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The POLYSEMY Bookshelf
renewable (and free) resources for great artistry
curated by Matthew Dallman

LITERATURE ON THE HUMAN CONDITION

The Holy Bible, King James Version
Genesis (free resource, HTML)
Job (free resource, HTML)
Ecclesiastes (free resource, HTML)
Wisdom (free resource, HTML)
Matthew (free resource, HTML)

Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra (free resource, HTML)
King Lear (free resource, HTML)
Macbeth (free resource, HTML)
Hamlet (free resource, HTML)
Tempest (free resource, HTML)

Homer
The Iliad (free resource, HTML)
The Odyssey (free resource, HTML)

John Milton
Paradise Lost (free resource, HTML)

Virgil
The Aeneid (free resource, HTML)

Dante
The Divine Comedy (free resource, HTML)

The Holy Qu'ran
M.H. Shakir translation (free resource, HTML)

Tao Te Ching
Thomas Cleary translation (free resource, HTML)

Plutarch
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (free resource, HTML)

The Bhagavad Gita
William Q. Judge translation (free resource, HTML)

The Pali Canon
Selections from the Tipitaka (free resource, HTML)

Zarathushtra
The Teachings of Zoroaster and the Philosophy of the Parsi Religion (free resource, HTML)

Plato
Meno (free resource, HTML)
The Apology (free resource, HTML)
Crito (free resource, HTML)

Rumi
Masnavi I Ma'navi (free resource, HTML)

Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics (free resource, HTML)

James Joyce
Ulysses (free resource, HTML)

Emily Dickinson
The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (free resource, HTML)



AESTHETICS STUDIES

Camille Paglia
The Magic of Images (free resource, PDF)
Erich Neumann: Theorist of the Great Mother (free resource, PDF)
Cults and Cosmic Consciousness (free resource, PDF)
The Mighty River of Classics (free resource, PDF)
Religion and the Arts in America (free resource, PDF)

Honore de Balzac
The Unknown Masterpiece (free resource, HTML)

Walter Benjamin
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility (free resouce, HTML)

Mortimer Adler
What is an Idea? (free resource, HTML)

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Scholar (free resource, HTML)

Dorothy Sayers
The Lost Tools of Learning (free resource, HTML)

Neil Postman
Informing Ourselves To Death (free resource, HTML)

John Taylor Gatto
The Underground History of American Education (free resource, HTML)



"The past is never dead.
It's not even past."
William Faulkner





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