Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume E, The: The 19th Century

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: 9780321173065
• ISBN10: 0321173066
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• 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	xiii
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xxi
About the Editors	xxiii
The Nineteenth Century	1	(679)
TIMELINE	15	(4)
CROSSCURRENTS The Folk and Their Tales	19	(48)
AESOP'S FABLES (c. 6th Century B.C.E.)	20	(2)
The Wolf and the Lamb	20	(1)
The Lion's Share	20	(1)
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse	21	(1)
The Fox and the Crow	21	(1)
The Frogs Desiring a King	21	(1)
The Hare and the Tortoise	22	(1)
PANCHATANTRA (Early Centuries c.E.)	22	(2)
The Turtle and the Geese (trans. Patrick Olivelle)	23	(1)
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE (1621-1695)	24	(2)
The Turtle and the Two Ducks (trans. N.R. Shapiro)	24	(2)
THE PALI JATAKAS (Last Centuries B.C.E.)	26	(3)
Prince Five-Weapons (trans. Robert Chalmers)	27	(2)
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (1848-1908)	29	(2)
The Wonderful Tar-Baby	29	(2)
CHARLES PERRAULT (1628-1703)	31	(6)
Donkey-Skin (trans. Jack Zipes)	31	(6)
BENEDIKTE NAUBERT (1756-1818)	37	(16)
from The Cloak (trans. Jeannine Blackwell)	38	(15)
JACOB AND WILHELM GRIMM (1785-1863)	53	(4)
All-Kinds-of-Fur (trans. Magpun and Krappe)	54	(3)
COYOTE TALES	57	(5)
Coyote and Bull (trans. Archie Phinney)	58	(1)
Coyote as Medicine-Man (trans. Louis Simpson)	59	(2)
The Origin of Eternal Death (trans. Edward S. Curtis)	61	(1)
MARK TWAIN (1835-1910)	62	(5)
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County	63	(4)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)	67	(28)
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey	69	(4)
Nutting	73	(1)
from Preface to Lyrical Ballads	74	(4)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge	78	(1)
My heart leaps up	78	(1)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	79	(4)
To the Cuckoo	83	(1)
Mark the concen'tred hazels that enclose	84	(1)
from The Prelude	84	(11)
from Book Fifth. Books [The Dream of the Arab]	84	(3)
from Book Sixth. Cambridge and the Alps [Crossing the Alps]	87	(3)
from Book Eleventh. France	90	(1)
from Book Fourteenth. Conclusion [Ascent of Snowdon]	91	(4)
PERSPECTIVES Romantic Nature	95	(36)
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778)	98	(6)
from Reveries of a Solitary Walker-Fifth Walk (trans. Peter France)	98	(6)
IMMANUEL KANT (1724-1804)	104	(2)
from Critique of Practical Reason (trans. T.K. Abbott)	105	(1)
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)	106	(1)
The Ecchoing Green	106	(1)
The Tyger	107	(1)
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)	107	(4)
Ode to a Nightingale	108	(2)
To Autumn	110	(1)
ANNETTE VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF (1797-1848)	111	(3)
The Heath-Man (trans. Jane K. Brown)	111	(2)
In the Grass (trans. Jane K. Brown)	113	(1)
GIACOMO LEOPARDI (1798-1837)	114	(4)
The Infinite (trans. Iris Origo and John Heath-Stubbs)	114	(1)
Dialogue Between Nature and an Icelander	114	(4)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)	118	(7)
from Nature	119	(2)
from Self-Reliance	121	(4)
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)	125	(6)
from Walden	126	(5)
JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE (1749-1832)	131	(123)
Faust (trans. David Luke)	132	(118)
Part I	135	(79)
Dedication	135	(1)
Prelude on the Stage	135	(5)
Prologue In Heaven	140	(3)
Night	143	(10)
from Outside the Town Wall	153	(4)
Faust's Study (1)	157	(9)
from Faust's Study (2)	166	(7)
A Witch's Kitchen	173	(7)
Evening	180	(4)
A Promenade	184	(1)
The Neighbor's House	185	(4)
A Street	189	(1)
A Garden	190	(4)
A Summerhouse	194	(1)
from A Forest Cavern	194	(1)
Gretchen's Room	195	(1)
Martha's Garden	196	(3)
At the Well	199	(1)
By a Shrine Inside the Town Wall	200	(1)
Night. The Street Outside Gretchen's Door	201	(4)
A Cathedral	205	(2)
from Walpurgis Night	207	(1)
A Gloomy Day. Open Country	208	(1)
Night. In Open Country	209	(1)
A Prison	209	(5)
Part II	214	(67)
Act 1
A Beautiful Landscape	214	(3)
A Dark Gallery	217	(3)
Act 2
A Laboratory	220	(5)
Act 3
from Inner Courtyard of a Castle	225	(6)
Act 5
Open Country	231	(2)
A Palace	233	(4)
Deep Night	237	(2)
Midnight	239	(3)
The Great Forecourt of the Palace	242	(2)
Burial Rites	244	(6)
from Mountain Gorges	250	(1)
To the Moon (trans. Jane K. Brown)	250	(1)
Erlking	251	(1)
Mignon	252	(1)
Dusk Descended from on High	253	(1)
Blissful Yearning	253	(1)
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)	254	(18)
from Don Juan, Cantos 2-4	256	(16)
GHALIB (1797-1869)	272	(11)
I'm neither the loosening of song (trans. Adrienne Rich)	274	(1)
Come now: I want you: my only peace	274	(1)
When I look out, I see no hope for change (trans. Robert Bly and Sunil Dutta)	274	(1)
If King Jamshid's diamond cup breaks, that's it	275	(1)
One can sigh, but a lifetime is needed to finish it	275	(1)
When the Great One gestures to me	276	(1)
For tomorrow's sake, don't skimp with me on wine today	276	(1)
I am confused: should I cry over my heart, or slap my chest?	277	(1)
She has a habit of torture, but doesn't mean to end the love	277	(1)
For my weak heart this living in the sorrow house	278	(1)
Religious people are always praising the Garden of Paradise	279	(1)
Only a few faces show up as roses	279	(1)
I agree that I'm in a cage, and I'm crying	280	(1)
Each time I open my mouth, the Great One says	280	(1)
My heart is becoming restless again	281	(2)
RESONANCE
Agha Shahid Ali: Ghazal	282	(1)
Of Snow	282	(1)
ALEXANDER SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN (1799-1837)	283	(20)
I Visited Again (trans. Avram Yarmolinsky)	284	(2)
The Bronze Horseman (trans. Charles Johnston)	286	(10)
from Eugene Onegin (trans. J.E. Falen)	296	(7)
PERSPECTIVES The National Poet	303	(71)
NGUYEN DU (1765-1820)	304	(33)
Reading Hsiao-Ching (trans. Nguyen Ngoc Bich and Burton Raffel	307	(1)
from The Tale of Kieu (trans. Huynh Sanh Thong)	307	(29)
RESONANCE
Che Lan Vien: Thoughts on Nguyen (trans. Huynh Sanh Thong)	336	(1)
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825)	337	(13)
The Mouse's Petition to Dr. Priestley	337	(2)
Washing-Day	339	(2)
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven	341	(8)
RESONANCE
John Wilson Croker: from A Review of "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"	349	(1)
ADAM MICKIEWICZ (1798-1855)	350	(7)
Chatir Dah (trans. John Saly)	351	(1)
The Ruins of the Castle of Balaklava (trans. Louise Bogan)	352	(1)
Zosia in the Kitchen Garden (trans. Donald Davie)	352	(1)
The Lithuanian Forest (trans. John Saly)	353	(1)
Hands That Fought (trans. Clark Mills)	353	(1)
To a Polish Mother (trans. Michael) Mikos)	354	(1)
Song of the Bard (trans. Michael J. Mikos)	354	(3)
DIONYSIOS SOLOMOS (1798-1857)	357	(4)
The Free Besieged (trans. M.B. Raizas)	357	(4)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)	361	(1)
from The Poet	361	(1)
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)	361	(13)
I Hear America Singing	362	(1)
from Song of Myself	362	(5)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	367	(4)
As I lay with my head in your lap camerado	371	(1)
O Captain! My Captain!	371	(1)
Prayer of Columbus	372	(2)
PERSPECTIVES On the Colonial Frontier	374	(51)
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV (1814-1841)	376	(22)
Bela (trans. M. Parker)	377	(21)
DOMINGO SARMIENTO (1811-1888)	398	(6)
from Life of Juan Facundo Quiroga: Civilization and Barbarism (trans. Mary Mann)	399	(5)
CHARLES A. EASTMAN (OHIYESA) (1858-1939)	404	(9)
from From the Deep Woods to Civilization	405	(8)
HAWAIIAN SONGS (1860's-1890's)	413	(4)
Forest Trees of the Sea (trans. Mary K. Pukui and A.L. Korn)	414	(1)
Piano at Evening	415	(1)
Bill the Ice Skater	415	(1)
The Pearl	415	(1)
A Feather Chant for Ka-pi'o-lani at Wai-manalo	416	(1)
The Sprinkler	417	(1)
JOSE RIZAL (1861-1896)	417	(9)
from Noli Me Tangere (trans. Soledad Lacson-Locsi)	418	(7)
THE ROMANTIC FANTASTIC	425	(1)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)	426	(18)
Kubla Khan	427	(2)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	429	(15)
LUDWIG TIECK (1773-1853)	444	(11)
Fair-haired Eckbert (trans. Thomas Carlyle)	445	(10)
HONORE DE BALZAC (1799-1850)	455	(23)
Sarrasine (trans. Richard Miller)	457	(21)
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)	478	(9)
The Pit and the Pendulum	478	(9)
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT (1821-1880)	487	(27)
A Simple Heart (trans. A. McDowall)	489	(19)
from Travels in Egypt (trans. Francis Steegmuller)	508	(6)
PERSPECTIVES Occidentalism-Europe Through Foreign Eyes	514	(30)
NAJAF KULI MIRZA (Early 19th Century)	514	(10)
from Journal of a Residence in England (trans. Assad Kayat)	516	(8)
MUSTAFA SAMI EFFENDI (c. 1790-1855)	524	(5)
On the General Conditions of Europe (trans. Laurent Magon)	524	(5)
HATTORI BUSHO (1842-1908)	529	(2)
The Western Peep Show (trans. Donald Keene)	529	(2)
OKAKURA KAKUZO (1862-1913)	531	(13)
The Cup of Humanity	531	(4)
RESONANCE
Chiang Yee: from The Silent Traveller in London	535	(9)
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)	544	(23)
from Aurora Leigh	545	(22)
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867)	567	(26)
from The Flowers of Evil (trans. Richard Howard)	569	(12)
To the Reader	569	(1)
The Albatross	570	(1)
Correspondences	571	(1)
The Head of Hair	571	(1)
Carrion	572	(1)
Invitation to the Voyage	573	(1)
Spleen (II)	574	(1)
The Swan	575	(1)
In Passing	576	(1)
Twilight: Evening	577	(1)
Twilight: Daybreak	578	(1)
Ragpickers' Wine	578	(1)
A Martyr	579	(2)
from The Painter of Modern Life (trans. P.E. Charvet)	581	(4)
from Paris Spleen (trans. Edward K. Kaplan)	585	(8)
To Each His Chimera	585	(1)
Crowds	586	(1)
Invitation to the Voyage	587	(1)
Get High	588	(1)
Any Where Out of the World	588	(1)
Let's Beat Up the Poor!	589	(2)
RESONANCES
Jules and Edmund Goncourt: from The Journal (trans. Baldick)	591	(1)
Stephane Mallarme: The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire (trans. Bosley)	592	(1)
Arthur Rimbaud: Vowels (trans. Fowlie)	592	(1)
City	593	(1)
Departure	593	(1)
LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910)	593	(7)
After the Ball (trans. M. Wettlin)	595	(5)
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1822-1881)	600	(80)
Notes from Underground (trans. Ralph E. Matlaw)	604	(66)
RESONANCES
Friedrich Nietzsche: from Daybreak (trans. R.J. Hollingdale)	670	(1)
Ishikawa Takuboku: from The Romaji Diary (trans. D. Keene)	671	(9)
OTHER AMERICAS	680	(281)
HATHALI NEZ AND WASHINGTON MATTHEWS (1843-1905)	680	(31)
The Story of the Emergence	683	(10)
RESONANCE
Nicholas Black Elk and John G. Neihardt: from Black Elk Speaks	693	(18)
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)	711	(24)
Bartleby the Scrivener	712	(23)
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818-1895)	735	(53)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	736	(52)
HARRIET JACOBS (1813-1897)	788	(22)
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Seven Years Concealed	789	(21)
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)	810	(6)
I never lost as much but twice	811	(1)
Title divine-is mine!	811	(1)
There came a Day at Summer's full	812	(1)
It was not Death, for I stood up	812	(1)
After great pain, a formal feeling comes	813	(1)
I died for Beauty	813	(1)
I dwell in Possibility	814	(1)
I heard a Fly buzz-when I died	814	(1)
I live with Him-I see His face	814	(1)
My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun	815	(1)
Further in Summer than the Birds	815	(1)
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant	816	(1)
JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE ASSIS (1839-1908)	816	(29)
The Psychiatrist (trans. William L. Grossman)	817	(28)
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935)	845	(11)
The Yellow Wallpaper	846	(10)
RUBEN DARIO (1867-1916)	856	(4)
First, a look (trans. Alberto Acereda and Will Derusha)	857	(1)
Walt Whitman	857	(1)
To Roosevelt	857	(2)
I Pursue a form...	859	(1)
What sign do you give...? (trans.)	859	(1)
HENRIK IBSEN (1828-1906)	860	(50)
A Doll's House (trans. William Archer)	862	(48)
HIGUCHI ICHIYO (1872-1896)	910	(7)
Separate Ways (trans. Robert Lyons Danly)	911	(6)
LIU E (1857-1909)	917	(20)
from The Travels of Lao Ts'an (trans. Harold Shadick)	918	(19)
ANTON CHEKHOV (1860-1904)	937	(12)
The Lady with the Dog (trans. Constance Garnett)	938	(11)
RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861-1941)	949	(12)
The Conclusion (trans. K. Dutta and A. Robinson)	949	(12)
Bibliography	961	(8)
Credits	969	(4)
Index	973