Session I: Style and Character

·      Smith, Adam. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Edited by J. C. Bryce. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1985.  Lectures 2 and 5-11.  Page(s): 3-8 and 21-61.

Session II: The Rhetoric of Swift and Shaftesbury

·      Cooper, Anthony Ashley, , Third Earl of Shaftesbury. Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, Volume I. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001.  "A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm".  Page(s): 3-36.

·      Swift, Jonathan. The Basic Writings of Jonathan Swift. Edited by Claude Rawson. New York: The Modern Library, 2002.  "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of the Poor People in Ireland, from being a Burden to their Parents or Country; and for making them beneficial to the Public".  Page(s): 345-354.

Session III: Elements of Narrative

·      Smith, Adam. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Edited by J. C. Bryce. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1985.  Lectures 12-13 and 15-20.  Page(s): 62-72 and 78-116.

Session IV: Poets and Other Prevaricators

·      Smith, Adam. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Edited by J. C. Bryce. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1985.  Lectures 21-23.  Page(s): 117-141.

Session V: Questions of Language

·      Smith, Adam. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Edited by J. C. Bryce. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1985.  "Considerations Concerning the First Formation of Languages".  Page(s): 203-226.

·      Smith, Adam. Essays on Philosophical Subjects. Edited by W. P. D. Wightman and J. C. Bryce. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1982.  "Review of Johnson's Dictionary".  Page(s): 232-241.

·      Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: An Anthology. Edited by David Crystal. London: Penguin Books, 2005.  "The Preface".  Page(s): 21-41.

·      Smith, Adam. Correspondence of Adam Smith. Edited by E. C. Mossner and J. S. Ross. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1987.  "To George Baird".  Page(s): 87-88.

Session VI: Oratory and Orators

·      Smith, Adam. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Edited by J. C. Bryce. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1985.  Lectures 24-30.  Page(s): 142-200.