Locke's On the Conduct of the Understanding

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Homer
Hesiod
Virgil
Maha Bharata |Epitomized in Talboys Wheeler's
Ramayana |History of India, vols. i. and ii.
The Shahnameh
The Nibelungenlied
Malory's Morte d'Arthur

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The Sheking
Kalidasa's Sakuntala or The Lost Ring
Aeschylus' Prometheus
Trilogy of Orestes
Sophocles' OEdipus
Euripides' Medea
Aristophanes' The Knights and Clouds
Horace

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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (perhaps in Morris' edition; or, if
expurgated, in C. Clarke's, or Mrs. Haweis')
Shakespeare
Milton's Paradise Lost, Lycidas, Comus, and the shorter poems