Wednesday, June 02, 2010

The Well-Educated Mind - 84% Done!

I just finished Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and I loved it. Beautiful and long poem. I learned so much about Arthurian legend while reading it too.


Tennyson is a wonderful poet with my values. How can you not like a guy who died reading Shakespeare? 


I reached a major milestone by completing another genre of The Well-Educated Mind:POETRY! I really feel like poetry is the hardest of all of them. So, it is nice to have this done!


25 to go! 133/158
Nine autobiographies and 16 histories to go!









Medieval
1580 Essays+ Montaigne(French) Auto
Early Modern (1600-1850)
1754 History of England, V.5 Hume History
1757 Songs Innocence Experience Blake Poetry DONE March 22
1776 Decline & Fall
of the Roman Empire Gibbon (Brit)Wormsley History
1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women+ Wollstonecraft (Brit)
1770-1850 (1798) Wordsworth (Brit) Poetry May 26, 2010
1772-1834 Coleridge (Brit) Poetry  May 4, 2010
1795-1821 Keats (Brit) Poetry June 2, 2010 1:30 pm
1809-1883 Tennyson (Brit) Poetry June 4, 2010 12:40 pm
1835 Democracy in America* Tocqueville(French) History
1848 The Communist Manifesto+ Marx & Engel (German)History
Modern History (1850 to present)
1830-1894(1862) Rossetti Brit Poetry May 29, 2010 1:30 am!
1844-1889(1918) Hopkins Brit Poetry June 1, 2010 10:30 pm
1860 Civilization of Renaissance Burckhardt(Swiss) History
1865-1939 (1928) Yeats (Irish) Poetry June 2, 2010 12:15 am
1881 Life & Times of Frederick Douglas* (T) Auto (Narrative) May 30, 2010
1904 Protestant Ethic Spirit Capitalism Weber (German) History
1907-1973 (1922) Auden (Brit/American) Poetry June 2, 2010 1:55 am
1908 Ecce Homo Nietzsche(German) Auto
1922-1985 (1955) Larkin (Brit) Poetry June 2, 2010 2:25 am
1925 Mein Kampf Hitler(Germans) Auto
1929 My Experiments with Truth Gandhi (Indian) Auto
1937 Wigan Pier Orwell (Brit)History
1939- Heany (British) Poetry June 2, 2010 3:25 am :)
The New England Mind Miller(Amer) History
Surprised by Joy (1955) C.S. Lewis(Brit) Auto
1948 Seven Story Mountain Merton Auto
1955 The Great Crash Galbraith (Amer)History
1959 The Longest Day Ryan (Amer) History
1965 The Autography of + Malcolm X (Amer) Auto
1973 Journal of Solitude Sarton (Amer) Auto
Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn (Russian) Auto
1974 Roll, Jordan, Roll Genovese History
1978 Distant Mirror Tuchman History
1987 All the President’s Men Woodward & Bernstein History
1990 A Midwife's Tale Ulrich History
1992 End of History Last Man Fukuyama History

1 comment:

Carol Ann Weaver said...

I wonder if I can comment fr om my iTouch?

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