The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume C The Early Modern Period

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

• ISBN13: 9780321169792
• ISBN10: 0321169794
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-27
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

"The Longman Anthology presents a diverse range of the world's great literature. A team of editors has developed introductions, informative notes and glosses, scores of maps and illustrations, and a wealth of supporting material to illuminate the works included here and to connect them across regions and periods. This presentation links past and present, East and West, and literary and cultural contexts across a full span of the world's literature."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xv
Preface	xvii
Acknowledgments	xxii
About the Editors	xxiv
The Early Modern Period	1	(8)
Timeline	6	(3)
CROSSCURRENTS The Vernacular Revolution	9	(140)
Vernacular Writing in South Asia	10	(20)
Basavanna (1106-c. 1167)	12	(5)
Like a monkey on a tree	12	(1)
A. K. Ramanujan
You can make them talk	12	(1)
The crookedness of the serpent	12	(1)
Before the grey reaches the cheek	12	(1)
I don't know anything like time-beats and meter	13	(1)
The rich will make temples for Siva	13	(1)
Resonance
Palkuriki Somanatha: from The Legend of Basavanna	14	(3)
Rao
Mahadeviyakka (c. 1200)	17	(1)
Other men are thorn	17	(1)
A. K. Ramanujan
Who cares	18	(1)
Better than meeting	18	(1)
Kabir (early 1400s)	18	(3)
Saints, I see the world is mad	18	(1)
Hess
Sinha
Brother, where did your two gods come from?	19	(1)
Pandit, look in your heart for knowledge	20	(1)
When you die, what do you do with your body?	20	(1)
It's a heavy confusion	21	(1)
The road the pandits took	21	(1)
Tukaram (1608-1649)	21	(4)
I was only dreaming	21	(1)
Dilip Chitre
If only you would	22	(1)
Have I utterly lost my hold on reality	22	(1)
I scribble and cancel it again	23	(1)
Where does one begin with you?	23	(1)
Some of you may say	23	(1)
To arrange words	23	(1)
When my father died	24	(1)
Born a Shudra, I have been a trader	25	(1)
Kshetrayya (mid-17th century)	25	(5)
A Woman to Her Lover	25	(1)
A. K. Ramanujan
A Young Woman to a Friend	26	(1)
A Courtesan to Her Lover	27	(1)
A Married Woman Speaks to Her Lover	28	(1)
A Married Woman to Her Lover (1)	29	(1)
A Married Woman to Her Lover (2)	29	(1)
Wu Cheng' En (c. 1500-1582)	30	(84)
from Journey to the West	33	(81)
Anthony C. Yu
Resonance
from The Ramayana of Valmiki: [Hanuman searches for Sita]	108	(6)
Goldman
Goldman
The Rise of the Vernacular in Europe	114	(35)
Biblical Translations	115	(12)
Comparative Versions of Psalm 23 (``The Lord Is My Shepherd'')	116	(1)
from The Vulgate (with English rendering)	116	(1)
Clement Marot: from Psalms	117	(1)
Jane Tylus
Jan Kochanowski: from Psalterz Dawidow	118	(1)
Clare Cavanagh
The Bay Psalm Book	119	(1)
The Gospel of Luke 1:26--39	120	(1)
Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici: from The Life of Saint John the Baptist	120	(1)
Jane Tylus
Martin Luther: from The Bible	121	(1)
James A. Parente, Jr.
William Tyndale: from The New Testament	122	(1)
New World Psalms	122	(1)
Bernardino de Sahagun: from Psalmodia Christiana	122	(4)
Arthur J. O. Anderson
John Eliot: from Up-Biblum God	126	(1)
Attacking and Defending the Vernacular Bible	127	(5)
Henry Knighton: from Chronicle	128	(1)
Anne Hudson
Martin Luther: from On Translating	128	(2)
Michael
Bachmann
The King James Bible: from The Translators to the Reader	130	(2)
Women and the Vernacular	132	(17)
Dante Alighieri: from Letter to Can Grande Della Scala	133	(1)
Robert S. Haller
Desiderius Erasmus: from The Abbot and the Learned Lady	134	(3)
Craig Thompson
Catherine of Siena: from A Letter to Raymond of Capua	137	(1)
Suzanne Noffke
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: from Response to ``Sor Filotea''	138	(11)
Margaret Sayers Peden
Early Modern Europe	149	(77)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)	162	(26)
Decameron	164	(24)
G. H. McWilliam
Introduction	164	(7)
First Day, Third Story [The Three Rings]	171	(1)
Third Day, Tenth Story [Locking the Devil Up in Hell]	172	(4)
Seventh Day, Fourth Story [The Woman Who Locked Her Husband Out]	176	(3)
Tenth Day, Tenth Story [The Patient Griselda]	179	(9)
Marguerite De Navarre (1492-1549)	188	(11)
Heptameron	189	(10)
P. A. Chilton
First Day, Story 5 [The Two Friars]	189	(3)
Fourth Day, Story 32 [The Woman Who Drank from Her Lover's Skull]	192	(3)
Fourth Day, Story 36 [The Husband Who Punished His Faithless Wife by Means of a Salad]	195	(1)
Eighth Day, Prologue	196	(1)
Eighth Day, Story 71 [The Wife Who Came Back from the Dead]	197	(2)
Francis Petrarch (1304-1374)	199	(27)
Letters On Familiar Matters	201	(11)
Aldo S. Bernardo
To Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro [On Climbing Mt. Ventoux]	201	(5)
from To Boccaccio [On imitation]	206	(2)
Resonance
Laura Cereta: To Sister Deodata di Leno	208	(4)
Robin
The Canzoniere	212	(5)
Mark Musa
During the Life of My Lady Laura	213	(1)
1 (``O you who hear within these scattered verses'')	213	(1)
3 (``It was the day the sun's ray had turned pale'')	213	(1)
16 (``The old man takes his leave, white-haired and pale'')	214	(1)
35 (``Alone and deep in thought I measure out'')	214	(1)
52 (``Diana never pleased her lover more'')	214	(1)
90 (``She'd let her gold hair flow free in the breeze'')	215	(1)
126 (``Clear, cool, sweet running waters'')	215	(2)
195 (``From day to day my face and hair are changing'')	217	(1)
After the Death of My Lady Laura	217	(9)
267 (``O God! that lovely face, that gentle look'')	217	(1)
277 (``If Love does not give me some new advice'')	218	(1)
291 (``When I see coming down the sky Aurora'')	218	(1)
311 (``That nightingale so tenderly lamenting'')	218	(1)
Resonance
Virgil: from Fourth Georgic	219	(1)
Fairclough
353 (``O lovely little bird singing away'')	219	(1)
365 (``I go my way lamenting those past times'')	220	(1)
from 366 (``Virgin, so lovely, clothed in the sun's light'')	220	(2)
Resonances: Petrarch and His Translators	222	(1)
Petrarch: Canzoniere 190	222	(1)
Durling
Thomas Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt	223	(1)
Petrarch: Canzoniere 209	224	(1)
Durling
Chiara Matraini: Fera son io di questo ombroso loco	225	(1)
Chiara Matraini: I am a wild deer in this shady wood	225	(1)
Stortoni
Lillie
PERSPECTIVES Lyric Sequences and Self-Definition	226	(65)
Louise Labe (c. 1520-1566)	226	(3)
When I behold you	227	(1)
Frank J. Warnke
Lute, companion of my wretched state	227	(1)
Kiss me again	228	(1)
Alas, what boots it that not long ago	228	(1)
Do not reproach me, Ladies	229	(1)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)	229	(4)
This comes of dangling from the ceiling	231	(1)
Porter
Bull
My Lord, in your most gracious face	231	(1)
I wish to want, Lord	232	(1)
No block of marble	232	(1)
How chances it, my Lady	232	(1)
Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547)	233	(1)
Between harsh rocks and violent wind	233	(1)
Stortoni
Lillie
Whatever life I once had	234	(1)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)	234	(5)
Sonnets	235	(1)
1 (``From fairest creatures we desire increase'')	235	(1)
3 (``Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest'')	235	(1)
17 (``Who will believe my verse in time to come'')	236	(1)
55 (``Not marble nor the gilded monuments'')	236	(1)
73 (``That time of year thou mayst in me behold'')	236	(1)
87 (``Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing'')	237	(1)
116 (``Let me not to the marriage of true minds'')	237	(1)
126 (``O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power'')	237	(1)
127 (``In the old age black was not counted fair'')	238	(1)
130 (``My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'')	238	(1)
Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584)	239	(2)
Laments	239	(1)
D. P. Radin
1 (``Come, Heraclitus and Simonides,'')	239	(1)
6 (``Dear little Slavic Sappho, we had thought'')	240	(1)
10 (``My dear delight, my Ursula and where'')	240	(1)
14 (``Where are those gates through which so long ago'')	241	(1)
Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz (c. 1651-1695)	241	(4)
She disavows the flattery visible in a portrait of herself, which she calls bias	242	(1)
Alan S. Trueblood
She complains of her lot, suggesting her aversion to vice and justifying her resort to the Muses	243	(1)
She shows distress at being abused for the applause her talent brings	243	(1)
In which she visits moral censure on a rose	243	(1)
She answers suspicions in the rhetoric of tears	244	(1)
Margaret Sayers Peden
On the death of that most excellent lady, the Marquise de Mancera	244	(1)
Alan S. Trueblood
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)	245	(16)
The Prince	247	(14)
Mark Musa
Dedicatory Letter	247	(1)
Chapter 6. On New Principalities Acquired by Means of One's Own Arms and Ingenuity	248	(2)
Chapter 18. How a Prince Should Keep His Word	250	(1)
Chapter 25. How Much Fortune Can Do in Human Affairs and How to Contend with It	251	(2)
Chapter 26. Exhortation to Take Hold of Italy and Liberate Her from the Barbarians	253	(3)
Resonance
Baldesar Castiglione: from The Book of the Courtier	256	(5)
Singleton
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)	261	(30)
from Utopia	264	(27)
C. G. Richards
PERSPECTIVES Literature of Religious Crisis	291	(470)
Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466-1536)	292	(15)
from Praise of Folly	293	(14)
Betty Radice
Martin Luther (1483-1546)	307	(5)
from To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation	308	(1)
Jacobs
Ackerman
from The Enslaved Will	308	(4)
Ernst F. Winter
Thomas Muntzer (c. 1489-1525)	312	(3)
from Sermon to the Princes	313	(2)
Robert A. Fowkes
Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)	315	(9)
from The Interior Castle	316	(8)
E. Allison Peers
Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)	324	(2)
The Dark Night	325	(1)
John Frederick Nims
Domenico Scandella (1532-1599)	326	(6)
from His Trials Before the Inquisition	327	(5)
John
Anne C. Tedeschi
Francois Rabelais (c. 1494-1553)	332	(40)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
J. M. Cohen
Book 1	335	(1)
The Author's Prologue	335	(2)
Chapter 3. How Gargantua Was Carried Eleven Months in His Mother's Belly	337	(1)
Chapter 4. How Gargamelle, When Great with Gargantua, Ate Great Quantities of Tripe	338	(1)
Chapter 6. The Very Strange Manner of Gargantua's Birth	339	(1)
Chapter 7. How Gargantua Received His Name	340	(1)
Chapter 11. Concerning Gargantua's Childhood	341	(1)
Chapter 16. How Gargantua Was Sent to Paris	342	(1)
Chapter 17. How Gargantua Repaid the Parisians for Their Welcome	343	(2)
Chapter 21. Gargantua's Studies	345	(1)
Chapter 23. How Gargantua Was So Disciplined by Ponocrates	346	(4)
Chapter 25. How a Great Quarrel Arose Between the Cake-bakers of Lerne and the People of Grandgousier's Country, Which Led to Great Wars	350	(1)
Chapter 26. How the Inhabitants of Lerne, at the Command of Their King Picrochole, Made an Unexpected Attack on Grandgousier's Shepherds	351	(1)
Chapter 27. How a Monk of Seuilly Saved the Abbey-close	352	(3)
Chapter 38. How Gargantua Ate Six Pilgrims in a Salad	355	(1)
from Chapter 39. How the Monk Was Feasted by Gargantua	356	(1)
Chapter 40. Why Monks Are Shunned by the World	357	(2)
Chapter 41. How the Monk Made Gargantua Sleep	359	(1)
Chapter 42. How the Monk Encouraged His Companions	360	(1)
Chapter 52. How Gargantua Had the Abbey of Theleme Built for the Monk	361	(1)
from Chapter 53. How the Thelemites' Abbey Was Built and Endowed	362	(1)
Chapter 57. The Rules According to Which the Thelemites Lived	363	(1)
Book 2
Chapter 8. How Pantagruel, When at Paris, Recieved a Letter from His Father	364	(2)
from Chapter 9. How Pantagruel found Panurge	366	(3)
Book 4
Chapter 55. Pantagruel, on the High Seas, Hears Various Words That Have Been Thawed	369	(2)
Chapter 56. Pantagruel Hears Some Gay Words	371	(1)
Luis Vaz De Camoes (c. 1524-1580)	372	(37)
The Lusiads	375	(34)
Landeg White
Canto 1 [Invocation]	375	(4)
Canto 4 [King Manuel's dream]	379	(9)
Canto 5 [The curse of Adamastor]	388	(13)
Canto 6 [The storm; the voyagers reach India]	401	(5)
Canto 7 [Courage, heroes!]	406	(1)
Resonance
from The Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama (1497-1499)	407	(2)
Ravenstein
Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592)	409	(36)
Essays	412	(33)
Donald Frame
Of Idleness	412	(1)
Of the Power of the Imagination	413	(7)
Of Cannibals	420	(9)
Resonance
Jean de Lery: from History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America	429	(7)
Janet Whatley
Of Repentance	436	(9)
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)	445	(125)
Don Quixote	449	(121)
John Rutherford
Book 1	449	(1)
Chapter 1. The character of the knight	449	(3)
Chapter 2. His first expedition	452	(4)
Chapter 3. He attains knighthood	456	(4)
Chapter 4. An adventure on leaving the inn	460	(4)
Chapter 5. The knight's misfortunes continue	464	(3)
from Chapter 6. The inquisition in the library	467	(2)
Chapter 7. His second expedition	469	(3)
Chapter 8. The adventure of the windmills	472	(5)
Chapter 9. The battle with the gallant Basque	477	(3)
Chapter 10. A conversation with Sancho	480	(4)
from Chapter 11. His meeting with the goatherds	484	(1)
Chapter 12. The goatherd's story	484	(4)
from Chapter 13. The conclusion of the story	488	(4)
from Chapter 14. The dead shepherd's verses	492	(4)
from Chapter 15. The meeting with the Yanguesans	496	(4)
from Chapter 18. A second conversation with Sancho	500	(6)
Chapter 20. A tremendous exploit achieved	506	(8)
Chapter 22. The liberation of the galley slaves	514	(7)
from Chapter 25. The knight's penitence	521	(5)
from Chapter 52. The last adventure	526	(6)
Book 2	532	(1)
Chapter 3. The knight, the squire and the bachelor	532	(5)
Chapter 4. Sancho provides answers	537	(2)
Chapter 10. Dulcinea enchanted	539	(6)
from Chapter 25. Master Pedro the puppeteer	545	(1)
Chapter 26. The puppet show	545	(6)
Chapter 59. An extraordinary adventure at an inn	551	(3)
Chapter 72. Knight and squire return to their village	554	(3)
Chapter 73. A discussion about omens	557	(3)
Chapter 74. The death of Don Quixote	560	(4)
Resonance
Jorge Luis Borges: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote	564	(6)
Andrew Hurley
Lope Felix De Vega Carpio (1562-1635)	570	(40)
Fuenteovejuna	573	(37)
Jill Booty
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)	610	(65)
The Tempest	613	(62)
Resonance
Aime Cesaire: from A Tempest	667	(8)
Snyder
Upson
John Donne (1572-1631)	675	(14)
The Sun Rising	676	(1)
Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed	677	(1)
Air and Angels	678	(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	679	(1)
The Relic	680	(1)
The Computation	681	(1)
Holy Sonnets	681	(2)
Oh my black soul! now thou art summoned	681	(1)
Death be not proud, though some have called thee	681	(1)
Batter my heart, three-person'd God	682	(1)
I am a little world made cunningly	682	(1)
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one	682	(1)
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions	683	(4)
10: ``They find the disease to steal on insensibly''	683	(3)
from 17: ``Now, this bell tolling softly for another, says to me: Thou must die.''	686	(1)
Sermons	687	(2)
from The Second Prebend Sermon, on Psalm 63:7 (``Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice'')	687	(2)
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)	689	(9)
The Author to Her Book	691	(1)
To My Dear and Loving Husband	691	(1)
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment	692	(1)
Before the Birth of One of Her Children	692	(1)
Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666	693	(1)
On My Dear Grand-child Simon Bradstreet	694	(1)
To My Dear Children	695	(3)
John Milton (1608-1674)	698	(63)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	701	(1)
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	701	(1)
Paradise Lost	701	(60)
from Book 1	701	(9)
from Book 4	710	(20)
Book 9	730	(27)
from Book 12	757	(4)
Mesoamerica: Before Columbus and After Cortes	761	(49)
The Legend of the Suns (recorded 1558)	771	(2)
Miguel Leon-Portilla
Grace Lobanov
from Popol Vuh: The Mayan Council Book (recorded mid-1550s)	773	(23)
Dennis Tedlock
[Creation]	776	(6)
[Hunahpu and Xbalanque in the Underworld]	782	(5)
[The Final Creation of Humans]	787	(2)
[Migration and the Division of Languages]	789	(3)
[The Death of the Quiche Forefathers]	792	(1)
[Retrieving Writings from the East]	793	(2)
[Conclusion]	795	(1)
Songs of the Aztec Nobility (15th-16th century)	796	(14)
Make your beginning, you who sing	798	(1)
David Damrosch
Burnishing them as sunshot jades	799	(1)
John Bierhorst
Flowers are our only adornment	799	(1)
I cry, I grieve, knowing we're to go away	800	(1)
Your hearts are shaken down as paintings, O Moctezuma	800	(1)
I strike it up---here!---I, the singer	801	(1)
from Fish Song: It was composed when we were conquered	802	(2)
from Water-Pouring Song	804	(5)
In the flower house of sapodilla you remain a flower	809	(1)
Moctezuma, you creature of heaven, you sing in Mexico	809	(1)
PERSPECTIVES The Conquest and Its Aftermath	810	(79)
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)	812	(13)
Letter to the Sovereigns (4 March 1493)	814	(5)
Margarita Zamora
from Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella (7 July 1503)	819	(6)
R. H. Major
Bernal Diaz Del Castillo (1492-1584)	825	(21)
from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain	826	(20)
A. P. Maudslay
Bernardino De Sahagun (c. 1499-1590)	846	(19)
from General History of the Affairs of New Spain	846	(11)
Anderson
Dibble
from The Aztec-Spanish Dialogues of 1524	857	(8)
Jorge Klor de Alva
Hernando Ruiz De Alarcon (c. 1587-c. 1645)	865	(9)
from Treatise on the Superstitions of the Natives of this New Spain	865	(6)
Coe
Whittaker
Resonance
Julio Cortazar: Axolotl	871	(3)
Blackburn
Bartolome De Las Casas (1474-1566)	874	(5)
from Apologetic History	875	(4)
George Sanderlin
Sor Juana Inez De La Cruz (c. 1651-1695)	879	(10)
from The Loa for the Auto Sacramental of the Divine Narcissus	880	(9)
Peters
Domeier
Bibliography	889	(6)
Credits	895	(4)
Index	899