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====Lectures on The Harvard Classics==== {{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/harvardclassics51eliouoft |title=Lectures on The Harvard Classics |date=17 January 2006 |website=Internet Archive |access-date=22 February 2018}} The last volume contains sixty lectures introducing and summarizing the covered fields:<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Neilson |display-editors=etal|editor1-first=William Allan |title=Lectures on the Harvard Classics: Contents |url=https://www.bartleby.com/60/ |issue=Table of Contents |edition=1st |location=Collier Press New York |publisher=P F Collier & Son |publication-date=1914 |access-date=21 February 2018}}</ref> *'''[[History]]''' **"General Introduction", by [[Robert Matteson Johnston]] **"Ancient History", by William Scott Ferguson **"The French Revolution", by Robert Matteson Johnston **"The Renaissance", by Murray Anthony Potter **"The Territorial Development of the United States", by [[Fredrick Jackson Turner]] *'''[[Poetry]]''' **"General Introduction", by Carlton Noyes **"Homer and the Epic", by Charles Burton Gulick **"Dante", by [[Charles Hall Grandgent]] **"The Poems of John Milton", by [[Ernest Bernbaum]] **"The English Anthology", by Carleton Noyes *'''[[Natural Science]]''' **"General Introduction", by [[Lawrence Joseph Henderson]] **"Astronomy", by Lawrence Joseph Henderson **"Physics and Chemistry", by Lawrence Joseph Henderson **"The Biological Sciences", by Lawrence Joseph Henderson **"Kelvin on 'Light' and 'The Tides'", by [[William Morris Davis]] *'''[[Philosophy]]''' **"General Introduction", by [[Ralph Barton Perry]] **"Socrates, Plato, and the Roman Stoics", by Charles Pomeroy Parker **"The Rise of Modern Philosophy", by Ralph Barton Perry **"Introduction to Kant", by Ralph Barton Perry **"Emerson", by [[Chester Noyes Greenough]] *'''[[Biography]]''' **"General Introduction", [[William Roscoe Thayer]], **"Plutarch", by William Scott Ferguson, **"Benvenuto Cellini", by Chandler Rathfon Post **"Franklin and Woolman", by [[Chester Noyes Greenough]] **"John Stuart Mill", by Oliver Mitchell Wentworth *'''[[Prose|Prose Fiction]]''' **"General Introduction" by [[William Allan Neilson]], **"Popular Prose Fiction" by [[Fred Norris Robinson]], **"Malory", by Gustavus Howard Maynadier **"Cervantes", by [[Jeremiah D. M. Ford]] **"Manzoni" by Jeremiah D. M. Ford *'''[[Criticism]] and the [[Essay]]''' **"General Introduction", by [[Bliss Perry]] **"What the Middle Ages Read", by [[William Allan Neilson]] **"Theories of Poetry", by Bliss Perry **"Æsthetic Criticism in Germany", by William Guild Howard **"The Composition of a Criticism", by Ernest Bernbaum *'''[[Education]]''' **"General Introduction", by Henry Wyman Holmes **"Francis Bacon", by Ernest Bernbaum **"Locke and Milton", by Henry Wyman Holmes **"Carlyle and Newman", by Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey **"Huxley on Science and Culture", by A. O. Norton *'''[[Political Science]]''' **"General Introduction", by [[Thomas Nixon Carver]] **"Theories of Government in the Renaissance", by O. M. W. Sprague **"Adam Smith and 'The Wealth of Nations'", by [[Charles J. Bullock]] **"The Growth of the American Constitution" by [[William Bennett Munro]] **"Law and Liberty", by [[Roscoe Pound]] *'''[[Drama]]''' **"General Introduction", by George Pierce Baker **"Greek Tragedy", by Charles Burton Gulick **"The Elizabethan Drama", by [[William Allan Neilson]] **"The Faust Legend", by [[Kuno Francke]] **"Modern English Drama", by Ernest Bernbaum *'''Voyages and Travel''' **"General Introduction", by [[Roland Burrage Dixon]] **"Herodotus on Egypt", by George H. Chase **"The Elizabethan Adventurers", by William Allan Neilson **"The Era of Discovery", by William Bennett Monro **"Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle", by [[George Howard Parker]] *'''[[Religion]]''' **"General Introduction", by Ralph Barton Perry **"Buddhism", by [[Charles Rockwell Lanman]] **"Confucianism", by Dwight Sheffield **"Greek Religion", by [[Clifford Herschel Moore]] **"Pascal", by [[Charles Henry Conrad Wright]] {{cob}}
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