The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume B The Medieval Era

by Damrosch, David; Pike, David L.; Alliston, April; Brown, Marshall; Hafez, Sabry; Kadir, Djelal; Pollock, Sheldon; Robbins, Bruce; Shirane, Haruo; Tylus, Jane; Yu, Pauline

• ISBN13: 9780205625963
• ISBN10: 0205625967
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Pearson
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Summary

The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume Boffers a fresh presentation of the varieties of world literature from the medieval era.The editors of the anthology have sought to find economical ways to place texts within their cultural contexts, and have selected and grouped materials in ways intended to foster connections and conversations across the anthology, between eras as well as regions. The anthology includes epic, lyric poetry, drama, and prose narrative, with many works in their entirety. Classic major authors are presented together with more recently recovered voices as the editors seek to suggest something of the full literary dialogue of each region and period. Engaging introductions, scholarly annotations, regional maps, pronunciation guides, and illustrations will provide a supportive editorial setting.For anyone interested in world literature.

Table of Contents

Volume B: The Medieval Era

Medieval China

Women In Early China

Liu Xiang (c. 78-8 B.C.E.)

Memoirs of Women

The Mother of Mencius

Ban Zhao (c. 45-120)

Lessons for Women

Yuan Cai (c. 1140-1195) from Precepts for Social Life

Voices Of Women

Here's a Willow Bough

Midnight Songs

A Peacock Southeast Flew

Ballad of Mulan

Yaun Zhen (c. 779-831)

The Story of Yingying

Resonance

Wang Shifu: from The Story of the Western Wing

Tao Qian (c. 365-427)

Biography of the Gentleman of the Five Willows

Peach Blossom Spring

Resonance

Wang Wei (701-761): Song of Peach Blossom Spring

The Return

Returning to the Farm to Dwell

From On Reading the Seas and Mountains Classic

The Double Ninth, in Retirement

In the Sixth Month of 408, Fire

Begging for Food

Finding Fault with My Sons

Twenty Poems after Drinking Wine

Han Shan (c. 600-800)

Men ask the way to Cold Mountain

Spring water in the green creek is clear

When men see Han-shan

I climb the road to Cold Mountain

Wonderful, this road to Cold Mountain

Cold cliffs, more beautiful the deeper you enter

Men these days search for a way through the clouds

Today I sat before the cliff

Have I a body or have I none

My mind is like the autumn moon

Do you have the poems of Han-shan in your house?

Resonance

Lu-qui Yin: from Preface to the poems of Han-shan

Poetry Of The Tang Dynasty

Twang Wei (701-761) from The Wang River Collection

Preface

1 Meng Wall Cove

5 Deer Enclosure

8 Sophora Path

11 Lake Yi

17 Bamboo Lodge

Bird Call Valley

Farewell

Farewell to Yuan the Second on His Mission to Anxi

Visiting the Temple of Gathered Fragrance

Zhongnan Retreat

In Response to Vice-Magistrate Zhang

Tli Bo (701-62)

Drinking Alone by Moon

Fighting South of the Ramparts

The Road to Shu is Hard

Bring in the Wine

The Jewel Stairs' Grievance

The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter

Listening to a Monk from Shu Playing the Lute

Farewell to a Friend

In the Quiet Night

Sitting Alone by Jingting Mountain

Question and Answer in the Mountains

du Fu (712-770)

Ballad of the Army Carts

Moonlit Night

Spring Prospect

Traveling at Night

Autumn Meditations

Yangzi and Han

bo Juyi (772-846)

Song of Unending Sorrow

Perspectives: What is "Literature"?

Cao Pi (187-226) from A Discourse on Literature

Lu Ji (261-302) from Rhymeprose on Literature

Liu Xie from The Literary Mind

Wang Changling (c. 690- c. 756) from A Discussion of Literature and Meaning

Sikong Tu (837-908) from The Twenty-four Classes of Poetry

Crosscurrents

Japan

Man'ÔShû, Collection Of Ten Thousand Leaves (c. 702 - c. 785)

Emperor Yûryaku (r. 456-479) Your basket, with your lovely basket

Emperor Jômei (r. 629-641) Climbing Kagu Mountain and looking upon the land

Princess Nukata (c. 638-active until 690's) On spring and autumn

Kakinomoro No Hitomaro (active 689-700) On passing the ruined capital of ômi

Kakinomoro No Hitomaro(active 689-700) On leaving his wife as he set out from Iwami

Kakinomoro No Hitomaro(active 689-700) After the death of his wife

Yamabe No Akahito (fl. 724-736) On Mount Fuji

Yamanoue No Okura (c. 660-c. 733) Of longing for his children

Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978 - c. 1014) from The Tale of Genji

The Paulownia Court

The Broom Tree

Lavender

An Autumn Excursion

Heartvine

The Sacred Tree

Suma

Akashi

Fireflies

New Herbs (Part 1)

New Herbs (Part 2)

The Oak Tree

The Rites

The Wizard

Resonances

Murasaki Shikibu: from Diary

Daughter of Sugawara No Takasue: from Sarashina Diary

Riverside Counselor's Stories: The Woman Who Preferred Insects

Perspectives: Courtly Women

Ono No Komachi (fl. c. 850)

While watching (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani)

Did he appear (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani)

When my desire (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani)

The seaweed gatherer's weary feet (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani)

The autumn night (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani)

I thought to pick (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani)

I know it must be this way (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani)

My longing for you (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani)

Though I go to him constantly (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani)

How invisibly (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani)

This body (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani)

Mitchitsuna's Mother (936-995) from The KagerM Diary

Sei Shônagon (c. 965- c. 1017) from The Pillowbook

Crosscurrents

Tales Of Heike (14^th century)

Bells of Gion Monastery

Gio

The Death of Kiyomori

The Death of Lord Kiso

The Death of Atsumori

Death of Noritsune

The Drowning of the Emperor

The Six Paths of Existence

The Death of the Imperial Lady

Noh: Drama of Ghosts, Memories, and Salvation

Zeami (c. 1363- c. 1443)

Atsumori, a Tale of Heike Play

Pining Wind

Resonance

Kyôgen, Comic Interludes: Delicious Poison

Classical Arabic And Islamic Literatures

Pre-Islamic Poetry

Imru' Al-Qays (d. c. 550)

Mu'allaqah "Stop, let us weep at the memory of a loved one"

Al-Khansa' (c. 575-646)

A mote in your eye, dust blown on the wind?

Elegy for Ritha Sakhr "In the evening remembrance keeps me awake"

The Brigand Poets - Al Sa'Alik

Urwah ibn al-Ward, Do not be so free with your blame of me

Ta'abbata Sharra, Come, who will convey to the young men

Ta'abbata Sharra, A piece of news has come to us

The Qur'an

from Sura 41. Revelations Well Expounded

from Sura 79. The Soul Snatchers

from Sura 15. The Rocky Tract

from Sura 2. The Cow

from Sura 7. The Heights

Sura 1. The Opening

from Sura 4. Women

from Sura 5. The Table

from Sura 8. The Spoils

from Sura 12. Joseph

from Sura 16. The Bee

from Sura 18. The Cave

from Sura 19. Mary

from Sura 21. The Prophets

from Sura 24. Light

from Sura 28. The Story

from Sura 36. Ya Sin

from Sura 48. Victory

Sura 71. Noah

Sura 87. The Most High

Sura 93. Daylight

Sura 96. Clots of Blood

Sura 110. Help

Resonance

Ibn Sa'ad: from The Prophet and his Disciples (trans. Haq and Ghazanfar)

Hafiz (c. 1317 -1389)

The House of Hope

Zephyr

A Mad Heart

Cup in Hand

Last Night I Dreamed

Harvest

All My Pleasure

Wild Deer

Resonance

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Blissful Yearning

Perspectives: Poetry, Wine and Love

Abu Nuwas (755 - c. 815)

Splendid young blades, like lamps in the darkness

My body is racked with sickness, worn out by exhaustion

Praise wine in its sweetness

O censor, I satisfied the Imam, he was content

Bringing the cup of oblivion for sadness

What's between me and the censurers

His friend called him Sammaja for his beauty

One possessed with a rosy cheek

Resonance

Hasab al-Shaik Ja'far: from Descent of Abu Nuwas

Ibn al-Rumi (836-889)

Say to whomever finds fault with the poem of his panegyrist

I have been deprived of all the comforts of life

I thought of you the day my journeys

Sweet sleep has been barred from my eyes

Al-Mutanabbi (915-955)

On Hearing in Egypt that his Death had been Reported

Satire on Kafur Composed... before the Poet's Departure

Panegyric to Abdud al-Daula and his sons

Crosscurrents

The Thousand And One Nights (9^th - 14^th century)

Prologue: The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad

His Vizier's Daughter

The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey

The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife

The Tale of the Porter and the Young Girls

Tale of the Second Kalander

The Tale of Zubaidah, the First of the Girls from The Tale of Sympathy the Learned, Powys Mathers after J.C. Mardrus from An Adventure of the Poet Abu Nuwas, Powys Mathers after J.C. Mardrus

The Flowering Terrace of Wit and the Garden of Gallantry

The Youth and His Master

The Wonderful Bag

Al-Rashid Judges of Love from The End of Ja'far and the Barmakids

Conclusion

Resonance from The History of al-Tabari

Translations: One Thousand and One Nights

Jala Al-Din Rumi (1207-1273)

What excuses have you to offer, my heart, for so many shortcomings?

The king has come, the king has come, adorn your palace-hall

Have you ever seen any lover who was satiated with this passion?

Three days it is now since my fair one has become changed

The month of December has departed, and January too

We have become drunk, and our heart has departed

We are foes to ourselves, and friends to him who slays us

Not for a single moment do I let hold of you

Who'll take us home, now we've drunk ourselves blind?

Perspectives: Asceticism, Sufism, and Wisdom

Al-Hallaj (857-922)

I have a dear friend whom I visit in solitary places

I continued to float on the sea of love

Painful enough it is that I am ever calling out to You

Your place in my heart is the whole of my heart

You who blame me for my love of Him

I swear to God, the sun has never risen or set

Ah! I or You? These are two Gods

Here am I, here am I, O my secret, O my trust!

I am not I and I am not He; then who am I and who is He?

Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240)

O domicile without rival, neither abandoned

I am "The Reviver"-I speak not allusively

Of knowers, am I not most avaricious

Truly, my two Friends, I am a keeper of the Holy Law

Time is passing by the days of my youth and vigor

Bouts of dryness came upon me constantly from every side

Law and Soundness make of him a heretic

The time of my release, which I had always calculated

To that which they don't understand all people do oppose

The abode from which thou art absent is sad

Farid al-Din al'Attar (c. 1119- c. 1190) from The Conference of the Birds

Crosscurrents

Firdawsi (c. 940-1020)

Shah-nama: The Book of Kings

from The Tragedy of Sohràb and Rostàm

Ibn Battuta (1304-1369)

from The Travels of Ibn Battuta

THE EPIC OF SON-JARA

Medieval Europe

Beowulf (c. 750-950)

Resonances from The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki

Jorge Luis Borges: Poem Written in the Copy of Beowulf

The Poem Of The Cid (late 12th-early 13th century)

Perspectives: Iberia, the Meeting of Three Worlds

Castilian Ballads and Traditional Songs (c. 11^th -14^th century)

Ballad of Juliana

Abenámar

These mountains, mother

I will not pick verbena

Three moorish girls

Mozarabic Kharjas (10th-early 11th century)

As if you were a stranger

Ah tell me, little sisters

My lord Ibrahim

I'll give you such love

Take me out of this plight

Mother, I shall not sleep

Ibn Hazm (c. 994-1064) from The Dove's Neckring

Ibn Rushd (Averroë;s), (1126-1198) from The Decisive Treatise Determining the Nature of the Connection

Between Religion and Philosophy

Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240)

Gentle now, doves

Solomon Ibn Gabirol (c. 1021- c. 1057)

She looked at me and her eyelids burned

Behold the sun at evening

The mind is flawed

Winter wrote with the ink of its rain and showers

Yehuda Ha-Levi (before 1075-1141)

Cups without wine are lowly

Ofra does her laundry with my tears

Once when I fondled him upon my thighs

From time's beginning, You were love's abode

Your breeze, Western shore, is perfumed

My heart is in the east

from The Book of the Khazars

Ramón Lull (1232-1315)

from Blanquerna: The Book of the Lover and the Beloved

Dom Dinis, King of Portugal (1261-1325)

Provençals right well may versify

Of what are you dying, daughter?

O blossoms of the verdant pine

The lovely girl arose at earliest dawn

Martin Codax (fl. mid-13th century)

Ah God, if only my love could know

My beautiful sister, come hurry with me

Oh waves that I've come to see

Crosscurrents

Marie De France (mid-12th - early 13th century)

Lais

Prologue

Bisclavret (The Werewolf)

Chevrefoil (The Honeysuckle)

Sir Gawain And The Green Knight (late 14th century)

Abelard (c. 1079 - c. 1142) and Heloise (c. 1095 - c. 1163) from The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

Abelard: David's Lament for Jonathan

Abelard and Heloise: from Yes and No

Resonance

Bernard of Clairvaux: Letters against Abelard

from The Play Of Adam (c. 1150)

Scene 1, Adam and Eve

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

from La Vita Nuova

The Divine Comedy

Inferno

Purgatorio

Canto 1: Arrival at Mount Purgatory

Canto 2: The Ship of Souls

Canto 22: The Angel of Liberality

Canto 29: The Procession in the Earthly Paradise

Canto 30: Beatrice Appears

Paradiso

Canto 1: Ascent Toward the Heavens

Canto 3: The Souls Approach

Canto 31: The Celestial Rose

Canto 33: The Vision of God

Resonances

Dante's Hell

Chaucer: from The Monk's Tale

Thomas Medwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley: from Ugolino

Amiri Baraka: from The System of Dante's Hell

Translations: Dante Alighieri

Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324) from The Book of Wonders

Resonances

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan

Italo Calvino: from Invisible Cities

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)

Canterbury Tales

The General Prologue

The Miller's Prologue

The Miller's Tale

The Wife of Bath's Prologue

The Wife of Bath's Tale

Bibliography

Credits

Index

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