Stanley Willis

Stanley Dutton Willis
Retired Educator
Washington. D.C.

1.   The Holy Bible
2.   The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam (Ftizgerald Tr.)
3.   Georgics by Vergil
4.   King Lear by William Shakespeare
5.   Silas Marner by George Eliot
6.   Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
7.   Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
8.   Selected Poetry of Wallace Stevens
9.   How We Die by Sherwin Nuland
10. The Dialogues of Plato

Reasons to Read Stanley's Selections?

1.     None necessary
2.     Sweet and useful poetry and Philosophy
3.     Bucolic speculative verse
4.     Shakespeare's tragic focus on the nature of man
5.     A humane classic
6.     Thoughtful and witty
7.     Poems of power and natural beauty
8.     Beautifully chiseled poems by an insurance agent
9.     A must for anyone in medicine
10.   Socratic method leading to modern psychiatry