The Norton Anthology of World Literaturees: 1650 To the Present VOL D,E,F

by Lawall, Sara; Mack, Maynard; Lawall, Sarah N.

• ISBN13: 9780393977653
• ISBN10: 039397765X
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780393924541
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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Summary

Offers poetry, prose, and religious writings from the earliest human civilizations to the present from throughout the world.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxiii
Acknowledgments	xxix
Phonetic Equivalents	xxxi
MAP: THE SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY, 30--600	1200	(1)
From Roman Empire to Christian Europe	1201	(3)
TIME LINE	1204	(46)
The Bible: The New Testament (Greek, ca. first century)	1206	(15)
Luke 2 [The Birth and Youth of Jesus]	1207	(2)
Matthew 5--7 [The Teaching of Jesus: The Sermon on the Mount]	1209	(4)
Luke 15 [The Teaching of Jesus: Parables]	1213	(1)
Matthew 13 [Why Jesus Teaches in Parables]	1214	(1)
Matthew 26 [The Betrayal of Jesus]	1215	(3)
Matthew 27 [The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus]	1218	(2)
Matthew 28 [The Resurrection]
(The King James Version)	1220	(1)
Augustine (354--430)	1221	(29)
From Confessions (Latin)	1222	(28)
From Book I [Childhood]	1222	(4)
From Book II [The Pear Tree]	1226	(3)
From Book III [Student at Carthage]	1229	(2)
From Book V [Augustine Leaves Carthage for Rome]	1231	(2)
From Book VI [Worldly Ambitions]	1233	(3)
From Book VIII [Conversion]	1236	(2)
From Book IX [Death of His Mother]	1238	(12)
F. J. Sheed
MAP: INDIA, 100--1200	1250	(1)
India's Classical Age	1251	(5)
TIME LINE	1256	(96)
Visnusarman (second or third century)	1258	(9)
From Pancatantra (Sanskrit)	1260	(1)
From Book I. The Loss of Friends	1260	(7)
From Book III. Crows and Owls	1263	(3)
From Book V. III-Considered Action	1266	(1)
Arthur W. Ryder
Kalidasa (fourth century)	1267	(65)
Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection (Sanskrit)	1271	(61)
Barbara Stoler Miller
Bhartrhari (fifth century)	1332	(5)
From Satakatrayam (Sanskrit)	1334	(3)
4 [Wise men are consumed by envy]	1334	(1)
7 [A splendid palace, wanton maids]	1334	(1)
11 [A gem carved by the jeweler's stone]	1334	(1)
34 [Like clusters of blossoms]	1335	(1)
35 [When silent, the courtier is branded dumb]	1335	(1)
70 [Knowledge is man's crowning mark]	1335	(1)
76 [Armlets do not adorn a person]	1335	(1)
85 [Why all these words and empty prattle?]	1335	(1)
102 [A melodious song]	1336	(1)
148 [So I have roamed through perilous lands]	1336	(1)
155 [We savored no pleasure]	1336	(1)
166 [You are a king of opulence]	1336	(1)
172 [Should I sojourn in austerity]	1336	(1)
190 [Earth his soft couch]	1337	(1)
191 [Why do men need scriptures revealed, remembered]	1337	(1)
Barbara Stoler Miller
Amaru (seventh century)	1337	(5)
From Amarusataka (Sanskrit)	1339	(3)
23 [Lying on the same bed]	1339	(1)
34 [She's just a kid]	1340	(1)
38 [When anger / was a crease in the brow]	1340	(1)
57 [My girl]	1340	(1)
69 [At first, / our bodies were as one]	1341	(1)
101 [When my lover came to bed]	1341	(1)
102 [She's in the house]	1341	(1)
Martha Ann Selby
Somadeva (eleventh century)	1342	(10)
From Kathasaritsagara (Sanskrit)	1345	(7)
The Red Lotus of Chastity	1345	(7)
J. A. B. van Buitenen
MAP: TANG CHINA, Ca. 650	1352	(1)
China's ``Middle Period''	1353	(3)
TIME LINE	1356	(14)
Tao Ch'ien (365--427)	1358	(12)
[Selected Prose and Poetry] (Chinese)	1360	(2)
The Peach Blossom Spring	1360	(1)
The Return	1361	(1)
James Robert Hightower
Biography of Master Five Willows	1362	(1)
Stephen Owen
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit	1363	(1)
Substance, to Shadow	1363	(1)
Shadow to Substance	1363	(1)
Spirit's Solution	1364	(1)
Returning to the Farm to Dwell	1364	(1)
[From early days I have been at odds with the world]	1364	(1)
[Here in the country human contacts are few]	1365	(1)
Begging for Food	1365	(1)
On Moving House	1366	(1)
[For long I yearned to live in Southtown---]	1366	(1)
[In spring and fall are many perfect days]	1366	(1)
From A Reply to Secretary Kuo	1366	(1)
[The trees before the house grow thick, thick]	1366	(1)
In the Sixth Month of 408, Fire	1367	(1)
From Twenty Poems After Drinking Wine	1367	(1)
Preface	1367	(1)
[I built my hut beside a traveled road]	1367	(1)
[I heard a knock this morning at my door]	1368	(1)
[Once I made a distant trip]	1368	(1)
From On Reading the Seas and Mountain Classic	1368	(1)
[In early summer when the grasses grow]	1368	(1)
Elegy	1369	(1)
James Robert Hightower
T`ANG POETRY (CHINESE)	1370	(48)
Wang Wei (ca. 699--761)	1373	(3)
Villa on Chung-nan Mountain	1374	(1)
When Living Quietly at Wang-ch`uan I Gave This to P'ei Ti	1374	(1)
Answering Magistrate Chang	1374	(1)
Various Topics on Huang-fu Yueh's Cloudy Valley	1375	(1)
The Torrent Where the Birds Sang	1375	(1)
Cormorant Dike	1375	(1)
From Wang Stream Collection	1375	(1)
Deer Fence	1375	(1)
Lodge in the Bamboo	1375	(1)
Written Crossing the Yellow River to Ch`ing-ho	1375	(1)
Parting	1376	(1)
Stephen Owen
Han-Shan (ca. 600--800)	1376	(3)
40 [I climb the road to Cold Mountain]	1377	(1)
45 [Cold Mountain is full of weird sights]	1377	(1)
48 [Wonderful, this road to Cold Mountain---]	1377	(1)
57 [When people see the man of Cold Mountain]	1377	(1)
62 [High, high from the summit of the peak]	1378	(1)
80 [Man, living in the dust]	1378	(1)
82 [People ask the way to Cold Mountain]	1378	(1)
96 [Have I a body or have I none?]	1378	(1)
99 [So Han-Shan writes you these words]	1379	(1)
Burton Watson
Li Po (701--762)	1379	(5)
The Sun Rises and Sets	1380	(1)
Bring in the Wine	1380	(2)
Yearning	1382	(1)
Ballad of Youth	1382	(1)
The Girls of Yueh	1382	(1)
Dialogue in the Mountains	1383	(1)
Summer Day in the Mountains	1383	(1)
My Feelings	1383	(1)
Drinking Alone by Moonlight	1383	(1)
Sitting Alone by Ching-t'ing Mountain	1384	(1)
Stephen Owen
Tu Fu (712--770)	1384	(5)
Song of P`eng-ya	1385	(1)
Moonlit Night	1386	(1)
Chiang Village	1386	(1)
Thousand League Pool	1387	(1)
My Thatched Roof Is Ruined by the Autumn Wind	1387	(1)
A Guest Comes	1388	(1)
Spending the Night in a Tower by the River	1389	(1)
Writing of My Feelings Traveling by Night	1389	(1)
Stephen Owen
Li Ho (791--817)	1389	(4)
Magic Strings	1390	(1)
A. C. Graham
Song of an Arrowhead from the Battlefield of Ch`ang-p`ing	1390	(1)
Stephen Owen
The King of Ch`in Drinks Wine	1391	(1)
The Grave of Little Su	1392	(1)
The Northern Cold	1392	(1)
A Dream of Heaven	1392	(1)
A. C. Graham
Po Chu-I (772--846)	1393	(5)
Watching the Reapers	1394	(1)
Passing T`ien-men Street in Ch`ang-an and Seeing a Distant View of Chung-nan Mountains	1394	(1)
The Flower Market	1394	(1)
Golden Bells	1395	(1)
Lazy Man's Song	1395	(1)
Winter Night	1396	(1)
Remembering Golden Bells	1396	(1)
On Board Ship: Reading Yuan Chen's Poems	1397	(1)
Madly Singing in the Mountains	1397	(1)
The Cranes	1397	(1)
Pruning Trees	1397	(1)
Last Poem	1398	(1)
Arthur Waley
Yuan Chen (779--831)	1398	(10)
The Story of Ying-ying (Chinese)	1400	(8)
James Robert Hightower
Li Ching-Chao (1084---ca. 1151)	1408	(10)
From Records on Metal and Stone (Chinese)	1410	(5)
Afterword	1410	(5)
[Song Lyrics] (Chinese)	1415	(3)
To ``Southern Song''	1415	(1)
To ``Free-Spirited Fisherman''	1415	(1)
To ``Like a Dream''	1416	(1)
To ``Drunk in the Shadow of Flowering Trees''	1416	(1)
To ``Spring in Wu-ling''	1416	(1)
To ``Note After Note''	1417	(1)
Stephen Owen
MAP: ISLAM'S GOLDEN AGE, CA. 900	1418	(1)
The Rise of Islam and Islamic Literature	1419	(5)
TIME LINE	1424	(196)
The Koran (Arabic, 610--632)	1426	(34)
The Exordium	1429	(1)
From 4. Women	1429	(3)
The Table	1432	(9)
10. Jonah	1441	(5)
12. Joseph	1446	(6)
19. Mary	1452	(4)
55. The Merciful	1456	(1)
62. Friday, or the Day of Congregation	1457	(1)
71. Noah	1458	(1)
76. Man	1459	(1)
N. J. Dawood
IBN Ishaq (704--767)	1460	(16)
The Biography of the Prophet (Arabic)	1463	(13)
How Salman Became a Muslim	1463	(4)
The Beginning of the Sending Down of the Quran	1467	(1)
Khadija, Daughter of Khuwaylid, Accepts Islam	1467	(1)
From The Prescription of Prayer	1468	(1)
From Ali ibn Abu Talib, the First Male to Accept Islam	1469	(1)
From The Apostle's Public Preaching and the Response	1470	(3)
From Al-Walid ibn Al-Mughira	1473	(1)
How the Apostle Was Treated by His Own People	1474	(1)
[Hamza Accepts Islam]	1475	(1)
[The Burial Preparations]	1475	(1)
Alfred Guillaume
Abolqasem Ferdowsi (932--1025)	1476	(48)
Shahname (Persian)	1481	(43)
From The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam	1481	(43)
Jerome W. Clinton
Faridoddin Attar (1145--1221)	1524	(17)
From The Conference of the Birds (Persian)	1528	(13)
The Story of Sheikh Sam'an	1528	(13)
Afkham Darbandi
Dick Davis
Jalaloddin Rumi (1207--1283)	1541	(8)
Robais (Persian)	1544	(2)
[Listen, if you can stand to]	1544	(1)
[What I most want]	1545	(1)
[Don't come to us without bringing music]	1545	(1)
[Sometimes visible, sometimes not, sometimes]	1545	(1)
25 [Friend, our closeness is this]	1545	(1)
82 [Today, like every other day, we wake up empty]	1545	(1)
158 [Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing]	1545	(1)
Ghazals (Persian)	1546	(1)
An Empty Garlic	1546	(1)
Dissolver of Sugar	1546	(1)
Spiritual Couplets (Persian)	1546	(2)
[A chickpea leaps almost over the rim of the pot]	1546	(1)
Why Wine Is Forbidden	1547	(1)
The Question	1547	(1)
From Birdsong (Persian)	1548	(1)
[Lovers in their brief delight]	1548	(1)
From The Glance (Persian)	1548	(1)
Silkworms	1548	(1)
Coleman Barks
Sa'Di (thirteenth century)	1549	(17)
Golestan (Persian)	1551	(15)
From Book I. On the Nature of Shahs	1551	(15)
Dick Davis
The Thousand and One Nights (Arabic, fourteenth century)	1566	(54)
Prologue [The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Viszier's Daughter]	1569	(7)
[The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey]	1576	(1)
[The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife]	1577	(3)
[The Story of the Merchant and the Demon]	1580	(10)
[The First Old Man's Tale]	1583	(3)
[The Second Old Man's Tale]	1586	(3)
Husain Haddawy
[The Third Old Man's Tale]	1589	(1)
Jerome W. Clinton
[The Story of the Fisherman and the Demon]	1590	(30)
[The Tale of King Yunan and the Sage Duban]	1595	(4)
[The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot]	1599	(1)
[The Tale of the King's Son and the She-Ghoul]	1600	(10)
[The Tale of the Enchanted King]	1610	(10)
Hussain Haddawy
MAP: EUROPE, CA. 1150	1620	(1)
The Formation of a Western Literature	1621	(3)
TIME LINE	1624	(518)
Beowulf (Old English, ca. ninth century)	1626	(76)
Seamus Heaney
From The Song of Roland (French, ca. 1100)	1702	(65)
Frederick Goldin
Marie De France (twelfth century)	1767	(9)
Lanval (French)	1769	(6)
Laustic (French)	1775	(1)
Glyn S. Burgess
Keith Busby
From Thorstein the Staff-Struck (Old Norse, thirteenth century)	1776	(7)
Hermann Palsson
Medieval Lyrics: A Selection	1783	(43)
Walahfrid Strabo (808/9--849)	1788	(2)
Elegy on Reichenau (Latin)	1788	(2)
Peter Godman
Notker Balbulus (ca. 840--912)	1790	(1)
A Hymn to Holy Women (Latin)	1790	(1)
Peter Dronke
Anonymous (ca. ninth or tenth century)	1791	(1)
The Ruin (Anglo-Saxon)	1791	(1)
Lee Patterson
Anonymous (ca. eleventh century)	1792	(1)
Song of Summer (Latin)	1792	(1)
Jan Ziolkowski
IBN Arfa` Ra'Suh (eleventh century)	1793	(1)
The Singing Lute (Arabic)	1793	(1)
James T. Monroe
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071--1127)	1793	(1)
Spring Song (Provencal)	1793	(1)
Peter Dronke
Judah Halevi (ca. 1075--1141)	1794	(1)
Summer (Hebrew)	1794	(1)
William M. Davis
Abu-L-Hasan IBN Al-Qabturnuh (twelfth century)	1795	(1)
In Battle (Arabic)	1795	(1)
Lysander Kemp
Hildegard of Bingen (1098--1179)	1796	(1)
A Hymn to St. Maximinus (Latin)	1796	(1)
Peter Dronke
The Archpoet (d. 1165?)	1797	(3)
His Confession (Latin)	1797	(3)
Helen Waddell
Jaufre Rudel (twelfth century)	1800	(2)
Love Song (Provencal)	1800	(2)
George Wolf
Roy Rosenstein
Rabbi Ephraim Ben Jacob (1132--1200)	1802	(3)
The Sacrifice of Isaac (Hebrew)	1802	(3)
Judah Goldin
Beatrice, Countess of Dia (ca. 1150--1200)	1805	(1)
A Lover's Prize (Provencal)	1805	(1)
Peter Dronke
Bertran De Born (ca. 1140---ca. 1215)	1805	(2)
In Praise of War (Provencal)	1805	(2)
Frederick Goldin
Heinrich Von Morungen (ca. 1150--1222)	1807	(1)
The Wound of Love (German)	1807	(1)
Peter Dronke
Arnaut Daniel (twelfth century)	1808	(1)
The Art of Love (Provencal)	1808	(1)
Frederick Goldin
Walther Von Der Vogelweide (ca. 1170--ca. 1230)	1809	(1)
Dancing Girl (German)	1809	(1)
Peter Dronke
Meir Halevi Abulafia (ca. 1170--1244)	1810	(1)
A Letter from the Grave (Hebrew)	1810	(1)
T. Carmi
Hadewijch of Brabant (thirteenth century)	1811	(1)
The Cult of Love (Flemish)	1811	(1)
Peter Dronke
Alfonso X (1221--1284)	1812	(1)
The Scorpions (Spanish)	1812	(1)
Peter Dronke
Guido Guinizzelli (thirteenth century)	1813	(2)
Love and Nobility (Italian)	1813	(2)
James J. Wilhelm
Guido Cavalcanti (ca. 1255--1300)	1815	(1)
An Encounter (Italian)	1815	(1)
James J. Wilhelm
Dante Alighieri (1265--1321)	1815	(1)
Love and Poetry (Italian)	1815	(1)
James J. Wilhelm
Sonnet (Italian)
Dino Cervigni
Edward Vasta	1816	(1)
Anonymous (thirteenth century)	1816	(1)
Calvary (Middle English)	1816	(1)
Alexander the Wild (thirteenth century)	1817	(1)
Strawberry Picking (German)	1817	(1)
Peter Dronke
Dafydd Ap Gwilym (ca. 1310--1370)	1818	(1)
The Fox (Welsh)	1818	(1)
Richard Morgan Loomis
Anonymous (fourteenth century)	1819	(1)
Aubade (French)	1819	(1)
Peter Dronke
Christine De Pizan (ca. 1364--ca. 1431)	1820	(1)
Alone in Martyrodom (French)	1820	(1)
Muriel Kittel
Anonymous (fifteenth century)	1821	(2)
Lament of the Virgin (Middle English)	1821	(2)
Charles D'Orleans (ca. 1394--1465)	1823	(1)
Balade (French)	1823	(1)
Sarah Spence
Francois Villon (1431--ca. 1470)	1823	(3)
From The Testament (French)	1823	(3)
Galway Kinnell
Dante Alighieri (1265--1321)	1826	(137)
The Divine Comedy (Italian)	1836	(127)
Inferno	1836	(106)
From Purgatorio	1942	(17)
From Paradiso	1959	(4)
Allen Mandelbaum
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313--1375)	1963	(28)
The Decameron (Italian)	1965	(26)
[The First Story of the First Day]	1965	(9)
[The Ninth Story of the Fourth Day]	1974	(2)
[The Eighth Story of the Fifth Day]	1976	(4)
[The Sixth Story of the Ninth Day]	1980	(4)
[The Tenth Story of the Tenth Day]	1984	(7)
G. H. McWilliam
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English, 1380?)	1991	(54)
Marie Borroff
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?--1400)	2045	(74)
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English)	2051	(1)
General Prologue	2051	(16)
The Miller's Prologue and Tale	2067	(15)
The Prologue	2067	(2)
The Tale	2069	(13)
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale	2082	(24)
The Prologue	2082	(17)
The Tale	2099	(7)
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale	2106	(13)
The Prologue	2106	(3)
The Tale	2109	(10)
Theodore Morrison
Everyman (Middle English, 1495?)	2119	(23)
E. Talbot Donaldson
MAP: JAPAN, SEVENTH---SIXTEEN CENTURIES	2142	(1)
The Golden Age of Japanese Culture	2143	(3)
TIME LINE	2146	(196)
The Manyoshu (Japanese, eighth century)	2148	(12)
29--31. Poem written by Kakinomoto Hitomaro when he passed the ruined capital at Omi	2152	(1)
135--137. Poem written by Kakinomoto Hitomaro when he parted from his wife in the land of Iwami and came up to the capital	2153	(1)
220--222. Poem written by Kakinomoto Hitomaro upon seeing a dead man lying among the rocks on the island of Samine in Sanuki	2154	(2)
338--350. Thirteen poems in praise of wine by Lord Otomo Tabito, the Commander of the Dazaifu	2156	(1)
804--805. Poem sorrowing on the impermanence of life in this world	2157	(2)
892--893. Dialog of the Destitute	2159	(1)
Ian Hideo Levy
The Kokinshu (Japanese, ca. 905)	2160	(14)
9. Ki No Tsurayuki, [When snow comes in spring---]	2163	(1)
43. Lady Ise, [Shall I each springtime]	2163	(1)
53. Ariwara Narihira, [If ours were a world]	2164	(1)
83. Ki No Tsurayuki, [I cannot agree]	2164	(1)
89. Ki No Tsurayuki, [In the lingering wake]	2164	(1)
113. Ono No Komachi, [Alas! The beauty]	2164	(1)
145. Anonymous, [O cuckoo singing]	2164	(1)
153. Ki No Tomornori, [Where does he journey---]	2165	(1)
166. Kiyowara Fukayabu, [Now that dawn has come]	2165	(1)
191. Anonymous, [With what radiance]	2165	(1)
232. Ki No Tsurayuki, [Autumn has not come]	2165	(1)
273. Monk Sosei, [Die an age slip by]	2166	(1)
297. Ki No Tsurayuki, [Unseen by men's eyes]	2166	(1)
305. Oshikochi Mitsune, [I must pause to gaze]	2166	(1)
310. Fujiwara Okikaze, [Watching the colors]	2166	(1)
315. Minamoto Muneyuki, [It is in winter]	2166	(1)
342. Ki No Tsurayuki, [My heart fills with gloom]	2167	(1)
349. Ariwara Narihira, [Scatter at random]	2167	(1)
460. Ki No Tsurayuki, [Is this hair of mine]	2167	(1)
471. Ki No Tsurayuki, [Swift indeed has been]	2167	(1)
478. Mibu No Tadamine, [Ah! You of Whom I saw]	2168	(1)
493. Anonymous, [Others have told me]	2168	(1)
522. Anonymous, [Less profitable]	2168	(1)
552. Ono No Komachi, [Did you come to me]	2168	(1)
553. Ono No Komachi, [Since encountering]	2169	(1)
625. Mibu No Tadamine, [The hours before dawn]	2169	(1)
635. Ono No Komachi, [Autumn nights, it seems]	2169	(1)
647. Anonymous, [But little better]	2169	(1)
656. Ono No Komachi, [In the waking world]	2169	(1)
657. Ono No Komachi, [Yielding to a love]	2170	(1)
658. Ono No Komachi, [Though I go to you]	2170	(1)
676. Lady Ise, [Pillows know, they say]	2170	(1)
712. Anonymous, [If this were a world]	2170	(1)
741. Lady Ise, [Since your heart is not]	2171	(1)
746. Anonymous, [This very keepsake]	2171	(1)
747. Ariwara Narihira, [Is this not the moon?]	2171	(1)
756. Lady Ise, [How fitting it seems]	2171	(1)
770. Archbishop Henjo, [At my dwelling place]	2172	(1)
791. Lady Ise, [Could I think myself]	2172	(1)
797. Ono No Komachi, [So much I have learned]	2172	(1)
810. Lady Ise, [If it had ended]	2172	(1)
834. Ki No Tsurayuki, [I should have called it]	2172	(1)
861. Ariwara Narihira, [Upon this pathway]	2173	(1)
884. Ariwara Narihira, [Must the moon vanish]	2173	(1)
895. Anonymous, [If I had but known]	2173	(1)
901. Ariwara Narihira, [For sorrowing sons]	2173	(1)
938. Ono No Komachi, [In this forlorn state]	2174	(1)
1000. Lady Ise, [I long for a way]	2174	(1)
Helen Craig McCullough
Murasaki Shikibu (ca. 973--1016)	2174	(96)
The Tale of Genji (Japanese)	2182	(88)
The Broom Tree	2183	(21)
Evening Faces	2204	(20)
Suma	2224	(19)
Akashi	2243	(18)
Fireflies	2261	(9)
Edward G. Seidensticker
Sei Shonagon (ca. 966--1017)	2270	(30)
The Pillow Book (Japanese)	2273	(27)
In Spring It Is the Dawn	2273	(1)
Especially Delightful Is the First Day	2273	(2)
The Sliding Screen in the Back of the Hall	2275	(4)
When I Make Myself Imagine	2279	(1)
Depressing Things	2280	(2)
Hateful Things	2282	(4)
Oxen Should Have Very Small Foreheads	2286	(1)
A Preacher Ought to Be Good-Looking	2286	(2)
Flowering Trees	2288	(1)
Elegant Things	2289	(1)
Insects	2290	(1)
Unsuitable Things	2290	(1)
Small Children and Babies	2291	(1)
Things That Cannot Be Compared	2291	(1)
To Meet One's Lover	2292	(1)
Rare Things	2292	(1)
Embarrasing Things	2292	(1)
During the Long Rains in the Fifth Month	2293	(1)
Things That Give a Hot Feeling	2293	(1)
Shameful Things	2293	(1)
Things That Have Lost Their Power	2294	(1)
Awkward Things	2295	(1)
I Remember a Clear Morning	2295	(1)
Things That Give a Clean Feeling	2295	(1)
Things That Give an Unclean Feeling	2295	(1)
Wind Instruments	2296	(1)
When Crossing a River	2296	(1)
Things That Should Be Large	2296	(1)
Things That Should Be Short	2297	(1)
Men Really Have Strange Emotions	2297	(1)
It Is Absurd of People to Get Angry	2297	(1)
Features That I Particularly Like	2298	(1)
Pleasing Things	2298	(1)
It Is Getting So Dark	2299	(1)
Ivan Morris
The Tale of the Heike (Japanese, 1371)	2300	(26)
From Chapter 6	2304	(3)
The Death of Kiyomori	2304	(3)
From Chapter 7	2307	(7)
The Flight of the Heike from the Capital	2307	(4)
The Flight from Fukuhara	2311	(3)
From Chapter 9	2314	(4)
The Assault from the Cliff	2314	(1)
The Death of Atsumori	2315	(3)
From Chapter 11	2318	(2)
The Drowning of the Former Emperor	2318	(2)
From The Initiates' Chapter	2320	(6)
The Imperial Lady Becomes a Nun	2320	(2)
The Imperial Lady Goes to Ohara	2322	(2)
The Death of the Imperial Lady	2324	(2)
Helen Craig McCullough
Yoshida Kenko (ca. 1283--1352)	2326	(16)
From Essays of Idleness (Japanese)	2328	(14)
Donald Keene
NO DRAMA (JAPANESE)	2342	(30)
Zeami Motokiyo (1364--1443)	2350	(11)
Atsumori	2350	(6)
Haku Rakuten	2356	(5)
Arthur Waley
Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu (1435--1516)	2361	(11)
Dojoji	2361	(11)
Donald Keene
MAP: INDIA, 1200--1650	2372	(1)
Mystical Poetry of India	2373	(3)
TIME LINE	2376	(2)
HYMNS OF THE TAMIL SAIVA SAINTS (TAMIL)	2378	(5)
Campantar (sixth---seventh centuries)	2379	(1)
18 [He is the King]	2379	(1)
Indira Viswanathan Peterson
Appar (sixth---seventh centuries)	2379	(3)
20 [See the god!]	2379	(1)
From 23	2380	(1)
From Ninra Tiruttantakam (The Tanttakam Poem of the Lord Who Stands)	2380	(1)
1 [As wide earth, as fire and water]	2380	(1)
3 [As rock, as hill, as forest]	2380	(1)
26 [My treasure and good fortune, Lord sweet as honey]	2380	(1)
29 [If you could see]	2381	(1)
From 166	2381	(1)
1 [I can't sing like a true devotee]	2381	(1)
6 [Seeing your dance, I will praise you]	2381	(1)
8 [What shall I do, O god with the dark throat]	2382	(1)
9 [Having failed to purify my heart]	2382	(1)
10 [Mal who ate earth as a child]	2382	(1)
Indira Viswanathan Peterson
Cuntarar (seventh---eighth centuries)	2382	(1)
148	2382	(1)
1 [Renouncing all my ties, I think]	2382	(1)
2 [Friend, the days when I ignored]	2383	(1)
3 [I will think of the day on which]	2383	(1)
Indira Viswanathan Peterson
POEMS OF THE VIRASAIVA SAINTS (KANNADA)	2383	(7)
Basavanna (1106--1167)	2385	(2)
125 [See-saw watermills bow their heads]	2385	(1)
212 [Don't you take on]	2385	(1)
487 [Feet will dance]	2385	(1)
494 [I don't know anything like time-beats and metre]	2386	(1)
563 [The pot is a god. The winnowing]	2386	(1)
703 [Look here, dear fellow]	2387	(1)
820 [The rich]	2387	(1)
A. K. Ramanujan
Mahadeviyakka (twelfth century)	2387	(3)
17 [Like a silkworm weaving]	2387	(1)
114 [Husband inside]	2388	(1)
119 [What's to come tomorrow]	2388	(1)
124 [You can confiscate]	2388	(1)
283 [I love the Handsome One]	2389	(1)
294 [O brothers, why do you talk]	2389	(1)
336 [Look at]	2390	(1)
A. K. Ramanujan
THE BENGALI VAISNAVA SAINTS' SONGS OF DEVOTION TO KRISHNA (BENGALI)	2390
Vidyapati (fourteenth century)	2392
[The girl and the woman]	2392
[As the mirror to my hand]	2393
Edward C. Dimock
Denise Levertov
Govindadasa (fifteenth century)	2393
[O Madhava, how shall I tell you of my terror?]	2393
[When they had made love]	2394
[Let the earth of my body be mixed with the earth]	2394
Edward C. Dimock
Denise Levertov
Chandidasa (sixteenth century)	2395
[This dark cloudy night]	2395
[My mind is not on housework]	2395
Edward C. Dimock
Denise Levertov
Kabir (fifteenth century)	2396
[Poems] (Hindi)	2397
[Go naked if you want]	2397
[Pundit, how can you be so dumb?]	2397
[Hey, Qazi]	2398
[Kabir is done with stretching thread and weaving]	2399
[Why be so proud of this useless, used-up body?]	2399
[Hey brother, why do you want me to talk?]	2399
[That master weaver, whose skills]	2400
[Epigrams] (Hindi)	2400
[The lean doe]	2400
[Kabir: / My mind was soothed]	2400
John Stratton Hawley
Mark Juergensmeyer
Mirabai (sixteenth century) (Brajbhasa, Gujerati)	2401
37 [I'm colored with the color of dusk, oh rana]	2402
42 [Life without Hari is no life, friend]	2403
82 [I saw the dark clouds burst]	2403
84 [Hey love bird, crying cuckoo]	2403
153 [Go to where my loved one lives]	2404
166 [Murali sounds on the banks of the Jumna]	2404
193 [Let us go to a realm beyond going]	2404
John Stratton Hawley
Mark Juergensmeyer
A Note on Translation	A1
Permissions Acknowledgments	A13
Index	A17