The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

by MacK, Maynard

• ISBN13: 9780393961423
• ISBN10: 0393961427
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780393973006
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-02-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• More Book Details
• Purchase Benefits

Summary

This groundbreaking Norton Anthology offers the best of the literatures of India, China, Japan, the Middle East, Africa, and native America alongside the masterpieces of the Western tradition.

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION	xv	(6)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xxi
Masterpieces of the Enlightenment	1	(442)
INTRODUCTION	1	(7)
JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE (1622-1673)	8	(59)
Tartuffe	10	(57)
Richard Wilbur
MARIE DE LA VERGNE DE LA FAYETTE (1634-1693)	67	(100)
The Princess of Cleves	70	(97)
Thomas Sergeant Perry
JEAN RACINE (1639-1699)	167	(43)
Phaedra	170	(40)
Richard Wilbur
SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ (1648-1695)	210	(29)
Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz	211	(28)
Margaret Sayers Peden
JONATHAN SWIFT (1677-1745)	239	(64)
Gulliver's Travels	243	(53)
Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms	246	(50)
A Modest Proposal	296	(7)
Herbert Davis
ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)	303	(30)
The Rape of the Lock	306	(20)
An Essay on Man	326	(7)
Epistle I	326	(7)
FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (1694-1778)	333	(69)
Candide, or Optimism	336	(66)
Robert M. Adams
SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)	402	(41)
From The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia	405	(38)
Masterpieces of the Nineteenth Century: Varieties of Romanticism	443	(432)
INTRODUCTION	443	(7)
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778)	450	(11)
From Confessions, Part I	452	(9)
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832)	461	(8)
Faust	464	(5)
Prologue in Heaven	464	(3)
The First Part of the Tragedy	467	(2)
Walter Kauffman
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)	569	(10)
Songs of Innocence	572	(3)
Introduction	572	(1)
The Lamb	572	(1)
The Little Black Boy	573	(1)
Holy Thursday	574	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	574	(1)
Songs of Experience	575	(3)
Introduction	575	(1)
Earth's Answer	575	(1)
The Tyger	576	(1)
The Sick Rose	577	(1)
London	577	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	577	(1)
Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau	578	(1)
And Did Those Feet	578	(1)
FRANCOIS RENE, VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND (1768-1848)	579	(20)
From Rene	580	(19)
Irving Putter
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1827)	599	(13)
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey	602	(4)
Ode on Intimations of Immortality	606	(5)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	611	(1)
The World Is Too Much With Us	611	(1)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)	612	(8)
Kubla Khan	614	(2)
Dejection: An Ode	616	(4)
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)	620	(7)
Stanza Written in Dejection--December 1818, Near Naples	621	(1)
England in 1819	622	(1)
Ode to the West Wind	623	(2)
A Defence of Poetry (Conclusion)	625	(2)
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)	627	(10)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	628	(1)
Bright Star	629	(1)
La Belle Dame sans Merci	629	(2)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	631	(1)
Ode to a Nightingale	632	(3)
Ode on Melancholy	635	(1)
To Autumn	636	(1)
HEINRICH HEINE (1797-1856)	637	(8)
The Rose, the Lily, the Sun and the Dove	638	(1)
P.G.L. Webb
A Spruce Is Standing Lonely	638	(1)
Max Knight
Joseph Fabry
A Young Man Loves a Maiden	638	(1)
Loreley	639	(1)
Ernst Feise
My Beauty, My Love, You Have Bound Me	639	(1)
Meno Spann
The Silesian Weavers	640	(1)
Aaron Kramer
The Asra	640	(1)
Ernst Feise
Babylonian Sorrows	641	(1)
Aaron Kramer
How Slowly Time the Loathsome Snail	642	(1)
The Migratory Rats	642	(2)
Ernst Feise
At Parting	644	(1)
Dwight Durling
Morphine	644	(1)
Ernst Feise
GIACOMO LEOPARDI (1798-1837)	645	(9)
The Broom	646	(8)
Edwin Morgan
ALEXANDER SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN (1799-1837)	654	(21)
The Queen of Spades	656	(19)
Gillon R. Aitken
VICTOR HUGO (1802-1885)	675	(11)
Reverie	675	(2)
Tomorrow, at Daybreak	677	(1)
Memory of the Night of the Fourth	678	(1)
Et nox facta est	679	(7)
Sowing Season. Evening.	686	(1)
Mary Ann Caws
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)	686	(24)
Ulysses	688	(2)
Tithonus	690	(2)
From In Memorian A. H. H.	692	(18)
ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)	710	(14)
My Last Duchess	712	(2)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church	714	(3)
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"	717	(7)
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818?-1895)	724	(65)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave	727	(62)
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)	789	(13)
From Song of Myself	792	(5)
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	797	(5)
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)	802	(63)
Billy Budd, Sailor	805	(60)
Harrison Hayford
Morton M. Sealts, Jr.
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)	865	(10)
216: "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers--"	867	(1)
258: "There's a certain Slant of light--"	867	(1)
303: "The Soul selects her own Society--"	867	(1)
328: "A Bird came down the Walk--"	868	(1)
341: "After great pain, a formal feeling comes--"	868	(1)
435: "Much Madness is divinest Sense--"	869	(1)
449: "I died for Beauty--but was scarce"	869	(1)
465: "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--"	869	(1)
519: " 'Twas warm--at first--like Us--"	870	(1)
585: "I like to see it lap the Miles--"	870	(1)
632: "The Brain--is wider than the Sky--"	871	(1)
657: "I dwell in Possibility--"	871	(1)
712: "Because I could not stop for Death--"	871	(1)
754: "My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--"	872	(1)
1084: "At Half past Three, a single Bird"	873	(1)
1129: "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--"	873	(1)
1207: "He preached upon `Breadth' till it argued him narrow--"	873	(1)
1564: "Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light"	874	(1)
1593: "There came a Wind like a Bugle--"	874	(1)
Masterpieces of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Naturalism, and the New Poetry	875	(500)
INTRODUCTION	875	(9)
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT (1821-1880)	884	(236)
Madame Bovary	889	(231)
Francis Steegmuller
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1821-1881)	1120	(85)
Notes from Underground	1126	(79)
Michael Katz
LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910)	1205	(45)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich	1209	(41)
Louise Maude
Aylmer Maude
HENRIK IBSEN (1828-1906)	1250	(63)
Hedda Gabler	1254	(59)
Michael Meyer
ANTON CHEKHOV (1860-1904)	1313	(42)
The Cherry Orchard	1317	(38)
Avraham Yarmolinsky
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867)	1355	(20)
The Flowers of Evil	1359	(12)
To the Reader	1359	(2)
Robert Lowell
Correspondences	1361	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Correspondances	1361	(1)
Her Hair	1361	(1)
Doreen Bell
A Carcass	1362	(2)
James McGowan
Invitation to the Voyage	1364	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Song of Autumn I	1365	(1)
C. F. McIntyre
Spleen LXXVIII	1365	(1)
Kenneth O. Hanson
Spleen LXXIX	1366	(1)
Anthony Hecht
Spleen LXXXI	1366	(1)
Sir John Squire
The Voyage	1367	(4)
Charles Henri Ford
Paris Spleen	1371	(4)
One O'Clock in the Morning	1371	(1)
Crowds	1372	(1)
Windows	1372	(1)
Anywhere out of the World	1373	(2)
Louis Varese
Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century: Varieties of Modernism	1375	(536)
INTRODUCTION	1375	(9)
SIGMUND FREUD (1856-1939)	1384	(65)
From "Dora" (Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria)	1389	(60)
Alix Strachey
James Strachey
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)	1449	(14)
When You Are Old	1452	(1)
Easter 1916	1453	(2)
The Second Coming	1455	(1)
Leda and the Swan	1455	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	1456	(1)
Among School Children	1457	(2)
Byzantium	1459	(1)
Lapis Lazuli	1460	(2)
The Circus Animals' Desertion	1462	(1)
LUIGI PIRANDELLO (1867-1936)	1463	(48)
Six Characters in Search of an Author	1467	(44)
John Linstrum
MARCEL PROUST (1871-1922)	1511	(40)
Remembrance of Things Past	1515	(36)
Swann's Way. Overture	1515	(36)
C. K. Scott Moncrieff
Terence Kilmartin
THOMAS MANN (1875-1955)	1551	(59)
Death in Venice	1555	(55)
David Luke
RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926)	1610	(10)
Archaic Torso of Apollo	1615	(1)
Stephen Mitchell
Archaischer Torso Apollos	1615	(1)
Duino Elegies	1616	(4)
The First Elegy	1616	(2)
The Ninth Elegy	1618	(2)
Stephen Mitchell
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)	1620	(13)
Sunday Morning	1624	(3)
Peter Quince at the Clavier	1627	(2)
Anecdote of the Jar	1629	(1)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	1629	(1)
The Idea of Order at Key West	1630	(1)
The Man on the Dump	1631	(2)
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941)	1633	(42)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	1637	(1)
Part I	1637	(38)
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941)	1675	(11)
An Unwritten Novel	1678	(8)
FRANZ KAFKA (1883-1924)	1686	(34)
The Metamorphosis	1689	(36)
Stanley Corngold
D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)	1725	(18)
Odor of Chrysanthemums	1728	(15)
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)	1743	(28)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	1747	(4)
The Waste Land	1751	(13)
Four Quartets	1764	(7)
Little Gidding	1764	(7)
ANNA AKHMATOVA (1889-1966)	1771	(10)
Requiem	1775	(6)
Judith Hemschemeyer
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980)	1781	(13)
Flowering Judas	1785	(9)
WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962)	1794	(32)
Barn Burning	1798	(14)
Spotted Horses	1812	(14)
BERTOLT BRECHT (1898-1956)	1826	(60)
Mother Courage and Her Children	1830	(56)
Ralph Manheim
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA (1898-1936)	1886	(11)
Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias	1890	(6)
Stephen Spender
J. L. Gili
Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias	1896	(1)
4. Alma ausente	1896	(1)
ALBERT CAMUS (1913-1960)	1897	(14)
The Guest	1900	(11)
Justin O'Brien
Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century: Contemporary Explorations	1911	(244)
INTRODUCTION	1911	(5)
JORGE LUIS BORGES (1899-1986)	1916	(10)
The Garden of Forking Paths	1919	(7)
Donald A. Yates
SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1989)	1926	(35)
Endgame	1930	(31)
the author
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (b. 1911)	1961	(12)
Zaabalawi	1965	(8)
Denys Johnson-Davies
RALPH ELLISON (b. 1914)	1973	(11)
King of the Bingo Game	1977	(7)
MARGUERITE DURAS (b. 1914)	1984	(29)
Hiroshima Mon Amour	1987	(26)
Richard Seaver
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN (b. 1918)	2013	(33)
Matryona's Home	2018	(28)
H. T. Willetts
DORIS LESSING (b. 1919)	2046	(13)
The Old Chief Mshlanga	2050	(9)
ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET (b. 1922)	2059	(7)
The Secret Room	2062	(4)
Bruce Morrissette
INGEBORG BACHMANN (1926-1973)	2066	(16)
The Barking	2070	(12)
Mary Fran Gilbert
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ (b. 1928)	2082	(10)
Death Constant Beyond Love	2086	(6)
Gregory Rabassa
CHINUA ACHEBE (b. 1930)	2092	(63)
Things Fall Apart	2097	(58)
A NOTE ON TRANSLATION	2155	(8)
INDEX	2163