The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

by Maynard Mack

Edition:

6th

ISBN13:

9780393961409

ISBN10:

0393961400

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Pub. Date:

1/1/1992

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W. W. Norton & Company

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This groundbreaking Norton Anthology offers the best of the literatures of India, China, Japan, the Middle East, Africa, and native America alongside the masterpieces of the Western tradition.

PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION

(6)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

xxi

Masterpieces of the Ancient World

(1008)

INTRODUCTION

(44)

The Epic of Gilgamesh

(34)

N. K. Sandars

THE OLD TESTAMENT

(47)

Genesis 1-3. (The Creation--The Fall)

(4)

Genesis 4. (The First Murder)

(1)

Genesis 6-9. (The Flood)

(4)

Genesis 11. (The Origin of Languages)

(1)

Genesis 37-46. (The Story of Joseph)

(12)

From Job

(17)

Psalm 8

(1)

Psalm 19

(1)

Psalm 23

(1)

Psalm 104

(2)

Psalm 137

(1)

Isaiah 52-53. (The Song of the Suffering Servant)

(1)

Jonah (The King James Version)

(2)

HOMER

(448)

The Iliad

(110)

Book I. The Rage of Achilles

(18)

From Book VI. Hector Returns to Troy

116

(8)

From Book VIII. The Tide of Battle Turns

124

(1)

Book IX. The Embassy to Achilles

124

(21)

Book XVIII. The Shield of Achilles

145

(16)

Book XIX. The Champion Arms for Battle

161

(12)

Book XXII. The Death of Hector

173

(14)

Book XXIV. Achilles and Priam

187

(21)

Robert Fagles

The Odyssey

208

(332)

Book I. A Goddess Intervenes

208

(12)

Book II. A Hero's Son Awakens

220

(11)

Book III. The Lord of the Western Approaches

231

(13)

Book IV. The Red-Haired King and His Lady

244

(22)

Book V. Sweet Nymph and Open Sea

266

(12)

Book VI. The Princess at the River

278

(8)

Book VII. Gardens and Firelight

286

(9)

Book VIII. The Songs of the Harper

295

(15)

Book IX. New Coasts and Poseidon's Son

310

(15)

Book X. The Grace of the Witch

325

(15)

Book XI. A Gathering of Shades

340

(19)

Book XII. Sea Perils and Defeat

359

(13)

Book XIII. One More Strange Island

372

(13)

Book XIV. Hospitality in the Forest

385

(15)

Book XV. How They Came to Ithaka

400

(17)

Book XVI. Father and Son

417

(14)

Book XVII. The Beggar at the Manor

431

(19)

Book XVIII. Blows and a Queen's Beauty

450

(12)

Book XIX. Recognitions and a Dream

462

(17)

Book XX. Signs and a Vision

479

(11)

Book XXI. The Test of the Bow

490

(12)

Book XXII. Death in the Great Hall

502

(13)

Book XXIII. The Trunk of the Olive Tree

515

(10)

Book XXIV. Warriors, Farewell

525

(15)

Robert Fitzgerald

SAPPHO OF LESBOS (born ca. 630 B.C.)

540

(3)

"Throned in splendor, deathless, O Aphrodite"

541

(1)

"Like the very gods in my sight is he ..."

542

(1)

"Some there are who say that the fairest things seen"

542

(1)

Richard Lattimore

AESCHYLUS (524?-456 B.C.)

543

(109)

The Oresteia

548

(104)

Agamemnon

548

(46)

The Libation Bearers

594

(29)

The Eumenides

623

(29)

Robert Fagles

SOPHOCLES (496-406 B.C.)

652

(87)

Oedipus the King

658

(43)

Antigone

701

(38)

Robert Fagles

EURIPIDES (480-406 B.C.)

739

(33)

Medea

740

(32)

Rex Warner

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

772

(34)

Lysistrata

774

(32)

Charles T. Murphy

PLATO (429-347 B.C.)

806

(25)

The Apology of Socrates

807

(20)

From Phaedo (The Death of Socrates)

827

(4)

Benjamin Jowett

ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

831

(4)

From Poetics

831

(4)

James Hutton

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

835

(6)

"Come, Lesbia, let us live and love"

836

(1)

"There are many who think of Quintia ..."

836

(1)

"No woman, if she is honest, can say ..."

837

(1)

"When at last after long despair ..."

837

(1)

"My life, my love, you say our love will last forever"

837

(1)

"Lesbia speaks evil of me ..."

837

(1)

"My woman says that she would rather wear the wedding-veil for me"

838

(1)

"There was a time, O Lesbia ..."

838

(1)

"Were you born of a lioness ..."

838

(1)

"I hate and love"

838

(1)

"You are the cause of this destruction, Lesbia"

839

(1)

"Poor damned Catullus, here's no time for nonsense"

839

(1)

"Caelius, my Lesbia, that one, that only Lesbia"

839

(1)

"Furius, Aurelius, bound to Catullus"

839

(1)

"If man can find rich consolation ..."

840

(1)

Horace Gregory

VIRGIL (70-19 B.C.)

841

(76)

The Aeneid

844

(73)

From Book I. (Aeneas Arrives in Carthage)

844

(9)

Book II. How They Took the City

853

(24)

Book IV. The Passion of the Queen

877

(23)

From Book VI. (Aeneas in the Underworld)

900

(7)

From Book VIII. (The Shield of Aeneas)

907

(4)

From Book XII. (The Death of Turnus)

911

(6)

Robert Fitzgerald

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

917

(30)

Metamorphoses

918

(29)

Book I

918

(1)

The Creation

918

(2)

The Four Ages

920

(2)

Jove's Intervention

922

(1)

The Story of Lycaon

923

(1)

The Flood

924

(2)

Deucalion and Pyrrha

926

(3)

Apollo and Daphne

929

(3)

Jove and Io

932

(5)

Book XV

937

(1)

The Teachings of Pythagoras

937

(10)

Rolfe Humphries

THE NEW TESTAMENT

947

(14)

Luke 2 (The Birth and Youth of Jesus)

948

(2)

Matthew 5-7 (The Teaching of Jesus: The Sermon on the Mount)

950

(4)

Luke 15 (The Teaching of Jesus: Parables)

954

(2)

Matthew 26 (The Betrayal of Jesus)

956

(2)

Matthew 27 (The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus)

958

(3)

Matthew 28 (The Resurrection) (The King James Version)

961

(1)

PETRONIUS (died A.D. 65)

961

(19)

The Satyricon

963

(17)

Dinner with Trimalchio

963

(17)

J. P. Sullivan

ST. AUGUSTINE (A.D. 354-430)

980

(29)

Confessions

982

(27)

From Book I. (Childhood)

982

(4)

From Book II. (The Pear Tree)

986

(2)

From Book III. (The Student at Carthage)

988

(2)

From Book VI. (Worldly Ambitions)

990

(3)

From Book VIII. (Conversion)

993

(3)

From Book IX. (Death of His Mother)

996

(13)

F. J. Sheed

Masterpieces of the Middle Ages

1009

(652)

INTRODUCTION

1009

(207)

From The Koran

1014

(38)

Sura 1. The Exordium

1014

(1)

Sura 4. Women

1014

(3)

Sura 5. The Table

1017

(10)

Sura 10. Jonah

1027

(6)

Sura 12. Joseph

1033

(6)

Sura 19. Mary

1039

(4)

Sura 55. The Merciful

1043

(2)

Sura 62. Friday, or the Day of Congregation

1045

(1)

Sura 71. Noah

1045

(1)

Sura 76. Man

1045

(7)

N. J. Dawood

Beowulf

1052

(72)

Burton Raffel

The Wanderer

1124

(5)

Charles W. Kennedy

The Story of Deirdre

1129

(8)

Jeffrey Gantz

The Song of the Seeress

1137

(11)

Paul B. Taylor

W. H. Auden

Thorstein the Staff-Struck

1148

(11)

Hermann Palsson

From The Song of Roland

1159

(57)

Frederick Goldin

MARIE DE FRANCE (Twelfth Century)

1216

(57)

Eliduc

1218

(13)

John Fowles

Aucassin and Nicolette

1231

(28)

Glyn S. Burgess

Medieval Latin Lyric Poetry

1259

(14)

Boethius

Saint Venantius Fortunatus

Alcuin

Sedulius Scottus

Mss. of Salzburg, Canterbury, and Limoges Pierre Abelard

The Archpoet

From Carmina Burana Thomas Aquinas

DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321)

1273

(194)

The Divine Comedy

1284

(183)

Inferno

1284

(139)

From Purgatorio

1423

(24)

From Paradiso

1447

(20)

John Ciardi

GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO (1313-1375)

1467

(84)

The Decameron

1470

(22)

The First Day

1470

(12)

The Second Tale of the Fourth Day

1482

(6)

The Ninth Tale of the Fifth Day

1488

(4)

Mark Musa

Peter E. Bondanella

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

1492

(59)

Marie Borroff

GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1340?-1400)

1551

(70)

The Canterbury Tales

1558

(63)

General Prologue

1558

(19)

Prologue to the Miller's Tale

1577

(1)

The Miller's Tale

1578

(14)

Prologue to the Pardoner's Tale

1592

(3)

The Pardoner's Tale

1595

(11)

(The Knight's Interruption of the Monk's Tale)

1606

(1)

The Nun's Priest's Tale

1607

(14)

Theodore Morrison

FRANCOIS VILLON (1431-?)

1621

(40)

Ballade

1622

(1)

From The Testament

1623

(14)

Galway Kinnell

Everyman (ca. 1485)

1637

(24)

E. Talbot Donaldson

Masterpieces of the Renaissance

1661

(560)

INTRODUCTION

1661

(7)

FRANCIS PETRARCH (1304-1374)

1668

(11)

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

1670

(6)

James H. Robinson

Henry W. Rolfe

Sonnet 3: It Was the Morning

1676

(1)

Sonnet 61: Blest Be the Day

1677

(1)

Joseph Auslander

Sonnet 62: Father in Heaven

1677

(1)

Bernard Bergonzi

Sonnet 90: She Used to Let Her Golden Hair Fly Free

1677

(1)

Morris Bishop

Sonnet 292: The Eyes That Drew from Me

1678

(1)

Sonnet 300: Great Is My Envy of You

1678

(1)

Edwin Morgan

Sonnet 333: Go, Grieving Rimes of Mine

1679

(1)

Morris Bishop

DESIDERIUS ERASMUS (1466-1536)

1679

(23)

The Praise of Folly

1682

(20)

Part I. Folly Herself

1682

(1)

Part II. The Powers and Pleasures of Folly

1683

(15)

Part IV. The Christian Fool

1698

(4)

Leonard F. Dean

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (1469-1527)

1702

(16)

Letter to Francesco Vettori ("That Food Which Alone Is Mine")

1705

(1)

The Prince

1706

(12)

(Princely Virtues)

1706

(7)

("Fortune Is a Woman")

1713

(2)

(The Roman Dream)

1715

(3)

Allan H. Gilbert

BALDESAR CASTIGLIONE (1478-1529)

1718

(12)

The Book of the Courtier

1719

(11)

(The Setting)

1719

(3)

("Everything He May Do or Say Shall Be Stamped with Grace")

1722

(8)

Leonard E. Opdycke

MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE (1492-1549)

1730

(20)

The Heptameron

1734

(16)

Story Three

1734

(5)

Story Thirty

1739

(5)

Story Forty

1744

(6)

P. A. Chilton

FRANCOIS RABELAIS (1495?-1553)

1750

(39)

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I

1753

(22)

(Education of a Giant Humanist)

1753

(13)

(The Abbey of Theleme)

1766

(9)

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II

1775

(14)

(Pantagruel: Birth and Education)

1775

(2)

(Father's Letter from Home)

1777

(3)

(Adventures of Panurge)

1780

(9)

Burton Raffel

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE (1533-1592)

1789

(30)

Essays

1793

(26)

Of Cannibals

1793

(10)

Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions

1803

(5)

From Apology for Raymond Sebond

1808

(8)

Of Repentance

1816

(3)

Donald Frame

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES (1547-1616)

1819

(136)

Don Quixote, Part I

1823

(79)

("I Know Who I Am, and Who I May Be, If I Choose")

1823

(22)

(Fighting the Windmills and a Choleric Biscayan)

1845

(15)

(Of Goatherds, Roaming Shepherdesses, and Unrequited Loves)

1860

(24)

(Fighting the Sheep)

1884

(4)

("To Right Wrongs and Come to the Aid of the Wretched")

1888

(8)

("Set Free at Once That Lovely Lady ...")

1896

(6)

Don Quixote, Part II

1902

(53)

("Put Into a Book")

1902

(6)

(A Victorious Duel)

1908

(28)

("For I Well Know the Meaning of Valor")

1936

(7)

(Last Duel)

1943

(4)

(Homecoming and Death)

1947

(8)

Samuel Putnam

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593)

1955

(55)

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus

1958

(52)

Hallett Smith

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)

2010

(100)

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

2014

(96)

JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)

2110

(7)

The Good-Morrow

2112

(1)

Song ("Go and catch a falling star")

2112

(1)

The Indifferent

2113

(1)

The Canonization

2114

(1)

The Apparition

2115

(1)

The Funeral

2115

(1)

Holy Sonnets

2116

(1)

Sonnet 7: "At the round earth's imagined corners, blow"

2116

(1)

Sonnet 10: "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee"

2116

(1)

PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA (1600-1681)

2117

(59)

Life Is a Dream

2120

(56)

Roy Campbell

JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)

2176

(45)

Paradise Lost

2179

(42)

From Book I. ("This Great Argument")

2179

(1)

Book IX. (Temptation and Fall)

2180

(28)

From Book X. (Acceptance, Reconciliation, Hope)

2208

(9)

From Book XII. ("The World Was All Before Them")

2217

(4)

A NOTE ON TRANSLATION

2221

(8)

INDEX

2229

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