- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
After describing the details of the school’s literary competition, the narrator emphasizes how much the competitions mean to him, specifically. Here he makes explicit what he’s already implied: that writing and certain authors like Ernest Hemingway have a powerful influence on his life. As he has already noted earlier in the chapter, he compares writers to religious figures. “The laying on of hands” and “anointed” both have religious connotations of invoking the Holy Spirit in the Christian tradition. Therefore, to meet with one of these writers is equivalent to feeling a divine presence in the narrator’s eyes. The laying on…