Emerson said that in the greatest works of genius we recognize our own discarded thoughts, which return to us with a certain alienated majesty. For me, this has been true of:

-Most of Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, the Tempest, the Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Othello, Henry IV and Measure for Measure especially)
-Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
-Dante's Divine Comedy
-Paradise Lost by John Milton
-Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
-1984 by George Orwell
-Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
-the essay "The Soul of Man under Socialism" by Oscar Wilde
-All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
-The poetry of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Walt Whitman, D. H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, the Earl of Rochester, Emerson, etc.
cannabis=freedom Reviewed by cannabis=freedom on . Which works have made your soul tremble? Emerson said that in the greatest works of genius we recognize our own discarded thoughts, which return to us with a certain alienated majesty. For me, this has been true of: -Most of Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, the Tempest, the Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Othello, Henry IV and Measure for Measure especially) -Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte -Dante's Divine Comedy -Paradise Lost by John Milton -Moby-Dick by Herman Melville -1984 by George Orwell -Crime and Punishment by Rating: 5