Dan Collins
2008-11-10 06:51:35
I highly recommend the trilogy of longish poems by Dante Alighieri, Areopagitica by Milton, Montaigne’s essays, Thomas Nashe’s writings, Flannery O’Connor, Flann O’Brien, Richardson, Hardy, Stewart O’Nan’s “A Prayer for the Dying,” Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Joss Whedon’s Firefly series, South Park, Augustine’s “City of God,” Martin Gardner’s “Science: Good, Bad and Bogus,” Keats, Shakespeare, Gibbons’ “Rise and Fall,” Plutarch’s “Parallel Lives,” Machiavelli’s “The Prince” and “The Mandragola,” Samuel Daniels’ “A Defence of Rime,” Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso,” Boccaccio, Thomas Huxley on Rousseau, Galileo’s “Starry Messenger,” Pico’s “Oration on the Dignity of Man.”
