|
The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909.〔Adam Kirsch, (The "Five-foot Shelf" Reconsidered ), ''Harvard Magazine'', Volume 103, Number 2. November–December 2001〕 Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot shelf.) The publisher P. F. Collier and Son saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works, and the ''Harvard Classics'' was the result. Eliot worked for one year with William A. Neilson, a professor of English; Eliot determined the works to be included and Neilson selected the specific editions and wrote introductory notes.〔 Each volume had 400-450 pages, and the included texts are "so far as possible, entire works or complete segments of the world's written legacies."〔(Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books: Toward a Centennial of The Harvard Classics, ''Papers on Language and Literature'' - Find Articles )〕 The collection was widely advertised by Collier and Son, in ''Collier's'' and elsewhere, with great success. ==Contents== * Vol. 1: FRANKLIN, WOOLMAN, PENN * * ''His Autobiography'', by Benjamin Franklin * * ''The Journal of John Woolman'', by John Woolman (1774 and subsequent editions) * * ''Fruits of Solitude'', by William Penn * Vol. 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS * * ''The Apology'', ''Phaedo'', and ''Crito'', by Plato * * ''The Golden Sayings'', by Epictetus * * ''The Meditations'', by Marcus Aurelius * Vol. 3. BACON, MILTON'S PROSE, THOS. BROWNE * * ''Essays, Civil and Moral'', and ''New Atlantis'', by Francis Bacon * * ''Areopagitica'' and ''Tractate of Education'', by John Milton * * ''Religio Medici'', by Sir Thomas Browne * Vol. 4. COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON * * Complete poems written in English, by John Milton * Vol. 5. ESSAYS AND ENGLISH TRAITS, EMERSON * * Essays and ''English Traits'', by Ralph Waldo Emerson * Vol. 6. POEMS AND SONGS, BURNS * * Poems and songs, by Robert Burns * Vol. 7. CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, IMITATION OF CHRIST * * ''The Confessions'', by Saint Augustine'' * * ''The Imitation of Christ'', by Thomas á Kempis * Vol. 8. NINE GREEK DRAMAS * * ''Agamemnon'', ''The Libation Bearers'', ''The Furies'', and ''Prometheus Bound'', by Aeschylus * * ''Oedipus the King'' and ''Antigone'', by Sophocles * * ''Hippolytus'' and ''The Bacchae'', by Euripides * * ''The Frogs'', by Aristophanes * Vol. 9. LETTERS AND TREATISES OF CICERO AND PLINY * * ''On Friendship'', ''On Old Age'', and letters, by Cicero * * Letters, by Pliny the Younger * Vol. 10. WEALTH OF NATIONS, ADAM SMITH * * ''The Wealth of Nations'', by Adam Smith * Vol. 11. ORIGIN OF SPECIES, DARWIN * * ''The Origin of Species'', by Charles Darwin * Vol. 12. PLUTARCH'S LIVES * * ''Lives'', by Plutarch * Vol. 13. AENEID, VIRGIL * * ''Aeneid'', by Virgil * Vol. 14. DON QUIXOTE, PART 1, CERVANTES * * ''Don Quixote'', part 1, by Cervantes * Vol. 15. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, DONNE & HERBERT, BUNYAN, WALTON * * ''The Pilgrim's Progress'', by John Bunyan * * ''The Lives of Donne and Herbert'', by Izaak Walton * Vol. 16. THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS * * Stories from the ''Thousand and One Nights'' * Vol. 17. FOLKLORE AND FABLE, AESOP, GRIMM, ANDERSON * * Fables, by Aesop * * ''Children's and Household Tales'', by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm * * Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen * Vol. 18. MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA * * ''All for Love'', by John Dryden * * ''The School for Scandal'', by Richard Brinsley Sheridan * * ''She Stoops to Conquer'', by Oliver Goldsmith * * ''The Cenci'', by Percy Bysshe Shelley * * ''A Blot in the 'Scutcheon'', by Robert Browning * * ''Manfred'', by Lord Byron * Vol. 19. FAUST, EGMONT, ETC. DOCTOR FAUSTUS, GOETHE, MARLOWE * * ''Faust'', part 1, ''Egmont'', and ''Hermann and Dorothea'', by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe * * ''Dr. Faustus'', by Christopher Marlowe * Vol. 20. THE DIVINE COMEDY, DANTE * * ''The Divine Comedy'', by Dante Alighieri * Vol. 21. I PROMESSI SPOSI, MANZONI * * ''I Promessi Sposi'', by Alessandro Manzoni * Vol. 22. THE ODYSSEY, HOMER * * ''The Odyssey'', by Homer * Vol. 23. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, DANA * * ''Two Years Before the Mast'', by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. * Vol. 24. ON THE SUBLIME, FRENCH REVOLUTION, ETC., BURKE * * ''On Taste'', ''On the Sublime and Beautiful'', ''Reflections on the French Revolution'', and ''A Letter to a Noble Lord'', by Edmund Burke * Vol. 25. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETC., ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES, J.S. MILL, T. CARLYLE * * Autobiography and ''On Liberty'', by John Stuart Mill * * ''Characteristics'', ''Inaugural Address at Edinburgh'', and ''Sir Walter Scott'', by Thomas Carlyle * Vol. 26. CONTINENTAL DRAMA * * ''Life is a Dream'', by Pedro Calderón de la Barca * * ''Polyeucte'', by Pierre Corneille * * ''Phèdre'', by Jean Racine * * ''Tartuffe'', by Molière * * ''Minna von Barnhelm'', by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing * * ''William Tell'', by Friedrich von Schiller * Vol. 27. ENGLISH ESSAYS: SIDNEY TO MACAULAY * Vol. 28. ESSAYS: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN * Vol. 29. VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE, DARWIN * * ''The Voyage of the Beagle'', by Charles Darwin * Vol. 30. FARADAY, HELMHOLTZ, KELVIN, NEWCOMB, ETC * * ''The Forces of Matter'' and ''The Chemical History of a Candle'', by Michael Faraday * * ''On the Conservation of Force'' and ''Ice and Glaciers'', by Hermann von Helmholtz * * ''The Wave Theory of Light'' and ''The Tides'', by Lord Kelvin * * ''The Extent of the Universe'', by Simon Newcomb * * ''Geographical Evolution'', by Sir Archibald Geikie * Vol. 31. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BENVENUTO CELLINI * * ''The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini'' * Vol. 32. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS * * Essays, by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne * * ''Montaigne'' and ''What is a Classic?'', by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve * * ''The Poetry of the Celtic Races'', by Ernest Renan * * ''The Education of the Human Race'', by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing * * ''Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man'', by Friedrich von Schiller * * ''Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals'', by Immanuel Kant * * ''Byron and Goethe'', by Giuseppe Mazzini * Vol. 33. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS * * An account of Egypt from ''The Histories'', by Herodotus * * ''Germany'', by Tacitus * * ''Sir Francis Drake Revived'', by Philip Nichols * * ''Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World'', by Francis Pretty * * ''Drake's Great Armada'', by Captain Walter Bigges * * ''Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland'', by Edward Haies * * ''The Discovery of Guiana'', by Sir Walter Raleigh * Vol. 34. FRENCH AND ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS, DESCARTES, VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU, HOBBES * * ''Discourse on Method'', by René Descartes * * ''Letters on the English'', by Voltaire * * ''On the Inequality among Mankind'' and ''Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar'', by Jean Jacques Rousseau * * ''Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan'', by Thomas Hobbes * Vol. 35. CHRONICLE AND ROMANCE, FROISSART, MALORY, HOLINSHEAD * * ''Chronicles'', by Jean Froissart * * ''The Holy Grail'', by Sir Thomas Malory * * ''A Description of Elizabethan England'', by William Harrison * Vol. 36. MACHIAVELLI, MORE, LUTHER * * ''The Prince'', by Niccolò Machiavelli * * ''The Life of Sir Thomas More'', by William Roper * * ''Utopia'', by Sir Thomas More * * ''The Ninety-Five Theses'', ''To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation'', and ''On the Freedom of a Christian'', by Martin Luther * Vol. 37. LOCKE, BERKELEY, HUME * * ''Some Thoughts Concerning Education'', by John Locke * * ''Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists'', by George Berkeley * * ''An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'', by David Hume * Vol. 38. HARVEY, JENNER, LISTER, PASTEUR * * The Oath of Hippocrates * * ''Journeys in Diverse Places'', by Ambroise Paré * * ''On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals'', by William Harvey * * ''The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox'', by Edward Jenner * * ''The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever'', by Oliver Wendell Holmes * * ''On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery'', by Joseph Lister * * Scientific papers, by Louis Pasteur * * Scientific papers, by Charles Lyell * Vol. 39. PREFACES AND PROLOGUES * Vol. 40. ENGLISH POETRY 1: CHAUCER TO GRAY * Vol. 41. ENGLISH POETRY 2: COLLINS TO FITZGERALD * Vol. 42. ENGLISH POETRY 3: TENNYSON TO WHITMAN * Vol. 43. AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS * Vol. 44. SACRED WRITINGS 1 * * Confucian: The sayings of Confucius * * Hebrew: ''Job'', ''Psalms'', and ''Ecclesiastes'' * * Christian I: ''Luke'' and ''Acts'' * Vol. 45. SACRED WRITINGS 2 * * Christian II: ''Corinthians I'' and ''II'' and hymns * * Buddhist: Writings * * Hindu: The ''Bhagavad-Gita'' * * Mohammedan: Chapters from the ''Koran'' * Vol. 46. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 1 * * ''Edward the Second'', by Christopher Marlowe * * ''Hamlet'', ''King Lear'', ''Macbeth'', and ''The Tempest'', by William Shakespeare * Vol. 47. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 2 * * ''The Shoemaker's Holiday'', by Thomas Dekker * * ''The Alchemist'', by Ben Jonson * * ''Philaster'', by Beaumont and Fletcher * * ''The Duchess of Malfi'', by John Webster * * ''A New Way to Pay Old Debts'', by Philip Massinger * Vol. 48. THOUGHTS AND MINOR WORKS, PASCAL * * ''Thoughts'', letters, and minor works, by Blaise Pascal * Vol. 49. EPIC AND SAGA * * ''Beowulf'' * * ''The Song of Roland'' * * ''The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel'' * * ''The Story of the Volsungs'' and ''Niblungs'' * Vol. 50. INTRODUCTION, READER'S GUIDE, INDEXES * Vol. 51. LECTURES * * The last volume contains sixty lectures introducing and summarizing the covered fields: history, poetry, natural science, philosophy, biography, prose fiction, criticism and the essay, education, political science, drama, travelogues, and religion. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harvard Classics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|