The Classics as seen through my eyes....

[acdntlpoet]

So, here's a new meme, one I gakked and modded from elmunadi as evidenced in the thread here. - Mark any of these you own a copy of in bold, and any you've read, but don't have a copy of in italic.

The Most Significant bits of Classic Literature over the Last 500 Years, 1507-2007

* Hamlet, William Shakespeare
* The Tyger, William Blake
* The Black Cat, Edgar Allen Poe
* Walden, Henry David Thoreau
* O' Captain, My Captain, Walt Whitman
* To The Virgins to Make Much of Time, Robert Herrick
* Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, Joyce Carol Oates
* I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain, Emily Dickinson
* A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, Ernest Hemingway
* Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
* The Pearl, John Steinbeck
* A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner
* The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
* Dubliners, James Joyce
* Ode on a Grecian Urn, John Keats
* Beowulf, As Translated by Seamus Heaney
* The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
* Irish Faerie Tales, William Butler Yeats
* 95 Poems, e.e. cummings
* A&P, John Updike
* The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
* 1984, George Orwell
* Delta of Venus, Anais Nin
* The Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen
* The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
* Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata
* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
* Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Beloved, Toni Morrison
* Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis
* Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
* Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville
* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, Hunter S. Thompson
* A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
* Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll
* The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T. S. Eliot
* Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
* The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
* The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Mark Twain
* The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
* Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
* The Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred Lord Tennyson

I'd add to that list: (Feel free to add up to two)

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Comments

[siobhan-genie.livejournal.com]

We own Beloved? I've been wanting to read that! And we do own a very nice copy of Lolita, in hardback.

I would add these, as a shout-out to classic horror/mystery:

Murders in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley
Dark Carnival, Ray Bradbury (I know Ray is already represented, too bad)

[acdntlpoet.livejournal.com]

I didn't know we had "Lolita"... huh. And yes, I am near positive we have "Beloved", though I can't recall where it is right now. I know I read it, and that means I bought the book since i read it during college.

As for your list, yes Ray is represented already, as is Poe... that doesn't mean those two works aren't worthwhile!

[siobhan-genie.livejournal.com]

I could probably come up with a whole listing of influential horror/suspense classic literature. Of course, these would be works that were influential to ME :)

[acdntlpoet.livejournal.com]

go for it! I caveated my list as the most important (not influential), as seen through my eyes... which really is fact at this point now anyways ;)

I say go ahead and snag this and change it up for your preferred genre like Kevin pushed me to do!

[elmunadi.livejournal.com]

Pushed? I merely dusted off the plank and got out of the way, amigo - you went and did the swan dive ;^)

btw - 11 hrs LAX-London - 3 hrs in Heathrow (will never do a transfer there again if I can help it - security has gotten very very stupid above and beyond usual) - 7 hrs LHR-Dubai... and here I iz in a hotel overlooking a lot of construction cranes.

Siobhan, definitely take a whack at horror/mystery (I mean, why not?) {dusting plank off...again)