Top Nine List

[Andrew Clarke Walser]

	I tried to resist, but failed.  I offer a list in
      no particular order:

--Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
--The Republic of Plato
--The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill
--Faust by Goethe
--Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
--Omeros by Derek Walcott
--Paradise Lost by John Milton
--The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
--Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais

			Andrew Walser
			University of Illinois-Chicago