Literature for Adventures in the Human Spirit, Vol. II

by Bishop, Philip E.

• ISBN13: 9780131412699
• ISBN10: 0131412698
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-01-09
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This is a chronologically developed anthology of major works of literature, philosophy and major religious traditions. It supplements any introductory Western humanities course as additional reading.

Table of Contents

(NOTE: Numbers in brackets refer to corresponding chapters in Adventures in the Human Spirit)

The Ancient World

Egyptian Myth The Egyptian Creation: Earth and Sky

Mesopotamian Myth From the Enuma Elish

Confucius The Great Learning. Buddha Buddha's Four Noble Truths

The Greeks

The Iliad The Iliad, Book XXIV; Achilles and Priam

The Odyssey The Odyssey, Book IX: The Kyklops

Sappho Poems to Aphrodite

Sophocles Oedipus the King

Plato Apology of Socrates

From The Republic, Book XVII: The Allegory of the Cave

Aristotle, From the Nichomachean Ethics: On Happiness

The Romans

Catullus Catullus Lyric

Virgil The Aeneid: From Book I

Book XIV: Aeneas and Dido

Lucretius From On the Nature of the Universe, Book III

Marcus Aurelius From Meditations, Book II

Christianity and Islam

The Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Creation

Job

The New Testament

The Birth of Jesus

The Sermon on the Mount

The Parable of the Prodigal Son

Augustine From The Confessions

The Qur'an The Qur'an

The Middle Ages [5, 6]

The Song of Roland From The Song of Roland

Medieval Lyric Poetry

From Garmina Burana

Dante Aligheri From The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Books 1-5, Book 26

Geoffrey Chaucer The Wife of Bath's Tale

From The Book of the City of Ladies

The Renaissance and Reformation [7, 8] Francis Petrarch Pico Della Mirandola From Oration on the Dignity of Man

Machiavelli From The Prince

Erasmus From In Praise of Folly

Michel De Montaigne From In Defense of Raymond Sebond

Baroque and Enlightenment, [9, 10]

Rene Descartes From Discourse on Method

Swift A Modest Proposal

Baroque and Enlightenment Poetry St

Teresa of Avila, I gave myself to Love Divine."

Not Proud

Alexander Pope, From Essay on Man

Revolution, Romanticism, and Realism [11, 12]

The Declaration of Independence

Romantic Poetry William Blake: The Lamb

The Tyger

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above

Mary Shelley From Frankenstein, or the MOdern

Prometheus

Symbolist Poetry Charles Baudelaire, To the Reader

Emily Dickinson, Much Madness is divinest Sense

Rainer Maria Rilke, Torso of a Archaic Apollo

Fyodor Dostoevsky From The Brothers Karamazov: The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor

The Modern Mind [13]

Modernist Poetry William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Countee Cullen, Sottsboro, Too Is Worth Its Song

Virginia Woolf From A Room of One's Own

Contemporary Voices [14]

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