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I had read most of the listed works aside from the poems, but almost none until I went to university, or even later. The only books from that selection I read in high school were To Kill a Mockingbird, Oedipus, and Macbeth, and I was older than 15 at the time.
I had the pleasure of re-reading Oedipus when I was in graduate school. The understanding and appreciation I acquired dwarfed what I'd grasped as a teenager. In high school, our teacher insisted we approach the work as a series of literary devices: this is foreshadowing, that is dramatic irony. In retrospect, it was a very sterile method.
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