Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

by Mack, Maynard; Knox, Bernard M. W.; McGalliard, John C.; Pasinetti, P. M.; Hugo, Howard E.; Spacks, Patricia Meyer; Wellek, René; Douglas, Kenneth; Lawall, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9780393954869
• ISBN10: 0393954862
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-01-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

A selection of Western literature containing only works written originally in the ancient and modern foreign languages.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fifth Edition	xix
Masterpieces of the Ancient World
Introduction	1	(12)
The Old Testament (The King James Version)	13	(51)
Genesis 1--3. [The Creation---The Fall]	17	(4)
Genesis 4. [The First Murder]	21	(1)
Genesis 6--9. [The Flood]	22	(4)
Genesis 11. [The Origin of Languages]	26	(1)
Genesis 37--46. [The Story of Joseph]	26	(14)
From Job	40	(19)
Psalm 8	59	(1)
Psalm 19	59	(1)
Psalm 23	60	(1)
Psalm 104	60	(2)
Psalm 137	62	(1)
Isaiah 52--53. [The Song of the Suffering Servant]	62	(2)
Homer	64	(182)
From The Iliad
Richard Lattimore
[The Quarrel of Achilleus and Agamemnon]	70	(15)
[The Meeting of Hektor and Andromache]	85	(8)
[The Eve of Battle]	93	(1)
[The Embassy to Achilleus]	93	(18)
[The Arming of Achilleus]	111	(17)
[Achilleus Returns to the Battle]	128	(10)
[The Death of Hektor]	138	(14)
[Achilleus and Priam]	152	(20)
From the Odyssey
Robert Fitzgerald
The Princess at the River	172	(9)
The Songs of the Harper	181	(16)
New Coasts and Poseidon's Son	197	(15)
The Grace of the Witch	212	(15)
A Gathering of Shades	227	(19)
Sappho of Lesbos (born ca. 630 B.C.)	246	(3)
``Throned in splendor, deathless, O Aphrodite''	247	(1)
``Like the very gods in my sight is he...''	248	(1)
``Some there are who say that the fairest thing seen''	248	(1)
Richard Lattimore
Aeschylus (524?--456 B.C.)	249	(57)
Agamemnon	254	(52)
Robert Fagles
Sophocles (496--406 B.C.)	306	(52)
Oedipus the King	310	(48)
Robert Fagles
Euripides (480--406 B.C.)	358	(36)
Medea	360	(34)
Rex Warner
Aristophanes (450?--385? B.C.)	394	(37)
Lysistrata	395	(36)
Charles T. Murphy
Plato (429--347 B.C.)	431	(28)
The Apology of Socrates	432	(23)
Phaedo. [The Death of Socrates]	455	(4)
Benjamin Jowett
Aristotle (384--322 B.C.)	459	(5)
From Poetics
James Hutton	459	(5)
Catullus (84?--54? B.C.)	464	(6)
``Come, Lesbia, let us live and love''	465	(1)
``There are many who think of Quintia...''	465	(1)
``No woman, if she is honest, can say...''	465	(1)
``When at last after long despair...''	466	(1)
``My life, my love, you say our love will last forever''	466	(1)
``Lesbia speaks evil of me...''	466	(1)
``My woman says that she would rather wear the wedding-veil for me''	466	(1)
``There was a time, O Lesbia...''	467	(1)
``Were you born of a lioness...''	467	(1)
``I hate and love''	467	(1)
``You are the cause of this destruction, Lesbia''	467	(1)
``Poor damned Catullus, here's no time for nonsense''	468	(1)
``Caelius, my Lesbia, that one that only Lesbia''	468	(1)
``Furius, Aurelius, bound to Catullus''	468	(1)
``If man can find rich consolation...''	469	(1)
Horace Gregory
Virgil (70--19 B.C.)	470	(77)
The Aeneid
Robert Fitzgerald
[Aeneas Arrives in Carthage]	473	(10)
[The Fall of Troy]	483	(25)
[Aeneas Abandons Dido]	508	(21)
[Aeneas in the Underworld]	529	(7)
[The Shield of Aeneas]	536	(5)
[The Death of Turnus]	541	(6)
Ovid (43 B.C.--A.D. 17)	547	(32)
Metamorphoses
Rolfe Humphries
Book I
The Creation	548	(2)
The Four Ages	550	(2)
Jove's Intervention	552	(1)
The Story of Lycaon	553	(2)
The Flood	555	(1)
Deucalion and Pyrrha	556	(4)
Apollo and Daphne	560	(3)
Jove and Io	563	(5)
Book XV
The Teachings of Pythagoras	568	(11)
The New Testament (The King James Version)	579	(16)
Luke 2. [The Birth and Youth of Jesus]	580	(2)
Matthew 5--7. [The Teaching of Jesus: The Sermon on the Mount]	582	(5)
Luke 15. [The Teaching of Jesus: Parables]	587	(1)
Matthew 26. [The Betrayal of Jesus]	588	(3)
Matthew 27. [The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus]	591	(3)
Matthew 28. [The Resurrection]	594	(1)
Petronius (died A.D. 65)	595	(21)
The Satyricon
J.P. Sullivan
Dinner with Trimalchio	596	(20)
St. Augustine (A.D. 354--430)	616	(36)
Confessions
F. J. Sheed
[Childhood]	617	(5)
[The Pear Tree]	622	(2)
[Student at Carthage]	624	(2)
[Worldly Ambitions]	626	(4)
[Conversion]	630	(3)
[Death of His Mother]	633	(16)
Masterpieces of the Middle Ages
Introduction	649	(3)
The Story of Deirdre	652	(10)
Jeffrey Gantz
The Song of the Seeress	662	(10)
Paul B. Taylor
W. H. Auden
Thorstein the Staff-Struck	672	(7)
Hermann Palsson
The Song of Roland	679	(58)
Frederick Goldin
Marie De France (Twelfth Century)	737	(15)
Eliduc	738	(14)
John Fowles
Dante Alighieri (1265--1321)	752	(206)
The Divine Comedy
John Ciardi
Inferno	766	(145)
From Purgatorio	911	(25)
From Paradiso	936	(22)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313--1375)	958	(27)
The Decameron
Mark Musa
Peter E. Bondanella
The First Day	960	(14)
The Second Tale of the Fourth Day	974	(7)
The Ninth Tale of the Fifth Day	981	(4)
Francois Villon (1431--?)	985	(27)
Ballade	986	(1)
The Testament	987	(18)
Galway Kinnell
Masterpieces of the Renaissance
Introduction	1005	(7)
Francis Petrarch (1304--1374)	1012	(6)
Sonnet 3: It Was the Morning	1014	(1)
Sonnet 61: Blest Be the Day	1015	(1)
Joseph Auslander
Sonnet 62: Father in Heaven (Translated by Bernard Bergonzi)	1015	(1)
Sonnet 90: She Used To Let Her Golden Hair Fly Free	1016	(1)
Morris Bishop
Sonnet 292: The Eyes That Drew from Me	1016	(1)
Sonnet 300: Great Is My Envy of You	1017	(1)
Edwin Morgan
Sonnet 333: Go, Grieving Rimes of Mine	1017	(1)
Morris Bishop
Desiderius Erasmus (1466?--1536)	1018	(25)
From the Praise of Folly	1020	(23)
Leonard F. Dean
Baldesar Castiglione (1478--1529)	1043	(14)
The Book of the Courtier
Leonard E. Opdycke
[The Setting]	1045	(3)
[``Everything He May Do or Say Shall Be Stamped with Grace'']	1048	(9)
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469--1527)	1057	(17)
Letter to Francesco Vettori [``That Food Which Alone Is Mine'']	1060	(2)
The Prince
[Princely Virtues]	1062	(7)
[``Fortune Is a Woman'']	1069	(2)
[The Roman Dream]	1071	(3)
Allan H. Gilbert
Marguerite De Navarre (1492--1549)	1074	(22)
From The Heptameron
P. A. Chilton
Story 3	1079	(5)
Story 30	1084	(6)
Story 40	1090	(6)
Francois Rabelais (1495?--1553)	1096	(44)
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I
[Education of a Giant Humanist]	1099	(16)
[The Abbey of Theleme]	1115	(9)
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II
[Pantagruel: Birth and Education]	1124	(3)
[Father's Letter from Home]	1127	(13)
Jacques Le Clercq
Michel De Montaigne (1533--1592)	1140	(36)
Essays
E. J. Trechmann
Of Cannibals	1146	(11)
Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions	1157	(6)
Apology for Raimond Sebond	1163	(11)
Of Repentance	1174	(2)
Miguel De Cervantes (1547--1616)	1176	(154)
Don Quixote, Part I
[``I Know Who I Am, and Who I May Be, If I Choose'']	1181	(25)
[Fighting the Windmills and a Choleric Biscayan]	1206	(17)
[Of Goatherds, Roaming Shepherdesses, and Unrequited Loves]	1223	(26)
[Fighting the Sheep]	1249	(5)
[``To Right Wrongs and Come to the Aid of the Wretched'']	1254	(9)
[``Set Free at Once That Lovely Lady...'']	1263	(7)
Don Quixote, Part II
[``Put into a Book'']	1270	(7)
[A Victorious Duel]	1277	(31)
[``For I Well Know the Meaning of Valor'']	1308	(8)
[Last Duel]	1316	(5)
[Homecoming and Death]	1321	(9)
Samuel Putnam
Pedro Calderon De La Barca (1600--1681)	1330	(70)
Life Is a Dream	1333	(60)
Roy Campbell
Masterpieces of the Enlightenment
Introduction	1393	(7)
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere (1622--1673)	1400	(62)
Tartuffe	1402	(60)
Richard Wilbur
Jean Racine (1636--1699)	1462	(46)
Phaedra	1465	(43)
Kenneth Muir
Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz (1648--1695)	1508	(34)
Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz	1510	(32)
Margaret Peden
Francois-Marie Arouet De Voltaire (1694--1778)	1542	(86)
Candide, or Optimism	1545	(74)
Robert M. Adams
Masterpieces of the Nineteenth Century: Varieties of Romanticism
Introduction	1619	(9)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712--1778)	1628	(12)
From Confessions	1629	(11)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749--1832)	1640	(91)
Faust (Translated by Louis MacNeice)	1643	(88)
Prologue in Heaven	1643	(3)
The First Part of the Tragedy	1646	(85)
Francois Rene, Vicomte De Chateaubriand (1768--1848)	1731	(23)
Rene	1733	(21)
Irving Putter
Heinrich Heine (1797--1856)	1754	(9)
The Rose, the Lily, the Sun and the Dove	1756	(1)
P.G.L. Webb
A Spruce Is Standing Lonely	1756	(1)
Max Knight
Joseph Fabry
A Young Man Loves a Maiden	1756	(1)
Ernst Feise
Loreley	1757	(1)
Ernst Feise
My Beauty, My Love, You Have Bound Me	1757	(1)
Meno Spann
The Silesian Weavers	1758	(1)
Aaron Kramer
The Asra	1758	(1)
Erast Feise
Babylonian Sorrows	1759	(1)
Aaron Kramer
How Slowly Time, the Loathsome Snail	1760	(1)
Ernst Feise
The Migratory Rats	1761	(1)
Ernst Feise
At Parting	1762	(1)
Dwight Durling
Morphine	1763	(1)
Ernst Feise
Giacomo Leopardi (1798--1837)	1763	(10)
The Broom	1765	(8)
Edwin Morgan
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799--1837)	1773	(24)
The Queen of Spades
Gillon R. Aitken	1775	(22)
Victor Hugo (1802--1885)	1797	(20)
Reverie	1799	(1)
Tomorrow, At Daybreak	1799	(1)
Memory of the Night of the Fourth	1800	(1)
Et nox facta est	1801	(7)
Sowing Season. Evening	1808	(1)
Mary Ann Caws
Masterpieces of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Naturalism, and the New Poetry
Introduction	1809	(8)
Gustave Flaubert (1821--1880)	1817	(28)
A Simple Heart	1819	(26)
Arthur McDowall
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821--1881)	1845	(94)
Notes from Underground	1852	(87)
Constance Garnett
Leo Tolstoy (1828--1910)	1939	(50)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich	1943	(46)
Louise
Aylmer Maude)
Georg Buchner (1813--1837)	1989	(20)
Woyzeck	1993	(16)
Henry J. Schmidt
Henrik Ibsen (1828--1906)	2009	(70)
Hedda Gabler	2014	(65)
Michael Meyer
Anton Chekhov (1860--1904)	2079	(46)
The Cherry Orchard	2083	(42)
Avraham Yarmolinsky
Charles Baudelaire (1821--1867)	2125	(28)
The Flowers of Evil	2128	(15)
Correspondences	2128	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Her Hair	2129	(1)
Roy Campbell
You'd Take the Entire Universe to Bed with You	2130	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Carrion	2130	(2)
Allen Tate
The Balcony	2132	(1)
To One Who Is Too Gay	2132	(1)
Roy Campbell
Spleen	2133	(1)
Robert Lowell
Parisian Dream	2134	(2)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Voyage to Cythera	2136	(1)
Robert Lowell
The Voyage	2137	(6)
Roy Campbell
Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century: Varieties of Modernism
Introduction	2143	(10)
Luigi Pirandello (1867--1936)	2153	(48)
Six Characters in Search of an Author	2156	(45)
Edward Storer
Marcel Proust (1871--1922)	2201	(46)
Remembrance of Things Past	2206	(41)
Swann's Way: Overture	2206	(41)
C. K. Scott Moncrieff
Terence Kilmartin
Thomas Mann (1875--1955)	2247	(41)
Mario and the Magician	2252	(36)
H. T. Lowe-Porter
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875--1926)	2288	(10)
Archaic Torso of Apollo	2292	(1)
Archaischer Torso Apollos	2293	(1)
Duino Elegy I	2293	(3)
Duino Elegy IX	2296	(2)
Stephen Mitchell
Franz Kafka (1883--1924)	2298	(43)
The Metamorphosis	2301	(40)
Stanley Corngold
Anna Akhmatova (1889--1966)	2341	(12)
Requiem	2346	(7)
D. M. Thomas
Bertolt Brecht (1898--1956)	2353	(68)
Mother Courage and Her Children	2358	(63)
Ralph Manheim
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898--1936)	2421	(12)
Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias	2425	(7)
Stephen Spender
J. L. Gili
Cogida and Death	2425	(2)
The Spilled Blood	2427	(2)
The Laid Out Body	2429	(2)
Absent Soul	2431	(1)
Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias
Alma ausente	2432	(1)
Albert Camus (1913--1960)	2433	(20)
The Guest	2437	(12)
Justin O'Brien
Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century: Contemporary Explorations
Introduction	2449	(4)
Jorge Luis Borges (1899--1986)	2453	(11)
The Garden of Forking Paths	2456	(8)
Donald A. Yates
Samuel Beckett (1906-- )	2464	(37)
Endgame	2469	(32)
Marguerite Duras (1914-- )	2501	(38)
Hiroshima Mon Amour	2505	(34)
Richard Seaver
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-- )	2539	(36)
Matryona's Home	2544	(31)
H. T. Willetts
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-- )	2575	(8)
The Secret Room	2579	(4)
Bruce Morrissette
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-- )	2583	(12)
Death Constant Beyond Love	2588	(7)
Gregory Rabassa
Wole Soyinka (1934-- )	2595	(56)
The Lion and the Jewel	2600	(51)
A Note on Translation	2651	(8)
Index	2659