This collection of lectures, originally delivered in Edinburgh in 1854 by English priest and scholar Charles Kingsley, focuses on the schools of thought that sprang up in the ancient Greek city of Alexandria.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walter Scott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Thomas Hardy, Sara Teasdale, William Thackeray, James Montgomery, Clement Clarke Moore & Charles Kingsley
Kleiser Grenville, Henry Ward Beecher, Edwin Hubbell Chapin, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Charles John. Vaughan, Christopher Newman Hall, Frederick William Robertson, Roswell Dwight Hitchcock, Charles Kingsley, John Caird, Richard Salter Storrs & William Morley Punshon
George MacDonald, Charles Kingsley, Golden Deer Classics, Lewis Carroll, William Morris, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Ernest Bramah Smith, L. Frank Baum, Edith Nesbit, G. K. Chesterton, Kenneth Grahame, William Hope Hodgson, J.M. Barrie & David Lindsay