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The Harvard Classics, originally marketed as Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, is a 50-volume series of classic works of world literature, important speeches, and historical documents compiled and edited by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot. [1][2] Eliot believed that a careful reading of the series and following the eleven ...
I don't know why you would read them in that edition. I might keep my grandfather's for sentimental value, although I don't really want to free up a shelf. But the translated ones are ancient, inferior translations, and even the English ones are so-so editions - you can get better editions from Cambridge, Oxford, or Penguin, depending on the text.
In his introduction to the series, dated March 10, 1910, Eliot made it clear that the Harvard Classics were intended not as a museum display-case of the "world's best books," but as a portable university.
Oct 12, 2011 · But in 1934, Milman Parry, assistant professor of classics at Harvard, began a series of experiments in remote regions of the kingdom of Yugoslavia that overturned centuries of received wisdom about the Homeric “Iliad” and “Odyssey.”
Perhaps the best known classic book anthology of the 20th century was the Harvard Classics (a.k.a Harvard Universal Classics or Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf), compiled by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot in 1909.
Jun 14, 2012 · There is a major and obvious dichotomy between the Harvard Classics (HC) and the Great Books of the Western World (GBWW), and it can be summed up thus: philosophy and science (GBWW) versus liberal arts (HC).
The Harvard Classics: A Free, Digital Collection. in Harvard, History, Literature, Philosophy | July 5th, 2011 28 Comments. During his days as Harvard’s influential president, Charles W. Eliot made a frequent assertion: If you were to spend just 15 minutes a day reading the right books, a quantity that could fit on a ...
