Here is the list every literary work Marden J. Clark mentions in his essay “Science, Religion, and the Humanities,” which is printed in the collection Liberating Form.
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- Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
- “Heart of Darkness,” Joseph Conrad
- “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” William Blake
- Paradise Lost, John Milton
- The Brothers Karamozov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Notes from Undergound, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain
- Letters from Earth, Mark Twain
- “The War Prayer,” Mark Twain
- “To the Person Sitting in Darknes,” Mark Twain
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville
- “The Turn of the Screw,” Henry James (plus “nearly all of his novels”)
- “Apparently with no Surprise,” Emily Dickenson
- The Castle, Franz Kafka
- The Book of Job
- Ash Wednesday, T. S. Eliot
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Winter’s Tale, William Shakespeare
- The Oresteia, Aeschylus
- Mourning Becomes Electra, Eugene O’Neill
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare
- Samson Agonistes, John Milton
- Paradise Regained, John Milton
- “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot
- Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot
- The Odyssey, Homer
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell