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VOL. XVII
POETRY AND DRAMA

[Table of Contents]

Portrait of Molière

Frontispiece

Goethe (Continued)

PAGE

Goetz von Berlichingen

[1]

Iphigenia in Tauris

[18]

Gogol, Nicolai

Inspector-General

[30]

Goldsmith, Oliver

She Stoops to Conquer

[39]

Heine, Heinrich

Atta Troll

[50]

Homer

Iliad

[66]

Odyssey

[78]

Horace

Poems

[91]

Hugo, Victor

Hernani

[110]

Marion de Lorme

[123]

Ruy Blas

[134]

The King Amuses Himself

[146]

The Legend of the Alps

[159]

Ibsen, Henrik

Master Builder

[171]

Pillars of Society

[186]

Jonson, Ben

Every Man in His Humour

[195]

Juvenal

Satires

[207]

Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb

Messiah

[217]

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim

Nathan the Wise

[226]

Longfellow

Evangeline

[241]

Hiawatha

[250]

Lucretius

On the Nature of Things

[261]

Macpherson, James

Ossian

[272]

Marlowe, Christopher

Dr. Faustus

[282]

Martial

Epigrams, Epitaphs, and Poems

[295]

Massinger, Philip

New Way to Pay Old Debts

[305]

Milton

Paradise Lost

[319]

Paradise Regained

[342]

Samson Agonistes

[349]

Molière

The Doctor in Spite of Himself

[362]

(Molière: Continued in Vol. XVIII)