Duffy.

186. The poetry of Joseph Stroud.

187. Christopher de Hamel's studies of illuminated manuscripts.

188. The poetry of Sean O'Riordan.

189. The Zen master Bankei.

190. The poetry of Francois Villon

191. The Poetry of Octavio Paz.

192. Imagining Shakespeare's last years.

193. The 1938 film "Holiday" and Somerset Maugham's novel The Razor's Edge.

194. Frederick Starr on Central Asia's Golden Age.

195. On cruelty to animals: novels by Colin Cotterill and Donna Leon.

196. The Catalan architect Josep Maria Jujol.

197. The Poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva

198. Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World, by Benjamin Alire Saenz.

199. Fran Lebowitz.

200. A collection of poems by Maurice Maeterlink.

201. Histories of Afghanistan, Himalaya, Tibet and Ukraine.

202. The poetry of Giacomo Leopardi.

203. The poetry of Ramprasad Sen.

204. The poetry of Lucille Clifton.

205. A few Russian novels.

206. Giotto's frescoes at the Scrovegni Chapel; the poems of Joseph Stroud.

207. The poetry of William Carlos Williams.

208. John Julius Norwich's history of Byzantium.

209. The Netflix series "Heartstopper."

210. Translations of Callimachus, Po Chu-i, Su Tung-p'o and Nammalvar.

211. Robert Macfarlane's Landmarks and Arthur Ransome's Big Six.

212. Six Contemporary Poets.

213. Charles Freeman's history of Egypt, Greece and Rome.

214. Buddhism plain and practical, and biographies of the Buddha.

215. Chris Hedges, Alice Oswald, and Margaret Atwood on war.

216. The Pervigilium Veneris.

217. Fernando Pessoa, Edmund Wilson and Yehuda Amichai.

218. The Coen Brothers' "Hail Caesar" and the MGM publicity machine.

219. Studies of the Book of Common Prayer, the Passover Hagaddah, and the Lotus Sutra.

220. Maud Gonne.

221. Don Maquis's Archy and Mehitabel.

222. Kyrie, by Ellen Bryant Voigt.

223. The poetry of Guillevic.

224. Two novels by Sebastian Barry.

225. Leigh Bardugo's fantasy series.

226. Michael White on Vermeer, Julian Barnes's art essays, Hieronymus Bosch.

227. Kipling's Just So Stories.

228. The poetry of Tony Hoagland.

229. Red Pine's translations of four Chinese poets.

230. James Shapiro on the Shakespeare authorship question.

231. Slavenka Drakulic on life under Communism.

232. The Taj Mahal, and Harvard's Wonders of the World

233. The Monk and Robot novellas by Becky Chambers,

234. Splitting an Order, by Ted Kooser.

235. The art of the New England graveyard.

236. More of the Chinese poets.

237. An artist and a bookseller in Renaissance Florence..

238. Two early books of Maurice Sendak (and Ruth Krauss).

239. The poetry of Louise Gluck.

240. The films and poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

241. The Tale of the Heike.

242. The poetry of Christina Rossetti.

243. Four prose dialogues by Petrarch.

244. The poetry of Lal Ded and other Indian poets.

245. The poetry of Pablo Neruda.

246. Kokoro, by Natsume Soseki

247. Underland, by Robert MacFarlane

248..The British public school story.

249..Religion, violence, and some surviving Middle Eastern religious sects.

250..The poetry of Joy Sullivan.

251..The Tales of Ise and the Kokinshu.

252..Shinto, and Pico Iyer on Japan.

253..Pico Iyer on the Dalai Lama and Tibet.

254..Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne, and Timothy the toroise.

255..The poetry of Osip Mandelstam.

256..The Lockwood & Co. stories by Jonathan Stroud.

257..David Plante's diary of becoming a Londoner.

258..The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

259..The last poems of Louise Gluck.

260..Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.

261..The disappearance and rediscovery of the Indian emperor Ashoka.

262. The Japanese Nō drama.

263. Reb Anderson’s explication of the Samdhinirmocana Sutra.

264..The Gardner Museum Heist and Iain Pears's art-history mystery novels.

265..The Gallows Songs, by Christian Morgenstern.

266..The poetry of Kaveh Akbar.

An Interval: The Lines on the Statue of Liberty.

267..A Netflix Documentary of the Ed Sullivan Show.

268..Towns: Our Town, Under Milk Wood, The Laramie Project, Paris je t'aime.

269..Taoism for Absolute Beginners.

270..Tony Kushner's Angels in America

271..The Brothers Grimm translated by Philip Pullman, and Kenji Miyazawa.

272..Judi Dench and James Shapiro on Shakespeare.

273..Philip Pullman's trilogies, His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust.

274..On the Haiku: Basho, R.H. Blyth, Kobayashi Issa and James Wright.

275.The Sacred Band, by James Romm.

276..Andrew Ziminki on British church architecture and John Constable's sky studies.

277..Pico Iyer on the search for Paradise.

278..Doppelganger, by Naomi Klein,

279..Colm Toibin on Lady Gregory.

280..James Shapiro on Shakespeare in 1606.

282..The poetry of Danusha Lameris, Attila Joszef, and Andrew Schelling.

283..Stacy Schiff on the Salem Witch Trials.

284..Jeffrey Brotton on the dispersal of the art collection of Charles I.

285..On playing Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.

286..Rilke's Book of Hours.

287..John Williams's Stoner.

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