Bredvold, Louis: The Intellectual Milieu of John Dryden. An exultant history of European skepticism.
Burke, Edmund: Reflections on the Revolution in France. The discovery that politics is a disease.
Eliot, T. S.: Tradition and the Individual Talent. An owner’s manual.
Elkins, Stanley & Eric McKitrick: The Age of Federalism. How this thing began.
Empson, William: Seven Types of Ambiguity. At the center of the maze a benign minotaur – part eccentric Yorkshireman, part English language apparatus – deals Literary Ecstasy.
Fischer, David Hackett: Albion’s Seed -- Four British Folkways in America. Picks apart the social DNA and explains the mysteries of this thing.
Gibbon, Edward: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Nonfiction’s Shakespeare, history’s Proust.
Hume, David: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. The secret of life.
Parkman, William: France and England in North America. The 17th century and the 19th century at their zeniths.
Watts, Alan: The Way of Zen. (See Hume, David)
Burke, Edmund: Reflections on the Revolution in France. The discovery that politics is a disease.
Eliot, T. S.: Tradition and the Individual Talent. An owner’s manual.
Elkins, Stanley & Eric McKitrick: The Age of Federalism. How this thing began.
Empson, William: Seven Types of Ambiguity. At the center of the maze a benign minotaur – part eccentric Yorkshireman, part English language apparatus – deals Literary Ecstasy.
Fischer, David Hackett: Albion’s Seed -- Four British Folkways in America. Picks apart the social DNA and explains the mysteries of this thing.
Gibbon, Edward: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Nonfiction’s Shakespeare, history’s Proust.
Hume, David: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. The secret of life.
Parkman, William: France and England in North America. The 17th century and the 19th century at their zeniths.
Watts, Alan: The Way of Zen. (See Hume, David)