American novelists (1910) Written English, with Helen Erskine (1910; revised edition, 1913) Selections from the Idylls of the King (1912) The Kinds of Poetry (1913) Poems of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, with W. P. Trent (1914) Contemporary War Poems (Introduction) (1914) The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent, and Other Essays (1915) Interpretations of Literature, by Lafcadio Hearn (edited and with an introduction by Erskine) (1915) Appreciations of Poetry, by Lafcadio Hearn (edited and with an introduction by Erskine) (1916) Life and Literature, by Lafcadio Hearn (edited and with an introduction by Erskine)(1917) The Shadowed Hour (1917) Democracy and Ideals (1920) Short History of American Literature; Based Upon the Cambridge History of American Literature (1922) The Little Disciple (1923) The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925) Sonata (1925) Galahad (1926) Adam and Eve (1927) American Character (1927) Prohibition and Christianity, and Other Paradoxes (1927) The Delight of Great Books (1928) Penelope's Man (1928) Sincerity (1929) Uncle Sam in the Eyes of His Family (1930) Cinderella's Daughter, and Other Sequels and Consequences (1930) Tristan and Isolde (1932) Bachelor of Arts (1934) The Influence of Women and Its Cure (1936) The Brief Hour of Francois Villon (1937) The Start of the Road (1938) Baker's Wife (1940) Give Me liberty; the Story of an Innocent Bystander (1940) Casanova's Women, Eleven Moments of a Year (1941) The Complete Life: A Guide to the Active Enjoyment of the Arts & of Living (1943) "What Is Music?" (1944) The Human Life of Jesus (1945) Venus, the Lonely Goddess (1949) My Life in Music (1950) See also Educational perennialism Western canon Harvard Classics Charles W. Eliot References John Erskine at WorldCat External links John Erskine Papers from the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent. Essay by John Erskine. University of Chicago Finding aid to John Erskine papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library. 1879 births 1951 deaths American male biographers American education writers 20th-century American novelists American fantasy writers Columbia College (New York) alumni Columbia University faculty Writers from New York City American academics of English literature University of Chicago faculty Amherst College faculty Juilliard School people Metropolitan Opera people American male composers American composers 20th-century American biographers American male novelists American male essayists 20th-century American essayists American subtitlers 20th-century American male writers Novelists from New York (state) Presidents of the Juilliard School Historians from New York (state) Columbia