Dante, Inferno [14th century]
The Epic of Son-Jara; A West African Tradition (Sundiata; An Epic of Old Mali) [14th century]
Milton, Paradise Lost [17th century]

Lyric (7) 
Sappho, Lyric Poems and Fragments [7th century B.C.E.]
Japanese Court Poetry [6th-14th century, esp. from Earl Miner's Introduction]
8th-9th centuries 
LiPo and TuFu, Selected Poems [esp. those in Arthur Cooper's Penguin anthology]
 Du Fu, Selected Poems
Kokinshu Poems
12th-14th centuries 
Arnaut Daniel, Selected Poems
Bernart de Ventadorn, Selected Poems
Petrarch, Canzoniere [esp. 1-5, 16, 23, 30, 35, 52, 126, 129, 189, 190, 234, 264, 267, 281, 310, 323, 348, 359, 362, 364-6]
16-17th centuries 
Shakespeare, Sonnets 
Milton, Lycidas 
Juan de la Cruz, Selected Poems
19th century 
Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn,"and "Ode to a Nightingale"
Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal 
Dario, Azúl 
Whitman, Leaves of Grass 
Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems
20th century 
Yeats, Selected Poems [esp. "The Secret Rose", "Easter 1916", "The
Second Coming", "Sailing to Byzantium", "Leda and the Swan", "Among
School Children", "Byzantium", "Lapus Lazuli", "The Circus Animals' Desertion", "The
Tower", "A Dialogue of Self and Soul", "Crazy Jane" poems]
Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus 
Paz, Selected Poems
Akhmatova, Requiem 
Césaire, Notebook of a Return to My Native Land 
Sédar Senghor, Selected Poems

Drama (9) 
5th-4th centuries B.C.E 
Aeschylus, Oresteia 
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 
Euripides, Bacchae 
Aristophanes, The Clouds 
15th-16th centuries 
Shakespeare, King Lear, Hamlet 
Rojas, La Celestina 
Zeami, No Plays
17th-18th centuries 
Molière, Misanthrope 
Racine, Phèdre 
Calderon, La Vida es sueño 
Basho, Narrow Road to the Deep North 
Tang Hsien-tsu, Peony Pavilion 
Chikamatsu, Love Suicides of Amijima 
19th century 
Büchner, Woyzeck 
Ibsen, Hedda Gabler 
Chekhov, Cherry Orchard 
20th century 
Brecht, Mother Courage 
Beckett, Waiting for Godot 
Pirandello, Six Characters in Search Of an Author 
Soyinka, The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite 
    
Other (10) 
Hebrew Bible (esp. Genesis and Exodus; 11th century B.C.E.)
New Testament (esp. Matthew, Acts, Epistle to the Romans, Apocalypse; 2nd-4th centuries)
Koran (7th century)
Plato, Symposium and Phaedrus [4th century B.C.E.]
Aristotle, Poetics [4th century B.C.E.]
Sima Quin, Records of the Historian [2nd century B.C.E.]
Parables of Zhuangzi [3rd century B.C.E.]
Augustine, Confessions [4th century]
9th-12th centuries 
Sei Shonagon, Pillow Book
Chretien de Troyes, The Tale of the Holy Grail 
Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzifal 
14th-16th centuries 
The Thousand and One Nights
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales 
Juan Ruiz, Book of Good Love 
Boccaccio, Decameron 
Garcilaso de la Vega, Royal Commentaries of the Incas 
Zeami, Fushikaden 
17th-18th centuries 
Swift, Gulliver's Travels 
Voltaire, Candide 
Diderot, Rameau's Nephew 
Basho, Narrow Road to the Deep North 
19th century 
Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy 
Goethe, Faust 
Chekhov, "The Duel" and "Lady with A Dog"
20th century 
Kafka, Metamorphosis 
Borges, Fictions 
   
Novel (10) 
Tale of Genji [11th century]
17th-18th centuries 
Cervantes,