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Further reading

Links to some of my favourites...

Poetry

Anon., Deor
W. H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (also available in an annotated version)
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (annotated)
T.S. Eliot, Ash-Wednesday
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot, "The lady of the porcelain department" (an early poem)
James Elroy Flecker, The Gates of Damascus
Edward Gorey, The Doubtful Guest
Dr. Seuss, Fox in Socks
Richard Wilbur, Museum Piece

Prose

Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Calder, Toxine
Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (hypertext version)
Joseph Addison, "On Grinning" (Spectator essay no. 173)
Charles Lamb, "Oxford in the Vacation" (from Essays of Elia)
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), "The Unrest-Cure"
Harold Pinter, "Problem"
The Bible (Authorized King James Version)

Drama

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Shakespeare, Hamlet
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Other

Charles Butler, Alan Garner's Red Shift and the Shifting Ballad of "Tam Lin"
What if Dr Seuss did Shakespeare?
alt.shakespearian.Hamlet.open.begin.commence
C. Rudolph Finnis, "The postcapitalist paradigm of context in the works of Gaiman", in Postmodernism Generator XVII: 3