[Illustration: Frontispiece] THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS [Illustration: Decoration] JOINT EDITORS ARTHUR MEE Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge J.A. HAMMERTON Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia [Illustration: Decoration] VOL. XVII POETRY AND DRAMA WM. H. WISE & CO. _Table of Contents_ PORTRAIT OF MOLIÈRE _Frontispiece_ GOETHE (_Continued_) PAGE Goetz von Berlichingen 1 Iphigenia in Tauris 18 GOGOL, NICOLAI Inspector-General 30 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER She Stoops to Conquer 39 HEINE, HEINRICH Atta Troll 50 HOMER Iliad 66 Odyssey 78 HORACE Poems 91 HUGO, VICTOR Hernani 110 Marion de Lorme 123 Ruy Blas 134 The King Amuses Himself 146 The Legend of the Alps 159 IBSEN, HENRIK Master Builder 171 Pillars of Society 186 JONSON, BEN Every Man in His Humour 195 JUVENAL Satires 207 KLOPSTOCK, FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB Messiah 217 LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM Nathan the Wise 226 LONGFELLOW Evangeline 241 Hiawatha 250 LUCRETIUS On the Nature of Things 261 MACPHERSON, JAMES Ossian 272 MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER Dr. Faustus 282 MARTIAL Epigrams, Epitaphs, and Poems 295 MASSINGER, PHILIP New Way to Pay Old Debts 305 MILTON Paradise Lost 319 Paradise Regained 342 Samson Agonistes 349 MOLIÈRE The Doctor in Spite of Himself 362 (MOLIÈRE: _Continued in Vol. XVIII_) * * * * * A Complete Index of THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS will be found at the end of Volume XX. _Poetry and Drama_ GOETHE _(Continued)_