What we have read so far

Beidao, “The Answer”[see post]

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Decameron, Introduction to the First Day, 1353ca [see post] and Day 2, Novel 9

Brecht, Bertolt. Svendborger Gedichte [Svendborg Poems]

Brooke, Rupert. “1914: The Soldier”

Calvino, Italo. Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore [If on a Winter’s Night A Traveler], 1979 [see post]

Celan, Paul. “Winter”

Dante. Inferno, X, 22-81, 94-114 [ses post]

Gerhardt, Paul. “Befiehl du deine Wege” [“Commit Thy Way”]

Gryphius, Andreas. “Thränen des Vaterlandes” [“Tears of the Fatherland”]

Herschel-Clarke, May. “The Mother”

Leopardi, Giacomo.  “Dialogo di un venditore d’almanacchi e di un passeggere” [Dialogue Between an Almanac Peddler and a Passer-by], 1832 [see post]

Manzoni, Alessandro. I promessi sposi [The Betrothed], 1840-42 [see post]

Masino, Paola. Nascita e morte della massaia [Birth and Death of the Housewife], 1945 [see post]

Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Mask of the Red Death”, 1842 [see post]

Rodari, Gianni. “La luna di Kiev” [“The Moon in Kyiv”]

Sacks, Oliver. Musicophilia, 2007 [see post]

Shelley, Mary. The Last Man, 1826

Woolf, Virginia. Diary, entries of 1 and 18 January 1915 [see post]