Out of the Best Books, Vol. 3 Intelligent Family Living
by Bruce B. Clark, Robert K. Thomas Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1967
Published In Series: Out of the Best Books
Volume: 3
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Subjects: Literature, Modern; |
Annotations:
"The central focus is again upon love, marriage, and the family as seen through ltierature and art." [from the preface]
Table of Contents:
Section 1: A Glad Heart, by Robert K. Thomas
Introductory Comments
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth
“Rondeau” by Leigh Hunt
“Dust of Snow” by Robert Frost
Discussion of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” “Rondeau,” and “Dust of Snow”
“They Might Not Need Me”
Discussion of “They Might Not Need Me”
“A Courageous Letter”
Discussion of “A Courageous Letter”
The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden by Thornton Wilder
Discussion of The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
“L’Allegro” by John Milton
Discussion of “L’Allegro”
“The Flight of Betsey Lane” by Sarah Orne Jewett
Discussion of “The Flight of Betsey Lane”
Section 2: Honesty, A Measure of Life, by Bruce B. Clark
“The Holy Family” illustration
Introductory Comments
“the Waltz” by Dorothy Parker
Discussion of “The Waltz”
“Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Discussion of “Richard Cory”
Introduction to “Andrea del Sarto”
“Andrea del Sarto” by Robert Browning
“A Run of Gray” by Brian K. Kelly
Discussion of “A Run of Gray”
Notes on Two Other Short Stories
Section 3: Patience and Forbearance, by Robert K. Thomas
Introductory Comments
Sonnet 19: “On His Blindness” by John Milton
Discussion of “On His Blindness”
And Now to Live Again by Betsey Barton
Discussion of And Now to Live Again
Poems by Wang Wei
Discussion of Poetry by Wang Wei
“Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius
Discussions of the “Meditations” of Marcus Aurelius
“A Noiseless, Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman
Discussion of “A Noiseless, Patient Spider”
Section 4: Obedience, the Mother of Success, by Bruce B. Clark
“To Them of the Last Wagon” illustration
Introductory Comments
“Lead, Kindly Light” by John Henry Newman
Discussion of “Lead, Kindly Light”
“To Utah” by Edward L. Hart
Discussion of “To Utah”
Excerpts from The Mantle of the Prophet by Clinton F. Larson
Discussion of Excerpts from The Mantle of the Prophet
“Dora” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Discussion of “Dora”
“Clay” by James Joyce
Discussion of “Clay”
Discussion of A Man for All Seasons
Section 5: A Loving Heart, by Bruce B. Clark
Introductory Comments
Introduction to “The Cotter’s Saturday Night”
“The Cotter’s Saturday Night” by Robert Burns
Introduction to the Parable of the Prodigal Son
Parable of the Prodigal Son
Introduction to “The Darling”
“The Darling” by Anton Chekhov
Introduction to a Garland of Love Lyrics
“My True-Love Hath My Heart” by Sir Philip Sidney
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe
“O Mistress Mine” from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 61 from “Idea’s Mirrour” by Michael Drayton
“Never Love Unless You Can” by Thomas Campion
“Love” by George Herbert
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet
“To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas” by Richard Lovelace
“My Luve is Like a Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns
“Highland Mary” by Robert Burns
“John Anderson My Jo” by Robert Burns
“She Was a Phantom of Delight” by William Wordsworth
“Sonnet” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Alas, How Soon the Hours” by Walter Savage Landor
“Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms” by Thomas Moore
From “Don Juan” by Lord Byron
“Love’s Philosophy” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
From “Epipsychidion” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Sonnet 14 from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Section 27" from In Memoriam by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
From “A Birthday” by Christina Rossetti
“The Night Has a Thousand Eyes” by Francis William Bourdillon
“Outwitted” by Edwin Markham
“Poem 13" from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman
“Aedh Wishes for the Clothes of Heaven” by William Butler Yeats
“Lucinda Matlock” by Edgar Lee Masters
“Love, Like a Drop of Dew” by William Henry Davies
“Faults” by Sara Teasdale
“To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train” by Frances Cornford
From “Renascence” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Love Is Not All” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Section 6: The Substance of Faith, by Robert K. Thomas
“Life from Death” illustration
Introductory Comments
“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold
Discussion of “Dover Beach”
“Faith and the Future” by Joseph Mazzini
Discussion of “Faith and the Future”
“First Lesson” by Philip Booth
Discussion of “First Lesson”
“Sonnet III” by George Santayana
Discussion of “Sonnet III”
“Faith” by William Jennings Bryan
Discussion of “Faith”
“Jacob and the Indians” by Stephen Vincent Benét
Discussion of “Jacob and the Indians”
“The Tide of Faith” by George Eliot
“A Good Night” by Francis Quarles
Discussion of “A Good Night”
“The Will to Believe” by William James
Discussion of “The Will to Believe”
Section 7: Charity Out of a Pure Heart, by Robert K. Thomas
“Le Benedicite” illustration
Introductory Comments
“Giving” from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Discussion of “Giving”
“A Christmas Guest” by Selma Lagerlöf
Discussion of “A Christmas Guest”
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville
Discussion of “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
HBLL Call No: PN 6014 .C53x 1964 vol.3
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