The Dream-Child's Progress and Other Essays

by David Bentley Hart

Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations: There are five series of these, admittedly, so here you may wish to find a good volume of selections for your journey; Landor’s poetry and prose have never enjoyed the popularity they deserve, and he has long been overshadowed by contemporaries who were not in any real way his superiors; and the Conversations are brilliant, inventive, witty, and often even profound.

José Maria de Eça de Queirós, The City and the Mountains: Perhaps not an obscure book or author at all, but generally overlooked in the Anglophone world; a wisely humorous and lovely paean to the Portuguese countryside, and the final great work of a majestically talented novelist.

Edwin Muir, The Complete Poems: As far as I can tell, Muir is the least-read great poet in English of the twentieth century; he is mostly remembered, it seems, for his translations of Kafka (which are immeasurably better than anyone else’s).

The most substantial commemoration of the event was Norton’s issue of the newest new edition of Martin Gardner’s wonderful Annotated Alice, including all the material from earlier editions, amended and updated by Mark Burstein.