The Norton Anthology: Western Literature Volume 2

by Lawall, Sarah N

• ISBN13: 9780393926163
• ISBN10: 0393926168
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of Western Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of Western literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton anthologies-thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible-the Eighth Edition features a significantly expanded selection of literature (37 new authors and over 150 new pieces) as well as three new pedagogical features designed to enrich students' understanding of the historical and cultural context of the literary works.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	XXV
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	XXXI
PHONETIC EQUIVALENTS	XXXVII
The Enlightenment
INTRODUCTION	1	(7)
TIME LINE	8	(2)
JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIÈRE (1622-1673)	10	(57)
Tartuffe (French)	12	(55)
(Translated by Richard Wilbur)
MARIE DE LA VERGNE DE LA FAYETTE (1643-1693)	67	(92)
The Princess of Cleves (French)	70	(89)
(Translated by Thomas Sergeant Perry)
JEAN RACINE (1639-1699)	159	(42)
Phaedra (French)	162	(39)
(Translated by Richard Wilbur)
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE (1621-1695)	201	(7)
Fables (French)	202	(6)
The Cicada and the Ant	202	(1)
The Crow and the Fox	202	(1)
The Wolf and the Lamb	203	(1)
The Oak and the Reed	203	(1)
The Lion and the Rat	204	(1)
The Fox and the Grapes	205	(1)
The Rooster and the Fox	205	(1)
(Translated by James Michie)
The Two Pigeons	206	(3)
(Translated by Francis Duke)
SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ (1648-1695)	208	(27)
Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz (Spanish)	209	(26)
(Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)
THE SITUATION OF WOMEN	235	(54)
JUDITH DRAKE (seventeenth century)	236	(7)
From An Essay in Defense of the Female Sex	237	(6)
"SOPHIA" (eighteenth century)	243	(12)
Woman Not Inferior to Man	243	(12)
Chap. II. In what esteem the women are held by the men, and how justly.	243	(5)
Chap. III. Whether women are inferior to men in their intellectual capacity, or not.	248	(3)
Chap. IV. Whether the men are better qualified to govern than women, or not.	251	(2)
From Chap. V. Whether the women are fit for public offices, or not.	253	(2)
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778)	255	(8)
Émile (French)	256	(7)
From Marriage	256	(1)
(Translated by William Boyd)
THEODOR GOTTLIEB VON HIPPEL (1741-1796)	263	(12)
On Improving the Status of Women (German)	264	(11)
From V. Suggestions for Improvement	264	(1)
(Translated by Timothy F. Sellner)
HANNAH MORE (1745-1833)	275	(4)
Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education	276	(3)
Introduction	276	(3)
OLYMPE DE GOUGES (1748-1793)	279	(5)
The Rights of Woman (French)	279	(5)
(Translated under the direction of Nirupama Rastogi)
MARY ROBINSON (1758-1800)	284	(5)
From A Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination	285	(4)
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)	289	(58)
Gulliver's Travels	292	(49)
A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Simpson	292	(2)
The Publisher to the Reader	294	(1)
Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms	295	(46)
A Modest Proposal	341	(6)
(Edited by Herbert Davis)
ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)	347	(28)
The Rape of the Lock	350	(18)
(Text and notes by Samuel Holt Monk)
An Essay on Man	368	(7)
Epistle I	368	(7)
FRANÇOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (1694-1778)	375	(63)
Candide, or Optimism (French)	377	(61)
(Translated and with notes by Robert M. Adams)
SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)	438	(47)
From The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia	440	(56)
Chapter I. Description of a Palace in a Valley	440	(2)
Chapter II. The Discontent of Rasselas in the Happy Valley	442	(2)
Chapter VII. The Prince Find a Man of Learning	444	(1)
Chapter VIII. The History of Imlac	444	(2)
Chapter IX. The History of Imlac Continued	446	(2)
Chapter X. Imlac's History Continued. A Dissertation upon Poetry	448	(1)
Chapter XI. Imlac's Narrative Continued. A Hint on Pilgrimage	449	(2)
Chapter XII. The Story of Imlac Continued	451	(3)
Chapter XVI. They Enter Cairo, and Find Every Man Happy	454	(1)
Chapter XVII. The Prince Associates with Young Men of Spirit and Gaiety	455	(1)
Chapter XVIII. The Prince Finds a Wise and Happy Man	456	(2)
Chapter XIX. A Glimpse of Pastoral Life	458	(1)
Chapter XX. The Danger of Prosperity	458	(1)
Chapter XXI. The Happiness of Solitude. The Hermit's History	459	(2)
Chapter XXII. The Happiness of a Life Led According to Nature	461	(1)
Chapter XXIII. The Prince and His Sister Divide between Them the Work of Observation	462	(1)
Chapter XXIV. The Prince Examines the Happiness of High Stations	463	(1)
Chapter XXV. The Princess Pursues Her Inquiry with More Diligence Than Success	463	(1)
Chapter XXVI. The Princess Continues Her Remarks upon Private Life	464	(2)
Chapter XXVII. Disquisition upon Greatness	466	(1)
Chapter XXVIII. Rasselas and Nekayah Continue Their Conversation	467	(2)
Chapter XXIX. The Debate on Marriage Continued	469	(2)
Chapter XXXII. They Enter the Pyramid	471	(1)
Chapter XL. The History of a Man of Learning	471	(2)
Chapter XLI. The Astronomer Discovers the Cause of His Uneasiness	473	(1)
Chapter XLII. The Opinion of the Astronomer Is Explained and Justified	473	(1)
Chapter XLIII. The Astronomer Leaves Imlac His Directions	474	(1)
Chapter XLIV. The Dangerous Prevalence of Imagination	475	(1)
Chapter XLV. They Discourse with an Old Man	476	(2)
Chapter XLVI. The Princess and Pekuah Visit the Astronomer	478	(3)
From Chapter XLVII. The Prince Enters, and Brings a New Topic	481	(1)
Chapter XLVIII. Imlac Discourses on the Nature of the Soul	481	(2)
Chapter XLIX. The Conclusion, in Which Nothing Is Concluded	483	(2)
The Nineteenth Century: Romanticism
INTRODUCTION	485	(8)
TIME LINE	493	(3)
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778)	496	(23)
Confessions, Part I (French)	498	(21)
From Book One. [The Years 1712-1723]	498	(7)
From Book Two. [The Years 1728-1731]	505	(4)
From Book Three. [The Years 1731-1732]	509	(5)
From Book Four. [The Year 1732]	514	(1)
From Book Five. [The Years 1732-1738]	515	(1)
From Book Six. [The Year 1738]	516	(6)
(Translated by J.M. Cohen)
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832)	519	(107)
Faust (German)	522	(104)
Prologue in Heaven	522	(3)
[Part I]	525	(102)
(Translated by Martin Greenberg)
REVOLUTIONARY MOMENTS	626	(56)
THOMAS HUTCHINSON (1711-1780)	627	(6)
[Address to the Massachusetts Assembly]	627	(6)
MERCY OTIS WARREN (1728-1814)	633	(12)
From History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution	633	(12)
Chapter XVII. [1780]	633	(7)
Chapter XXX. [The Aftermath of the Revolution]	640	(5)
JOHN ADAMS and ABIGAIL ADAMS (1735-1826 and 1744-1818)	645	(12)
[Familiar Letters]	646	(11)
THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809)	657	(3)
Address to the People of France	658	(2)
JEAN-PAUL MARAT (1743-1793)	660	(7)
[Address to the Convention on the Crimes of King Louis XVI] (French)	661	(6)
(Translated by Marian Rothstein)
GERMAINE DE STAEL (1766-1817)	667	(7)
From Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution (French)	668	(3)
Part One. Chapter I. General Remarks	668	(2)
Part Three. Chapter XV, Political Fanaticism	670	(1)
The Superiority of Moderation over Extremism (French)	671	(3)
(Translated by Morroe Berger)
WOMEN IN REVOLUTIONARY PARIS	674	(4)
Marguerite Pinaigre
[My Role in the Conquest of the Bastille] (French)	674	(1)
(Translated by Jennifer Westfall)
Claude Fournier L'Héritier, l'Américain
[The October Days] (French)	675	(1)
(Translated by Darline Gay Levy, Harriet Branson Applewhite, and Mary Durham Johnson)
WOMEN TESTIFY	678	(4)
Madelaine Glaine
Deposition Number 83 (French)	679	(1)
Jeanne Dorothée Delaissement
Deposition Number 85 (French)	680	(1)
Marie-Rose Barré
Deposition Number 343 (French)	680	(1)
(Translated by Philip Dawson)
ENGLISH ROMANTIC LYRICS: A SELECTION	682	(82)
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)	683	(10)
From Songs of Innocence	686	(3)
Introduction	686	(1)
The Lamb	686	(1)
The Little Black Boy	687	(1)
Holy Thursday	688	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	688	(1)
From Songs of Experience	689	(3)
Introduction	689	(1)
Earth's Answer	689	(1)
The Tyger	690	(1)
The Sick Rose	691	(1)
London	691	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	692	(1)
Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau	692	(1)
And Did Those Feet	692	(1)
(Edited by David V. Erdman and Harold Bloom)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)	693	(12)
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey	696	(3)
Ode on Intimations of Immortality	699	(5)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	704	(1)
The World Is Too Much with Us	704	(1)
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (1771-1855)	705	(31)
From The Grasmere Journals	706	(30)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)	736	(7)
Kubla Khan	737	(2)
Dejection: An Ode	739	(4)
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)	743	(5)
[Again Deceived! Again Betrayed!]	744	(1)
[Politics in 1813. To Lady Melbourne]	745	(1)
Stanzas for Music	745	(1)
Fare Thee Well!	745	(2)
When We Two Parted	747	(1)
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)	748	(7)
Stanzas Written in Dejection-December 1818, near Naples	749	(1)
England in 1819	750	(1)
Ode to the West Wind	751	(2)
A Defense of Poetry	753	(2)
[Conclusion]	753	(2)
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)	755	(9)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	756	(1)
Bright Star	757	(1)
La Belle Dame sans Merci	757	(2)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	759	(1)
Ode to a Nightingale	760	(2)
Ode on Melancholy	762	(1)
To Autumn	763	(1)
CONTINENTAL ROMANTIC LYRICS: A SELECTION	764	(233)
FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN (1770-1843)	766	(2)
The Half of Life (German)	766	(1)
Hyperion's Song of Fate (German)	767	(1)
Brevity (German)	767	(1)
To the Fates (German)	768	(1)
(Translated by Christopher Middleton)
NOVALIS (FRIEDRICH VON HARDENBERG) (1772-1801)	768	(2)
Yearning for Death (German)	769	(1)
(Translated by Charles E. Passage)
ANNA PETROVNA BUNINA (1774-1829)	770	(2)
From the Seashore (Russian)	771	(1)
(Translated by Pamela Perkins)
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE (1790-1869)	772	(2)
The Lake (French)	772	(2)
(Translated by Andrea Moorhead)
HEINRICH HEINE (1797-1856)	774	(2)
[A Pine Is Standing Lonely] (German)	775	(1)
[A Young Man Loves a Maiden] (German)	775	(1)
[Ah, Death Is Like the Long Cool Night] (German)	775	(1)
The Silesian Weavers (German)	776	(1)
(Translated by Hal Draper)
GIACOMO LEOPARDI (1798-1837)	776	(4)
The Infinite (Italian)	777	(1)
To Himself (Italian)	777	(1)
To Sylvia (Italian)	778	(1)
The Village Saturday (Italian)	779	(1)
(Translated by Ottavio M. Casale)
VICTOR HUGO (1802-1885)	780	(6)
Et nox facta est (French)	781	(5)
(Translated by Mary Ann Caws)
GÉRARD DE NERVAL (1808-1855)	786	(3)
Notre-Dame (French)	787	(1)
Awakening in the Carriage (French)	787	(1)
A Lane in the Luxembourg (French)	788	(1)
April (French)	788	(1)
Grandmother (French)	788	(1)
(Translated by Geoffrey Wagner)
MIKHAILYURYEVICH LERMONTOV (1814-1841)	789	(4)
[I Do Not Love You] (Russian)	789	(1)
[No, I Am Not Byron] (Russian)	790	(1)
To (Russian)	790	(1)
[Her Face Is Not the Face of Venus] (Russian)	790	(1)
The Poet's Death (Russian)	791	(2)
(Translated by Anatoly Liberman)
GUSTAVO ADOLFO BÉCQUER (1836-1870)	793	(3)
[I Know a Strange, Gigantic Hymn] (Spanish)	793	(1)
[Nameless Spirit] (Spanish)	794	(2)
(Translated by Bruce Phenix)
ROSALIA DE CASTRO (1837-1885)	796	(4)
[As I Composed This Little Book] (Spanish)	796	(1)
[Mild Was the Air] (Spanish)	796	(1)
[A Glowworm Scatters Flashes through the Moss] (Spanish)	797	(1)
[The Feet of Spring Are on the Stair] (Spanish)	798	(1)
[Candescent Lies the Air] (Spanish)	799	(1)
[The Ailing Woman Felt Her Forces Ebb] (Spanish)	799	(1)
(Translated by S. Griswold Morley)
ALEXANDER SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN (1799-1837)	800	(20)
The Queen of Spades (Russian)	801	(19)
(Translated by Gillon B. Aitken)
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)	820	(23)
Ulysses	822	(1)
Tithonus	823	(2)
From In Memoriam A.H.H.	825	(18)
ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)	843	(13)
My Last Duchess	845	(2)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church	847	(3)
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"	850	(6)
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818?-1895)	856	(60)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave	858	(58)
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)	916	(12)
From Song of Myself	918	(6)
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	924	(4)
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)	928	(58)
Billy Budd, Sailor	931	(55)
(Edited by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts Jr.)
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)	986	(22)
216 [Safe in their Alabaster Chambers-]	987	(1)
258 [There's a certain Slant of light]	988	(1)
303 [The Soul selects her own Society-]	988	(1)
328 [A Bird came down the Walk-]	988	(1)
341 [After great pain, a formal feeling comes-]	989	(1)
435 [Much Madness is divinest Sense-]	989	(1)
449 [I died for Beauty-but was scarce]	990	(1)
465 [I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-]	990	(1)
519 ['Twas warm-at first-like Us-]	991	(1)
585 [I like to see it lap the Miles-]	991	(1)
632 [The Brain-is wider than the Sky-]	992	(1)
657 [I dwell in Possibility-]	992	(1)
712 [Because I could not stop for Death-]	992	(1)
754 [My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-]	993	(1)
1084 [At Half past Three, a single Bird]	994	(1)
1129 [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-]	994	(1)
1207 [He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow-]	994	(1)
1564 [Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light]	995	(1)
1593 [There came a Wind like a Bugle-]	995	(2)
The Nineteenth Century: Realism and Symbolism
INTRODUCTION	997	(9)
TIME LINE	1006	(2)
NIKOLAI GOGOL (1809-1852)	1008	(25)
The Overcoat (Russian)	1012	(21)
(Translated by Constance Garnett, revised by Leonard J. Kent)
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT (1821-1880)	1033	(217)
Madame Bovary (French)	1037	(213)
(Translated by Francis Steegmuller)
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1821-1881)	1250	(77)
Notes from Underground (Russian)	1255	(72)
(Translated by Michael Katz)
LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910)	1327	(42)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Russian)	1330	(39)
(Translated by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude)
REVOLUTIONARY PRINCIPLES	1369	(38)
CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882)	1370	(11)
The Origin of Species	1371	(5)
From Chapter XIV. Recapitulation and Conclusion	1371	(5)
The Descent of Man	1376	(5)
From Chapter XXI. General Summary and Conclusion	1376	(5)
KARL MARX and FRIEDRICH ENGELS (1818-1883 and 1820-1895)	1381	(9)
From Manifesto of the Communist Party (German)	1382	(8)
I. Bourgeois and Proletarians	1382	(1)
(English edition of 1888)
ÉMILE ZOLA (1840-1902)	1390	(6)
From J'accuse (French)	1391	(5)
(Translated by Eleanor Levieux)
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (1844-1900)	1396	(7)
The Gay Science (German)	1397	(6)
From Book Three	1397	(1)
From Book Five. We Fearless Ones	1398	(1)
(Translated by Josefine Nauckhoff)
MONA CAIRD (1854-1931)	1403	(4)
The Emancipation of the Family	1403	(7)
From The End of the Patriarchal Family	1403	(4)
HENRIK IBSEN (1828-1906)	1407	(59)
Hedda Gabler (Norwegian)	1410	(56)
(Translated by Rich Davis and Brian Johnston)
GIOVANNI VERGA (1840-1922)	1466	(8)
Freedom (Italian)	1469	(5)
(Translated by G.H. McWilliam)
GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-1893)	1474	(12)
Hautot and His Son (French)	1477	(9)
(Translated by Margaret Storm Jameson)
ANTON CHEKHOV (1860-1904)	1486	(52)
The Lady with the Dog (Russian)	1491	(12)
(Translated by Ivy Litvinov)
The Cherry Orchard (Russian)	1503	(35)
(Translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky)
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867)	1538	(21)
The Salon of 1859 (French)	1542	(1)
From III. The Queen of the Faculties	1542	(1)
(Translated by P.E. Charvet)
The Flowers of Evil (French)	1543	(16)
To the Reader	1543	(2)
(Translated by Robert Lowell)
Correspondences	1545	(1)
(Translated by Richard Wilbur)
Correspondances	1545	(1)
Her Hair	1546	(1)
(Translated by Doreen Bell)
A Carcass	1547	(1)
(Translated by James McGowan)
Invitation to the Voyage	1548	(1)
(Translated by Richard Wilbur)
Song of Autumn I	1549	(1)
(Translated by C. F. MacIntyre)
Spleen LXXVIII	1550	(1)
(Translated by Kenneth O. Hanson)
Spleen LXXIX	1550	(1)
(Translated by Anthony Hecht)
Spleen LXXXI	1551	(1)
(Translated by Sir John Squire)
The Voyage	1551	(5)
(Translated by Charles Henri Ford)
Paris Spleen (French)	1556	(5)
One o'clock in the Morning	1556	(1)
Crowds	1556	(1)
Windows	1557	(1)
Anywhere out of the World	1558	(1)
(Translated by Louis Varèse)
STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ (1842-1898)	1559	(8)
From The Evolution of Literature (French)	1561	(1)
From Crisis in Poetry (French)	1561	(1)
(Translated by Bradford Cook)
Poems (French)	1562	(5)
The Afternoon of a Faun	1562	(3)
The Tomb of Edgar Poe	1565	(1)
Saint	1566	(1)
[The Virginal, Vibrant, and Beautiful Dawn]	1566	(5)
(Translated by Henry Weinfield)
PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896)	1567	(5)
Autumn Song (French)	1569	(1)
Moonlight (French)	1569	(1)
[The White Moonglow] (French)	1570	(1)
Wooden Horses (French)	1570	(1)
The Art of Poetry (French)	1571	(1)
(Translated by C.F. MacIntyre)
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)	1572	(10)
From Letter of the Seer [Letter to Paul Demeny] (French)	1574	(2)
(Translated by Paul Schmidt)
Poems (French)	1576	(6)
The Drunken Boat	1576	(3)
(Translated by Stephen Stepanchev)
A Season in Hell	1579	(2)
Night of Hell	1579	(2)
The Illuminations	1581	(2)
The Bridges	1581	(1)
Barbarian	1581	(1)
(Translated by Enid Rhodes Peschel)
PERSPECTIVES ON EUROPEAN EMPIRE	1582	(39)
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY (1800-1859)	1583	(4)
[From Minute on Indian Education, February 2, 1835]	1584	(3)
GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI (1807-1882)	1587	(4)
Memorandum (Italian)	1588	(3)
(Translated by Anthony P. Campanella)
MACHEMBA (late nineteenth century)	1591	(2)
[Letter to Major von Wissmann] (Swahili)	1592	(1)
(Translated from the German by Robert Sullivan and Sarah Lawall)
CECIL RHODES (1853-1902)	1593	(2)
[From Speech at Drill Hall, Cape Town, South Africa]	1594	(1)
OLIVE SCHREINER (1855-1920)	1595	(5)
From An English-South African's View of the Situation	1596	(4)
MARY KINGSLEY (1862-1900)	1600	(7)
Travels in West Africa	1602	(5)
From Chapter XIII. From Esoon to Agonjo	1602	(5)
SOL T. PLAATJE (1876-1932)	1607	(25)
Mafeking Diary	1609	(84)
From Chapter 1. October-November 1899	1609	(1)
From Chapter 2. December 1899	1610	(1)
From Chapter 3. January 1900	1610	(3)
From Chapter 4. February 1900	1613	(8)
The Twentieth Century: Modernisms and Modernity
INTRODUCTION	1621	(6)
TIME LINE	1627	(5)
JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924)	1632	(60)
Heart of Darkness	1633	(59)
CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL	1692	(22)
SIGMUND FREUD (1856-1939)	1693	(6)
From The Future of an Illusion (German)	1694	(2)
From Civilization and Its Discontents (German)	1696	(3)
(Translated by James Strachey)
MAX WEBER (1864-1920)	1699	(2)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (German)	1700	(1)
From Part V. Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism	1700	(1)
(Translated by Talcott Parsons)
PAUL VALÉRY (1871-1945)	1701	(5)
The Crisis of the Mind (French)	1702	(1)
From First Letter [1919]	1702	(4)
(Translated by Jackson Mathews and Denise Folliot)
OSWALD SPENGLER (1880-1936)	1706	(4)
The Decline of the West (German)	1706	(4)
From Introduction	1706	(1)
(Translated by Charles Francis Atkinson)
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA (ELEVENTH EDITION) (1911)	1710	(4)
Volume VI. Châtelet to Constantine	1711	(5)
From Civilization	1711	(3)
CONSTANTINE CAVAFY (1863-1933)	1714	(9)
Poems (Greek)	1716	(7)
Waiting for the Barbarians	1716	(1)
The City	1717	(1)
Sculptor of Tyana	1717	(1)
Ionic	1718	(1)
Ithaka	1719	(1)
In the Evening	1720	(1)
Kaisarion	1720	(1)
The Next Table	1721	(1)
Craftsman of Wine Bowls	1721	(1)
When the Watchman Saw the Light	1722	(18)
(Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)	1723	(13)
When You Are Old	1726	(1)
Easter 1916	1726	(2)
The Second Coming	1728	(1)
Leda and the Swan	1729	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	1729	(1)
Among School Children	1730	(2)
Byzantium	1732	(1)
Lapis Lazuli	1733	(2)
The Circus Animals' Desertion	1735	(1)
LUIGI PIRANDELLO (1867-1936)	1736	(45)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italian)	1740	(41)
(Translated by John Linstrum)
MARCEL PROUST (1871-1922)	1781	(35)
Swann's Way (French)	1785	(31)
Part I. Combray	1785	(34)
(Translated by Lydia Davis)
THOMAS MANN (1875-1955)	1816	(54)
Death in Venice (German)	1819	(51)
(Translated by Clayton Koelb)
RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926)	1870	(7)
From New Poems (German)	1872	(3)
Archaic Torso of Apollo	1872	(1)
Archaischer Torso Apollos	1873	(1)
The Panther	1873	(1)
The Swan	1874	(1)
Spanish Dancer	1874	(1)
From Duino Elegies	1875	(2)
The Ninth Elegy	1875	(50)
(Translated by Stephen Mitchell)
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)	1877	(11)
Sunday Morning	1880	(3)
Peter Quince at the Clavier	1883	(2)
Anecdote of the Jar	1885	(1)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	1885	(1)
The Idea of Order at Key West	1886	(1)
The Man on the Dump	1887	(1)
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941)	1888	(34)
The Dead	1893	(29)
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941)	1922	(42)
From A Room of One's Own	1925	(31)
Chapter One	1925	(12)
Chapter Two	1937	(10)
Chapter Three	1947	(9)
An Unwritten Novel	1956	(8)
FRANZ KAFKA (1883-1924)	1964	(35)
The Metamorphosis (German)	1966	(33)
(Translated by J.A. Underwood)
T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965)	1999	(29)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	2003	(3)
The Waste Land	2006	(13)
The Hollow Men	2019	(3)
From Four Quartets	2022	(6)
Little Gidding	2022	(6)
ANNA AKHMATOVA (1889-1966)	2028	(10)
Requiem (Russian)	2031	(7)
(Translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980)	2038	(11)
Flowering Judas	2040	(9)
ALFONSINA STORNI (1892-1938)	2049	(6)
[Poems] (Spanish)	2051	(4)
Squares and Angles	2051	(1)
(Translated by Florence Williams Talamantes)
You Want Me White	2051	(1)
Little-Bitty Man	2052	(1)
(Translated by Marion Freeman and Mary Crow)
Ancestral Burden	2053	(1)
(Translated by Florence Williams Talamantes)
Departure	2053	(5)
(Translated by Marion Freeman)
DADA-SURREALIST POETRY: A SELECTION	2055	(12)
KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948)	2058	(1)
Anna Blume (German)	2058	(1)
(Translated by David Britt)
PAUL ÉLUARD (1895-1952)	2059	(2)
From Capital of Pain (French)	2059	(1)
Woman in Love	2059	(1)
(Translated by Lloyd Alexander)
To Be Caught in One's Own Trap	2059	(1)
[Nature Was Caught in the Nets of Your Life]	2060	(1)
[She Is Always Unwilling to Understand]	2060	(1)
[Unknown, She Was My Favorite Shape]	2060	(1)
The Mirror of a Moment	2060	(1)
(Translated by R.M. Weisman)
TRISTAN TZARA (1896-1963)	2061	(1)
From Dada Manifesto 1918 (French)	2061	(1)
Proclamation without Pretension (French)	2061	(1)
(Translated by Mary Ann Caws)
ANDRÉ BRETON (1896-1966)	2062	(3)
Free Union (French)	2062	(2)
(Translated by Louis Simpson)
Vigilance (French)	2064	(1)
(Translated by Mary Ann Caws)
AIMÉ CÉSAIRE (born 1913)	2065	(1)
Do Not Have Pity	2065	(1)
Sun Serpent	2065	(1)
Day and Night	2066	(1)
(Translated by Gregson Davis)
JOYCE MANSOUR (1928-1986)	2066	(1)
From Screams (French)	2066	(30)
[I Saw You through My Closed Eye]	2066	(1)
[I Opened Your Head]	2066	(1)
[Men's Vices]	2067	(1)
[Empty Black Haunted House]	2067	(1)
(Translated by Serge Gavronsky)
WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962)	2067	(29)
Barn Burning	2071	(12)
Spotted Horses	2083	(13)
FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY AT MID-CENTURY	2096	(16)
GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950)	2096	(6)
From The Prevention of Literature	2097	(5)
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE (1905-1980)	2102	(5)
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (French)	2104	(3)
III. Freedom and Responsibility	2104	(1)
(Translated by Hazel E. Barnes)
HANNAH ARENDT (1906-1975)	2107	(5)
From Organized Guilt and Universal Responsibility	2108	(4)
BERTOLT BRECHT (1898-1956)	2112	(57)
The Good Woman of Setzuan (German)	2116	(53)
(Translated by Eric Bentley)
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA (1898-1936)	2169	(10)
Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (Spanish)	2173	(5)
(Translated by Stephen Spender and J.L. Gili)
Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias	2178	(1)
4. Alma Ausente	2178	(1)
JORGE LUIS BORGES (1899-1986)	2179	(10)
The Garden of Forking Paths (Spanish)	2182	(7)
(Translated by Donald A. Yates)
Borges and I	2189	(1)
(Translated by Anthony Kerrigan)
PABLO NERUDA (1904-1973)	2189	(17)
Tonight I Can Write... (Spanish)	2193	(1)
Walking Around (Spanish)	2194	(1)
(Translated by W.S. Merwin)
I'm Explaining a Few Things (Spanish)	2195	(2)
(Translated by Nathaniel Tarn)
General Song (Canto General) (Spanish)	2197	(7)
From Canto II. The Heights of Macchu Picchu	2197	(7)
(Translated by Jack Schmitt)
Ode to the Tomato (Spanish)	2204	(2)
(Translated by Nathaniel Tarn)
SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1989)	2206	(32)
Endgame (French)	2210	(28)
(Translated by the author)
RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960)	2238	(12)
The Man Who Was Almost a Man	2241	(9)
ALBERT CAMUS (1913-1960)	2250	(12)
The Guest (French)	2253	(9)
(Translated by Justin O'Brien)
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN (born 1918)	2262	(30)
Matryona's Home (Russian)	2266	(26)
(Translated by H.T. Willetts)
DORIS LESSING (born 1919)	2292	(12)
The Old Chief Mshlanga	2296	(8)
TADEUSZ BOROWSKI (1922-1951)	2304	(17)
Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber (Polish)	2307	(14)
(Translated by Jadwiga Zwolska)
ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET (born 1922)	2321	(6)
The Secret Room (French)	2323	(4)
(Translated by Bruce Morrissette)
ITALO CALVINO (1923-1985)	2327	(6)
Invisible Cities (Italian)	2329	(4)
Chapter 8	2329	(8)
(Translated by William Weaver)
INGEBORG BACHMANN (1926-1973)	2333	(15)
The Barking (German)	2337	(11)
(Translated by Mary Fran Gilbert)
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ (born 1928)	2348	(9)
Death Constant beyond Love (Spanish)	2352	(5)
(Translated by Gregory Rabassa)
DEREK WALCOTT (born 1930)	2357	(21)
Omeros	2361	(17)
Book One	2361	(5)
From Chapter I	2361	(2)
From Chapter VIII	2363	(3)
Book Three	2366	(6)
Chapter XXV	2366	(4)
From Chapter XXVI	2370	(2)
Book Four	2372	(3)
From Chapter XXXV	2372	(3)
Book Six	2375	(1)
From Chapter LII	2375	(1)
Book Seven	2376	(3)
From Chapter LXIV	2376	(2)
ON BEING A CULTURAL OTHER	2378	(38)
RENÉ MÉNIL (born 1907)	2379	(3)
From Concerning Colonial Exoticism (French)	2380	(2)
(Translated by Michael Richardson and Krzysztof Fijalkowski)
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR (1908-1986)	2382	(5)
The Second Sex: Facts and Myths (French)	2382	(5)
From Myths: Dreams, Fears, Idols	2382	(1)
(Translated by H.M. Parshley)
FRANTZ FANON (1925-1961)	2387	(4)
The Wretched of the Earth (French)	2388	(3)
From On National Culture	2388	(1)
(Translated by Constance Farrington)
CHINUA ACHEBE (born 1930)	2391	(3)
From Named for Victoria, Queen of England	2392	(2)
AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992)	2394	(6)
From Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference	2395	(5)
EDWARD SAID (1935-2003)	2400	(6)
Orientalism	2400	(6)
From The Scope of Orientalism	2400	(6)
TRINH T. MINH-HA (born 1952)	2406	(3)
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism	2407	(2)
From Chapter 3. Difference: "A Special Third World Women Issue"	2407	(2)
SALMAN RUSHDIE (born 1947)	2409	(7)
From Step across This Line	2410	(6)
CHINUA ACHEBE (born 1930)	2416	(92)
Things Fall Apart	2420	(88)
ALICE MUNRO (born 1931)	2508	(12)
Walker Brothers Cowboy	2510	(10)
LESLIE MARMON SILKO (born 1948)	2520	(11)
Yellow Woman	2523	(8)
A NOTE ON TRANSLATION	2531	(6)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES	2537	(20)
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	2557	(8)
INDEX	2565