Aelianus Claudius Second Century
   Of Certain Notable Men that made themselves Playfellowes
      with Children
   Of a Certaine Sicilian whose Eyesight was Woonderfull
      Sharpe and Quick
   The Lawe of the Lacedaemonians against Covetousness
   That Sleep is the Brother of Death, and of Gorgias drawing
      to his End
   Of the Voluntary and Willing Death of Calanus
   Of Delicate Dinners, Sumptuous Suppers, and Prodigall
      Banqueting
   Of Bestowing Time, and how Walking Up and Downe
      was not Allowable among the Lacedaemonians
   How Socrates Suppressed the Pryde and Hautinesse of
      Alcibiades
   Of Certaine Wastgoodes and Spendthriftes

Aeschines B.C. 389-314
   A Defense and an Attack (’Oration against Ctesiphon’)

Aeschylus (by John Williams White) B.C. 525-456
   Complaint of Prometheus (’Prometheus’)
   Prayer to Artemis (’The Suppliants’)
   Defiance of Eteocles (’The Seven against Thebes’)
   Vision of Cassandra (’Agamemnon’)
   Lament of the Old Nurse (’The Libation-Pourers’)
   Decree of Athena (’The Eumenides’)

Aesop (by Harry Thurston Peck) Seventh Century B.C. 
   The Fox and the Lion The Belly and the Members
   The Ass in the Lion’s Skin The Satyr and the Traveler
   The Ass Eating Thistles The Lion and the other Beasts
   The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing The Ass and the Little Dog
   The Countryman and the Snake The Country Mouse and the
   The Dog and the Wolf City Mouse

Jean louis Rodolphe Agassiz 1807-1873
   The Silurian Beach (’Geological Sketches’)
   Voices (’Methods of Study in Natural History’)
   Formation of Coral Reefs (same)

Agathias A.D. 536-581
   Apostrophe to Plutarch

Grace Aguilar 1816-1847
   Greatness of Friendship (’Woman’s Friendship’)
   Order of Knighthood (’The Days of Bruce’)
   Culprit and Judge (’Home Influence’)

William Harrison Ainsworth 1805-1882
   Students of Paris (’Crichton’)

Mark Akenside 1721-1770
   From the Epistle to Curio
   Aspirations after the Infinite (’Pleasures of the Imagination’)
   On a Sermon against Glory

Pedro Antonio de Alarcon 1833-1891
   A Woman Viewed from Without (’The Three-Cornered Hat’)
   How the Orphan Manuel gained his Sobriquet (’The Child of the
       Ball’)

Alcaeus Sixth Century B.C. 
  The Palace
  A Banquet Song
  An Invitation
  The Storm
  The Poor Fisherman
  The State
  Poverty