book list

emily dickinson is very elliptical, it took me a long while to get that, you really need to research the poems and the other surprising thing that makes a huge difference is to read, if you can her poems in her own hand with the true punctuation and spacing, it's just unreal the difference it makes

manuscript image archive

the almost nabakovian editing publishing and ownership history

an explanation of the editions

her intimate letters to susan huntington dickinson

emily aged sixteen morphs to late twenties or early thirties ?

jenny joseph

axel munthe

anaïs nin

alice in wonderland 1966

the bab ballads

my mother likes the story of an african farm by olive schreiner

short stories i like

charles bukowski flowers

the sharks I II

the book of margery kempe ~ excerpts ~ penguinclassics.com

christ stopped at eboli by carlo levi

ada vladimir nabakov pale fire

to the light house by virginia woolf

goethe ~ italian journey ~ faust part 2 translated by a. s. kline

nikolai gogol

dead souls ~ dairy of a madman and other stories

the narrow road to the deep north (matsuo bashō translated by nobuyuki yuasa)

the pillow book of sei shonagon, i'm fairly sure i read the ivan morris translation

the story of the stone review film/tv series

its a very famous story in china and there are a few youtube clips

when you are the rejected block you know it !

david hawkes’s translation is very good and only the first two books are written entirely by cao xueqin, the third book is written partly by him and the remainder are constructions

milieu

a confederacy of dunces by john kennedy toole

henry brocken is walter de la mare's best book, but the events and imagery in it are built around other well known literature, so you need to research as you read !

“ but you, if shadow deceives me not, may yet return

i, only to the shades whence earth draws me ”

“ never yet set i these steadfast eyes on a man that would not steal the moon for taper ‑ would she but come down ”

“ the wreck of the zephyr ” by chris van allsberg, an interesting blend of the surreal, real and imaginative !

the futurological congress by stanislaw lem

the 7th sally from the cyberiad

dogen ~ the blue cliff record ~ the blue cliff record pdf ~ yunmen pdf

dogen and the blue cliff record are an interesting blend of rubbish and insight, strongly voynichated so to speak

dogen is not easily translated so suffers from translator’s cloud

monkey by wu ch'eng-en, in translations by arthur waley (abridged, but very, very good!) and w.j.f. jenner (full, also supposed to be very good !)

ashvaghosha’s saundarananda

strange interlude by eugene o’neill

samuel beckett wordless act play not i

a good analysis of “ the love song of alfred j. prufrock ” by t.s eliot

andrew levin ~ poetry and homilies ~ the BCD diet and supplement compendium

toni packer ~ meditation retreat talks ~ the work of this moment

the essential teachings of zen master hakuin translated by norman waddell

i’ve become a fan of the persian poet and mystic sa'di, there's a bit of a cultural/historical barrier in the paradigms he uses, but once you work them out , its exceptional

i read most of jane austen many years ago, but it took seeing the 2009 bbc emma (romola garai) and the 1995 pride and prejudice (jennifer ehle) dramatizations recently for it to really open up as to what she is saying which is straight mysticism !

the art forms of a regency ball and georgian dining !

it's big help to know her life I II

sanditon rocks !

hallmark

diana gilliland wright I II

victor klemperer diaries

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charles darwin the voyage of the beagle

father jerome lobo a voyage to abyssinia

the adventures of thomas pellow, of penryn, mariner, three and twenty years in captivity among the moors

xenophon

ibn 'arabi qif bi l-manâzil

the gulistan of sa'di

ross edward rehatsek html pdf

i quite like this translation of the orchard

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arthur schopenhauer : “ Mark my words once for all, my dear friend, and be clever. Men are entirely self-centred, and incapable of looking at things objectively ”

jacques derrida: “ what is the very condition of the question itself ? ”

gospel scholarship

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wang wei

philip larkin

sylvia plath ~ poems ~ photo

w. h. auden ~ as i walked out one evening (also on youtube)

anna akhmatova ~ a poem page

osip mandelstham ~ collection ~ the sea-shell ~ late poems

i do not fear to love

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osip mandelstham's the sea-shell is probably the best poem ever written along with shelly's ode to the west wind and sylvia plath's lorelei

keats's ode on a grecian urn too, it helps to understand there was no single grecian urn as per the poem, in fact he was looking at the sosibios vase and elgin marbles

the urn as described could never exist in reality, it is of infinity

other best poems are charles bukowski's the genius of the crowd and wang wei's one about silver sturgeon suspended over a white sand bottom in the water

larry eigner march 25-6 94 what time is/ it day/ i may/ sleep

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henry darger

prokudin-gorskii photographs

nikolai getman paintings

william blake fiery pegasus

william blake los entering the grave

herman melville mar saba

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satire: the gunfighter

jessica swale, catherine tate et al audition

klimbin