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I | Introduction | 9 |
Why I Am a Mortalist | 11 | |
II | The Texts | 15 |
1 | The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 B.C.E.) | 15 |
2 | The Bible (Job - Ecclesiastes [dates unknown]) | 17 |
3 | Homer (eighth century B.C.E.) | 22 |
4 | Sophocles (496?-406 B.C.E.) | 31 |
5 | Other Greek Poets | 33 |
6 | Plato (428-348 B.C.E.) | 36 |
7 | Epicurus (342?-270 B.C.E.) | 39 |
8 | Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus, 96?-55 B.C.E.) | 41 |
9 | Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus, 84-54 B.C.E.) | 50 |
10 | Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 B.C.E.) | 51 |
11 | Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 4 B.C.E.-65 C.E.) | 55 |
12 | Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus, 76-138 C.E.) | 56 |
13 | Marcus Aurelius (121-180 C.E.) | 57 |
14 | Bede the Venerable (673?-735 C.E.) | 61 |
15 | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) | 62 |
16 | Chidiock Tichborne (d. 1586) | 69 |
17 | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | 70 |
18 | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) | 75 |
19 | David Hume (1711-1776) | 77 |
20 | Hume and Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) | 84 |
21 | Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) | 87 |
22 | Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) | 91 |
23 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) | 94 |
24 | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) | 96 |
25 | William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) | 101 |
26 | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) | 104 |
27 | Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) | 106 |
28 | Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883) | 112 |
29 | Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) | 117 |
30 | Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) | 118 |
31 | Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) | 121 |
32 | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) | 127 |
33 | Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) | 130 |
34 | Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) | 137 |
35 | William James (1843-1910) and Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) | 141 |
36 | Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) | 143 |
37 | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) | 149 |
38 | George Santayana (1863-1952) | 151 |
39 | Miguel de Unamuno (1863-1936) | 152 |
40 | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) | 159 |
41 | Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) | 161 |
42 | Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) | 165 |
43 | James Joyce (1882-1941) | 168 |
44 | D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) | 172 |
45 | Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) | 177 |
46 | Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) | 178 |
47 | Philip Larkin (1922-1985) | 180 |
48 | L. E. Sissman (1928-1976) | 187 |
49 | Richard Selzer (1938-) | 193 |
50 | Margaret Atwood (1939-) | 202 |
51 | James Fenton (1949-) | 204 |
52 | Gjertrud Schnackenberg (1953-) | 206 |
53 | Epilogue: William R. Clark (1938-) | 210 |
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