William Blake: Eternity's Sunrise -- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby: Unutterable Visions -- Frederick Douglass: The Slave Narrative: Tribulation -- Thoreau, Emerson & Friends: Future Buddhas of America -- Dr. Seuss: The Cat In The Hat: Have No Fear-- Virginia Woolf: To The Lighthouse: Plenty for Everybody -- Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell To Arms: Pebbles and Boulders -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan: The Milk of Paradise -- John Donne: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning: Let Us Melt -- Mark Twain: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Betwixt Two Things -- John Keats: Still -- Edwin Abbott Abbott: Flatland: Upward, Not Northward -- William Shakespeare: Macbeth: What's Your Hurry -- Samuel Beckett: Waiting For Godot: Thanks for Nothing -- Rodgers &Hammerstein: Oklahoma!: OK -- Gerard Manley Hopkins: Flame Out -- Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye: Love Nonetheless -- Herman Melville: Moby Dick: Whiteness -- Emily Dickinson: I'm Nobody -- Walt Whitman: I Am Large -- J.D. Salinger: Ah, Buddy -- Key, Rogers & Franklin: Three Anthems: Look Again.
Summary:
"A meditation instructor and former English teacher shows how the great classics of Western literature illustrate the essential concepts of Eastern philosophy. The discussion includes works by authors such as John Keats, William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Frederick Douglass, and many others"-- Provided by publisher.
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