Longman Anthology of World Literature, The The Early Modern Period, Volume C
, by Damrosch, David; Pike, David L.; Alliston, April; Brown, Marshall; Hafez, Sabry; Kadir, Djelal; Pollock, Sheldon; Robbins, Bruce; Shirane, Haruo; Tylus, Jane; Yu, Pauline- ISBN: 9780205625970 | 0205625975
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/30/2008
Volume C: The Early Modern Period | |
Vernacular Writing In South Asia | |
Basavanna (1106- c. 1167) | |
Like a monkey on a tree | |
You can make them talk | |
The crookedness of the serpent | |
Before the grey reaches the check | |
I don't know anything like time-beats and meter | |
The rich will make temples for Siva | |
Resonance | |
Palkuriki Somanatha: from The Lore of Basavanna | |
Mahadeviyakka (c. 1200) | |
Other men are thorn | |
Who cares | |
Better than meeting | |
Kabir (early 1400s) | |
Saints, I see the world is mad | |
Brother, where did your two gods come from? | |
Pandit, look in your heart for knowledge | |
When you die, what do you do with your body? | |
It's a heavy confusion | |
The road the pandits took | |
Tukaram (1608-1649) | |
I was only dreaming | |
If only you would | |
Have I utterly lost my hold on reality | |
I scribble and cancel it again | |
Where does one begin with you? | |
Some of you may say | |
To arrange words | |
When my father died | |
Born a Shudra, I have been a trader | |
Kshetrayya (mid-17th century) | |
A Woman to Her Lover | |
A Young Woman to a Friend | |
A Courtesan to Her Lover | |
A Married Woman Speaks to Her Lover | |
A Married Woman to Her Lover (1) | |
A Married Woman to Her Lover (2) | |
Wu Cheng'en (c. 1506-1581) from Journey to the West | |
The Rise Of The Vernacular In Europe | |
Attacking And Defending The Vernacular Bible | |
Henry Knighton: from Chronicle | |
Martin Luther: from On Translating: An Open Letter | |
The King James Bible: from The Translators to the Reader | |
Women And The Vernacular | |
Dante Alighieri: from Letter to Can Grande della Scala | |
Erasmus: from The Abbot and the Learned Lady | |
Catherine of Siena: from Letter to Raymond of Capua | |
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: from Response to "Sor Filotea" | |
Early Modern Europe | |
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) | |
Decameron | |
Introduction | |
First Day, Third Story (The Three Rings) | |
Third Day, Tenth Story (Locking the Devil Up in Hell) | |
Seventh Day, Fourth Story (The Woman Who Locked Her Husband Out) | |
Tenth Day, Tenth Story (The Patient Griselda) | |
Marguerite De Navarre (1492-1549) | |
Heptameron | |
First Day, Story 5 (The Two Friars) | |
Fourth Day, Story 32 (The Woman Who Drank from Her Lover's Skull) | |
Fourth Day, Story 36 (The Husband Who Punished His Faithless Wife by Means of a Salad) | |
Eighth Day, Prologue | |
Eighth Day, Story 71 (The Wife Who Came Back from the Dead) | |
Francis Petrach (1304-1374) | |
Letters on Familiar Matters | |
To Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro (On Climbing Mt. Ventoux) | |
from To Boccaccio (On imitation) | |
Resonance | |
Laura Cereta: To Sister Deodata di Leno | |
The Canzoniere | |
During the Life of My Lady Laura | |
"O you who hear within these scattered verses" | |
"It was the day the sun's ray had turned pale" | |
"The old man takes his leave, white-haired and pale" | |
"Alone and deep in thought I measure out" | |
"She'd let her gold hair flow free in the breeze" | |
"Clear, cool, sweet running waters" | |
"From day to day my face and hair are changing" | |
After the Death of My Lady Laura | |
"O God! That lovely face, that gentle look" | |
"If Love does not give me some new advice" | |
"When I see coming down the sky Aurora" | |
"That nightingale so tenderly lamenting" | |
Resonance | |
Virgil: from Fourth Georgic | |
"O lovely little bird singing away" | |
"I go my way lamenting those past times" | |
from 366 "Virgin, so lovely, clothed in the sun's light" | |
Resonances: Petrarch and His Translators | |
Petrarch: Canzoniere 190 | |
Thoman Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt | |
Petrarch: Canzoniere 209 | |
Chiara Matraini: Fera son io di questo ambroso loco | |
Chiara Matraini: I am a wild deer in this shady wood | |
Translations: Petrach's Canzoniere 52 "Diana never pleased her lover more" | |
Perspectives: Lyric Sequences and Self-Definition | |
Louise Labé (c. 1520-1566) | |
When I behold you | |
Lute, companion of my wretched state | |
Kiss me again | |
Alas, what boots it that not long ago | |
Do not reproach me, Ladies | |
Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) | |
This comes of dangling from the ceiling | |
My Lord, in your most gracious face(trans. | |
I wish to want, Lord | |
No block of marble | |
How chances it, my Lady | |
Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547) | |
Between harsh rocks and violent wind | |
Whatever life I once had | |
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | |
"From fairest creatures we desire increase" | |
"Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest" | |
"Who will believe my verse in time to come" | |
"Not marble nor the gilded monuments" | |
"That time of year thou mayst in me behold" | |
"Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing" | |
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds" | |
"O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power" | |
"In the old age black was not counted fair" | |
"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" | |
Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) | |
Laments | |
"Come, Heraclitus and Simonides" | |
"Dear little Slavic Sappho, we had thought" | |
"My dear delight, my Ursula and where" | |
"Where are those gates through which so long ago" | |
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (c. 1651-1695) | |
She disavows the flattery visible in a portrait of herself | |
She complains of her lot | |
She shows distress at being abused for the applause her talent brings | |
In which she visits moral censure on a rose | |
She answers suspicions in the rhetoric of tears | |
On the death of that most excellent lady, Marquise de Mancera | |
Crosscurrents | |
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) | |
The Prince | |
Dedicatory Letter | |
On New Principalities acquired by Means of Ones Own Arms and Ingenuities | |
How a Prince Should Keep His Word | |
How Much Fortune Can DO in Human Affairs and How to Contend with it | |
Exhortation to Take Hold of Italy and Liberate Her from the Barbarians | |
Resonance | |
Baldesar Castiglione: from The Book of the Courtier Singleton | |
FrançOis Rablais (c. 1495-1553) | |
Gargantua and Pantagruel | |
The Author's Prologue | |
How Gargantua Was Carried Eleven Months in His Mother's Belly | |
How Gargamelle, When Great with Gargantua, Ate Great Quantities of Tripe | |
The Very Strange Manner of Gargantua's Birth | |
How Gargantua Received His Name | |
Concerning Gargantua's Childhood | |
How Gargantua Was Sent to Paris | |
How Gargantua Repaid the Parisians for Their Welcome | |
Gargantua's Studies | |
How Gargantua Was So Disciplined by Ponocrates | |
How a Great Quarrel Arose Between the Cake-bakers of Lerné and the People of Grandgousier's | |
Country, Which Led to Great Wars | |
How the Inhabitants of Lerné, at the Command of Their King Pierchole, Made an Unexpected Attack on Grandgousier's Shepards | |
How a Monk of Scuilly Saved the Abbey-close | |
How Gargantua Ate Six Pilgrims in a Salad | |
How the Monk Was Feasted by Gargantua | |
Why Monks are Shunned by the World | |
How the Monk Made Gargantua Sleep | |
How the Monk Encouraged His Companions | |
How Gargantua Had the Abbey of Thèléme Built for the Monk | |
How the Thèlémites' Abbey Was Built and Endowed | |
The Rules According to Which the Thèmélites Lived | |
How Pantagruel found Panurge | |
How Pantagruel found Panurge | |
Pantagruel, on the High Seas, Hears Various Words That Have Been Thawed | |
Pantagruel Hears some Gay Words | |
LuíS Vaz De Camões (c. 1524-1580) | |
The Lusíads | |
(Invocation) | |
(King Manuel's death) | |
(The curse of Adamastor) | |
(The storm; the voyagers reach India) | |
(Courage, heroes!) | |
Resonance | |
from Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco de Gama | |
Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) | |
Essays | |
Of Idleness | |
Of the Power of the Imagination | |
Of Repentance | |
Of Cannibals | |
Resonance | |
Jean de Léry: from History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America | |
Of Repentance | |
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) | |
Don Quixote | |
The character of the knight | |
His first expedition | |
He attains knighthood | |
An adventure on leaving the inn | |
The knight's misfortunes continue | |
The inquisitions in the library | |
His second expedition | |
The adventure of the windmills | |
The battle with the gallant Basque | |
A conversation with Sancho | |
His meeting with the goatherds | |
The goatherd's story | |
The conclusion of the story | |
The dead shepherd's verses | |
The meeting with Yanguesans | |
A second conversation with Sancho | |
A tremendous exploit achieved | |
The liberation of the gallery slaves | |
The knight's penitence | |
The last adventure | |
The knight, the squire and the bachelor | |
Sancho provides answers | |
Dulcinea enchanted | |
Master Pedro the puppeteer | |
The puppet show | |
An extraordinary adventure at an inn | |
Knight and squire return to their village | |
A discussion about omens | |
The death of Don Quixote | |
Resonance | |
Jorge Luis Borges: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote | |
Lope De Vega Carpio (1562-1635) | |
Fuenteovejuna | |
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | |
Othello, The Tragedy of the Moor of Mariam | |
The Tempest | |
Resonance | |
Aimé Césaire: from A Tempest | |
John Donne (1572-1631) | |
The Sun Rising | |
Elegy: Going to Bed | |
Air and Angels | |
A Valediction: Forbidding mourning | |
The Relic | |
The Computation | |
Holy Sonnets | |
Oh my black soul! now thou art summoned | |
Death be not proud, though some have called thee | |
Batter my heart, three-person'd God | |
I am a little world made cunningly | |
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one | |
The Devotions: Upon Emergent Occasions | |
"They find the disease to steal on insensibly" | |
from 17 "Now, this bell tolling softly for another, says to me: Thou must die" | |
Sermons from The Second Prebend Sermon, on Psalm 63:7 "Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice" | |
Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672) | |
The Author to Her Book | |
To my Dear and Loving Husband | |
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment | |
Before the Birth of One of Her Children | |
Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 | |
On My Dear Grand-child Simon Bradstreet | |
To My Dear Children | |
John Milton (1608-1674) | |
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont | |
When I Consider How My Light is Spent | |
Paradise Lost | |
Mesoamerica: Before Columbus And After Cortès | |
from POPOL VUH: THE MAYAN COUNCIL BOOK (recorded mid-1550s) | |
Creation | |
Hunahpu and Xbalanque in the Underworld | |
The Final Creation of Humans | |
Migration and the Division of Languages | |
The Death of the Quiché Forefathers | |
Retrieving Writings from the East | |
Conclusion | |
Songs Of The Aztec Nobility (15th -16th century) | |
Burnishing them as sunshot jades | |
Flowers are our only adornment | |
I cry, I grieve, knowing we're to go away | |
Your hearts are shaken down as paintings, Moctezuma | |
I strike it up-here!-I, the singer | |
from Fish Song: It was composed when we were conquered | |
from Water-Pouring Song | |
In the flower house of sapodilla you remain a flower | |
Moctezuma, you creature of heaven, you sing in Mexico | |
Translations: Songs of the Aztec Nobility: Make your beginning, you who sing Perspectives: The Conquest and its Aftermath | |
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) | |
from Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella (7 July 1503) | |
Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) | |
from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain | |
Hernando Ruíz de Alarcón (c. 1587-1645) | |
from Treatise on the Superstitions of the Natives of this New Spain | |
Resonance | |
Julio Cortázar: Axolotl | |
Bartolomé de las Casas from Apologetic History | |
Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz (c. 1651-1695) from The Loa for the Auto Sacramental of The Divine Narcissus | |
Crosscurrents | |
Bibliography | |
Credits | |
Index | |
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