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Tables of Contents for The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xxix
Acknowledgments
xxxvii
Phonetic Equivalents
xli
Part I Beginnings To A.D. 100
The Invention of Writing and the Earliest Literatures
3
104
Map: The Ancient Middle East, CA. 1000 B.C. Timeline
8
2
Gilgamesh (Akkadian, ca. 2500-1500 B.C.)
10
32
N.K. Sandars
Ancient Egyptian Poetry (Egyptian, ca. 1500-ca. 1200 B.C.)
42
17
Akhenaten's ``Hymn to the Sun''
44
4
The Leiden Hymns
48
1
[How splendid you ferry the skyways]
48
1
[God is a master craftsman]
49
1
[When Being began back in days of the genesis]
49
1
[The mind of God is perfect knowing]
50
1
The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor
51
5
Song of the Harper
56
1
Love Songs
57
1
[My love is one and only, without peer]
57
1
[I wish I were her Nubian girl]
57
1
[Love, how I'd love to slip down to the pond]
58
1
[Why, just now, must you question your heart?]
58
1
[I was simply off to see Nefrus my friend]
58
1
[I think I'll go home and lie very still]
59
1
John L. Foster
The Bible: The Old Testament
(Hebrew, ca. 1000-300 B.C.)
59
5
Genesis 1-3 [The Creation---The Fall]
64
3
Genesis 4 [The First Murder]
67
1
Genesis 6-9 [The Flood]
68
3
Genesis 11 [The Origin of Languages]
71
1
Genesis 37, 39-46 [The Story of Joseph]
72
11
From Job
83
16
Psalm 8
99
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
1
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]
2940
2
From Part 2 [The Twins Defeat Seven Macaw]
2942
2
From Part 3 [Victory over the Underworld]
2944
5
From Part 4 [Origin of Humanity, First Dawn]
2949
4
From Part 5 [Prayer for Future Generations]
2953
2
Dennis Tedlock
A Note on Translation
2955
16
Index
2971