pt. 1. Foundations; The Epic of Gilgamesh; Genesis and the documentary hypothesis; The Deuteronomistic history; Isaiah; Job; Homer: the Iliad; Homer: the Odyssey; Sappho and Pindar; Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides
pt. 2. Herodotus; Thucydides; Aristophanes; Plato; Menander and hellenistic literature; Catullus and Horace; Virgil ; Ovid; Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch; Petronius and Apuleius; The Gospels; Augustine
pt. 3. Beowulf; The Song of Roland; El Cid; Tristan and Isolt; The Romance of the rose; Dante Alighieri: Life and works; Dante Alighieri: The Divine
comedy; Petrarch;Giovanni Boccaccio; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Geoffrey Chaucer: Life and work; Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury tales
pt. 4. Christine de Pizan; Erasmus; Thomas More; Michel de Montaigne; Franȯis Rabelais; Christopher Marlowe; William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice; William Shakespeare: Hamlet; Lope de Vega; Miguel de Cervantes; John Milton; Blaise Pascal
pt. 5. Molir̈e; Jean Racine; Sister Juana Inš de la Cruz; Daniel Defoe; Alexander Pope; Jonathan Swift; Voltaire; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Samuel Johnson; Denis Diderot; William Blake; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
pt. 6. William Wordsworth; Jane Austen; Stendha; Herman Melville; Walt Whitman; Gustave Flaubert; Charles Dickens; Fyodor Dostoevsky; Leo Tolstoy; Mark Twain; Thomas Hardy; Oscar Wilde
pt. 7. Henry James; Joseph Conrad; William Butler Yeats; Marcel Proust; James Joyce; Franz Kafka; Virginia Woolf;William Faulkner; Bertolt Brecht; Albert Camus; Samuel Beckett; Conclusion.
