Housed in four record boxes are books annotated by Sighle Kennedy. Most are paperbacks.
Subseries VIII.1: Books by Samuel Beckett in French
This subseries features titles fromMolloytoCompagnie;all but one of these books was published by Les Editions de Minuit.
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Comment c'est. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1961.
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Compagnie. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1980.
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La dernière bande. 1959. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1980.
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En attendant Godot. 1952. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1970.
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En attendant Godot. 1966. Ed. Colin Duckworth. London: Harrap, 1973.
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Fin de partie suivi de Actes sans paroles. 1957. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1969.
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L'innommable. 1953. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1971.
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Malone Meurt. 1951. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1969.
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Molloy. 1951. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1970.
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Murphy. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1965.
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Oh les beaux jours. 1963. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1970.
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Premier amour. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1970.
Subseries VIII.2: Books by Samuel Beckett in English
Some of these books, many of which are Evergreen-Grove paperbacks, are very heavily annotated; Kennedy appears to have purchased second copies of several of them in order to take an additional set of marginal notes.
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Collected Poems in English and French. London: John Calder, 1977.
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Company. New York: Grove, 1980.
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Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment. Ed. Ruby Cohn. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1984.
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Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Ed. Eoin O'Brien and Edith Fournier. Dublin: Black Cat, 1992.
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Endgame. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1958.
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Ends and Odds: Plays and Sketches. London: Faber and Faber, 1977.
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From an Abandoned Work. London: Faber and Faber, 1958.
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Happy Days. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1961. Two copies.
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How It Is. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1964.
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Ill Seen Ill Said. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1981.
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Krapp's Last Tape. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1960. Two copies.
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The Lost Ones. New York: Grove, 1972.
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Malone Dies. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1956. Two copies.
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Mercier and Camier. New York: Grove, 1974.
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Molloy. New York: Grove, 1955.
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Molloy. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1955.
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More Pricks than Kicks. London: Calder and Boyars, 1970.
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More Pricks than Kicks. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1972.
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Murphy. New York: Grove, 1957.
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Murphy. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1957.
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No's Knife: Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1966. London: Calder and Boyars, 1967.
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Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. CT: New Directions.
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Play. London: Faber and Faber, 1968.
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Poems in English. New York: Grove, 1963.
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Proust. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1978. Two copies.
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Rockaby and Other Short Pieces. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1981.
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Stories and Texts for Nothing. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1968.
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That Time. London: Faber and Faber, 1976.
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Three Novels by Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. New York: Evergreen-Grove Black Cat, 1965.
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The Unnamable. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1958. Two copies.
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Waiting for Godot. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1954. Two copies.
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Watt. New York: Grove and John Calder Ltd.: London, 1959. Two copies.
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Worstward Ho. New York: Grove, 1983.
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Beckett, Samuel, et. al. Signature Anthology. London: Calder and Boyars, 1975.
Subseries VIII.3: Books about Samuel Beckett
These are largely scholarly books, many of them classics in the now-enormous field of Beckett studies. Many are paperbacks.
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Admussen, Richard L. The Samuel Beckett Manuscripts: A Study. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979.
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Alvarez, A. Samuel Beckett. New York: Viking, 1973.
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Bair, Deirdre. Samuel Beckett. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
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Brater, Enoch, ed. Beckett at 80: Beckett in Context. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1986.
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Busi, Frederick. The Transformations of Godot. Lexington, KY: Kentucky UP, 1980.
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Cohn, Ruby, ed. Casebook on Waiting for Godot. New York: Grove, 1967.
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Cohn, Ruby, ed. Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Criticism. New York: McGraw-Hall, 1975.
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Cohn, Ruby. Samuel Beckett: The Comic Gamut. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1962.
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Esslin, Martin. Mediations: Essays on Brecht, Beckett and the Media. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1982.
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Esslin, Martin. Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1965.
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Fletcher, John and John Spurling. Beckett: A Study of His Plays. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.
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Fletcher, John. The Novels of Samuel Beckett. London: Chatto and Windus, 1964.
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Fletcher, John. Samuel Beckett's Art. London: Chatto and Windus, 1967.
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Gontarski, S.E. The Intent of Undoing in Sanuel Beckett's Texts. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1985.
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Gontarski, S.E., ed. On Beckett: Essays and Criticism. New York: Grove, 1986.
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Graver, Lawrence and Raymond Federman. Samuel Beckett: The Critical Heritage. London, Henley and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979.
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Hamilton, Kenneth and Alice Hamilton. Condemned to Life: The World of Samuel Beckett. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdman's, 1976.
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Harvey, Lawrence. Samuel Beckett: Poet and Critic. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1970.
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Karl, Frederick R. A Reader's Guide to the Contemporary English Novel. Revised ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972.
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Kenner, Hugh. A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.
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Kenner, Hugh. Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1961.
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Kern, Edith. Kierkegaard, Sartre, Beckett. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1970.
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Knowlson, James. Light and Darkness in the Theatre of Samuel Beckett. London: Turret, 1972.
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Knowlson, James. Samuel Beckett: An Exhibition. London: Turret, 1971.
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Kumar, Shiv K. Bergson and the Stream of Consciousness Novel. New York: NYU Press, 1963.
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Janvier, Ludovic. Pour Samuel Beckett. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1966.
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Juliet, Charles. Rencontres avec Bram van Velde. Paris: Fata Morgana, 1978.
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Mayoux, Jean-Jacques. Samuel Beckett. Essex: Longman, 1974.
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McMillan, Dougald. Transition 1927-38: The History of a Literary Era. New York: George Braziller, 1976.
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O'Hara, J.D. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970.
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Perloff, Marjorie. The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.
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Pilling, John. Samuel Beckett. London, Henley and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.
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Rabinovitz, Rubin. The Development of Samuel Beckett's Fiction. Urbana and Chicago: Illinois UP, 1983.
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Reid, Alec. All I Can Manage, More than I Could: An Approach to the Plays of Samuel Beckett. Revised ed. New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1971.
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Scott, Nathan A. Samuel Beckett. New York: Hillary House, 1965.
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Smith, Joseph H., ed. The World of Samuel Beckett. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.
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Tindall, William York. Samuel Beckett. Columbia Essays on Modern Writers, no. 4. New York: Columbia UP, 1964.
Subseries VIII.4: Books about James Joyce
This small subseries features scholarly and trade books about Beckett's friend and mentor, James Joyce.
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Budgen, Frank. James Joyce and the Makings of Ulysses. Bloomington and London: Indiana UP, 1967.
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Gilbert, Stuart. James Joyce's Ulysses. 1930. Middlesex: Penguin, 1969.
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Potts, Willard, ed. Portraits of the Artist in Exile: Recollections of James Joyce by Europeans. San Diego, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
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Power, Arthur. Conversations with James Joyce. Ed. Clive Hart. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1974.
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Reynolds, Mary T. Joyce and Dante: The Shaping Imagination. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1981.
Subseries VIII.5: Translation of Books by Dante
As with the Beckett books in English, Kennedy seems to have purchased second copies of crucial Dante translations so as to add further marginalia. Featured here are several now-standard English translations of Dante's writings; most are paperbacks, though also included are a 1904 hardcover edition of D.G. Rossetti's translation of theVita Nuovaand a 1932 hardcover copy of The Modern Library's Carlyle-Wicksteed translation of theCommedia.Translations are alphabetized by title and then by translator.
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Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy. Trans. John Aitken Carlyle, Thomas Okey and Philip H. Wicksteed. New York: Modern Library-Random House, 1932.
Inferno.
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Trans. Allen Mandelbaum. New York: Bantam, 1982.
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Trans. John D. Sinclair. Revised ed. Oxford and New York: Galaxy-Oxford UP, 1961.
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Trans. John D. Sinclair. Revised ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1961.
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Trans. Charles S. Singleton. 2 vols. Revised ed. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977.
Paradiso.
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Trans. Allen Mandelbaum. New York: Bantam, 1986.
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Trans. John D. Sinclair. Oxford and New York: Galaxy-Oxford UP, 1961.
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Trans. John D. Sinclair. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1961.
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Trans. Charles S. Singleton. Revised ed. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977.
Purgatorio.
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Trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. New York: Dolphin-Doubleday, undated.
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Trans. Allen Mandelbaum. New York: Bantam, 1984.
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Trans. John D. Sinclair. Revised ed. Oxford and New York: Galaxy-Oxford UP, 1961.
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Trans. John D. Sinclair. Revised ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1961.
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Trans. Charles S. Singleton. Revised ed. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977.
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Rime. Trans. Patrick S. Diehl. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1979.
Vita Nuova.
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Trans. Mark Musa. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1973.
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Dante's New Life. Trans. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [1904].
Subseries VIII.6: Books about Dante or Related to Kennedy's Dante Project
Here are scholarly books in English on Dante; also included are bound volumes ofLectura Dantis.An edition of Vico (grouped by Beckett with Dante, Bruno and Joyce in his famous early essay) and the Loeb Classical Library's Virgil are also present.
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Barolini, Teodolinda. The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.
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Bergin, Thomas G. Dante. Riverside Studies in Literature. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
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Ferrante, Joan M. The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1984.
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Friederich, Werner P. Dante's Fame Abroad, 1350-1850. Chapel Hill: North Carolina UP, 1950.
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Gardner, Edmund. Dante and the Mystics. New York: Haskell House, 1968.
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Harrison, Robert Pogue. The Body of Beatrice. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1988.
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Mazzotta, Giuseppe. Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993.
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McDougal, Stuart Y. Dante among the Moderns. Chapel Hill and London: North Carolina UP, 1985.
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Moore, Edward. Studies in Dante. First Series: Scripture and Classical Authors in Dante 1896. New York: Greenwood, 1968.
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Moore, Edward. Studies in Dante. Third Series: Miscellaneous Essays. 1903. New York: Greenwood, 1968.
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Toynbee, Paget. Concise Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante. New York: Phaeton, 1968.
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Vittorini, Dominico. The Age of Dante: A Concise History of Italian Culture in the Years of the Early Renaissance. New York: Citadel, 1964.
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Wicksteed, Philip H. Dante and Aquinas: Being the Substance of the Jowett Lectures of 1911. New York: Haskell House, 1971.
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Lectura Dantis 6 (Spring 1990).
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Lectura Dantis 6 Supplement: Dante's Divine Comedy: Introductory Readings: I: Inferno (Spring 1990).
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Lectura Dantis 7 (Fall 1990).
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Lectura Dantis 8 (Spring 1991).
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Lectura Dantis 9 (Fall 1991).
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Lectura Dantis 10 (Spring 1992).
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Lectura Dantis 11 (Fall 1992).
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Lectura Dantis 12 Supplement: Dante's Divine Comedy: Introductory Readings II: Purgatorio (Spring 1993).
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Lectura Dantis 12 (Spring 1993).
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Lectura Dantis 13 (Fall 1993)
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Lectura Dantis 16-17: Dante's Divine Comedy: Introductory Readings III: Paradiso (Spring-Fall 1995).
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Vico, Giambattista. On the Study Methods of Our Time. Trans. Elio Gianturco. Indianapolis and New York: Library of Liberal Arts-Bobbs-Merrill, 1965.
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Virgil. The Aeneid. Trans. Rolfe Humphries. New York: Scribner, 1951.
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Virgil. Eclogues, Georgics Aeneid 1-6. Trans. H.R. Fairclough. 1938. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1986.
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Virgil. Aeneid 7-12, The Minor Poems. Trans. H.R. Fairclough. 1934. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1986.
Subseries VIII.7: Other Books
This small subseries primarily contains books on ancient Greek and medieval Christian philosophy and literature.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise. Trans. Betty Radice. New York: Penguin, 1974.
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Aristotle. Ethics. Trans. D.P. Chase. 1911. New York: E.P Dutton and London: J.M. Dent, 1937.
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Arpino, Giovanni. La suora giovane. Torino: Einaudi, 1959.
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Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis. Anchor-Doubleday, undated. Damaged.
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St. Augustine. The City of God. Trans. Marcus Dods. New York: Modern Library-Random House, 1950.
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St. Augustine. Confessions. Trans. John Pilkington. New York: Liveright, 1943.
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Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy. Trans. V.E. Watts. New York: Penguin, 1969.
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Boethius. Tractates, De Consolatione Philosophiae. Trans. H.Stewart, E.K. Rand, and S.J. Tester. Cambridge MA: Loeb Classical Library-Harvard UP and London: William Heinemann, 1973.
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Aquinas, St. Thomas. The Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Trans. Etienne Gilson and Rev. G.A Erlington. Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons and St. Louis: B. Herder, 1924.
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Jonas, Hans. The Gnostic Religion. Second ed. Boston: Beacon, 1958.
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Kirk, G.S. and J.E. Raven. The Presocratic Philosophers. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1966.
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Levin, Richard. The Question of Socrates. New York and Burlingame: Harcourt-Brace, 1961.
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De Lorris, Guillaume and Jean de Meur. The Romance of the Rose. Trans. Harry W. Robbins. New York: Meridian-Penguin, 1962.
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Nilsson, Martin P. A History of Greek Religion. Second ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1964.
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West, Rebecca J. Eugenio Montale: Poet on the Edge. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard UP, 1981.