The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

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Summary

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Gathers selected masterpieces of drama, fiction, poetry, and prose from the earliest known literature to the present

Preface

xxix

Acknowledgments

xxxvii

Phonetic Equivalents

xli

Part I Beginnings To A.D. 100

The Invention of Writing and the Earliest Literatures

(104)

Map: The Ancient Middle East, CA. 1000 B.C. Timeline

(2)

Gilgamesh (Akkadian, ca. 2500-1500 B.C.)

(32)

N.K. Sandars

Ancient Egyptian Poetry (Egyptian, ca. 1500-ca. 1200 B.C.)

(17)

Akhenaten's ``Hymn to the Sun''

(4)

The Leiden Hymns

(1)

[How splendid you ferry the skyways]

(1)

[God is a master craftsman]

(1)

[When Being began back in days of the genesis]

(1)

[The mind of God is perfect knowing]

(1)

The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor

(5)

Song of the Harper

(1)

Love Songs

(1)

[My love is one and only, without peer]

(1)

[I wish I were her Nubian girl]

(1)

[Love, how I'd love to slip down to the pond]

(1)

[Why, just now, must you question your heart?]

(1)

[I was simply off to see Nefrus my friend]

(1)

[I think I'll go home and lie very still]

(1)

John L. Foster

The Bible: The Old Testament

(Hebrew, ca. 1000-300 B.C.)

(5)

Genesis 1-3 [The Creation---The Fall]

(3)

Genesis 4 [The First Murder]

(1)

Genesis 6-9 [The Flood]

(3)

Genesis 11 [The Origin of Languages]

(1)

Genesis 37, 39-46 [The Story of Joseph]

(11)

From Job

(16)

Psalm 8

(1)

Psalm 19

100

(1)

Psalm 23

100

(1)

Psalm 104

101

(1)

Psalm 137

102

(1)

Isaiah 52-53 [The Song of the Suffering Servant]

102

(1)

Jonah

(The King James Version)

103

(4)

Ancient Greece and the Formation of the Western Mind

107

(658)

Map: Greece And Western Asia Minor, CA. Fifth Century B.C. Timeline

114

(2)

Homer (eighth century B.C.)

116

(388)

The Iliad (Greek)

122

(1)

Book I [The Rage of Achilles]

122

(15)

From Book VI [Hector Returns to Troy]

137

(7)

From Book VIII [The Tide of Battle Turns]

144

(1)

Book IX [The Embassy to Achilles]

145

(18)

Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles]

163

(14)

Book XIX [The Champion Arms for Battle]

177

(10)

Book XXII [The Death of Hector]

187

(13)

Book XXIV [Achilles and Priam]

200

(19)

Robert Fagles

The Odyssey (Greek)

219

(1)

Book I [A Goddess Intervenes]

219

(10)

Book II [A Hero's Son Awakens]

229

(9)

Book III [The Lord of the Western Approaches]

238

(12)

Book IV [The Red-Haired King and His Lady]

250

(18)

Book V [Sweet Nymph and Open Sea]

268

(11)

Book VI [The Princess at the River]

279

(7)

Book VII [Gardens and Firelight]

286

(8)

Book VIII [The Songs of the Harper]

294

(12)

Book IX [New Coasts and Poseidon's Son]

306

(13)

Book X [The Grace of the Witch]

319

(13)

Book XI [A Gathering of Shades]

332

(16)

Book XII [Sea Perils and Defeat]

348

(12)

Book XIII [One More Strange Island]

360

(11)

Book XIV [Hospitality in the Forest]

371

(13)

Book XV [How They Came to Ithaka]

384

(14)

Book XVI [Father and Son]

398

(12)

Book XVII [The Beggar at the Manor]

410

(16)

Book XVIII [Blows and a Queen's Beauty]

426

(11)

Book XIX [Recognitions and a Dream]

437

(15)

Book XX [Signs and a Vision]

452

(9)

Book XXI [The Test of the Bow]

461

(10)

Book XXII [Death in the Great Hall]

471

(11)

Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree]

482

(9)

Book XXIV [Warriors, Farewell]

491

(13)

Robert Fitzgerald

Sappho Of Lesbos (born ca. 630 B.C.)

504

(2)

Lyrics (Greek)

[Throned in splendor, deathless, O Aphrodite]

505

(1)

[Like the very gods in my sight is he]

505

(1)

[Some there are who say that the fairest things seen]

506

(1)

Richard Lattimore

Aeschylus (524?-456 B.C.)

506

(79)

The Oresteia (Greek)

511

(1)

Agamemnon

511

(44)

The Libation Bearers (Summary)

555

(2)

The Eumenides

557

(28)

Robert Fagles

Sophocles (ca. 496-406 B.C.)

585

(82)

Oedipus the King (Greek)

590

(42)

Antigone (Greek)

632

(35)

Robert Fagles)

Euripides (480-406 B.C.)

667

(33)

Medea (Greek)

669

(31)

Rex Warner

Aristophanes (450?-385? B.C.)

700

(33)

Lysistrata (Greek)

702

(31)

Charles T. Murphy

Plato (429-347 B.C.)

733

(25)

The Apology of Socrates (Greek)

735

(20)

From Phaedo [The Death of Socrates] (Greek)

755

(3)

Benjamin Jowett

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

758

(7)

From Poetics (Greek)

758

(7)

James Hutton

Poetry and Thought in Early China

765

(72)

Map: China During The ``Warring States'' Period, CA. 250 B.C.

Timeline

770

(2)

Book Of Songs (Chinese, ca. 1000-600 B.C.)

772

(16)

10(``That the mere glimpse of a plain cap'')

774

(1)

17(``Plop fall the plums; but there are still seven'')

774

(1)

18(``She threw a quince to me'')

775

(1)

22(``Of fair girls the loveliest'')

775

(1)

24(``I beg of you, Chung Tzu'')

775

(1)

25(``The lady says: ``The cock has crowed''')

776

(1)

26(``The Lady: The cock has crowed'')

776

(1)

28(``Cold blows the northern wind'')

777

(1)

34(``Thick grow the rush leaves'')

777

(1)

54(``He: The gourd has bitter leaves'')

778

(1)

56(``If along the highroad'')

778

(1)

57(``By the willows of the Eastern Gate'')

778

(1)

63(``In the wilds there is a dead doe'')

779

(1)

75(``Tossed is that cypress boat'')

779

(1)

101(``Wild and windy was the day'')

780

(1)

109(``Zip, zip the valley wind!'')

780

(1)

122(``How few of us are left, how few!'')

780

(1)

131(``We plucked the bracken, plucked the bracken'')

781

(1)

148(``How can you plead that you have no wraps?'')

782

(1)

157(``They clear away the grass, the trees'')

782

(1)

191(``On the mountain is the thorn-elm'')

783

(1)

238(``She who in the beginning gave birth to the people'')

783

(2)

242(``Mighty is God on high'')

785

(1)

276(``Big rat, big rat'')

786

(1)

278(```Kio' sings the oriole'')

787

(1)

Arthur Waley

Confucius (551-479 B.C.)

788

(11)

From Analects (Chinese)

791

(8)

D.C. Lau

Chuang Chou (ca. 369-286 B.C.)

799

(28)

Chuang Tzu (Chinese)

802

(1)

Free and Easy Wandering

802

(3)

Discussion on Making All Things Equal

805

(8)

The Secret of Caring for Life

813

(1)

In the World of Men

814

(2)

The Great and Venerable Teacher

816

(3)

Fit for Emperors and Kings

819

(1)

Heaven and Earth

819

(2)

The Way of Heaven

821

(1)

Autumn Floods

821

(1)

Perfect Happiness

822

(1)

Mastering Life

823

(1)

The Mountain Tree

824

(1)

T`ien Tzu-fang

825

(1)

Knowledge Wandered North

825

(1)

Hsu Wu-Kuei

826

(1)

Burton Watson

The Nine Songs (Chinese, fourth or third century B.C.)

827

(10)

The Sovereign of the East: The One

829

(1)

Lord in the Clouds

830

(1)

The Lady of the Hsiang River

830

(1)

The Senior Master of Lifespans

831

(1)

The Junior Master of Lifespans, Who Is ``Lord Iris''

831

(1)

The Lord of the East

832

(1)

The Yellow River's Earl

833

(1)

The Hillwraith

833

(1)

The Kingdom's Dead

834

(1)

Rites for Souls

834

(3)

Stephen Owen

India's Heroic Age

837

(150)

Map: India, 1200 B.C.---100 A.D.

Timeline

844

(2)

The Ramayana of Valmiki (Sanskrit, ca. 550 B.C.)

846

(59)

From Book 2. Rama Exiled

851

(54)

Robert P. Goldman

The Mahabharata (Sanskrit, ca. 400 B.C.---A.D. 100)

905

(43)

From Book II

910

(1)

The Game of Dice

910

(32)

The Sequel to the Game of Dice

942

(6)

J. A. B. van Buitenen

The Jataka (Pali, fourth century B.C.)

948

(9)

The Cheating Merchant

951

(1)

E.B. Cowell

The Hare's Self-Sacrifice

952

(3)

The Monkey's Heroic Self-Sacrifice

955

(2)

H.T. Francis

E.J. Thomas

The Bhagavad-Gita (Sanskrit, first century B.C.)

957

(19)

From The First Teaching [Arjuna's Dejection]

961

(3)

From The Second Teaching [Philosophy and Spiritual Discipline]

964

(3)

From The Third Teaching [Discipline of Action]

967

(3)

From The Sixth Teaching [The Man of Discipline]

970

(3)

From The Eleventh Teaching [The Vision of Krishna's Totality]

973

(3)

Barbara Stoler Miller

The Tamil Anthologies (Tamil, ca. 100-250)

976

(11)

What She Said [1]

978

(1)

What She Said [2]

979

(1)

What She Said [3]

979

(1)

What She Said [4]

980

(1)

What She Said [5]

980

(1)

What Her Girl-Friend Said

980

(1)

What the Concubine Said

981

(1)

What She Said [6]

981

(1)

What He Said [1]

982

(1)

What He Said [2]

982

(1)

A Chariot Wheel

982

(1)

His Hill

983

(1)

Mothers

984

(1)

Earth's Bounty

984

(3)

A. K. Ramanujan

The Roman Empire

987

(126)

Map: The Roman Empire, Ca. 117

Timeline

990

(2)

Catullus (84?-54? B.C.)

992

(5)

Lyrics (Latin)

992

(1)

5(``Come, Lesbia, let us live and love'')

992

(1)

86(``There are many who think of Quintia in terms of beauty'')

993

(1)

87(``No woman, if she is honest'')

993

(1)

107(``When at last after long despair, our hopes ring true again'')

993

(1)

109(``My life, my love, you say our love will last forever'')

993

(1)

83(``Lesbia speaks evil of me'')

993

(1)

70(``My woman says that she would rather wear the wedding-veil for me'')

994

(1)

72(``There was a time, O Lesbia'')

994

(1)

60(``Were you born of a lioness in the Libyan mountains'')

994

(1)

85(``I hate and love'')

994

(1)

75(``You are the cause of this destruction, Lesbia'')

995

(1)

8(``Poor damned Catullus, here's no time for nonsense'')

995

(1)

58(``Caelius, my Lesbia, that one, that only Lesbia'')

995

(1)

11(``Furius, Aurelius, bound to Catullus'')

996

(1)

76(``If man can find rich consolation'')

996

(1)

Horace Gregory

Virgil (70--19 B.C.)

997

(68)

The Aeneid (Latin)

1000

(1)

From Book I

1000

(1)

[Prologue]

1000

(1)

[Aeneas Arrives in Carthage]

1001

(7)

Book II [How They Took the City]

1008

(22)

Book IV [The Passion of the Queen]

1030

(20)

From Book VI [Aeneas in the Underworld]

1050

(6)

From Book VIII [The Shield of Aeneas]

1056

(4)

From Book XII [The Death of Turnus]

1060

(5)

Robert Fitzgerald

Ovid (43 B.C.---A.D. 17)

1065

(27)

Metamorphoses (Latin)

1066

(1)

From Book I

1066

(1)

[The Creation]

1066

(2)

[The Four Ages]

1068

(1)

[Jove's Intervention]

1069

(2)

[The Story of Lycaon]

1071

(1)

[The Flood]

1072

(1)

[Deucalion and Pyrrha]

1073

(3)

[Apollo and Daphne]

1076

(3)

[Jove and Io]

1079

(3)

From Book XV [The Teachings of Pythagoras]

1082

(10)

Rolfe Humphries

Petronius (died A.D. 65)

1092

(21)

The Satyricon [Dinner with Trimalchio] (Latin)

1093

(20)

J. P. Sullivan

PART II 100 TO 1500

From Roman Empire to Christian Europe

1113

(48)

Map: The Spread Of Christianity, 30-600

Timeline

1116

(2)

The Bible: The New Testament

(Greek, ca. first century)

1118

(1)

Luke 2 [The Birth and Youth of Jesus]

1119

(2)

Matthew 5-7 [The Teaching of Jesus: The Sermon on the Mount]

1121

(4)

Luke 15 [The Teaching of Jesus: Parables]

1125

(1)

Matthew 26 [The Betrayal of Jesus]

1126

(3)

Matthew 27 [The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus]

1129

(2)

Matthew 28 [The Resurrection]

(The King James Version)

1131

(1)

Augustine (354-430)

1132

(29)

Confessions (Latin)

1133

(1)

From Book I [Childhood]

1133

(4)

From Book II [The Pear Tree]

1137

(2)

From Book III [Student at Carthage]

1139

(2)

From Book VI [Worldly Ambitions]

1141

(3)

From Book VIII [Conversion]

1144

(3)

From Book IX [Death of His Mother]

1147

(14)

F.J. Sheed

India's Classical Age

1161

(122)

Map: India, 100-1200

Timeline

1166

(2)

Visnusarman (second or third century)

1168

(9)

Pancatantra (Sanskrit)

1170

(1)

Book I. The Loss of Friends

1170

(1)

Leap and Creep

1170

(1)

The Blue Jackal

1171

(1)

Forethought, Readywit, and Fatalist

1172

(1)

Book III. Crows and Owls

1173

(1)

Mouse-Maid Made Mouse

1173

(3)

Book V. III-Considered Action

1176

(1)

The Loyal Mungoose

1176

(1)

Arthur W. Ryder

Kalidasa (fourth century)

1177

(66)

Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection (Sanskrit)

1181

(62)

Barbara Stoler Miller

Bhartrhari (fifth century)

1243

(5)

Satakatrayam (Sanskrit)

1245

(1)

4(``Wise men are consumed by envy'')

1245

(1)

7(``A splendid palace, wanton maids'')

1245

(1)

11(``A gem carved by the jeweler's stone'')

1245

(1)

34(``Like clusters of blossoms'')

1245

(1)

35(``When silent, the courtier is branded dumb'')

1246

(1)

70(``Knowledge is man's crowning mark'')

1246

(1)

76(``Armlets do not adorn a person'')

1246

(1)

85(``Why all these words and empty prattle?'')

1246

(1)

102(``A melodious song'')

1246

(1)

148(``So I have roamed through perilous lands'')

1247

(1)

155(``We savored no pleasure'')

1247

(1)

166(``You are a king of opulence'')

1247

(1)

172(``Should I sojourn in austerity'')

1247

(1)

190(``Earth his soft couch'')

1247

(1)

191(``Why do men need scriptures revealed, remembered'')

1248

(1)

Barbara Stoler Miller

Cilappatikaram (Tamil, late fifth century)

1248

(19)

Book 2

1253

(1)

Canto 16. The Scene of the Murder

1253

(5)

Canto 18. The Wreath of Sorrow

1258

(1)

Canto 19. Kannaki Goes Round the City

1259

(3)

Canto 20. The Demand for Justice

1262

(2)

Canto 21. The Crown of Wrath

1264

(3)

R. Parthasarathy

Amaru (seventh century)

1267

(5)

Amarusataka (Sanskrit)

1269

(1)

23(``Lying on the same bed'')

1269

(1)

34(``She's just a kid'')

1269

(1)

38(``When anger / was a crease in the brow'')

1270

(1)

57(``My girl'')

1270

(1)

69(``At first, / our bodies were as one'')

1270

(1)

101(``When my lover came to bed'')

1271

(1)

102(``She's in the house'')

1271

(1)

Martha Ann Selby

Somadeva (eleventh century)

1272

(11)

Kathasaritsagara (Sanskrit)

1274

(1)

The Red Lotus of Chastity

1274

(9)

J.A.B. van Buitenen

China's ``Middle Period''

1283

(68)

Map: T'ang China, ca. 650

Timeline

1286

(2)

T`ao Ch`ien (365-427)

1288

(14)

Selected Poetry and Prose (Chinese)

The Peach Blossom Spring

1290

(1)

The Return

1291

(1)

James Robert Hightower

Biography of Master Five Willows

1292

(1)

Stephen Owen

Substance, Shadow, and Spirit

1293

(1)

Substance to Shadow

1293

(1)

Shadow to Substance

1293

(1)

Spirit's Solution

1294

(1)

Returning to the Farm to Dwell

1294

(1)

I(``From early days I have been at odds with the world'')

1294

(1)

II(``Here in the country human contacts are few'')

1295

(1)

Begging for Food

1295

(1)

On Moving House

1296

(1)

I(``For long I yearned to live in Southtown'')

1296

(1)

II(``In spring and fall are many perfect days'')

1296

(1)

A Reply to Secretary Kuo

1296

(1)

I(``The trees before the house grow thick, thick'')

1296

(1)

In the Sixth Month of 408, Fire

1297

(1)

Twenty Poems after Drinking Wine

1297

(1)

Preface

1297

(1)

V(``I built my hut beside a traveled road'')

1297

(1)

IX (``I heard a knock this morning at my door'')

1298

(1)

X(``Once I made a distant trip'')

1298

(1)

On Reading the Seas and Mountains Classic

1298

(1)

I (``In early summer when the grasses grow'')

1298

(1)

Elegy

1299

(1)

Robert James Hightower

T`ang Poetry (Chinese)

1300

(2)

Wang Wei (ca. 699-761)

1302

(3)

Villa on Chung-nan Mountain

1303

(1)

When Living Quietly at Wang-ch`uan I Gave This to P`ei Ti

1303

(1)

Answering Magistrate Chang

1303

(1)

Various Topics on Huang-fu Yueh's Cloudy Valley

1304

(1)

The Torrent Where the Birds Sang

1304

(1)

Cormorant Dike

1304

(1)

Wang Stream Collection

1304

(1)

Deer Fence

1304

(1)

Lodge in the Bamboo

1304

(1)

Written Crossing the Yellow River to Ch`ing-ho

1304

(1)

Parting

1304

(1)

Stephen Owen

Han-Shan (ca. 600-800)

1305

(2)

40(``I climb the road to Cold Mountain'')

1305

(1)

45(``Cold Mountain is full of weird sights'')

1306

(1)

48(``Wonderful, this road to Cold Mountain---'')

1306

(1)

57(``When people see the man of Cold Mountain'')

1306

(1)

62(``High, high from the summit of the peak'')

1306

(1)

80(``Man, living in the dust'')

1306

(1)

82(``People ask the way to Cold Mountain'')

1307

(1)

96(``Have I a body or have I none?'')

1307

(1)

99(``So Han Shan writes you these words'')

1307

(1)

Burton Watson

Li Po (701-762)

1307

(5)

The Sun Rises and Sets

1308

(1)

Bring in the Wine

1309

(1)

Yearning

1310

(1)

Ballad of Youth

1311

(1)

The Girls of Yueh

1311

(1)

Dialogue in the Mountains

1311

(1)

Summer Day in the Mountains

1311

(1)

My Feelings

1311

(1)

Drinking Alone by Moonlight

1312

(1)

Sitting Alone by Ching-t`ing Mountain

1312

(1)

Stephen Owen

Tu Fu (712-770)

1312

(5)

Song of P`eng-ya

1313

(1)

Moonlit Night

1314

(1)

Chiang Village

1314

(1)

Thousand League Pool

1315

(1)

My Thatched Roof Is Ruined by the Autumn Wind

1315

(1)

A Guest Comes

1316

(1)

Spending the Night in a Tower by the River

1317

(1)

Writing of My Feelings Traveling by Night

1317

(1)

Stephen Owen

Li Ho (791-817)

1317

(3)

Magic Strings

1318

(1)

A.C. Graham

Song of an Arrowhead from the Battlefield of Ch`ang-p`ing

1318

(1)

Stephen Owen

The King of Ch`in Drinks Wine

1319

(1)

The Grave of Little Su

1319

(1)

The Northern Cold

1320

(1)

A Dream of Heaven

1320

(1)

A. C. Graham

Po Chu-I (772-846)

1320

(5)

Watching the Reapers

1321

(1)

Passing T'ien-men Street in Ch`ang-an and Seeing a Distant View of Chung-nan Mountains

1322

(1)

The Flower Market

1322

(1)

Golden Bells

1322

(1)

Lazy Man's Song

1323

(1)

Winter Night

1323

(1)

Remembering Golden Bells

1323

(1)

On Board Ship: Reading Yuan Chen's Poems

1324

(1)

Madly Singing in the Mountains

1324

(1)

The Cranes

1324

(1)

Pruning Trees

1325

(1)

Last Poem

1325

(1)

Arthur Waley

Tu Mu (803-852)

1325

(2)

Easing My Heart

1326

(1)

Egrets

1326

(1)

Spring in Chiang-nan

1326

(1)

To Judge Han Ch`o at Yang-chou

1327

(1)

Pien River Blocked by Ice

1327

(1)

Travelling in the Mountains

1327

(1)

Recalling Former Travels No. 1

1327

(1)

Recalling Former Travels No. 3

1327

(1)

A.C. Graham

Li Shang-Yin (813-858)

1327

(3)

1(``Coming was an empty promise'')

1328

(1)

2(``The East wind sighs, the fine rains come'')

1328

(1)

4(``Last night's stars, last night's winds'')

1328

(1)

6(``For ever hard to meet, and as hard to part'')

1329

(1)

8(``Double curtains hang deep in the room of Never Grieve'')

1329

(1)

Night Rains: To My Wife up North

1329

(1)

Written on a Monastery Wall

1329

(1)

A.C. Graham

Yuan Chen (779-831)

1330

(10)

The Story of Ying-ying (Chinese)

1332

(8)

James Robert Hightower

Li Ch`ing-Chao (1084-ca. 1151)

1340

(11)

Afterword to Records on Metal and Stone (Chinese)

1341

(6)

Song Lyrics (Chinese)

1347

(1)

To ``Southern Song''

1347

(1)

To ``Free-Spirited Fisherman''

1347

(1)

To ``Like a Dream''

1347

(1)

To ``Drunk in the Shadow of Flowering Trees''

1348

(1)

To ``Spring in Wu-ling''

1348

(1)

To ``Note After Note''

1348

(3)

Stephen Owen

The Rise of Islam and Islamic Literature

1351

(190)

Map: Islam's Golden Age, ca. 900

Timeline

1356

(2)

The Koran (Arabic, 610-632)

1358

(35)

1. The Exordium

1361

(1)

From 4. Women

1361

(3)

5. The Table

1364

(9)

10. Jonah

1373

(6)

12. Joseph

1379

(6)

19. Mary

1385

(4)

55. The Merciful

1389

(2)

62. Friday, or the Day of Congregation

1391

(1)

71. Noah

1391

(1)

76. Man

1392

(1)

N.J. Dawood

Ibn Ishaq (704-767)

1393

(18)

The Biography of the Prophet (Arabic)

1397

(1)

How Salman Became a Muslim

1397

(4)

The Beginning of the Sending Down of the Quran

1401

(1)

Khadija, Daughter of Khuwaylid, Accepts Islam

1401

(1)

From The Prescription of Prayer

1402

(1)

From Ali ibn Abu Talib, the First Male to Accept Islam

1403

(1)

From The Apostle's Public Preaching and the Response

1404

(4)

From Al-Walid ibn Al-Mughira

1408

(1)

How the Apostle Was Treated by His Own People

1408

(1)

[Hamza Accepts Islam]

1409

(1)

[The Burial Preparations]

1410

(1)

Alfred Guillaume

Abol Qasem Ferdowsi (932-1025)

1411

(44)

From Shahname. The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam (Persian)

1416

(39)

Jerome W. Clinton

Faridoddin Attar (1145-1221)

1455

(17)

From The Conference of the Birds

1459

(1)

The Story of Sheikh Sam'an (Persian)

1459

(13)

Afkham Darbandi

Dick Davis

Jalaloddin Rumi (1207-1283)

Lyrics (Persian)

1472

(4)

Robais

1476

(1)

[Listen, if you can stand to]

1476

(1)

[What I most want]

1476

(1)

[Don't come to us without bringing music]

1476

(1)

[Sometimes visible, sometimes not, sometimes]

1476

(1)

25 (``Friend, our closeness is this'')

1476

(1)

82 (``Today, like every other day, we wake up empty'')

1476

(1)

158 (``Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing'')

1477

(1)

Ghazals

1477

(1)

An Empty Garlic

1477

(1)

Dissolver of Sugar

1477

(1)

Spiritual Couplets

1477

(1)

[A chickpea leaps almost over the rim of the pot]

1477

(1)

Why Wine Is Forbidden

1478

(1)

The Question

1478

(1)

Coleman Barks

Sa'Di (thirteenth century)

1479

(17)

Golestan (Persian)

1481

(1)

From Book I. On the Nature of Shahs

1481

(15)

Dick Davis

The Book Of Dede Korkut (Turkish, fourteenth century)

1496

(18)

Boghach Khan Son of Dirse Khan

1499

(9)

Wild Dumrul Son of Dukha Koja

1508

(6)

Geoffrey Lewis

The Thousand And One Nights

(Arabic, fourteenth century)

1514

(3)

Prologue [The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter]

1517

(7)

[The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey]

1524

(2)

[The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife]

1526

(2)

[The Story of the Merchant and the Demon]

1528

(4)

[The First Old Man's Tale]

1532

(3)

[The Second Old Man's Tale]

1535

(3)

Husain Haddawy

[The Third Old Man's Tale]

1538

(3)

Jerome W. Clinton

The Formation of a Western Literature

1541

(516)

Map: Europe, Ca. 1360

Timeline

1544

(2)

Beowulf (Old English, eighth century)

1546

(67)

Burton Raffel

The Story Of Deirdre (Irish, eighth century)

1613

(9)

Jeffrey Gantz

The Wanderer (Old English, eighth or ninth century)

1622

(3)

Charles W. Kennedy

From The Song Of Roland (French, twelfth century)

1625

(54)

Frederick Goldin

Marie De France (twelfth century)

1679

(13)

Eliduc (French)

1680

(12)

John Fowles

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

1692

(177)

The Divine Comedy (Italian)

1703

(1)

Inferno

1703

(126)

From Purgatorio

1829

(21)

From Paradiso

1850

(19)

John Ciardi

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)

1869

(23)

The Decameron (Italian)

1871

(1)

The First Day

1871

(12)

The Second Tale of the Fourth Day

1883

(1)

The Ninth Tale of the Fifth Day

1883

(9)

Mark Musa

Peter E. Bondanella

Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400)

1892

(68)

The Canterbury Tales (Middle English)

1900

(1)

General Prologue

1900

(17)

The Miller's Prologue and Tale

1917

(1)

The Prologue

1917

(2)

The Tale

1919

(14)

The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

1933

(1)

The Prologue

1933

(3)

The Tale

1936

(10)

[The Knight's Interruption of the Monk's Tale]

1946

(1)

The Nun's Priest's Tale

1947

(13)

Theodore Morrison

Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

(Middle English, fourteenth century)

1960

(57)

Marie Borroff

Francois Villon (1431-?)

2017

(16)

Ballade (French)

2018

(1)

From The Testament (French)

2019

(14)

Galway Kinnell

Everyman (Middle English, 1485?)

(Modernized text)

2033

(24)

E. Talbot Donaldson

The Golden Age of Japanese Culture

2057

(278)

Map: Japan, Seventh-Sixteenth Centuries

Timeline

2060

(2)

The Man'Yoshu (Japanese, eighth century)

2062

(12)

29-31. Poem written by Kakinomoto Hitomaro when he passed the ruined capital at Omi

2066

(1)

135-137. Poem written by Kakinomoto Hitomaro when he parted from his wife in the land of Iwami and came up to the capital

2067

(1)

220-222. Poem written by Kakinomoto Hitomaro upon seeing a dead man lying among the rocks on the island of Samine in Sanuki

2068

(1)

338-350. Thirteen poems in praise of wine by Lord Otomo Tabito, the Commander of the Dazaifu

2069

(2)

804-805. Poem sorrowing on the impermanence of life in this world

2071

(1)

892-893. Dialog of the Destitute

2072

(2)

Ian Hideo Levy

The Kokinshu (Japanese, ca. 905)

2074

(13)

9 (``When snow comes in spring---'')

2077

(1)

43 (``Shall I each springtime'')

2077

(1)

53 (``If ours were a world'')

2077

(1)

83 (``I cannot agree'')

2077

(1)

89 (``In the lingering wake'')

2078

(1)

113 (``Alas! The beauty'')

2078

(1)

145 (``O cuckoo singing'')

2078

(1)

153 (``Where does he journey---'')

2078

(1)

166 (``Now that dawn has come'')

2078

(1)

191 (``With what radiance'')

2079

(1)

232 (``Autumn has not come'')

2079

(1)

273 (``Did an age slip by'')

2079

(1)

297 (``Unseen by men's eyes'')

2079

(1)

305 (``I must pause to gaze'')

2079

(1)

310 (``Watching the colors'')

2080

(1)

315 (``It is in winter'')

2080

(1)

342 (``My heart fills with gloom'')

2080

(1)

349 (``Scatter at random'')

2080

(1)

460 (``Is this hair of mine'')

2081

(1)

471 (``Swift indeed has been'')

2081

(1)

478 (``Ah! You of whom I saw'')

2081

(1)

493 (``Others have told me'')

2081

(1)

522 (``Less profitable'')

2081

(1)

552 (``Did you come to me'')

2082

(1)

553 (``Since encountering'')

2082

(1)

625 (``The hours before dawn'')

2082

(1)

635 (``Autumn nights, it seems'')

2082

(1)

647 (``But little better'')

2082

(1)

656 (``In the waking world'')

2083

(1)

657 (``Yielding to a love'')

2083

(1)

658 (``Though I go to you'')

2083

(1)

676 (``Pillows know, they say'')

2083

(1)

712 (``If this were a world'')

2084

(1)

741 (``Since your heart is not'')

2084

(1)

746 (``This very keepsake'')

2084

(1)

747 (``Is this not the moon?'')

2084

(1)

756 (``How fitting it seems'')

2085

(1)

770 (``At my dwelling place'')

2085

(1)

791 (``Could I think myself'')

2085

(1)

797 (``So much I have learned'')

2085

(1)

810 (``If it had ended'')

2085

(1)

834 (``I should have called it'')

2086

(1)

861 (``Upon this pathway'')

2086

(1)

884 (``Must the moon vanish'')

2086

(1)

895 (``If I had but known'')

2086

(1)

901 (``For sorrowing sons'')

2086

(1)

1000 (``I long for a way'')

2087

(1)

Helen Craig McCullough

Murasaki Shikibu (ca. 973-1016)

2087

(101)

The Tale of Genji (Japanese)

2096

(1)

The Broom Tree

2096

(22)

Evening Faces

2118

(21)

Suma

2139

(20)

Akashi

2159

(19)

Fireflies

2178

(10)

Edward G. Seidensticker

Sei Shonagon (ca. 966-1017)

2188

(31)

The Pillow Book (Japanese)

2191

(1)

In Spring It Is the Dawn

2191

(1)

Especially Delightful Is the First Day

2191

(2)

The Sliding Screen in the Back of the Hall

2193

(4)

When I Make Myself Imagine

2197

(1)

Depressing Things

2198

(3)

Hateful Things

2201

(4)

Oxen Should Have Very Small Foreheads

2205

(1)

A Preacher Ought to Be Good-Looking

2205

(2)

Flowering Trees

2207

(1)

Elegant Things

2208

(1)

Insects

2208

(1)

Unsuitable Things

2209

(1)

Small Children and Babies

2210

(1)

Things That Cannot Be Compared

2210

(1)

To Meet One's Lover

2210

(1)

Rare Things

2210

(1)

Embarrassing Things

2211

(1)

During the Long Rains in the Fifth Month

2211

(1)

Things That Give a Hot Feeling

2212

(1)

Shameful Things

2212

(1)

Things That Have Lost Their Power

2213

(1)

Awkward Things

2213

(1)

I Remember a Clear Morning

2214

(1)

Things That Give a Clean Feeling

2214

(1)

Things That Give an Unclean Feeling

2214

(1)

Wind Instruments

2214

(1)

When Crossing a River

2215

(1)

Things That Should Be Large

2215

(1)

Things That Should Be Short

2215

(1)

Men Really Have Strange Emotions

2216

(1)

It Is Absurd of People to Get Angry

2216

(1)

Features That I Particularly Like

2216

(1)

Pleasing Things

2217

(1)

It Is Getting So Dark

2218

(1)

Ivan Morris

The Tale Of The Heike (Japanese, 1371)

2219

(26)

The Death of Kiyomori

2221

(5)

The Flight of the Heike from the Capital

2226

(4)

The Flight from Fukuhara

2230

(3)

The Assault from the Cliff

2233

(2)

The Death of Atsumori

2235

(3)

The Drowning of the Former Emperor

2238

(2)

The Imperial Lady Becomes a Nun

2240

(2)

The Imperial Lady Goes to Ohara

2242

(2)

The Death of the Imperial Lady

2244

(1)

Helen Craig McCullough

Yoshida Kenko (ca. 1283-1352)

2245

(25)

From Essays in Idleness (Japanese)

2247

(16)

Donald Keene

No Drama

2263

(7)

Zeami Motokiyo (1364-1443)

2270

(12)

Atsumori (Japanese)

2270

(6)

Haku Rakuten (Japanese)

2276

(6)

Arthur Waley

Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu (1435-1516)

2282

(19)

Dojoji (Japanese)

2282

(11)

Donald Keene

Medieval India: The Age of the Devotional Lyric

Map: India, 1200-1650

2293

(5)

Timeline

2298

(2)

Poems of the Virasaiva Saints (Kannada)

2300

(1)

Basavanna (1106-1167)

2301

(2)

125 (``See-saw watermills bow their heads'')

2301

(1)

212 (``Don't you take on/this thing called bhakti'')

2301

(1)

487 (``Feet will dance'')

2302

(1)

494 (``I don't know anything like time-beats and metre'')

2302

(1)

563 (``The pot is a god'')

2302

(1)

703 (``Look here, dear fellow'')

2303

(1)

820 (``The rich/will make temples for SAiva'')

2303

(1)

A. K. Ramanujan

Mahadeviyakka (twelfth century)

2303

(5)

17 (``Like a silkworm weaving'')

2303

(1)

114 (``Husband inside,/lover outside'')

2304

(1)

119 (``What's to come tomorow'')

2304

(1)

124 (``You can confiscate/money in hand'')

2304

(1)

283 (``I love the Handsome One'')

2305

(1)

294 (``O brothers, why do you talk'')

2305

(1)

336 (``Look at/love's marvellous/ways'')

2306

(1)

A. K. Ramanujan

The Bengali Vaisnava Saints' Songs Of Devotion To Krishna (Bengali)

2306

(2)

Vidypati (fourteenth century)

2308

(1)

[The girl and the woman]

2308

(1)

[As the mirror to my hand]

2309

(1)

Edward C. Dimock Denise Levertov

Govindadsa (fifteenth century)

2309

(2)

[O Mdhava, how shall I tell you of my terror?]

2309

(1)

[When they had made love]

2310

(1)

[Let the earth of my body be mixed with the earth]

2310

(1)

Edward C. Dimock Denise Levertov

Chandidsa (sixteenth century)

2311

(1)

[This dark cloudy night]

2311

(1)

[My mind is not on housework]

2311

(1)

Edward C. Dimock

Denise Levertov

Mirabai (sixteenth century; Brajbhasa, Gujerati)

2312

(4)

37 (``I'm colored with the color of dusk, oh rana'')

2313

(1)

42 (``Life without Hari is no life, friend'')

2314

(1)

82 (``I saw the dark clouds burst'')

2314

(1)

84 (``Hey love bird, crying cuckoo'')

2314

(1)

153 (``Go to where my loved one lives'')

2315

(1)

166 (``Murali sounds on the banks of the Jumna'')

2315

(1)

193 (``Let us go to a realm beyond going'')

2315

(1)

John Stratton Hawley

Mark Juergensmeyer

Tulsidas (late sixteenth-early seventeenth century)

2316

(19)

Ramcaritmanas (Hindi)

2320

(1)

Book 5. From The Beautiful Book

2320

(15)

Philip Lutgendorf

Africa: The Mali Epic of Son-Jara

2335

(56)

Map: Western Africa, 1200-1400

Timeline

2340

(1)

From The Epic of Son-Jara

(Maninka, late thirteenth-early fourteenth century)

(Text by Fa-Digi Sisoko. Translated by John William Johnson)

2341

(50)

PART III 1500 To 1650

The Renaissance in Europe

2391

(532)

Map: Western Europe, Ca. 1560

Timeline

2398

(2)

Francis Petrarch (1304-1374)

2400

(11)

Letter to Dionisio da Borgo San Sepolcro [The Ascent of Mount Ventoux] (Italian)

2402

(2408)

James Harvey Robinson

Henry Winchester Rolfe

Sonnets (Italian)

2408

(1)

3 (``It was the morning of that blessed day'')

2408

(1)

61 (``Blest be the day, and blest the month and year'')

2408

(1)

Joseph Auslander

62 (``Father in heaven, after each lost day'')

2409

(1)

Bernard Bergonzi

90 (``She used to let her golden hair fly free'')

2409

(1)

Morris Bishop

292 (``The eyes that drew from me such fervent praise'')

2410

(1)

300 (``Great is my envy of you, earth, in your greed'')

2410

(1)

Edwin Morgan

333 (``Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone'')

2410

(1)

Morris Bishop

Desiderius Erasmus (1466?-1536)

2411

(22)

The Praise of Folly (Latin)

2413

(1)

From Part 1 [Folly Herself]

2413

(2)

From Part 2 [The Powers and Pleasures of Folly]

2415

(14)

From Part 4 [The Christian Fool]

2429

(4)

Leonard F. Dean

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

2433

(15)

Letter to Francesco Vettori [``That Food Which Alone Is Mine''] (Italian)

2436

(1)

The Prince (Italian)

2437

(1)

[Princely Virtues]

2437

(6)

[``Fortune Is a Woman'']

2443

(2)

[The Roman Dream]

2445

(3)

Allan H. Gilbert

Baldesar Castiglione (1478-1529)

2448

(12)

The Book of the Courtier (Italian)

2450

(1)

Book I

2450

(1)

Chapters 2-4 [The Setting]

2450

(2)

Chapters 17-26 [``Everything He May Do or Say Shall Be Stamped with Grace'']

2452

(8)

Leonard E. Opdycke

Marguerite De Navarre (1492-1549)

2460

(19)

The Heptameron (French)

2464

(1)

From Story Three

2464

(5)

Story Thirty

2469

(5)

From Story Forty

2474

(5)

P. A. Chilton

Francois Rabelais (1495?-1553)

2479

(30)

Gargantua and Pantagruel (French)

2482

(1)

Book I

2482

(1)

[Education of a Giant Humanist]

2482

(13)

[The Abbey of Theleme]

2495

(9)

Book II

2504

(1)

[Pantagruel: Birth and Education]

2504

(2)

[Father's Letter from Home]

2506

(3)

Burton Raffel

Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592)

2509

(29)

Essays (French)

2513

(1)

Of Cannibals

2513

(9)

Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions

2522

(6)

From Apology for Raymond Sebond

2528

(8)

Of Repentance

2536

(2)

Donald Frame

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616)

2538

(132)

Don Quixote (Spanish)

2542

(1)

Part I

2542

(1)

[``I Know Who I Am, and Who I May Be, If I Choose'']

2542

(21)

[Fighting the Windmills and a Choleric Biscayan]

2563

(15)

[Of Goatherds, Roaming Shepherdesses, and Unrequited Loves]

2578

(22)

[Fighting the Sheep]

2600

(4)

[``To Right Wrongs and Come to the Aid of the Wretched'']

2604

(8)

[``Set Free at Once That Lovely Lady'']

2612

(6)

Part II

2618

(1)

[``Put into a Book'']

2618

(6)

[A Victorious Duel]

2624

(27)

[``For I Well Know the Meaning of Valor'']

2651

(7)

[Last Duel]

2658

(4)

[Homecoming and Death]

2662

(8)

Samuel Putnam

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

2670

(52)

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus

(Text by Hallett Smith)

2672

(50)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

2722

(97)

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

2726

(93)

John Donne (1572-1631)

2819

(6)

The Good-Morrow

2820

(1)

Song (``Go and catch a falling star'')

2821

(1)

The Indifferent

2822

(1)

The Canonization

2822

(1)

The Apparition

2823

(1)

The Funeral

2824

(1)

Holy Sonnets

2824

(1)

7 (``At the round earth's imagined corners, blow'')

2824

(1)

10 (``Death, be not proud, though some have called thee'')

2825

(1)

Pedro Calderon De La Barca (1600-1681)

2825

(58)

Life Is a Dream (Spanish)

2828

(55)

Roy Campbell

John Milton (1608-1674)

2883

(40)

Paradise Lost

2885

(1)

From Book I [``This Great Argument'']

2885

(1)

Book IX [Temptation and Fall]

2886

(25)

From Book X [Acceptance, Reconciliation, Hope]

2911

(8)

From Book XII [``The World Was All before Them'']

2919

(4)

Native America and Europe in the New World

2923

(32)

Map: The Americas, 1500-1600

Timeline

2928

(2)

Florentine Codex (Nahuatl and Spanish, 1547-1579)

2930

(3)

[The Midwife Addresses the Woman Who Has Died in Childbirth]

2931

(2)

John Bierhorst

[The Midwife Addresses the Newly Delivered Woman]

2933

(1)

Thelma Sullivan

Cantares Mexicanos (Nahuatl, 1550-1581)

2933

(3)

Song IV. Mexican Otomi Song

2935

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Song XII. Song for Admonishing Those Who Seek No Honor in War

2936

(1)

John Bierhorst

Popul Vuh (Quiche Mayan, 1554-1558)

2936

(19)

From Part 1 [Prologue, Creation]

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(2)

From Part 2 [The Twins Defeat Seven Macaw]

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(2)

From Part 3 [Victory over the Underworld]

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(5)

From Part 4 [Origin of Humanity, First Dawn]

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(4)

From Part 5 [Prayer for Future Generations]

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(2)

Dennis Tedlock

A Note on Translation

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(16)

Index

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The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

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