2014 Calendar

GREAT BOOKS – THE SECOND DECADE: YEAR 8, 2014

The calendar is not laid out precisely; the months in the first column show graphically about when a book is to be read. I have a particular schedule for the books in the "Day-by-day" column; they are placed in approximate relation to the list of months, but their exact dates are given as well. The books in the "Other" column are placed in very loose approximation with the list of months. I plan to read some of the poetry of Keats, for instance, sometime in early March.

For considerations of space, I included only abbreviated references on this table. Details on titles and page numbers can all be found below the calendar as well as under the tab marked The List, next to the (8) in each category (since this is year 8).

Month	Day-by-day	Other
January February March April May June July August September October November December	Greek plays: 1/1-1/14 Plato: 1/15-2/4 Husserl I: 2/5-2/18 Aristotle: 2/19-3/13 Reid: 3/14-3/27 Husserl II: 3/28-4/10 Aquinas I: 4/11-4/28 Euclid: 4/29-5/9 Aquinas II: 5/12-5/29 Calvin: 5/30-6/12 Kant: 6/23-7/3 Gibbon: 7/4-8/7 Locke: 8/8-9/4 Plutarch: 9/5-9/25 Durant: 9/26-11/7 Augustine: 11/10-11/21 Boswell: 11/24-12/5 James: 12/8-12/22	Beowulf Malory, tale of Tristram Foote, vol. I, 1st third (A) Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Keats Koran, Surahs 19-114 Tertullian Foote, vol. I, 1st third (B) Orlando Furioso, fourth 1/6 Bonaventure Bede, book I Boccaccio, day VIII Arabian Nights Eliot, Middlemarch O'Brian, The Commodore O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral Shakespeare Melville, Moby Dick Austen, Sense and Sensibility Trollope, The Last Chronicle Mann, Magic Mountain Williams, Greater Trumps MacDonald, Phantastes Lewis, The Dark Tower Chesterton, ILN (1916, 1921) GKC, Ballad of White Horse Franklin and Winston Gower, Confessio Amantis Dickens, The Chimes

(1) Greek plays: After Troy

• Electra (Soph)
• Electra (Eur)
• Andromache (Eur)
• Orestes (Eur)

(2) Plato

• Sophist
• Statesman
• Philebus

(3) Aristotle

• On the Soul
• Short Physical Treatises

(4) Plutarch

• Phocion/Cato
• Agis/Cleomenes
• The Gracchi

(5) Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapters XIV-XX
(6) Durant

• Vol. V, Chs. XXII-Envoi (649-728)
• Vol. VI, Chs. I-XIV (1-292)

(7) English legend

• Beowulf
• Malory, tale of Tristram

(8) Euclid, Elements, Bk. XI
(9) Tertullian

• Apologetic
• On the Flesh of Christ
• Against Praxeas

(10) Augustine, Confessions, Books I-VIII
(11) Aquinas,

• Treatise on Faith, Hope, and Charity, cont.: Part II-II, QQ 23-30, 34, 44-46
• Treatise on Active and Contemplative Life: Part II-II, QQ 179-82
• Treatise on the Incarnation, beg.: Part III, QQ 1-8

(12) Calvin, Institutes, IV.XII - IV.XVI
(13) Koran (Surahs 19-114)
(14) Medieval Christians

• Bonaventure, Journey of the Mind into God
• Bede, Ecclesiastical History, Book I

(15) Locke Reader
(16) Boccaccio, Decameron, day VIII
(17) Orlando Furioso, fourth 1/6
(18) Keats

• Hyperion
• Isabella
• The Eve of St. Agnes
• The “Six Great Odes”

(19) Shakespeare

• 1 Henry IV
• The Winter's Tale
• Titus Andronicus
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Sonnets 71-80

(20) Husserl, Crisis of Modern Science
(21) Kant, Critique of Aesthetic Judgment
(22) Eliot, Middlemarch
(23) Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, pp. 421-480
(24) Melville, Moby Dick
(25) Dickens, A Tale of Two Cites, The Chimes
(26) Austen, Sense and Sensibility
(27) Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset
(28) William James, Principles of Psychology, Chaps. XIV, XVI
(29) Mann, Magic Mountain
(30) Williams, The Greater Trumps
(31) MacDonald, Phantastes (and Lewis's intro, on Amazon Kindle preview)
(32) Lewis, The Dark Tower and other stories
(33) Chesterton, ILN (1916, 1921), The Ballad of the White Horse
(34) O'Brian

• The Commodore
• The Yellow Admiral

(35) Shelby Foote, The Civil War, first third of vol. I
(36) John Meacham, Franklin and Winston
(37) Arabian Nights
(38) Thomas Reid, Inquiry and Essays
(39) Gower, Confessio Amantis