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The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

by MACK MAYNARD

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Pub. Date:

1/1/1997

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Summary

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

xxiii

(8)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

xxxi

(4)

PHONETIC EQUIVALENTS

xxxv

PART I BEGINNINGS TO A.D. 100

(700)

The Invention of Writing and the Earliest Literatures

(84)

MAP: THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST, CA. 1000 B.C. TIMELINE

(2)

GILGAMESH (Akkadian, ca. 2500-1300 B.C.)

(32)

N. K. Sandars

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN POETRY (Egyptian, ca. 1500-ca. 1200 B.C.)

(6)

The Leiden Hymns

(1)

[How splendid you ferry the skyways]

(1)

[God is a master craftsman]

(1)

[When Being began back in days of the genesis]

(1)

Love Songs

(3)

[My love is one and only, without peer]

(1)

[Love, how I'd love to slip down to the pond]

(1)

[Why, just now, must you question your heart?]

(1)

[I was simply off to see Nefrus my friend]

(1)

[I think I'll go home and lie very still]

(1)

John L. Foster

THE BIBLE: THE OLD TESTAMENT (Hebrew, ca. 1000-300 B.C.)

(39)

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, 39-46 [The Story of Joseph]

(11)

From Job

(11)

Psalm 8

(1)

Psalm 19

(1)

Psalm 23

(1)

Psalm 137

(1)

Isaiah 52-53 [The Song of the Suffering Servant]

(3)

(The King James Version)

Ancient Greece and the Formation of the Western Mind

(440)

MAP: GREECE AND WESTERN ASIA MINOR, CA. FIFTH CENTURY B.C. TIMELINE

(2)

HOMER (eighth century B.C.)

(240)

The Odyssey (Greek)

100

(236)

Book V [Sweet Nymph and Open Sea]

101

(10)

Book VI [The Princess at the River]

111

(7)

Book VII [Gardens and Firelight]

118

(8)

Book VIII [The Songs of the Harper]

126

(13)

Book IX [New Coasts and Poseidon's Son]

139

(12)

Book X [The Grace of the Witch]

151

(14)

Book XI [A Gathering of Shades]

165

(16)

Book XII [Sea Perils and Defeat]

181

(11)

Book XIII [One More Strange Island]

192

(12)

Book XIV [Hospitality in the Forest]

204

(12)

Book XV [How They Came to Ithaka]

216

(14)

Book XVI [Father and Son]

230

(12)

Book XVII [The Beggar at the Manor]

242

(17)

Book XVIII [Blows and a Queen's Beauty]

259

(11)

Book XIX [Recognitions and a Dream]

270

(14)

Book XX [Signs and a Vision]

284

(9)

Book XXI [The Test of the Bow]

293

(10)

Book XXII [Death in the Great Hall]

303

(12)

Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree]

315

(9)

Book XXIV [Warriors, Farewell]

324

(12)

Robert Fitzgerald

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

336

(3)

Lyrics (Greek)

337

(2)

[Throned in splendor, deathless, O Aphrodite]

337

(1)

[Like the very gods in my sight is he]

338

(1)

[Some there are who say that the fairest things seen]

338

(1)

Richmond Lattimore

AESCHYLUS (524?-456 B.C.)

339

(49)

The Oresteia (Greek)

344

(44)

Agamemnon

344

(44)

Robert Fagles

SOPHOCLES (ca. 496-406 B.C.)

388

(45)

Oedipus the King (Greek)

392

(41)

Robert Fagles

EURIPIDES (480-406 B.C.)

433

(33)

Medea (Greek)

435

(31)

Rex Warner

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

466

(33)

Lysistrata (Greek)

467

(32)

PLATO (429-347 B.C.)

499

(21)

The Apology of Socrates (Greek)

500

(20)

Benjamin Jowett)

ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

520

(7)

From Poetics (Greek)

521

(6)

James Hutton

Poetry and Thought in Early China

527

(40)

MAP: CHINA DURING THE "WARRING STATES" PERIOD, CA. 250 B.C. TIMELINE

532

(2)

BOOK OF SONGS (Chinese, ca. 1000-600 B.C.)

534

(11)

17 ("Plop fall the plums; but there are still seven")

536

(1)

18 ("She threw a quince to me")

536

(1)

22 ("Of fair girls the loveliest")

537

(1)

24 ("I beg of you, Chung Tzu")

537

(1)

25 ("The lady says: `The cock has crowed'")

538

(1)

28 ("Cold blows the northern wind")

538

(1)

54 ("HE: The gourd has bitter leaves")

538

(1)

56 ("If along the highroad")

539

(1)

57 ("By the willows of the Eastern Gate")

539

(1)

63 ("In the wilds there is a dead doe")

539

(1)

75 ("Tossed is that cypress boat")

540

(1)

131 ("We plucked the bracken, plucked the bracken")

540

(1)

157 ("They clear away the grass, the trees")

541

(1)

238 ("She who in the beginning gave birth to the people")

542

(2)

276 ("Big rat, big rat")

544

(1)

278 ("Kio' sings the oriole")

544

(1)

Arthur Waley

CONFUCIUS (551-479 B.C.)

545

(10)

From Analects (Chinese)

548

(7)

D. C. Lau

CHUANG CHOU (ca. 369-286 B.C.)

555

(12)

Chuang Tzu (Chinese)

557

(10)

Chapter 2. Discussion on Making All Things Equal

557

(10)

Burton Watson

India's Heroic Age

567

(60)

MAP: INDIA, 1200 B.C.-100 A.D. TIMELINE

574

(2)

THE RAMAYANA OF VALMIKI (Sanskrit, ca. 550 B.C.)

576

(36)

From Book 2. Rama Exiled

581

(31)

Sheldon I. Pollock

THE BHAGAVAD-GITA (Sanskrit, first century B.C.)

612

(15)

From The Second Teaching [Philosophy and Spiritual Discipline]

616

(3)

From The Third Teaching [Discipline of Action]

619

(2)

From The Sixth Teaching [The Man of Discipline]

621

(2)

From The Eleventh Teaching [The Vision of Krishna's Totality]

623

(4)

Barbara Stoler Miller

The Roman Empire

627

(76)

MAP: THE ROMAN EMPIRE, CA. 117 TIMELINE

630

(2)

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

632

(4)

Lyrics (Latin)

632

(4)

5 ("Come, Lesbia, let us live and love")

632

(1)

87 ("No woman, if she is honest")

633

(1)

107 ("When at last after long despair, our hopes ring true again")

633

(1)

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

633

(1)

83 ("Lesbia speaks evil of me")

633

(1)

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

633

(1)

72 ("There was a time, O Lesbia")

634

(1)

85 ("I hate and love")

634

(1)

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

634

(1)

11 ("Furius, Aurelius, bound to Catullus")

635

(1)

76 ("If man can find rich consolation")

635

(1)

Horace Gregory

VIRGIL (70-19 B.C.)

636

(47)

The Aeneid (Latin)

639

(44)

From Book I

639

(9)

[Prologue]

639

(1)

[Aeneas Arrives in Carthage]

640

(8)

Book IV [The Passion of the Queen]

648

(20)

From Book VI [Aeneas in the Underworld]

668

(6)

From Book VIII [The Shield of Aeneas]

674

(4)

From Book XII [The Death of Turnus]

678

(5)

Robert Fitzgerald

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

683

(20)

Metamorphoses (Latin)

684

(19)

From Book I

684

(1)

[The Creation]

684

(2)

[The Four Ages]

686

(1)

[Jove's Intervention]

687

(1)

[The Story of Lycaon]

688

(2)

[The Flood]

690

(1)

[Deucalion and Pyrrha]

691

(3)

[Apollo and Daphne]

694

(2)

From Book IV [Pyramus and Thisbe]

696

(7)

Rolfe Humphries

PART II 100 TO 1500

703

(772)

From Roman Empire to Christian Europe

703

(36)

MAP: THE SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY, 30-600 TIMELINE

706

(2)

THE BIBLE: THE NEW TESTAMENT (Greek, ca. first century)

708

(14)

Luke 2 [The Birth and Youth of Jesus]

709

(2)

Matthew 5-7 [The Teaching of Jesus: The Sermon on the Mount]

711

(4)

Luke 15 [The Teaching of Jesus: Parables]

715

(1)

Matthew 26 [The Betrayal of Jesus]

716

(3)

Matthew 27 [The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus]

719

(2)

Matthew 28 [The Resurrection]

721

(1)

The King James Version

AUGUSTINE (354-430)

722

(17)

Confessions (Latin)

723

(16)

From Book I [Childhood]

723

(4)

From Book II [The Pear Tree]

727

(2)

From Book III [Student at Carthage]

729

(2)

From Book VI [Worldly Ambitions]

731

(3)

From Book VIII [Conversion]

734

(5)

F. J. Sheed

India's Classical Age

739

(212)

MAP: INDIA, 100-1200 TIMELINE

744

(2)

KALIDASA (fourth century)

746

(205)

Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection (Sanskrit)

750

(201)

Barbara Stoler Miller

The Formation of a Western Literature

951

(324)

MAP: EUROPE, CA. 1360 TIMELINE

954

(2)

From THE SONG OF ROLAND (French, twelfth century)

956

(40)

Frederick Goldin

MARIE DE FRANCE (twelfth century)

996

(14)

Eliduc (French)

998

(12)

John Fowles

DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321)

1010

(132)

The Divine Comedy (Italian)

1017

(1)

Inferno

1017

(125)

John Ciardi

GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO (1313-1375)

1142

(23)

The Decameron (Italian)

1144

(21)

The First Day

1144

(12)

The Second Tale of the Fourth Day

1156

(6)

The Ninth Tale of the Fifth Day

1162

(3)

Mark Musa

Peter E. Bondanella

GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1340?-1400)

1165

(52)

The Canterbury Tales (Middle English)

1171

(46)

General Prologue

1171

(18)

The Miller's Prologue and Tale

1189

(15)

The Prologue

1189

(1)

The Tale

1190

(14)

The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

1204

(13)

The Prologue

1204

(3)

The Tale

1207

(10)

Theodore Morrison

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (Middle English, fourteenth century)

1217

(58)

Marie Borroff

The Golden Age of Japanese Culture

1275

(136)

MAP: JAPAN, SEVENTH-SIXTEENTH CENTURIES TIMELINE

1278

(2)

THE MAN'YOSHU (Japanese, eighth century)

1280

(12)

29-31. Poem written by Kakinomoto Hitomaro when he passed the ruined capital at Omi

1284

(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

1285

(1)

220-222. Poem written by Kakinomoto Hitomaro upon seeing a dead man lying among the rocks on the island of Samine in Sanuki

1286

(2)

338-350. Thirteen poems in praise of wine by Lord Otomo Tabito, the Commander of the Dazaifu

1288

(1)

804-805. Poem sorrowing on the impermanence of life in this world

1289

(1)

892-893. Dialog of the Destitute

1290

(2)

Jan Hideo Levy

MURASAKI SHIKIBU (ca. 973-1016)

1292

(101)

The Tale of Genji (Japanese)

1301

(92)

Chapter 2. The Broom Tree

1301

(23)

Chapter 4. Evening Faces

1324

(20)

Chapter 12. Suma

1344

(20)

Chapter 13. Akashi

1364

(19)

Chapter 25. Fireflies

1383

(10)

Edward G. Seidensticker

NO DRAMA

1393

(18)

KANZE KOJIRO NOBUMITSU (1435-1516)

1400

(11)

Dojoji (Japanese)

1400

(11)

Donald Keene

Medieval India: The Age of the Devotional Lyric

1411

(20)

MAP: INDIA, 1200-1650 TIMELINE

1416

(2)

POEMS OF THE VIRASAIVA SAINTS (KANNADA)

1418

(3)

MAHADEVIYAKKA (twelfth century)

1419

(2)

17 ("Like a silkworm weaving")

1419

(1)

114 ("Husband inside, /lover outside")

1419

(1)

119 ("What's to come tomorrow")

1419

(1)

124 ("You can confiscate / money in hand")

1420

(1)

283 ("I love the Handsome One")

1420

(1)

294 ("O brothers, why do you talk")

1420

(1)

336 ("Look at / love's marvellous / ways")

1421

(1)

A. K. Ramanujan

THE BENGALI VAISNAVA SAINTS' SONGS OF DEVOTION TO KRISHNA (BENGALI)

1421

(10)

GOVINDADASA (fifteenth century)

1423

(2)

[O Madhava, how shall I tell you of my terror?]

1423

(1)

[When they had made love]

1424

(1)

[Let the earth of my body be mixed with the earth]

1424

(1)

Edward C. Dimock

Denise Levertov

MIRABAI (sixteenth century; Brajbhasa, Gujerati)

1425

(6)

37 ("I'm colored with the color of dusk, oh rana")

1426

(1)

42 ("Life without Hari is no life, friend")

1427

(1)

82 ("I saw the dark clouds burst")

1427

(1)

84 ("Hey love bird, crying cuckoo")

1427

(1)

153 ("Go to where my loved one lives")

1428

(1)

166 ("Murali sounds on the banks of the Jumna")

1428

(1)

193 ("Let us go to a realm beyond going")

1429

(2)

John Stratton Hawley

Mark Juergensmeyer

Africa: The Mali Epic of Son-Jara

1431

(44)

MAP: WESTERN AFRICA, 1200-1400 TIMELINE

1436

(1)

From THE EPIC OF SON-JARA (Maninka, late thirteenth-early fourteenth century)

1437

(38)

Fa-Digi Sisoko

John William Johnson

PART III 1500 TO 1650

1475

(288)

The Renaissance in Europe

1475

(254)

MAP: WESTERN EUROPE, CA. 1560 TIMELINE

1482

(2)

FRANCIS PETRARCH (1304-1374)

1484

(4)

Sonnets (Italian)

1486

(2)

3 ("It was the morning of that blessed day")

1486

(1)

61 ("Blest be the day, and blest the month and year")

1486

(1)

Joseph Auslander

90 ("She used to let her golden hair fly free")

1487

(1)

Morris Bishop

292 ("The eyes that drew from me such fervent praise")

1487

(1)

Edwin Morgan

333 ("Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone")

1487

(1)

Morris Bishop

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (1469-1527)

1488

(14)

The Prince (Italian)

1491

(11)

[Princely Virtues]

1491

(6)

["Fortune Is a Woman"]

1497

(2)

[The Roman Dream]

1499

(3)

Allan H. Gilbert

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE (1533-1592)

1502

(21)

Essays (French)

1506

(17)

To the Reader

1506

(1)

Of Cannibals

1506

(10)

Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions

1516

(5)

Of Repentance

1521

(2)

Donald Frame

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES (1547-1616)

1523

(106)

Don Quixote (Spanish)

1527

(102)

Part I

1527

(51)

["I Know Who I Am, and Who I May Be, If I Choose"]

1527

(21)

[Fighting the Windmills and a Choleric Biscayan]

1548

(16)

["To Right Wrongs and Come to the Aid of the Wretched"]

1564

(8)

["Set Free at Once That Lovely Lady"]

1572

(6)

Part II

1578

(51)

["Put into a Book"]

1578

(6)

[A Victorious Duel]

1584

(26)

["For I Well Known the Meaning of Valor"]

1610

(7)

[Last Duel]

1617

(4)

[Homecoming and Death]

1621

(8)

Samuel Putnam

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)

1629

(100)

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

1633

(96)

Native America and Europe in the New World

1729

(34)

MAP: THE AMERICAS, 1500-1600 TIMELINE

1734

(2)

FLORENTINE CODEX (Nahuatl and Spanish, 1547-1579)

1736

(3)

[The Midwife Addresess the Woman Who Has Died in Childbirth]

1737

(2)

John Bierhorst

[The Midwife Addresses the Newly Delivered Woman]

1739

(1)

Thelma Sullivan

CANTARES MEXICANOS (Nahuatl, 1550-1581)

1739

(3)

Song IV. Mexican Otomi Song

1741

(1)

Song XII. Song for Admonishing Those Who Seek No Honor in War

1742

(1)

John Bierhorst

POPUL VUH (Quiche Mayan, 1554-1558)

1742

(21)

From Part 1 [Prologue, Creation]

1746

(2)

From Part 2 [The Twins Defeat Seven Macaw]

1748

(2)

From Part 3 [Victory over the Underworld]

1750

(5)

From Part 4 [Origin of Humanity, First Dawn]

1755

(4)

From Part 5 [Prayer for Future Generations]

1759

(4)

Dennis Tedlock

PART IV 1650 TO 1800

1763

(374)

Vernacular Literature in China

1763

(126)

MAP: CHINA, CA. 1645 TIMELINE

1766

(2)

CAO XUEQIN (Ts`ao Hsueh-ch`in) (1715-1763)

1768

(121)

The Story of the Stone (Chinese)

1770

(1)

Volume 1

1770

(21)

Chapter 1

1770

(6)

Summary. Chapters 1 to 25

1776

(1)

Chapter 26

1777

(14)

Volume 2

1791

(98)

Chapter 27

1791

(12)

Chapter 28

1803

(18)

Chapter 29

1821

(17)

Chapter 30

1838

(10)

Chapter 31

1848

(12)

Chapter 32

1860

(9)

Chapter 33

1869

(9)

Chapter 34

1878

(11)

The Enlightenment in Europe

1889

(214)

MAP: EUROPE, CA. 1740 TIMELINE

1896

(2)

JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE (1622-1673)

1898

(58)

Tartuffe (French)

1900

(56)

Richard Wilbur

JEAN RACINE (1639-1699)

1956

(42)

Phaedra (French)

1956

(39)

Richard Wilbur

SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ (1648-1695)

1998

(29)

Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz (Spanish)

2000

(27)

Margaret Sayers Peden

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)

2027

(7)

A Modest Proposal

2028

(6)

Herbert Davis

FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (1694-1778)

2034

(69)

Candide, or Optimism (French)

2037

(66)

Robert M. Adams

The Rise of Popular in Premodern Japan

2103

(34)

MAP: JAPAN, SEVENTEENTH-NINETEENTH CENTURIES TIMELINE

2106

(2)

MATSUO BASHO (1644-1694)

2108

(29)

The Narrow Road of the Interior (Japanese)

2112

(25)

Helen Craig McCullough

Steven D. Carter

PART V 1800 TO 1900

2137

(442)

Revolution and Romanticism in Europe and America

2137

(188)

MAP: EUROPE AND EASTERN AMERICA, CA. 1866 TIMELINE

2146

(2)

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778)

2148

(11)

From Confessions, Part I (French)

2150

(9)

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832)

2159

(105)

Faust (German)

2162

(102)

Prologue in Heaven

2162

(2)

The First Part of the Tragedy

2164

(100)

Walter Kaufman

WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

2264

(9)

Songs of Innocence

2266

(3)

Introduction

2266

(1)

The Lamb

2267

(1)

The Little Black Boy

2267

(1)

Holy Thursday

2268

(1)

The Chimney Sweeper

2268

(1)

Songs of Experience

2269

(3)

Introduction

2269

(1)

Earth's Answer

2269

(1)

The Tyger

2270

(1)

The Sick Rose

2271

(1)

London

2271

(1)

The Chimney Sweeper

2271

(1)

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau

2272

(1)

And Did Those Feet

2272

(1)

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)

2273

(11)

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

2275

(4)

Ode on Intimations of Immortality

2279

(4)

Composed upon Westiminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

2283

(1)

The World Is Too Much with Us

2284

(1)

ALEXANDER SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN (1799-1837)

2284

(21)

The Queen of Spades (Russian)

2286

(19)

Gillon R. Aitken

WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)

2305

(8)

From Song of Myself

2308

(5)

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)

2313

(12)

216 ("Safe in their Alabaster Chambers--")

2315

(1)

258 ("There's a certain Slant of light")

2315

(1)

303 ("The Soul selects her own Society--")

2315

(1)

328 ("A Bird came down the Walk--")

2316

(1)

341 ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes--")

2316

(1)

435 ("Much Madness is divinest Sense--")

2317

(1)

449 ("I died for Beauty--but was scarce")

2317

(1)

465 ("I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--")

2317

(1)

519 ("'Twas warm--at first--like Us--")

2318

(1)

585 ("I like to see it lap the Miles--")

2318

(1)

632 ("The Brain--is wider than the Sky--")

2318

(1)

657 ("I dwell in Possibility--")

2319

(1)

712 ("Because I could not stop for Death--"

2319

(1)

754 ("My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--")

2320

(1)

1084 ("At Half past Three, a single Bird")

2320

(1)

1129 ("Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--")

2321

(1)

1207 ("He preached upon `Breadth' till it argued him narrow--")

2321

(1)

1564 ("Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light")

2321

(1)

1593 ("There came a Wind like a Bugle--")

2321

(4)

Realism, Symbolism, and European Realities

2325

(254)

MAP: EUROPE, CA. 1870 TIMELINE

2336

(2)

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT (1821-1880)

2338

(25)

A Simple Heart (French)

2341

(22)

Arthur MacDowall

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1821-1881)

2363

(57)

From Notes from Underground (Russian)

2369

(51)

Michael Katz

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867)

2420

(12)

The Flowers of Evil (French)

2425

(6)

To the Reader

2425

(1)

Robert Lowell

Correspondences

2426

(1)

Richard Wilbur

Correspondances

2426

(1)

Her Hair

2426

(1)

Doreen Bell

A Carcass

2427

(1)

James McGowan

Invitation to the Voyage

2428

(1)

Richard Wilbur

Song of Autumn I

2429

(1)

C. F. MacIntyre

Spleen LXXVIII

2430

(1)

Kenneth O. Hanson

Spleen LXXIX

2430

(1)

Anthony Hecht

Paris Spleen (French)

2431

(1)

Anywhere out of the World

2431

(1)

Louise Varese

LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910)

2432

(44)

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Russian)

2436

(40)

Louise Maude

Aylmer Maude

HENRIK IBSEN (1828-1906)

2476

(61)

Hedda Gabler (Norwegian)

2480

(57)

Michael Meyer

ANTON CHEKHOV (1860-1904)

2537

(42)

The Cherry Orchard (Russian)

2541

(38)

Avraham Yarmolinsky

PART VI The Twentieth Century: Self and Other in Global Context

2579

(452)

MAPS: THE WORLD, CA. 1913 THE WORLD TODAY, A WESTERN VIEW THE WORLD TODAY, AN EASTERN VIEW TIMELINE

2608

(6)

THE NIGHT CHANT (Navajo, ca. 1897-1902)

2614

(4)

Prayer to Thunder

2615

(2)

Finishing Song

2617

(1)

Washington Matthews

RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861-1941)

2618

(9)

Punishment (Bengali)

2621

(6)

William Radice

LUIGI PIRANDELLO (1867-1936)

2627

(47)

Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italian)

2632

(42)

John Linstrum

MARCEL PROUST (1871-1922)

2674

(40)

Remembrance of Things Past (French)

2679

(35)

Swann's Way. Overture

2679

(35)

C. K. Scott Moncrieff

Terence Kilmartin

RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926)

2714

(9)

From New Poems (German)

2717

(2)

Archaic Torso of Apollo

2717

(1)

Archaischer Torso Apollos

2718

(1)

The Panther

2718

(1)

The Swan

2719

(1)

Spanish Dancer

2719

(1)

Duino Elegies (German)

2719

(4)

The First Elegy

2719

(3)

The Ninth Elegy

2722

(1)

Stephen Mitchell

LU XUN (Lu Hsun) (1881-1936)

2723

(12)

Diary of a Madman (Chinese)

2726

(9)

William A. Lyell

VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941)

2735

(11)

An Unwritten Novel

2738

(8)

FRANZ KAFKA (1883-1924)

2746

(38)

The Metamorphosis (German)

2749

(35)

Stanley Corngold

T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)

2784

(18)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

2787

(3)

The Waste Land

2790

(12)

ANNA AKHMATOVA (1889-1966)

2802

(11)

Requiem (Russian)

2806

(7)

Judith Hemschemeyer

BERTOLT BRECHT (1898-1956)

2813

(58)

Mother Courage and Her Children

2817

(54)

Ralph Manheim

JORGE LUIS BORGES (1899-1986)

2871

(10)

The Garden of Forking Paths (Spanish)

2874

(7)

Donald A. Yates

NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (born 1911)

2881

(12)

Zaabalawi (Arabic)

2885

(8)

Denys Johnson-Davies

KOJIMA NOBUO (born 1915)

2893

(26)

The American School (Japanese)

2896

(23)

William F. Sibley

NADINE GORDIMER (born 1923)

2919

(12)

Oral History

2923

(8)

CHINUA ACHEBE (born 1930)

2931

(100)

Things Fall Apart

2936

(95)

A NOTE ON TRANSLATION

3031

(12)

PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

3043

(4)

INDEX

3047

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