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Section 1 -- Imposters and Villains
Tartuffe (France, 1664)
Candide (France, 1759)
Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia, 1970)
Section 2 -- Strange Days
"Yellow Woman" (Native American -- Laguna Pueblo, 1981)
"The Garden of Forking Paths" (Argentina, 1941)
"A Modest Proposal" (Ireland, 1729)
"The Metamorphosis" (several good links) (Austria-Hungary to 1918, Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1993, currently Czech Republic, "The Metamorphosis" was published in 1915)
Leo Tolstoy, author of "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" (Russia, 1886)
Section 3 -- Nature and Simplicity
Basho (Japan, 1644 - 1694)
Wordsworth (Some links are broken but "Wordsworth FAQ" [Frequently Asked Questions], "Selected Poems . . .," and the "William Wordsworth Page" are interesting.) (England, 1770-1850)
Whitman (several good links) (United States, 1819-1892)
Rilke (Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary to 1918, Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1993, currently Czech Republic, Rilke lived 1875-1926)
"Matryona's Home" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Russia, 1963)
"A Defense of Poetry" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (England, 1821)