Culley's Essentials

 

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Peter Culley's list of 75 of maybe 150 "Essential Texts" in No Particular Order, and not including reference books

Peter Culley's list of 75 of maybe 150 "Essential Texts" in No Particular Order, and not including reference books.

 

1. Life of Johnson--James Boswell

2. Last Lunar Badeker--Mina Loy

3. So Going Around Cities--Ted Berrigan

4. Curiosities of Literature--Isaac D'Israeli

5. Pandemonium--Humphrey Jennings

6. Collected Novels--Jean Rhys

7. Tristram Shandy--Laurence Sterne

8. Collected Poems--Hugh MacDiarmid

9. Ambit--Gerald Creede

10. Planetary Gear--Ted Pearson

11. You--George Stanley

12. The Relative Minor--Deanna Ferguson

13. Europe of Trusts--Susan Howe

14. Words--Robert Creeley

15. Journals--Gilbert White

16. Swedish Letters--Mary Wollstencraft

17. Midsummer Cushion--John Clare

18. Art Criticism--Denis Diderot

19. Lost Illusions--Honore de Balzac

20. The Cloister and the Hearth--Charles Reade

21. Polyverse--Lee Ann Brown

22. The Power Broker--Robert Caro

23. The Glenn Gould Reader

24. Charlotte Bronte--Villette

25. The Fire Next Time--James Baldwin

26. Notebooks and Marginalia--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

27. Tight Corners (and what's around them)--David Bromige

28. From Next Spring--Gerry Gilbert

29. Don Juan--Lord Byron

30. Collected Nonsense--Edward Lear

31. Moominland Midwinter--Tove Jansson

32. Fovea Centralis--Christopher Dewdney

33. The Dumbfounding--Margaret Avison

34. Travels in Arabia Derserta--Charles Doughty

35. Memoirs--Thomas Bewick

36. The Seasons--James Thompson

37. The Task--William Cowper

38. A Dance to the Music of Time--Anthony Powell

39. Autobiographies--Janet Frame

40. Reveries of a Solitary Walker--Jean-Jacques Rousseau

41. Stages on Life's Way--Soren Kierkegaard

42. Book of Magazine Verse--Jack Spicer

43. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire--Edward Gibbon

44. Street of Crocodiles--Bruno Schulz

45. Collected Poems--Basil Bunting

46. The Mediterranean--Fernand Braudel

47. The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity--Aby Warburg

48. The Journal of a Disappointed Man--WNP Barbellion

49. Martyrology Book 2--bp Nichol

50. Midwinter Day--Bernadette Mayer

51. Collected Short Novels--Collette

52. Own Face--Clark Coolidge

53. Testimony--Charles Reznikoff

54. Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror--John Ashbery

56. Anatomy of Melancholy--Robert Burton

57. Journals--Dorothy Wordsworth

58. Voyage of the 'Beagle'--Charles Darwin

59. The Fur Trade in Canada--Harold Adams Innis

60. Archaeologist of Morning--Charles Olson

61. The Kalevela--comp. Elias Lonrot

62. Collected Poems--Lorine Niedecker

63. Memoirs--Hector Berlioz

64. Marcel Duchamp--Octavio Paz

65. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym--Edgar Allen Poe

66. Diaries--Cosima Wagner

67. Essays--Arthur Schopenhauer

68. Harvest of the Cold Months--Elizabeth David

69. A Place of Greater Safety--Hilary Mantel

70. The Wind in the Willows--Kenneth Grahame

71. Imaginations--William Carlos Williams

72. Harmonium--Wallace Stevens

73. Hymns and Fragments--Friedrich Holderlin (Sieburth trans.)

74. The Wanderer--Alain-Fournier

75. Up in the Old Hotel--Joseph Mitchell

 

Taken from Peter Culley's blog, mosses from an old manse.

http://mossesfromanoldmanse2.blogspot.com/

 


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