My Favorite Things to Read

Submitted by poet on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:58
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  • My Bible
  • "A Passage to India" by EM Forrestor
  • "Evidence of Fire, A Collection of Modern German Poets after World War II"
  • "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Shakespeare
  • "Sonnet 116" Shakespeare
  • Most anything by TS Elliot (Especially "The Love Song of Alfred J Purdock.")
  • The Play "Winterset"
  • Contemporary American Literature (Especially Flannery O'Conner)
  • "Sonnets to the Portugese" Elizabeth Barret Browning
  • "Heart of Darkness" by Joeseph Conrad
  • Pride and Predjudice
  • "Ten Little Indians" by Agatha Christie
  • "Man in the Brown Suit" by Agatha Christie
  • "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
  • "Dr Faustus" by Christopher Marlow
  • "Everyman"
  • "As You Like It" Shakespeare
  • "Rasselas" By John Brown
  • "Richard III" Shakespeare
Author Comments: 

These are not all of them, I can't remember some and I can't find my books from college. What can I say, I'm an English Major.

stringdm11/13/2000

Flannery O'Conner is one of my favorite writers! I can't remember the name of the author off hand, but if you like that type of writing, and strangely grotesque characters, Winesburg, Ohio is a good read.

Also, the TS Eliot poem is J. Alfred Prufrock, not Purdock, though it's a tough name to remember anyway. I doubt if I spelled it correctly.... and the ladies come and go, speaking of michaelangelo...

nadine11/14/2000

Winesburg Ohio is by Sherwood Anderson (98% sure off the top of my head). You did spell Prufrock correctly. I fear I am an old-style English major. I'm not sure if no one cares how to spell anymore, or we are just careless on the internet...

I did not mean that as an insult to anyone, though... just sort of sounding off. one of my jobs in answering e-mails of college students, and sometimes I can barely read them...

Great list, however. I do like most of these (although The Heart of Darkness is a little TOO deep into darkness for me to enjoy reading {though a good book})

nadine11/14/2000

PS Richard III is my one of my favorite Shakespeares, and I think one of the most compelling performed...