The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

by MacK, Maynard

• ISBN13: 9780393963465
• ISBN10: 0393963462
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-04-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co

Summary

Gathers selected masterpieces of drama, fiction, poetry, and prose from the earliest known literature to the present

Table of Contents

Preface	xxix
Acknowledgments	xxxvii
Phonetic Equivalents	xli
Part I Beginnings To A.D. 100
The Invention of Writing and the Earliest Literatures	3	(104)
Map: The Ancient Middle East, CA. 1000 B.C. Timeline	8	(2)
Gilgamesh (Akkadian, ca. 2500-1500 B.C.)	10	(32)
N.K. Sandars
Ancient Egyptian Poetry (Egyptian, ca. 1500-ca. 1200 B.C.)	42	(17)
Akhenaten's ``Hymn to the Sun''	44	(4)
The Leiden Hymns	48	(1)
[How splendid you ferry the skyways]	48	(1)
[God is a master craftsman]	49	(1)
[When Being began back in days of the genesis]	49	(1)
[The mind of God is perfect knowing]	50	(1)
The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor	51	(5)
Song of the Harper	56	(1)
Love Songs	57	(1)
[My love is one and only, without peer]	57	(1)
[I wish I were her Nubian girl]	57	(1)
[Love, how I'd love to slip down to the pond]	58	(1)
[Why, just now, must you question your heart?]	58	(1)
[I was simply off to see Nefrus my friend]	58	(1)
[I think I'll go home and lie very still]	59	(1)
John L. Foster
The Bible: The Old Testament
(Hebrew, ca. 1000-300 B.C.)	59	(5)
Genesis 1-3 [The Creation---The Fall]	64	(3)
Genesis 4 [The First Murder]	67	(1)
Genesis 6-9 [The Flood]	68	(3)
Genesis 11 [The Origin of Languages]	71	(1)
Genesis 37, 39-46 [The Story of Joseph]	72	(11)
From Job	83	(16)
Psalm 8	99	(1)
Psalm 19	100	(1)
Psalm 23	100	(1)
Psalm 104	101	(1)
Psalm 137	102	(1)
Isaiah 52-53 [The Song of the Suffering Servant]	102	(1)
Jonah
(The King James Version)	103	(4)
Ancient Greece and the Formation of the Western Mind	107	(658)
Map: Greece And Western Asia Minor, CA. Fifth Century B.C. Timeline	114	(2)
Homer (eighth century B.C.)	116	(388)
The Iliad (Greek)	122	(1)
Book I [The Rage of Achilles]	122	(15)
From Book VI [Hector Returns to Troy]	137	(7)
From Book VIII [The Tide of Battle Turns]	144	(1)
Book IX [The Embassy to Achilles]	145	(18)
Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles]	163	(14)
Book XIX [The Champion Arms for Battle]	177	(10)
Book XXII [The Death of Hector]	187	(13)
Book XXIV [Achilles and Priam]	200	(19)
Robert Fagles
The Odyssey (Greek)	219	(1)
Book I [A Goddess Intervenes]	219	(10)
Book II [A Hero's Son Awakens]	229	(9)
Book III [The Lord of the Western Approaches]	238	(12)
Book IV [The Red-Haired King and His Lady]	250	(18)
Book V [Sweet Nymph and Open Sea]	268	(11)
Book VI [The Princess at the River]	279	(7)
Book VII [Gardens and Firelight]	286	(8)
Book VIII [The Songs of the Harper]	294	(12)
Book IX [New Coasts and Poseidon's Son]	306	(13)
Book X [The Grace of the Witch]	319	(13)
Book XI [A Gathering of Shades]	332	(16)
Book XII [Sea Perils and Defeat]	348	(12)
Book XIII [One More Strange Island]	360	(11)
Book XIV [Hospitality in the Forest]	371	(13)
Book XV [How They Came to Ithaka]	384	(14)
Book XVI [Father and Son]	398	(12)
Book XVII [The Beggar at the Manor]	410	(16)
Book XVIII [Blows and a Queen's Beauty]	426	(11)
Book XIX [Recognitions and a Dream]	437	(15)
Book XX [Signs and a Vision]	452	(9)
Book XXI [The Test of the Bow]	461	(10)
Book XXII [Death in the Great Hall]	471	(11)
Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree]	482	(9)
Book XXIV [Warriors, Farewell]	491	(13)
Robert Fitzgerald
Sappho Of Lesbos (born ca. 630 B.C.)	504	(2)
Lyrics (Greek)
[Throned in splendor, deathless, O Aphrodite]	505	(1)
[Like the very gods in my sight is he]	505	(1)
[Some there are who say that the fairest things seen]	506	(1)
Richard Lattimore
Aeschylus (524?-456 B.C.)	506	(79)
The Oresteia (Greek)	511	(1)
Agamemnon	511	(44)
The Libation Bearers (Summary)	555	(2)
The Eumenides	557	(28)
Robert Fagles
Sophocles (ca. 496-406 B.C.)	585	(82)
Oedipus the King (Greek)	590	(42)
Antigone (Greek)	632	(35)
Robert Fagles)
Euripides (480-406 B.C.)	667	(33)
Medea (Greek)	669	(31)
Rex Warner
Aristophanes (450?-385? B.C.)	700	(33)
Lysistrata (Greek)	702	(31)
Charles T. Murphy
Plato (429-347 B.C.)	733	(25)
The Apology of Socrates (Greek)	735	(20)
From Phaedo [The Death of Socrates] (Greek)	755	(3)
Benjamin Jowett
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)	758	(7)
From Poetics (Greek)	758	(7)
James Hutton
Poetry and Thought in Early China	765	(72)
Map: China During The ``Warring States'' Period, CA. 250 B.C.
Timeline	770	(2)
Book Of Songs (Chinese, ca. 1000-600 B.C.)	772	(16)
10(``That the mere glimpse of a plain cap'')	774	(1)
17(``Plop fall the plums; but there are still seven'')	774	(1)
18(``She threw a quince to me'')	775	(1)
22(``Of fair girls the loveliest'')	775	(1)
24(``I beg of you, Chung Tzu'')	775	(1)
25(``The lady says: ``The cock has crowed''')	776	(1)
26(``The Lady: The cock has crowed'')	776	(1)
28(``Cold blows the northern wind'')	777	(1)
34(``Thick grow the rush leaves'')	777	(1)
54(``He: The gourd has bitter leaves'')	778	(1)
56(``If along the highroad'')	778	(1)
57(``By the willows of the Eastern Gate'')	778	(1)
63(``In the wilds there is a dead doe'')	779	(1)
75(``Tossed is that cypress boat'')	779	(1)
101(``Wild and windy was the day'')	780	(1)
109(``Zip, zip the valley wind!'')	780	(1)
122(``How few of us are left, how few!'')	780	(1)
131(``We plucked the bracken, plucked the bracken'')	781	(1)
148(``How can you plead that you have no wraps?'')	782	(1)
157(``They clear away the grass, the trees'')	782	(1)
191(``On the mountain is the thorn-elm'')	783	(1)
238(``She who in the beginning gave birth to the people'')	783	(2)
242(``Mighty is God on high'')	785	(1)
276(``Big rat, big rat'')	786	(1)
278(```Kio' sings the oriole'')	787	(1)
Arthur Waley
Confucius (551-479 B.C.)	788	(11)
From Analects (Chinese)	791	(8)
D.C. Lau
Chuang Chou (ca. 369-286 B.C.)	799	(28)
Chuang Tzu (Chinese)	802	(1)
Free and Easy Wandering	802	(3)
Discussion on Making All Things Equal	805	(8)
The Secret of Caring for Life	813	(1)
In the World of Men	814	(2)
The Great and Venerable Teacher	816	(3)
Fit for Emperors and Kings	819	(1)
Heaven and Earth	819	(2)
The Way of Heaven	821	(1)
Autumn Floods	821	(1)
Perfect Happiness	822	(1)
Mastering Life	823	(1)
The Mountain Tree	824	(1)
T`ien Tzu-fang	825	(1)
Knowledge Wandered North	825	(1)
Hsu Wu-Kuei	826	(1)
Burton Watson
The Nine Songs (Chinese, fourth or third century B.C.)	827	(10)
The Sovereign of the East: The One	829	(1)
Lord in the Clouds	830	(1)
The Lady of the Hsiang River	830	(1)
The Senior Master of Lifespans	831	(1)
The Junior Master of Lifespans, Who Is ``Lord Iris''	831	(1)
The Lord of the East	832	(1)
The Yellow River's Earl	833	(1)
The Hillwraith	833	(1)
The Kingdom's Dead	834	(1)
Rites for Souls	834	(3)
Stephen Owen
India's Heroic Age	837	(150)
Map: India, 1200 B.C.---100 A.D.
Timeline	844	(2)
The Ramayana of Valmiki (Sanskrit, ca. 550 B.C.)	846	(59)
From Book 2. Rama Exiled	851	(54)
Robert P. Goldman
The Mahabharata (Sanskrit, ca. 400 B.C.---A.D. 100)	905	(43)
From Book II	910	(1)
The Game of Dice	910	(32)
The Sequel to the Game of Dice	942	(6)
J. A. B. van Buitenen
The Jataka (Pali, fourth century B.C.)	948	(9)
The Cheating Merchant	951	(1)
E.B. Cowell
The Hare's Self-Sacrifice	952	(3)
The Monkey's Heroic Self-Sacrifice	955	(2)
H.T. Francis
E.J. Thomas
The Bhagavad-Gita (Sanskrit, first century B.C.)	957	(19)
From The First Teaching [Arjuna's Dejection]	961	(3)
From The Second Teaching [Philosophy and Spiritual Discipline]	964	(3)
From The Third Teaching [Discipline of Action]	967	(3)
From The Sixth Teaching [The Man of Discipline]	970	(3)
From The Eleventh Teaching [The Vision of Krishna's Totality]	973	(3)
Barbara Stoler Miller
The Tamil Anthologies (Tamil, ca. 100-250)	976	(11)
What She Said [1]	978	(1)
What She Said [2]	979	(1)
What She Said [3]	979	(1)
What She Said [4]	980	(1)
What She Said [5]	980	(1)
What Her Girl-Friend Said	980	(1)
What the Concubine Said	981	(1)
What She Said [6]	981	(1)
What He Said [1]	982	(1)
What He Said [2]	982	(1)
A Chariot Wheel	982	(1)
His Hill	983	(1)
Mothers	984	(1)
Earth's Bounty	984	(3)
A. K. Ramanujan
The Roman Empire	987	(126)
Map: The Roman Empire, Ca. 117
Timeline	990	(2)
Catullus (84?-54? B.C.)	992	(5)
Lyrics (Latin)	992	(1)
5(``Come, Lesbia, let us live and love'')	992	(1)
86(``There are many who think of Quintia in terms of beauty'')	993	(1)
87(``No woman, if she is honest'')	993	(1)
107(``When at last after long despair, our hopes ring true again'')	993	(1)
109(``My life, my love, you say our love will last forever'')	993	(1)
83(``Lesbia speaks evil of me'')	993	(1)
70(``My woman says that she would rather wear the wedding-veil for me'')	994	(1)
72(``There was a time, O Lesbia'')	994	(1)
60(``Were you born of a lioness in the Libyan mountains'')	994	(1)
85(``I hate and love'')	994	(1)
75(``You are the cause of this destruction, Lesbia'')	995	(1)
8(``Poor damned Catullus, here's no time for nonsense'')	995	(1)
58(``Caelius, my Lesbia, that one, that only Lesbia'')	995	(1)
11(``Furius, Aurelius, bound to Catullus'')	996	(1)
76(``If man can find rich consolation'')	996	(1)
Horace Gregory
Virgil (70--19 B.C.)	997	(68)
The Aeneid (Latin)	1000	(1)
From Book I	1000	(1)
[Prologue]	1000	(1)
[Aeneas Arrives in Carthage]	1001	(7)
Book II [How They Took the City]	1008	(22)
Book IV [The Passion of the Queen]	1030	(20)
From Book VI [Aeneas in the Underworld]	1050	(6)
From Book VIII [The Shield of Aeneas]	1056	(4)
From Book XII [The Death of Turnus]	1060	(5)
Robert Fitzgerald
Ovid (43 B.C.---A.D. 17)	1065	(27)
Metamorphoses (Latin)	1066	(1)
From Book I	1066	(1)
[The Creation]	1066	(2)
[The Four Ages]	1068	(1)
[Jove's Intervention]	1069	(2)
[The Story of Lycaon]	1071	(1)
[The Flood]	1072	(1)
[Deucalion and Pyrrha]	1073	(3)
[Apollo and Daphne]	1076	(3)
[Jove and Io]	1079	(3)
From Book XV [The Teachings of Pythagoras]	1082	(10)
Rolfe Humphries
Petronius (died A.D. 65)	1092	(21)
The Satyricon [Dinner with Trimalchio] (Latin)	1093	(20)
J. P. Sullivan
PART II 100 TO 1500
From Roman Empire to Christian Europe	1113	(48)
Map: The Spread Of Christianity, 30-600
Timeline	1116	(2)
The Bible: The New Testament
(Greek, ca. first century)	1118	(1)
Luke 2 [The Birth and Youth of Jesus]	1119	(2)
Matthew 5-7 [The Teaching of Jesus: The Sermon on the Mount]	1121	(4)
Luke 15 [The Teaching of Jesus: Parables]	1125	(1)
Matthew 26 [The Betrayal of Jesus]	1126	(3)
Matthew 27 [The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus]	1129	(2)
Matthew 28 [The Resurrection]
(The King James Version)	1131	(1)
Augustine (354-430)	1132	(29)
Confessions (Latin)	1133	(1)
From Book I [Childhood]	1133	(4)
From Book II [The Pear Tree]	1137	(2)
From Book III [Student at Carthage]	1139	(2)
From Book VI [Worldly Ambitions]	1141	(3)
From Book VIII [Conversion]	1144	(3)
From Book IX [Death of His Mother]	1147	(14)
F.J. Sheed
India's Classical Age	1161	(122)
Map: India, 100-1200
Timeline	1166	(2)
Visnusarman (second or third century)	1168	(9)
Pancatantra (Sanskrit)	1170	(1)
Book I. The Loss of Friends	1170	(1)
Leap and Creep	1170	(1)
The Blue Jackal	1171	(1)
Forethought, Readywit, and Fatalist	1172	(1)
Book III. Crows and Owls	1173	(1)
Mouse-Maid Made Mouse	1173	(3)
Book V. III-Considered Action	1176	(1)
The Loyal Mungoose	1176	(1)
Arthur W. Ryder
Kalidasa (fourth century)	1177	(66)
Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection (Sanskrit)	1181	(62)
Barbara Stoler Miller
Bhartrhari (fifth century)	1243	(5)
Satakatrayam (Sanskrit)	1245	(1)
4(``Wise men are consumed by envy'')	1245	(1)
7(``A splendid palace, wanton maids'')	1245	(1)
11(``A gem carved by the jeweler's stone'')	1245	(1)
34(``Like clusters of blossoms'')	1245	(1)
35(``When silent, the courtier is branded dumb'')	1246	(1)
70(``Knowledge is man's crowning mark'')	1246	(1)
76(``Armlets do not adorn a person'')	1246	(1)
85(``Why all these words and empty prattle?'')	1246	(1)
102(``A melodious song'')	1246	(1)
148(``So I have roamed through perilous lands'')	1247	(1)
155(``We savored no pleasure'')	1247	(1)
166(``You are a king of opulence'')	1247	(1)
172(``Should I sojourn in austerity'')	1247	(1)
190(``Earth his soft couch'')	1247	(1)
191(``Why do men need scriptures revealed, remembered'')	1248	(1)
Barbara Stoler Miller
Cilappatikaram (Tamil, late fifth century)	1248	(19)
Book 2	1253	(1)
Canto 16. The Scene of the Murder	1253	(5)
Canto 18. The Wreath of Sorrow	1258	(1)
Canto 19. Kannaki Goes Round the City	1259	(3)
Canto 20. The Demand for Justice	1262	(2)
Canto 21. The Crown of Wrath	1264	(3)
R. Parthasarathy
Amaru (seventh century)	1267	(5)
Amarusataka (Sanskrit)	1269	(1)
23(``Lying on the same bed'')	1269	(1)
34(``She's just a kid'')	1269	(1)
38(``When anger / was a crease in the brow'')	1270	(1)
57(``My girl'')	1270	(1)
69(``At first, / our bodies were as one'')	1270	(1)
101(``When my lover came to bed'')	1271	(1)
102(``She's in the house'')	1271	(1)
Martha Ann Selby
Somadeva (eleventh century)	1272	(11)
Kathasaritsagara (Sanskrit)	1274	(1)
The Red Lotus of Chastity	1274	(9)
J.A.B. van Buitenen
China's ``Middle Period''	1283	(68)
Map: T'ang China, ca. 650
Timeline	1286	(2)
T`ao Ch`ien (365-427)	1288	(14)
Selected Poetry and Prose (Chinese)
The Peach Blossom Spring	1290	(1)
The Return	1291	(1)
James Robert Hightower
Biography of Master Five Willows	1292	(1)
Stephen Owen
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit	1293	(1)
Substance to Shadow	1293	(1)
Shadow to Substance	1293	(1)
Spirit's Solution	1294	(1)
Returning to the Farm to Dwell	1294	(1)
I(``From early days I have been at odds with the world'')	1294	(1)
II(``Here in the country human contacts are few'')	1295	(1)
Begging for Food	1295	(1)
On Moving House	1296	(1)
I(``For long I yearned to live in Southtown'')	1296	(1)
II(``In spring and fall are many perfect days'')	1296	(1)
A Reply to Secretary Kuo	1296	(1)
I(``The trees before the house grow thick, thick'')	1296	(1)
In the Sixth Month of 408, Fire	1297	(1)
Twenty Poems after Drinking Wine	1297	(1)
Preface	1297	(1)
V(``I built my hut beside a traveled road'')	1297	(1)
IX (``I heard a knock this morning at my door'')	1298	(1)
X(``Once I made a distant trip'')	1298	(1)
On Reading the Seas and Mountains Classic	1298	(1)
I (``In early summer when the grasses grow'')	1298	(1)
Elegy	1299	(1)
Robert James Hightower
T`ang Poetry (Chinese)	1300	(2)
Wang Wei (ca. 699-761)	1302	(3)
Villa on Chung-nan Mountain	1303	(1)
When Living Quietly at Wang-ch`uan I Gave This to P`ei Ti	1303	(1)
Answering Magistrate Chang	1303	(1)
Various Topics on Huang-fu Yueh's Cloudy Valley	1304	(1)
The Torrent Where the Birds Sang	1304	(1)
Cormorant Dike	1304	(1)
Wang Stream Collection	1304	(1)
Deer Fence	1304	(1)
Lodge in the Bamboo	1304	(1)
Written Crossing the Yellow River to Ch`ing-ho	1304	(1)
Parting	1304	(1)
Stephen Owen
Han-Shan (ca. 600-800)	1305	(2)
40(``I climb the road to Cold Mountain'')	1305	(1)
45(``Cold Mountain is full of weird sights'')	1306	(1)
48(``Wonderful, this road to Cold Mountain---'')	1306	(1)
57(``When people see the man of Cold Mountain'')	1306	(1)
62(``High, high from the summit of the peak'')	1306	(1)
80(``Man, living in the dust'')	1306	(1)
82(``People ask the way to Cold Mountain'')	1307	(1)
96(``Have I a body or have I none?'')	1307	(1)
99(``So Han Shan writes you these words'')	1307	(1)
Burton Watson
Li Po (701-762)	1307	(5)
The Sun Rises and Sets	1308	(1)
Bring in the Wine	1309	(1)
Yearning	1310	(1)
Ballad of Youth	1311	(1)
The Girls of Yueh	1311	(1)
Dialogue in the Mountains	1311	(1)
Summer Day in the Mountains	1311	(1)
My Feelings	1311	(1)
Drinking Alone by Moonlight	1312	(1)
Sitting Alone by Ching-t`ing Mountain	1312	(1)
Stephen Owen
Tu Fu (712-770)	1312	(5)
Song of P`eng-ya	1313	(1)
Moonlit Night	1314	(1)
Chiang Village	1314	(1)
Thousand League Pool	1315	(1)
My Thatched Roof Is Ruined by the Autumn Wind	1315	(1)
A Guest Comes	1316	(1)
Spending the Night in a Tower by the River	1317	(1)
Writing of My Feelings Traveling by Night	1317	(1)
Stephen Owen
Li Ho (791-817)	1317	(3)
Magic Strings	1318	(1)
A.C. Graham
Song of an Arrowhead from the Battlefield of Ch`ang-p`ing	1318	(1)
Stephen Owen
The King of Ch`in Drinks Wine	1319	(1)
The Grave of Little Su	1319	(1)
The Northern Cold	1320	(1)
A Dream of Heaven	1320	(1)
A. C. Graham
Po Chu-I (772-846)	1320	(5)
Watching the Reapers	1321	(1)
Passing T'ien-men Street in Ch`ang-an and Seeing a Distant View of Chung-nan Mountains	1322	(1)
The Flower Market	1322	(1)
Golden Bells	1322	(1)
Lazy Man's Song	1323	(1)
Winter Night	1323	(1)
Remembering Golden Bells	1323	(1)
On Board Ship: Reading Yuan Chen's Poems	1324	(1)
Madly Singing in the Mountains	1324	(1)
The Cranes	1324	(1)
Pruning Trees	1325	(1)
Last Poem	1325	(1)
Arthur Waley
Tu Mu (803-852)	1325	(2)
Easing My Heart	1326	(1)
Egrets	1326	(1)
Spring in Chiang-nan	1326	(1)
To Judge Han Ch`o at Yang-chou	1327	(1)
Pien River Blocked by Ice	1327	(1)
Travelling in the Mountains	1327	(1)
Recalling Former Travels No. 1	1327	(1)
Recalling Former Travels No. 3	1327	(1)
A.C. Graham
Li Shang-Yin (813-858)	1327	(3)
1(``Coming was an empty promise'')	1328	(1)
2(``The East wind sighs, the fine rains come'')	1328	(1)
4(``Last night's stars, last night's winds'')	1328	(1)
6(``For ever hard to meet, and as hard to part'')	1329	(1)
8(``Double curtains hang deep in the room of Never Grieve'')	1329	(1)
Night Rains: To My Wife up North	1329	(1)
Written on a Monastery Wall	1329	(1)
A.C. Graham
Yuan Chen (779-831)	1330	(10)
The Story of Ying-ying (Chinese)	1332	(8)
James Robert Hightower
Li Ch`ing-Chao (1084-ca. 1151)	1340	(11)
Afterword to Records on Metal and Stone (Chinese)	1341	(6)
Song Lyrics (Chinese)	1347	(1)
To ``Southern Song''	1347	(1)
To ``Free-Spirited Fisherman''	1347	(1)
To ``Like a Dream''	1347	(1)
To ``Drunk in the Shadow of Flowering Trees''	1348	(1)
To ``Spring in Wu-ling''	1348	(1)
To ``Note After Note''	1348	(3)
Stephen Owen
The Rise of Islam and Islamic Literature	1351	(190)
Map: Islam's Golden Age, ca. 900
Timeline	1356	(2)
The Koran (Arabic, 610-632)	1358	(35)
1. The Exordium	1361	(1)
From 4. Women	1361	(3)
5. The Table	1364	(9)
10. Jonah	1373	(6)
12. Joseph	1379	(6)
19. Mary	1385	(4)
55. The Merciful	1389	(2)
62. Friday, or the Day of Congregation	1391	(1)
71. Noah	1391	(1)
76. Man	1392	(1)
N.J. Dawood
Ibn Ishaq (704-767)	1393	(18)
The Biography of the Prophet (Arabic)	1397	(1)
How Salman Became a Muslim	1397	(4)
The Beginning of the Sending Down of the Quran	1401	(1)
Khadija, Daughter of Khuwaylid, Accepts Islam	1401	(1)
From The Prescription of Prayer	1402	(1)
From Ali ibn Abu Talib, the First Male to Accept Islam	1403	(1)
From The Apostle's Public Preaching and the Response	1404	(4)
From Al-Walid ibn Al-Mughira	1408	(1)
How the Apostle Was Treated by His Own People	1408	(1)
[Hamza Accepts Islam]	1409	(1)
[The Burial Preparations]	1410	(1)
Alfred Guillaume
Abol Qasem Ferdowsi (932-1025)	1411	(44)
From Shahname. The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam (Persian)	1416	(39)
Jerome W. Clinton
Faridoddin Attar (1145-1221)	1455	(17)
From The Conference of the Birds	1459	(1)
The Story of Sheikh Sam'an (Persian)	1459	(13)
Afkham Darbandi
Dick Davis
Jalaloddin Rumi (1207-1283)
Lyrics (Persian)	1472	(4)
Robais	1476	(1)
[Listen, if you can stand to]	1476	(1)
[What I most want]	1476	(1)
[Don't come to us without bringing music]	1476	(1)
[Sometimes visible, sometimes not, sometimes]	1476	(1)
25 (``Friend, our closeness is this'')	1476	(1)
82 (``Today, like every other day, we wake up empty'')	1476	(1)
158 (``Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing'')	1477	(1)
Ghazals	1477	(1)
An Empty Garlic	1477	(1)
Dissolver of Sugar	1477	(1)
Spiritual Couplets	1477	(1)
[A chickpea leaps almost over the rim of the pot]	1477	(1)
Why Wine Is Forbidden	1478	(1)
The Question	1478	(1)
Coleman Barks
Sa'Di (thirteenth century)	1479	(17)
Golestan (Persian)	1481	(1)
From Book I. On the Nature of Shahs	1481	(15)
Dick Davis
The Book Of Dede Korkut (Turkish, fourteenth century)	1496	(18)
Boghach Khan Son of Dirse Khan	1499	(9)
Wild Dumrul Son of Dukha Koja	1508	(6)
Geoffrey Lewis
The Thousand And One Nights
(Arabic, fourteenth century)	1514	(3)
Prologue [The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter]	1517	(7)
[The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey]	1524	(2)
[The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife]	1526	(2)
[The Story of the Merchant and the Demon]	1528	(4)
[The First Old Man's Tale]	1532	(3)
[The Second Old Man's Tale]	1535	(3)
Husain Haddawy
[The Third Old Man's Tale]	1538	(3)
Jerome W. Clinton
The Formation of a Western Literature	1541	(516)
Map: Europe, Ca. 1360
Timeline	1544	(2)
Beowulf (Old English, eighth century)	1546	(67)
Burton Raffel
The Story Of Deirdre (Irish, eighth century)	1613	(9)
Jeffrey Gantz
The Wanderer (Old English, eighth or ninth century)	1622	(3)
Charles W. Kennedy
From The Song Of Roland (French, twelfth century)	1625	(54)
Frederick Goldin
Marie De France (twelfth century)	1679	(13)
Eliduc (French)	1680	(12)
John Fowles
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)	1692	(177)
The Divine Comedy (Italian)	1703	(1)
Inferno	1703	(126)
From Purgatorio	1829	(21)
From Paradiso	1850	(19)
John Ciardi
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)	1869	(23)
The Decameron (Italian)	1871	(1)
The First Day	1871	(12)
The Second Tale of the Fourth Day	1883	(1)
The Ninth Tale of the Fifth Day	1883	(9)
Mark Musa
Peter E. Bondanella
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400)	1892	(68)
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English)	1900	(1)
General Prologue	1900	(17)
The Miller's Prologue and Tale	1917	(1)
The Prologue	1917	(2)
The Tale	1919	(14)
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale	1933	(1)
The Prologue	1933	(3)
The Tale	1936	(10)
[The Knight's Interruption of the Monk's Tale]	1946	(1)
The Nun's Priest's Tale	1947	(13)
Theodore Morrison
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
(Middle English, fourteenth century)	1960	(57)
Marie Borroff
Francois Villon (1431-?)	2017	(16)
Ballade (French)	2018	(1)
From The Testament (French)	2019	(14)
Galway Kinnell
Everyman (Middle English, 1485?)
(Modernized text)	2033	(24)
E. Talbot Donaldson
The Golden Age of Japanese Culture	2057	(278)
Map: Japan, Seventh-Sixteenth Centuries
Timeline	2060	(2)
The Man'Yoshu (Japanese, eighth century)	2062	(12)
29-31. Poem written by Kakinomoto Hitomaro when he passed the ruined capital at Omi	2066	(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	2067	(1)
220-222. Poem written by Kakinomoto Hitomaro upon seeing a dead man lying among the rocks on the island of Samine in Sanuki	2068	(1)
338-350. Thirteen poems in praise of wine by Lord Otomo Tabito, the Commander of the Dazaifu	2069	(2)
804-805. Poem sorrowing on the impermanence of life in this world	2071	(1)
892-893. Dialog of the Destitute	2072	(2)
Ian Hideo Levy
The Kokinshu (Japanese, ca. 905)	2074	(13)
9 (``When snow comes in spring---'')	2077	(1)
43 (``Shall I each springtime'')	2077	(1)
53 (``If ours were a world'')	2077	(1)
83 (``I cannot agree'')	2077	(1)
89 (``In the lingering wake'')	2078	(1)
113 (``Alas! The beauty'')	2078	(1)
145 (``O cuckoo singing'')	2078	(1)
153 (``Where does he journey---'')	2078	(1)
166 (``Now that dawn has come'')	2078	(1)
191 (``With what radiance'')	2079	(1)
232 (``Autumn has not come'')	2079	(1)
273 (``Did an age slip by'')	2079	(1)
297 (``Unseen by men's eyes'')	2079	(1)
305 (``I must pause to gaze'')	2079	(1)
310 (``Watching the colors'')	2080	(1)
315 (``It is in winter'')	2080	(1)
342 (``My heart fills with gloom'')	2080	(1)
349 (``Scatter at random'')	2080	(1)
460 (``Is this hair of mine'')	2081	(1)
471 (``Swift indeed has been'')	2081	(1)
478 (``Ah! You of whom I saw'')	2081	(1)
493 (``Others have told me'')	2081	(1)
522 (``Less profitable'')	2081	(1)
552 (``Did you come to me'')	2082	(1)
553 (``Since encountering'')	2082	(1)
625 (``The hours before dawn'')	2082	(1)
635 (``Autumn nights, it seems'')	2082	(1)
647 (``But little better'')	2082	(1)
656 (``In the waking world'')	2083	(1)
657 (``Yielding to a love'')	2083	(1)
658 (``Though I go to you'')	2083	(1)
676 (``Pillows know, they say'')	2083	(1)
712 (``If this were a world'')	2084	(1)
741 (``Since your heart is not'')	2084	(1)
746 (``This very keepsake'')	2084	(1)
747 (``Is this not the moon?'')	2084	(1)
756 (``How fitting it seems'')	2085	(1)
770 (``At my dwelling place'')	2085	(1)
791 (``Could I think myself'')	2085	(1)
797 (``So much I have learned'')	2085	(1)
810 (``If it had ended'')	2085	(1)
834 (``I should have called it'')	2086	(1)
861 (``Upon this pathway'')	2086	(1)
884 (``Must the moon vanish'')	2086	(1)
895 (``If I had but known'')	2086	(1)
901 (``For sorrowing sons'')	2086	(1)
1000 (``I long for a way'')	2087	(1)
Helen Craig McCullough
Murasaki Shikibu (ca. 973-1016)	2087	(101)
The Tale of Genji (Japanese)	2096	(1)
The Broom Tree	2096	(22)
Evening Faces	2118	(21)
Suma	2139	(20)
Akashi	2159	(19)
Fireflies	2178	(10)
Edward G. Seidensticker
Sei Shonagon (ca. 966-1017)	2188	(31)
The Pillow Book (Japanese)	2191	(1)
In Spring It Is the Dawn	2191	(1)
Especially Delightful Is the First Day	2191	(2)
The Sliding Screen in the Back of the Hall	2193	(4)
When I Make Myself Imagine	2197	(1)
Depressing Things	2198	(3)
Hateful Things	2201	(4)
Oxen Should Have Very Small Foreheads	2205	(1)
A Preacher Ought to Be Good-Looking	2205	(2)
Flowering Trees	2207	(1)
Elegant Things	2208	(1)
Insects	2208	(1)
Unsuitable Things	2209	(1)
Small Children and Babies	2210	(1)
Things That Cannot Be Compared	2210	(1)
To Meet One's Lover	2210	(1)
Rare Things	2210	(1)
Embarrassing Things	2211	(1)
During the Long Rains in the Fifth Month	2211	(1)
Things That Give a Hot Feeling	2212	(1)
Shameful Things	2212	(1)
Things That Have Lost Their Power	2213	(1)
Awkward Things	2213	(1)
I Remember a Clear Morning	2214	(1)
Things That Give a Clean Feeling	2214	(1)
Things That Give an Unclean Feeling	2214	(1)
Wind Instruments	2214	(1)
When Crossing a River	2215	(1)
Things That Should Be Large	2215	(1)
Things That Should Be Short	2215	(1)
Men Really Have Strange Emotions	2216	(1)
It Is Absurd of People to Get Angry	2216	(1)
Features That I Particularly Like	2216	(1)
Pleasing Things	2217	(1)
It Is Getting So Dark	2218	(1)
Ivan Morris
The Tale Of The Heike (Japanese, 1371)	2219	(26)
The Death of Kiyomori	2221	(5)
The Flight of the Heike from the Capital	2226	(4)
The Flight from Fukuhara	2230	(3)
The Assault from the Cliff	2233	(2)
The Death of Atsumori	2235	(3)
The Drowning of the Former Emperor	2238	(2)
The Imperial Lady Becomes a Nun	2240	(2)
The Imperial Lady Goes to Ohara	2242	(2)
The Death of the Imperial Lady	2244	(1)
Helen Craig McCullough
Yoshida Kenko (ca. 1283-1352)	2245	(25)
From Essays in Idleness (Japanese)	2247	(16)
Donald Keene
No Drama	2263	(7)
Zeami Motokiyo (1364-1443)	2270	(12)
Atsumori (Japanese)	2270	(6)
Haku Rakuten (Japanese)	2276	(6)
Arthur Waley
Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu (1435-1516)	2282	(19)
Dojoji (Japanese)	2282	(11)
Donald Keene
Medieval India: The Age of the Devotional Lyric
Map: India, 1200-1650	2293	(5)
Timeline	2298	(2)
Poems of the Virasaiva Saints (Kannada)	2300	(1)
Basavanna (1106-1167)	2301	(2)
125 (``See-saw watermills bow their heads'')	2301	(1)
212 (``Don't you take on/this thing called bhakti'')	2301	(1)
487 (``Feet will dance'')	2302	(1)
494 (``I don't know anything like time-beats and metre'')	2302	(1)
563 (``The pot is a god'')	2302	(1)
703 (``Look here, dear fellow'')	2303	(1)
820 (``The rich/will make temples for SAiva'')	2303	(1)
A. K. Ramanujan
Mahadeviyakka (twelfth century)	2303	(5)
17 (``Like a silkworm weaving'')	2303	(1)
114 (``Husband inside,/lover outside'')	2304	(1)
119 (``What's to come tomorow'')	2304	(1)
124 (``You can confiscate/money in hand'')	2304	(1)
283 (``I love the Handsome One'')	2305	(1)
294 (``O brothers, why do you talk'')	2305	(1)
336 (``Look at/love's marvellous/ways'')	2306	(1)
A. K. Ramanujan
The Bengali Vaisnava Saints' Songs Of Devotion To Krishna (Bengali)	2306	(2)
Vidypati (fourteenth century)	2308	(1)
[The girl and the woman]	2308	(1)
[As the mirror to my hand]	2309	(1)
Edward C. Dimock Denise Levertov
Govindadsa (fifteenth century)	2309	(2)
[O Mdhava, how shall I tell you of my terror?]	2309	(1)
[When they had made love]	2310	(1)
[Let the earth of my body be mixed with the earth]	2310	(1)
Edward C. Dimock Denise Levertov
Chandidsa (sixteenth century)	2311	(1)
[This dark cloudy night]	2311	(1)
[My mind is not on housework]	2311	(1)
Edward C. Dimock
Denise Levertov
Mirabai (sixteenth century; Brajbhasa, Gujerati)	2312	(4)
37 (``I'm colored with the color of dusk, oh rana'')	2313	(1)
42 (``Life without Hari is no life, friend'')	2314	(1)
82 (``I saw the dark clouds burst'')	2314	(1)
84 (``Hey love bird, crying cuckoo'')	2314	(1)
153 (``Go to where my loved one lives'')	2315	(1)
166 (``Murali sounds on the banks of the Jumna'')	2315	(1)
193 (``Let us go to a realm beyond going'')	2315	(1)
John Stratton Hawley
Mark Juergensmeyer
Tulsidas (late sixteenth-early seventeenth century)	2316	(19)
Ramcaritmanas (Hindi)	2320	(1)
Book 5. From The Beautiful Book	2320	(15)
Philip Lutgendorf
Africa: The Mali Epic of Son-Jara	2335	(56)
Map: Western Africa, 1200-1400
Timeline	2340	(1)
From The Epic of Son-Jara
(Maninka, late thirteenth-early fourteenth century)
(Text by Fa-Digi Sisoko. Translated by John William Johnson)	2341	(50)
PART III 1500 To 1650
The Renaissance in Europe	2391	(532)
Map: Western Europe, Ca. 1560
Timeline	2398	(2)
Francis Petrarch (1304-1374)	2400	(11)
Letter to Dionisio da Borgo San Sepolcro [The Ascent of Mount Ventoux] (Italian)	2402	(2408)
James Harvey Robinson
Henry Winchester Rolfe
Sonnets (Italian)	2408	(1)
3 (``It was the morning of that blessed day'')	2408	(1)
61 (``Blest be the day, and blest the month and year'')	2408	(1)
Joseph Auslander
62 (``Father in heaven, after each lost day'')	2409	(1)
Bernard Bergonzi
90 (``She used to let her golden hair fly free'')	2409	(1)
Morris Bishop
292 (``The eyes that drew from me such fervent praise'')	2410	(1)
300 (``Great is my envy of you, earth, in your greed'')	2410	(1)
Edwin Morgan
333 (``Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone'')	2410	(1)
Morris Bishop
Desiderius Erasmus (1466?-1536)	2411	(22)
The Praise of Folly (Latin)	2413	(1)
From Part 1 [Folly Herself]	2413	(2)
From Part 2 [The Powers and Pleasures of Folly]	2415	(14)
From Part 4 [The Christian Fool]	2429	(4)
Leonard F. Dean
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)	2433	(15)
Letter to Francesco Vettori [``That Food Which Alone Is Mine''] (Italian)	2436	(1)
The Prince (Italian)	2437	(1)
[Princely Virtues]	2437	(6)
[``Fortune Is a Woman'']	2443	(2)
[The Roman Dream]	2445	(3)
Allan H. Gilbert
Baldesar Castiglione (1478-1529)	2448	(12)
The Book of the Courtier (Italian)	2450	(1)
Book I	2450	(1)
Chapters 2-4 [The Setting]	2450	(2)
Chapters 17-26 [``Everything He May Do or Say Shall Be Stamped with Grace'']	2452	(8)
Leonard E. Opdycke
Marguerite De Navarre (1492-1549)	2460	(19)
The Heptameron (French)	2464	(1)
From Story Three	2464	(5)
Story Thirty	2469	(5)
From Story Forty	2474	(5)
P. A. Chilton
Francois Rabelais (1495?-1553)	2479	(30)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (French)	2482	(1)
Book I	2482	(1)
[Education of a Giant Humanist]	2482	(13)
[The Abbey of Theleme]	2495	(9)
Book II	2504	(1)
[Pantagruel: Birth and Education]	2504	(2)
[Father's Letter from Home]	2506	(3)
Burton Raffel
Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592)	2509	(29)
Essays (French)	2513	(1)
Of Cannibals	2513	(9)
Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions	2522	(6)
From Apology for Raymond Sebond	2528	(8)
Of Repentance	2536	(2)
Donald Frame
Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616)	2538	(132)
Don Quixote (Spanish)	2542	(1)
Part I	2542	(1)
[``I Know Who I Am, and Who I May Be, If I Choose'']	2542	(21)
[Fighting the Windmills and a Choleric Biscayan]	2563	(15)
[Of Goatherds, Roaming Shepherdesses, and Unrequited Loves]	2578	(22)
[Fighting the Sheep]	2600	(4)
[``To Right Wrongs and Come to the Aid of the Wretched'']	2604	(8)
[``Set Free at Once That Lovely Lady'']	2612	(6)
Part II	2618	(1)
[``Put into a Book'']	2618	(6)
[A Victorious Duel]	2624	(27)
[``For I Well Know the Meaning of Valor'']	2651	(7)
[Last Duel]	2658	(4)
[Homecoming and Death]	2662	(8)
Samuel Putnam
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)	2670	(52)
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
(Text by Hallett Smith)	2672	(50)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)	2722	(97)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	2726	(93)
John Donne (1572-1631)	2819	(6)
The Good-Morrow	2820	(1)
Song (``Go and catch a falling star'')	2821	(1)
The Indifferent	2822	(1)
The Canonization	2822	(1)
The Apparition	2823	(1)
The Funeral	2824	(1)
Holy Sonnets	2824	(1)
7 (``At the round earth's imagined corners, blow'')	2824	(1)
10 (``Death, be not proud, though some have called thee'')	2825	(1)
Pedro Calderon De La Barca (1600-1681)	2825	(58)
Life Is a Dream (Spanish)	2828	(55)
Roy Campbell
John Milton (1608-1674)	2883	(40)
Paradise Lost	2885	(1)
From Book I [``This Great Argument'']	2885	(1)
Book IX [Temptation and Fall]	2886	(25)
From Book X [Acceptance, Reconciliation, Hope]	2911	(8)
From Book XII [``The World Was All before Them'']	2919	(4)
Native America and Europe in the New World	2923	(32)
Map: The Americas, 1500-1600
Timeline	2928	(2)
Florentine Codex (Nahuatl and Spanish, 1547-1579)	2930	(3)
[The Midwife Addresses the Woman Who Has Died in Childbirth]	2931	(2)
John Bierhorst
[The Midwife Addresses the Newly Delivered Woman]	2933	(1)
Thelma Sullivan
Cantares Mexicanos (Nahuatl, 1550-1581)	2933	(3)
Song IV. Mexican Otomi Song	2935	(1)
Song XII. Song for Admonishing Those Who Seek No Honor in War	2936	(1)
John Bierhorst
Popul Vuh (Quiche Mayan, 1554-1558)	2936	(19)
From Part 1 [Prologue, Creation]	2940	(2)
From Part 2 [The Twins Defeat Seven Macaw]	2942	(2)
From Part 3 [Victory over the Underworld]	2944	(5)
From Part 4 [Origin of Humanity, First Dawn]	2949	(4)
From Part 5 [Prayer for Future Generations]	2953	(2)
Dennis Tedlock
A Note on Translation	2955	(16)
Index	2971