Literature of the Western World : The Ancient World Through the Renaissance

by Brian Wilkie; James Hurt

• ISBN13: 9780132208727
• ISBN10: 0132208725
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group

Summary

A total rundown of the Western World: The Ancient World through the Renaissance.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
The Ancient World	1	(1162)
Introduction	1	(15)
GILGAMESH (C.2000 B.C.)	16	(51)
GILGAMESH	19	(48)
David Ferry
Tablet I	19	(5)
Tablets II and III	24	(6)
Tablets IV and V	30	(5)
Tablet VI	35	(4)
Tablet VII	39	(4)
Tablet VIII	43	(3)
Tablet IX	46	(3)
Tablet X	49	(7)
Tablet XI	56	(11)
THE OLD TESTAMENT (HEBREW BIBLE) (Tenth Century B.C. to Second Century B.C.)	67	(62)
THE OLD TESTAMENT--King James Version	70	(59)
FROM Genesis	70	(23)
The Creation of the World	70	(1)
The Fall	71	(3)
Cain and Abel	74	(1)
The Flood	75	(3)
The Tower of Babel	78	(1)
The Story of Abraham and Isaac	79	(2)
The Story of Jacob	81	(12)
FROM Job	93	(30)
FROM Psalms	123	(6)
Psalm 8	123	(1)
Psalm 23	123	(1)
Psalm 91	124	(1)
Psalm 103	125	(1)
Psalm 114	126	(1)
Psalm 130	126	(1)
Psalm 137	127	(1)
Psalm 139	128	(1)
HOMER (Eighth Century B.C.)	129	(468)
FROM The Iliad	133	(142)
Robert Fitzgerald
Book One: Quarrel, Oath, and Promise	134	(19)
FROM Book Six: Interludes in Field and City	153	(9)
Book Nine: A Visit of Emissaries	162	(20)
FROM Book Twelve: The Rampart Breached	182	(2)
Book Sixteen: A Ship Fired, a Tide Turned	184	(23)
FROM Book Seventeen: Contending for a Soldier Fallen	207	(1)
Book Eighteen: The Immortal Shield	208	(17)
Book Nineteen: The Avenger Fasts and Arms	225	(2)
Book Twenty-Two: Desolation Before Troy	237	(14)
Book Twenty-Four: A Grace Given in Sorrow	251	(24)
The Odyssey	275	(322)
Robert Fitzgerald
Book One: A Goddess Intervenes	275	(12)
Book Two: A Hero's Son Awakens	287	(11)
Book Three: The Lord of the Western Approaches	298	(13)
Book Four: The Red-Haired King and His Lady	311	(21)
Book Five: Sweet Nymph and Open Sea	332	(12)
Book Six: The Princess at the River	344	(8)
Book Seven: Gardens and Firelight	352	(8)
Book Eight: The Songs of the Harper	360	(15)
Book Nine: New Coasts and Poseidon's Son	375	(14)
Book Ten: The Grace of the Witch	389	(15)
Book Eleven: A Gathering of Shades	404	(18)
Book Twelve: Sea Perils and Defeat	422	(13)
Book Thirteen: One More Strange Island	435	(13)
Book Fourteen: Hospitality in the Forest	448	(14)
Book Fifteen: How They Came to Ithaka	462	(15)
Book Sixteen: Father and Son	477	(14)
Book Seventeen: The Beggar at the Manor	491	(18)
Book Eighteen: Blows and a Queen's Beauty	509	(12)
Book Nineteen: Recognitions and a Dream	521	(16)
Book Twenty: Signs and a Vision	537	(11)
Book Twenty-One: The Test of the Bow	548	(11)
Book Twenty-Two: Death in the Great Hall	559	(13)
Book Twenty-Three: The Trunk of the Olive Tree	572	(10)
Book Twenty-Four: Warriors, Farewell	582	(15)
SAPPHO (Seventh Century B.C. to Sixth Century B.C.)	597	(9)
Poems	599	(7)
Mary Barnard
30: We drink your health	599	(1)
34: Lament for a maidenhead	600	(1)
37: You know the place	600	(1)
38: Prayer to my lady of Paphos	601	(1)
39: He is more than a hero	602	(1)
40: Yes, Atthis, you may be sure	602	(1)
41: To an army wife, in Sardis	603	(1)
42: I have had not one word from her	604	(1)
43: It was you, Atthis, who said	604	(1)
97: I have often asked you	605	(1)
AESCHYLUS (C.525-456 B.C.)	606	(129)
The Oresteia	609	(126)
Robert Fagles
Agamemnon	610	(53)
The Libation Bearers	663	(36)
The Eumenides	699	(36)
SOPHOCLES (496-406 B.C.)	735	(98)
Oedipus the King	737	(48)
Stephen Berg
Diskin Clay
Antigone	785	(48)
Robert Fagles
EURIPIDES (C.480-406 B.C.)	833	(36)
Medea	836	(33)
Philip Vellacott
ARISTOPHANES (C.450-c.386 B.C.)	869	(55)
Lysistrata	872	(52)
Dudley Fitts
PLATO (C.427-C.348 B.C.)	924	(38)
Ion	927	(11)
Benjamin Jowett
FROM The Republic: The Parable of the Cave	938	(4)
Benjamin Jowett
The Apology	942	(20)
Benjamin Jowett
ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)	962	(18)
FROM Poetics	965	(15)
Samuel Henry Butcher
Louise Ropes Loomis
CATULLUS (C.84-C.54 B.C.)	980	(11)
Poems	982	(9)
Horace Gregory
1: Who shall receive my new-born book	982	(1)
51: He is changed to a god	983	(1)
3: Dress now in sorrow	983	(1)
5: Come, Lesbia, let us live and love	984	(1)
85: I hate and love	984	(1)
109: My life, my love, you say our love will last forever	985	(1)
39: Egnatius has white teeth	985	(1)
8: Poor damned Catullus	986	(1)
76: If man can find rich consolation	986	(1)
11: Furius, Aurelius, bound to Catullus	987	(1)
62: Twilight and star we hope to see arise	988	(2)
101: Dear brother, I have come these many miles	990	(1)
VIRGIL (70-19 B.C.)	991	(112)
FROM The Aeneid	997	(106)
Rolfe Humphries
Book I: The Landing near Carthage	997	(18)
Book II: The Fall of Troy	1015	(18)
Book III: The Wanderings of Aeneas	1033	(16)
Book IV: Aeneas and Dido	1049	(16)
FROM Book V: The Funeral Games for Anchises	1065	(1)
Book VI: The Lower World	1066	(24)
FROM Book VIII: Aeneas at the Site of Rome	1090	(3)
FROM Book XII: The Final Combat	1093	(10)
OVID (43 B.C.-17 A.D.)	1103	(51)
FROM Amores	1107	(19)
Peter Green
FROM Book 1	1107	(1)
FROM Book 2	1118	(3)
FROM Book 3	1121	(5)
FROM Heroides	1126	(17)
Daryl Hine
Paris to Helen (XVI)	1127	(10)
Helen to Paris (XVII)	1137	(6)
Metamorphoses	1143	(11)
Rolfe Humphries
FROM Book I:	1143	(11)
The Creation	1143	(2)
The Four Ages	1145	(2)
Jove's Intervention	1147	(1)
The Story of Lycaon	1148	(1)
The Flood	1149	(2)
Deucalion and Pyrrha	1151	(3)
THE NEW TESTAMENT (First and Second Centuries A.D.)	1154	(9)
THE NEW TESTAMENT--King James Version	1157	(6)
FROM The Gospel According to Saint Matthew: The Sermon on the Mount	1157	(6)
The Middle Ages	1163	(584)
Introduction	1163	(10)
THE KORAN (QUR'AN) (Seventh Century)	1173	(13)
FROM THE KORAN	1176	(10)
Arthur J. Arberry
The Opening	1176	(1)
FROM The Cow	1176	(1)
Light	1177	(4)
Ya Sin	1181	(4)
Sincere Religion	1185	(1)
BEOWULF (Eighth Century?)	1186	(72)
BEOWULF	1191	(67)
Kevin Crossley-Holland
THE SONG OF ROLAND (C.1100 A.D.)	1258	(55)
FROM The Song of Roland	1262	(51)
Patricia Terry
ANDREAS CAPELLANUS (Late Twelfth Century)	1313	(31)
FROM The Art of Courtly Love	1316	(28)
John Jay Parry
FROM Book One: Introduction to the Treatise on Love	1316	(1)
Chapter I: What Love Is	1316	(1)
Chapter IV: What the Effect of Love Is	1317	(1)
Chapter VI: In What Manner Love May Be Acquired, and in How Many Ways	1318	(1)
Fifth Dialogue: A Nobleman Speaks with a Noblewoman	1318	(10)
Seventh Dialogue: A Man of the Higher Nobility Speaks with a Woman of the Simple Nobility	1328	(10)
FROM Book Two: How Love May Be Retained	1338	(1)
Chapter VIII: The Rules of Love	1338	(6)
MARIE DE FRANCE (Late Twelfth Century)	1344	(20)
Bisclavret (The Werewolf)	1346	(7)
Robert Hanning
Joan Ferrante
Yonec	1353	(11)
Robert Hanning
Joan Ferrante
ANSELM AND AQUINAS: THE EXISTENCE OF GOD (Eleventh and Thirteenth Centuries)	1364	(3)
SAINT ANSELM (1033-1109)	1367	(5)
FROM Proglogium	1367	(5)
S. N. Deane
SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (1226-1274)	1372	(5)
FROM Summa Theologica	1372	(5)
DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321)	1377	(174)
The Divine Comedy	1384	(167)
H. R. Huse
Inferno	1384	(140)
FROM Purgatory	1524	(18)
FROM Paradise	1542	(9)
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (Late Fourteenth Century)	1551	(57)
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT	1553	(55)
Theodore Howard Banks, Jr.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1340?-1400)	1608	(92)
FROM The Canterbury Tales	1612	(88)
Theodore Morrison
Prologue	1612	(18)
Prologue to the Miller's Tale	1630	(2)
The Miller's Tale	1632	(14)
Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale	1646	(18)
The Wife of Bath's Tale	1664	(8)
Prologue to the Pardoner's Tale	1672	(3)
The Pardoner's Tale	1675	(10)
The Knight's Interruption of the Monk's Tale	1685	(1)
The Nun's Priest's Tale	1686	(14)
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN (1364-1430?)	1700	(21)
FROM The Book of the City of Ladies	1703	(18)
Earl Jeffrey Richards
EVERYMAN (Late Fifteenth Century)	1721	(26)
EVERYMAN	1724	(23)
The Renaissance	1747	(480)
Introduction	1747	(16)
FRANCIS PETRARCH (1304-1374)	1763	(11)
Rhymes	1766	(8)
Anthony Mortimer
I: All you that hear in scattered rhymes	1766	(1)
III: It was that very day on which the sun	1767	(1)
XC: Upon the breeze the spread her golden hair	1767	(1)
CXXVI: Waters fresh and sweet and clear	1768	(2)
CXXIX: From thought to thought, from mountainside to mountain	1770	(2)
CXXXIV: I find no peace, and have no arms for war	1772	(1)
CCLXV: Fierce heart and bitter, and most cruel will	1772	(1)
CCXCII: The eyes I spoke of once in words that burn	1772	(1)
CCCLXV: I keep lamenting over days gone by	1773	(1)
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO (1313-1375)	1774	(40)
The Decameron	1776	(38)
Richard Aldington
The First Day	1776	(10)
Third Day, Tenth Tale	1786	(6)
Fourth Day, Second Tale	1792	(6)
Fifth Day, Tenth Tale	1798	(6)
Tenth Day, Tenth Tale	1804	(8)
FROM Conclusion	1812	(2)
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (1469-1527)	1814	(16)
FROM The Prince	1816	(14)
Luigi Ricci
E. R. P. Vincent
MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE (1492-1549)	1830	(28)
The Heptameron	1835	(23)
P. A. Chilton
Story Eight	1836	(4)
Story Eighteen	1840	(4)
Story Nineteen	1844	(9)
Story Thirty-Six	1853	(3)
Story Fifty-Five	1856	(2)
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE (1533-1592)	1858	(43)
Essays	1862	(39)
Donald M. Frame
Of Cannibals	1862	(10)
FROM Apology for Raymond Sebond	1872	(29)
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1547-1616)	1901	(113)
Don Quixote	1904	(110)
Walter Starkie
FROM Part I	1904	(40)
FROM Part II	1944	(70)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)	2014	(74)
Henry IV, Part I	2019	(74)
JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)	2093	(12)
The Good-Morrow	2095	(1)
Song: Go, and catch a falling star	2096	(1)
The Canonization	2097	(1)
The Funeral	2098	(1)
The Flea	2099	(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	2100	(1)
Love's Diet	2101	(1)
Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed	2102	(1)
Holy Sonnets:	2103	(1)
X: Death be not proud	2103	(1)
XIV: Batter my heart	2104	(1)
A Hymn to God the Father	2104	(1)
JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)	2105	(104)
Paradise Lost	2110	(1)
FROM Book I	2111	(11)
FROM Book II	2122	(14)
FROM Book III	2136	(7)
FROM Book IV	2143	(19)
Book IX	2162	(29)
FROM Book X	2191	(9)
FROM Book XII	2200	(9)
Chronology	2209	(14)
Acknowledgments	2223	(4)
Index	2227