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The crime writer Ross MacDonald (Kenneth Millar) was a student in the 1941 class.Dig this: "In lieu of a final, Auden had students memorize any six Dante cantos."
Source: Ross MacDonald: A Biography
Dante - The Divine Comedy
Aeschylus - The Agamemnon (tr. Louis MacNeice)
Sophocles - The Antigone (tr. Dudley Fitts or Fitzgerald)
Horace - Odes
Augustine - Confessions
Shakespeare - Henry IV, Pt 2
Shakespeare - Othello
Shakespeare - Hamlet
Shakespeare - The Tempest
Ben Jonson - Volpone
Pascal - Pensees
Racine - Phedre
Blake - Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Goethe - Faust, Part I
Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling
Baudelaire - Journals
Ibsen - Peer Gynt
Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Rimbaud - A Season in Hell
Henry Adams - Education of Henry Adams
Melville - Moby Dick
Rilke - The Journal of My Other Self
Kafka - The Castle
TS Eliot - Family Reunion
OPERA LIBRETTI:
Orpheus (Gluck)
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Fidelio (Beethoven)
Flying Dutchman (Wagner)
Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)
Götterdämmerung (Wagner)
Carmen (Bizet)
Traviata (Verdi)
RECOMMENDED CRITICAL READING:
Patterns of Culture - Ruth Benedict
From the South Seas - Margaret Meade
Middletown - Lynd
The Heroic Age - Chadwick
Epic and Romance - L.P. Ker
Plato To-day - R.H.S. Crossman
Christianity and Classical Culture - C.N. Cochrane
The Allegory of Love - C.S. Lewis
From http://www.openculture.com/2013/02/wh...