“I have located Vico's Democratic Age in the post-Goethean nineteenth century, when the literature of Italy and
Spain ebbs, yielding eminence to England with its renaissance of the Renaissance in Romanticism, and to a lesser degree
to France and Germany.
“This is also the era where the strength of both Russian and American literature begins.” (p. 540)
Italy
- Ugo Foscolo
- On Sepulchres; Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis; Odes and The Graces.
- Alessandro Manzoni
- The Betrothed; On the Historical Novel.
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Essays and Dialogues; Poems; The Moral Essays.
- Belli, Giuseppe Gioacchino.
- Roman Sonnets.
- Giosué Carducci,
- Hymn to Satan; Barbarian Odes; Rhymes and Rhythms.
- Giovanni Verga, 1840-1922
- Little Novels of Sicily; Mastro-Don Gesualdo; The House by the Medlar Tree; The She-Wolf and Other Stories.
Spain and Portugal
- Bécquer, Gustavo Adolpho.
- Poems.
- Galdós, Benito Pérez.
- Fortunata and Jacinta.
- (Clarín), Leopoldo Alas.
- La Regenta.
- Queirós, José Maria de Eça de.
- The Maias.
France
- Benjamin Constant
- Adolphe; The Red Notebook.
- François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand,
- Attala; René; The Genius of Christianity.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
- Meditations.
- Alfred de Vigny
- Chatterton; Poems.
- Victor Hugo, 1802-1885
- The Distance, the Shadows: Selected Poems; Les Misérables; Notre-Dame of Paris; William Shakespeare; The Toilers of
the Sea; The End of Satan; God.
- Alfred de Musset
- Poems; Lorenzaccio.
- Nerval, Gérard de.
- The Chimeras; Sylvie; Aurelia.
- Gautier, Théophile, 1811–1872
- Mademoiselle de Maupin; Enamels and Cameos.
- Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
- The Girl with the Golden Eyes; Louis Lambert; The Wild Ass's Skin; Old Goriot; Cousin Bette; A Harlot High and Low;
Eugénie Grandet; Ursule Mirouet.
- Stendhal, 1783-1842
- On Love; The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma.
- Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880
- Madame Bovary; Sentimental Education; Salammbô; A Simple Soul.
- George Sand, 1804-1876
- The Haunted Pool.
- Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867
- Flowers of Evil; Paris Spleen.
- Mallarmé, Stéphane.
- Selected Poetry and Prose.
- Paul Verlaine
- Selected Poems.
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Complete Works.
- Corbière, Tristan.
- Les Armours Jaunes.
- Jules Laforgue
- Selected Writings.
- Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893
- Selected Short Stories.
- Emile Zola, 1840-1902
- Germinal; L'Assommoir; Nana.
Scandinavia
- Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1906
- Brand; Peer Gynt; Emperor and Galilean; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder; The Lady from the Sea; When We Dead
Awaken.
- August Strindberg
- To Damascus; Miss Julie; The Father; The Dance of Death; The Ghost Sonata; A Dream Play.
Great Britain
- Robert Burns
- Poems.
- William Blake, 1757-1827
- Complete Poetry and Prose.
- William Wordsworth, 1770–1850
- Poems; The Prelude.
- Walter Scott, 1771-1832
- Waverley; The Heart of Midlothian; Redgauntlet; Old Mortality.
- Jane Austen, 1775-1817
- Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Mansfield Park; Persuasion.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772–1834
- Poems and Prose.
- Dorothy Wordsworth
- The Grasmere Journal.
- Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830
- Essays and Criticism.
- George Byron, 1788-1824
- Don Juan; P oems.
- Walter Savage Landor
- Poems; Imaginary Conversations.
- Thomas de Quincey, 1785–1859
- Confessions of an English Opium Eater; Selected Prose.
- Charles Lamb
- Essays.
- Maria Edgeworth, 1767-1849
- Castle Rackrent.
- John Galt
- The Entail.
- Elizabeth Gaskell, 1810-1865
- Cranford; Mary Barton; North and South.
- James Hogg
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
- Charles Robert Maturin, 1782–1824
- Melmoth the Wanderer.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822
- Poems; A Defence of Poetry.
- Mary Shelley, 1797-1851
- Frankenstein.
- John Clare
- Poems.
- John Keats, 1795-1821
- Poems and Letters.
- Beddoes, Thomas Lovell.
- Death's Jest-Book; Poems.
- George Darley
- Nepenthe; Poems.
- Thomas Hood
- Poems.
- Thomas Wade
- Poems.
- Robert Browning, 1812–1889
- Poems; The Ring and the Book.
- Charles Dickens, 1812-1870
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; David Copperfield; The Adventures of Oliver Twist; A Tale of Two
Cities; Bleak House; Hard Times; Nicholas Nickleby; Dombey and Son; Great Expectations; Martin Chuzzlewit; Christmas
Stories; Little Dorrit; Our Mutual Friend; The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
- Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892
- Poems.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828-1882
- Poems and Translations.
- Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888
- Poems; Essays.
- Clough, Arthur Hugh.
- Poems.
- Christina Georgina Rossetti, 1830-1894.
- Poems.
- Thomas Love Peacock, 1785–1866
- Nightmare Abbey; Gryll Grange.
- Hopkins, Gerald Manley.
- Poems and Prose.
- Thomas Carlyle, 1795–1881
- Selected Prose; Sartor Resartus.
- John Ruskin, 1819-1900
- Modern Painters; The Stones of Venice; Unto This Last; The Queen of the Air.
- Walter Pater
- Studies in the History of the Renaissance; Appreciations; Imaginary Portraits; Marius the Epicurean.
- FitzGerald, Edward.
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
- John Stuart Mill, 1806–1873
- On Liberty; Autobiography.
- Newman, John Henry.
- Apologia pro Vita Sua; A Grammar of Assent; The Idea of a University.
- Anthony Trollope, 1815-1882
- The Barsetshire Novels; The Palliser Novels; Orley Farm; The Way We Live Now.
- Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898
- Complete Works.
- Edward Lear
- Complete Nonsense.
- George Gissing, 1857-1903
- New Grub Street.
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles.
- Poems and Letters.
- Charlotte Bronte, 1816-1855
- Jane Eyre; Villette.
- Emily Bronte, 1818-1848
- Poems; Wuthering Heights.
- Anne Bronte, 1820-1849
- William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863
- Vanity Fair; The History of Henry Esmond.
- George Meredith, 1828-1909
- Poems; The Egoist.
- Francis Thompson
- Poems.
- Lionel Johnson
- Poems.
- Robert Bridges
- Poems.
- Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936
- Collected Poems; The Man Who Was Thursday.
- Samuel Butler, 1835-1902
- Erewhon; The Way of All Flesh.
- Gilbert, W.S.
- Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan; Bab Ballads.
- Wilkie Collins, 1824-1889
- The Moonstone; The Woman in White; No Name.
- Coventry Patmore
- Odes.
- Thomson, James, 1834–1882
- The City of the Dreadful Night.
- Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900
- Plays; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Artist as Critic; Letters.
- John Davidson
- Ballads and Songs.
- Ernest Dowson
- Complete Poems.
- George Eliot, 1819-1880
- Adam Bede; Silas Marner; The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894
- Essays; Kidnapped; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Treasure Island; The New Arabian Nights; The Master of Ballantrae; Weir
of Hermiston.
- William Morris, 1834-1896
- Early Romances; Poems; The Earthly Paradise; The Well at the World's End; News from Nowhere.
- Bram Stoker, 1847-1912
- Dracula.
- George MacDonald, 1824-1905
- Lilith; At the Back of the North Wind.
Germany
- Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenburg).
- Hymns to the Night; Aphorisms.
- Jakob Grimm, 1785–1863 and Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786–1859
- Fairy Tales.
- Mörike, Eduard.
- Selected Poems; Mozart on His Way to Prague.
- Theodor Storm
- Immensee; Poems.
- Gottfried Keller
- Green Henry; Tales.
- Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822
- The Devil's Elixir; Tales.
- Jeremias Gotthelf
- The Black Spider.
- Adalbert Stifter
- Indian Summer; Tales.
- Friedrich Schlegel
- Criticism and Aphorisms.
- Büchner, Georg.
- Danton's Death; Woyzeck.
- Heinrich Heine
- Complete Poems.
- Richard Wagner
- The Ring of the Nibelung.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844–1900
- The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Will to Power.
- Theodor Fontane
- Effi Briest.
- Stefan George
- Selected Poems.
Russia
- Aleksandr Pushkin, 1799-1837
- Complete Prose Tales; Complete Poetry; Eugene Onegin; Narrative Poems; Boris Godunov.
- Nikolai Gogol, 1809-1852
- The Complete Tales; Dead Souls; The Government Inspector.
- Mikhail Lermontov, 1814-1841
- Narrative Poems; A Hero of Our Time.
- Segey Aksakov
- A Family Chronicle.
- Aleksandr Herzen
- My Past and Thoughts; From the Other Shore.
- Ivan Goncharov
- The Frigate Pallada; Oblomov.
- Ivan Turgenev, 1818-1883
- A Sportsman's Notebook; A Month in the Country; Fathers and Sons; On the Eve; First Love.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881
- Notes from the Underground; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed (The Devils); The Brothers Karamazov;
Short Novels.
- Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910
- The Cossacks; War and Peace; Anna Karenina; A Confession; The Power of Darkness; Short Novels.
- Nikolay Leskov
- Tales.
- Aleksandr Ostrovsky
- The Storm.
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky
- What is to Be Done?.
- Aleksandr Blok
- The Twelve and Other Poems.
- Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904
- The Tales; The Major Plays.
The United States
- Washington Irving, 1783-1859
- The Sketch Book.
- Bryant, William Cullen.
- Collected Poems.
- James Fenimore Cooper, 1789–1851.
- The Deerslayers.
- Whittier, John Greenleaf.
- Collected Poems.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803–1882
- Nature; Essays; Representative Men; The Conduct of Life; Journals; Poems.
- Emily Dickinson, 1830–1886
- Complete Poems.
- Walt Whitman
- Leaves of Grass, first edition; Leaves of Grass, third edition; The Complete Poems; Specimen Days.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864
- The Scarlet Letter; Tales and Sketches; The Marble Faun; Notebooks.
- Herman Melville, 1819-1891
- Moby-Dick; The Piazza Tales; Billy Budd; Collected Poems; Clarel.
- Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849
- Poetry and Tales; Essays and Reviews; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; Eureka.
- Jones Very
- Essays and Poems.
- Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard.
- The Cricket and Other Poems.
- Henry David Thoreau, 1817–1862
- Walden; Poems; Essays.
- Dana, Richard Henry.
- Two Years Before the Mast.
- Frederick Douglass
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807–1882
- Selected Poems.
- Sidney Lanier
- Poems.
- Francis Parkman
- France and England in North America; The California and Oregon Trail.
- Henry Adams
- The Education of Henry Adams; Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres.
- Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1913
- Collected Writings.
- Louisa May Alcott, 1832–1888
- Little Women.
- Chesnutt, Charles W.
- The Short Fiction.
- Kate Chopin, 1850-1904
- The Awakening.
- William Dean Howells, 1837-1920
- The Rise of Silas Lapham; A Modern Instance.
- Stephen Crane
- The Red Badge of Courage; Stories and Poems.
- Henry James, 1843-1916
- The Portrait of a Lady; The Bostonians; The Princess Casamassima; The Awkward Age; Short Novels and Tales; The
Ambassadors; The Wings of the Dove; The Golden Bowl.
- Harold Frederic
- The Damnation of Theron Ware.
- Mark Twain, 1835-1910
- Complete Short Stories; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Devil's Racetrack; Number Forty-Four: The
Mysterious Stranger; Pudd'nhead Wilson; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
- William James, 1842–1910
- The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism.
- Frank Norris
- The Octopus.
- Jewett, Sarah Orne.
- The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories.
- Trumbull Stickney
- Poems.