The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: The Western Tradition

by Lawall, Sarah N.; MacK, Maynard

• ISBN13: 9780393973006
• ISBN10: 039397300X
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780393933635, 9780393961423, 9780393961430
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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Summary

Offering a splendid collection of literary masterpieces in the best available translations, The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is a literal library of Western literature in two portable volumes. Most major works, from Homer's Odyssey to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, are offered complete or in substantial, readable excerpts. New authors and works abound, including pieces by Plautus, Lucian, Ariosto, de Vega, Shakespeare, Joyce, O'Connor, Munro, and Silko, and new sections of Medieval lyrics and tales, Romantic poetry in translation, and Dada-Surrealist poetry. Informative period introductions and author headnotes guide readers through the cultural and historical contexts surrounding the literature.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Seventh Edition	xvii
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Phonetic Equivalents	xxv
Masterpieces of the Ancient World
Map: Greece and Western Asia Minor, Ca. Fifth Century B.C.
Introduction	1	(15)
Map: The Roman Empire, CA. 117	9	(5)
Timeline	14	(2)
Gilgamesh (Akkadian, ca. 2500--1500 B.C.)	16	(31)
N. K. Sandars
The Bible: The Old Testament (Hebrew, ca. 1000--300 B.C.)	47	(51)
Genesis 1--3 [The Creation---The Fall]	51	(3)
Genesis 4 [The First Murder]	54	(1)
Genesis 6--9 [The Flood]	55	(3)
Genesis 11 [The Origin of Languages]	58	(1)
Genesis 22 [Abraham and Isaac]	58	(1)
Genesis 25, 27 [Jacob and Esau]	59	(2)
Genesis 37, 39--46 [The Story of Joseph]	61	(11)
From Job	72	(16)
Psalm 8	88	(1)
Psalm 19	88	(1)
Psalm 23	89	(1)
Psalm 104	89	(2)
Psalm 137	91	(1)
The Song of Songs	91	(4)
Jonah
(The King James Version)	95	(3)
Homer (eighth century B.C.)	98	(416)
The Iliad (Greek)	104	(105)
Book I [The Rage of Achilles]	104	(16)
From Book VI [Hector Returns to Troy]	120	(11)
From Book VIII [The Tide of Battle Turns]	131	(1)
Book IX [The Embassy to Achilles]	131	(19)
From Book XVI [Patroclus Fights and Dies]	150	(11)
Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles]	161	(15)
Book XXII [The Death of Hector]	176	(13)
Book XXIV [Achilles and Praim]	189	(20)
Robert Fagles
The Odyssey (Greek)	209	(305)
Book I [A Goddess Intervenes]	209	(11)
Book II [A Hero's Son Awakens]	220	(10)
Book III [The Lord of the Western Approaches]	230	(12)
Book IV [The Red-Haired King and His Lady]	242	(20)
Book V [Sweet Nymph and Open Sea]	262	(11)
Book VI [The Princess at the River]	273	(8)
Book VII [Gardens and Firelight]	281	(8)
Book VIII [The Songs of the Harper]	289	(14)
Book IX [New Coasts and Poseidon's Son]	303	(13)
Book X [The Grace of the Witch]	316	(15)
Book XI [A Gathering of Shades]	331	(16)
Book XII [Sea Perils and Defeat]	347	(13)
Book XIII [One More Strange Island]	360	(12)
Book XIV [Hospitality in the Forest]	372	(13)
Book XV [How They Came to Ithaka]	385	(15)
Book XVI [Father and Son]	400	(13)
Book XVII [The Beggar at the Manor]	413	(18)
Book XVIII [Blows and a Queen's Beauty]	431	(11)
Book XIX [Recognitions and a Dream]	442	(16)
Book XX [Signs and a Vision]	458	(9)
Book XXI [The Test of the Bow]	467	(11)
Book XXII [Death in the Great Hall]	478	(13)
Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree]	491	(9)
Book XXIV [Warriors, Farewell]	500	(14)
Robert Fitzgerald
Sappho of Lesbos (born ca. 630 B.C.)	514	(3)
Lyrics (Greek)	515	(2)
[Throned in Splendor, Deathless, O Aphrodite]	515	(1)
[Like the Very Gods in My Sight Is He]	516	(1)
[Some There Are Who Say That the Fairest Thing Seen]	516	(1)
Richmond Lattimore
Aeschylus (524?--456 B.C.)	517	(79)
The Oresteia (Greek)	521	(75)
Agamemnon	521	(45)
The Libation Bearers (summary)	566	(1)
The Eumenides	567	(29)
Robert Fagles
Sophocles (ca. 496--406 B.C.)	596	(44)
Oedipus the King (Greek)	599	(41)
Robert Fagles
Euripides (480--406 B.C.)	640	(32)
Medea (Greek)	642	(30)
Rex Warner
Aristophanes (450?--385? B.C.)	672	(54)
Lysistrata (Greek)	674	(52)
Douglass Parker
Plato (429--347 B.C.)	726	(20)
The Apology of Socrates (Greek)	727	(19)
Benjamin Jowett
Aristotle (384--322 B.C.)	746	(4)
From Poetics (Greek)	747	(3)
James Hutton
Plautus (254?--184? B.C.)	750	(58)
Pseudolus (Latin)	755	(53)
Peter L. Smith
Catullus (84?--54? B.C.)	808	(6)
Lyrics (Latin)	809	(5)
5 (``Lesbia, let us live only for loving'')	809	(1)
2 (``Sparrow, you darling pet of my beloved'')	809	(1)
51 (``To me that man seems like a god in heaven'')	809	(1)
86 (``Many find Quintia stunning'')	810	(1)
87 (``No other woman can truthfully say she was cherished'')	810	(1)
109 (``Darling, we'll both have equal shares in the sweet love you offer'')	810	(1)
83 (``Lesbia hurls abuse at me in front of her husband'')	811	(1)
70 (``My woman says there is no one whom she'd rather marry'')	811	(1)
72 (``You used to say that you wished to know only Catullus'')	811	(1)
85 (``I hate & love'')	811	(1)
75 (``To such a state have I been brought by your mischief'')	811	(1)
8 (``Wretched Catullus! You have to stop this nonsense'')	812	(1)
58 (``Lesbia, Caelius---yes, our darling'')	812	(1)
11 (``Aurelius & Furius, true comrades'')	812	(1)
76 (``If any pleasure can come to a man'')	813	(1)
Charles Martin
Virgil (70--19 B.C.)	814	(81)
The Aeneid (Latin)	817	(78)
From Book I	817	(1)
[Prologue]	817	(1)
[Aeneas Arrives in Carthage]	818	(7)
Book II [How They Took the City]	825	(22)
Book IV [The Passion of the Queen]	847	(21)
From Book VI [Aeneas in the Underworld]	868	(18)
From Book VIII [The Shield of Aeneas]	886	(4)
From Book XII [The Death of Turnus]	890	(5)
Robert Fitzgerald
Ovid (43 B.C.--A.D. 17)	895	(48)
Metamorphoses (Latin)	899	(44)
From Book I	899	(1)
[Prologue]	899	(1)
[Apollo and Daphne]	899	(3)
[Io and Jove]	902	(6)
From Book II	908	(1)
[Europa and Jove]	908	(2)
From Book V	910	(1)
[Ceres and Proserpina]	910	(12)
From Book IX	922	(1)
[Iphis and Ianthe]	922	(5)
From Book X	927	(1)
[Pygmalion]	927	(1)
[Myrrha and Cinyras]	928	(7)
[Venus and Adonis]	935	(8)
Allen Mandelbaum
Petronius (died A.D. 66)	943	(17)
The Satyricon (Latin)	944	(16)
[Dinner with Trimalchio]	944	(16)
J. P. Sullivan
The Bible: The New Testament (Greek, ca. first century)	960	(16)
Luke 2 [The Birth and Youth of Jesus]	962	(1)
Matthew 5--7 [The Teaching of Jesus: The Sermon on the Mount]	963	(4)
Luke 15 [The Teaching of Jesus: Parables]	967	(2)
Matthew 13 [Why Jesus Teaches in Parables]	969	(1)
Matthew 26 [The Betrayal of Jesus]	970	(2)
Matthew 27 [The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus]	972	(3)
Matthew 28 [The Resurrection]
(The King James Version)	975	(1)
Lucian (A.D. 120?--190?)	976	(28)
A True Story (Greek)	979	(25)
Lionel Casson
Augustine (A.D. 354--430)	1004	(31)
Confessions (Latin)	1005	(30)
From Book I [Childhood]	1005	(4)
From Book II [The Pear Tree]	1009	(3)
From Book III [Student at Carthage]	1012	(2)
From Book V [Augustine Leaves Carthage for Rome]	1014	(1)
From Book VI [Worldly Ambitions]	1015	(3)
From Book VIII [Conversion]	1018	(3)
From Book IX [Death of His Mother]	1021	(14)
F. J. Sheed
Masterpieces of the Middle Ages
Map: Europe, Ca. 1150
Introduction	1035	(5)
Timeline	1038	(2)
The Koran (Arabic, 610--632)	1040	(17)
Sura 1. The Exordium	1042	(1)
Sura 5. The Table	1042	(9)
Sura 12. Joseph	1051	(6)
N. J. Dawood
Beowulf (Old English, ca. ninth century)	1057	(47)
E. Talbot Donaldson
From The Song of Roland (French, ca. 1100)	1104	(65)
Frederick Goldin
Marie De France (twelfth century)	1169	(9)
Lais (French)	1170	(8)
Lanval	1170	(6)
Laustic	1176	(2)
Glyn S. Burgess
Keith Busby
Thorstein the Staff-Struck (Old Norse, thirteenth century)	1178	(6)
Hermann Palsson
Medieval Lyrics: A Selection	1184	(44)
Walahfrid Strabo • Elegy on Reichenau	1189	(2)
Notker Balbulus • A Hymn to Holy Women	1191	(2)
Anonymous • The Ruin	1193	(1)
Anonymous • Song of Summer	1194	(1)
Ibn Arfa `Ra'suh • The Singing Lute	1194	(1)
William IX, duke of Aquitaine • Spring Song	1195	(1)
Judah Halevi • Summer	1196	(1)
Abu-l-Hasan ibn Al-Qabturnuh • In Battle	1197	(1)
Hildegard of Bingen • A Hymn to St. Maximinus	1197	(2)
The Archpoet • His Confession	1199	(3)
Jaufre Rudel • Love Song	1202	(1)
Rabbi Ephraim ben Jacob • The Sacrifice of Isaac	1203	(3)
Beatrice, countess of Dia • A Lover's Prize	1206	(1)
Bertran de Born • In Praise of War	1207	(1)
Heinrich von Morungen • The Wound of Love	1208	(1)
Arnaut Daniel • The Art of Love	1209	(1)
Walther von der Vogelweide • Dancing Girl	1210	(1)
Meir Halevi Abulafia • A Letter from the Grave	1211	(1)
Hadewijch of Brabant • The Cult of Love	1212	(1)
Alfonso X • The Scorpion	1213	(2)
Guido Guinizzelli • Love and Nobility	1215	(1)
Guido Cavalcanti • An Encounter	1216	(1)
Dante Alighieri • Love and Poetry	1217	(1)
• Sonnet	1217	(1)
Anonymous • Calvary	1218	(1)
Alexander the Wild • Strawberry Picking	1218	(2)
Dafydd ap Gwilym • The Fox	1220	(1)
Anonymous • Aubade	1221	(1)
Christine de Pizan • Alone in Martyrdom	1222	(1)
Anonymous • Lament of the Virgin	1222	(3)
Charles d'Orleans • Balade	1225	(1)
Francois Villon • From The Testament	1225	(3)
Medieval Tales: A Selection	1228	(65)
Petrus Alfonsi • From The Scholar's Guide	1232	(2)
Four Fabliaux	1234	(23)
The Trial of Renard	1257	(33)
Robert Mannyng • The Cursed Dancers of Colbeck	1290	(3)
Dante Alighieri (1265--1321)	1293	(136)
The Divine Comedy (Italian)	1303	(126)
Inferno	1303	(106)
From Purgatorio	1409	(17)
From Paradiso	1426	(3)
Allen Mandelbaum
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313--1375)	1429	(29)
The Decameron (Italian)	1431	(27)
[The First Story of the First Day]	1431	(9)
[The Ninth Story of the Fourth Day]	1440	(3)
[The Eighth Story of the Fifth Day]	1443	(4)
[The Sixth Story of the Ninth Day]	1447	(3)
[The Tenth Story of the Tenth Day]	1450	(8)
G. H. McWilliam
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English, 1380?)	1458	(54)
Marie Borroff
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?--1400)	1512	(74)
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English)	1517	(69)
General Prologue	1517	(17)
The Miller's Prologue and Tale	1534	(1)
The Prologue	1534	(2)
The Tale	1536	(13)
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale	1549	(1)
The Prologue	1549	(17)
The Tale	1566	(7)
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale	1573	(1)
The Prologue	1573	(3)
The Tale	1576	(10)
Theodore Morrison
The Thousand and One Nights (Arabic, fourteenth century)	1586	(24)
Prologue [The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter]	1588	(7)
[The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey]	1595	(2)
[The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife]	1597	(2)
[The Story of the Merchant and the Demon]	1599	(11)
[The First Old Man's Tale]	1603	(3)
[The Second Old Man's Tale]	1606	(2)
[The Third Old Man's Tale]	1608	(2)
Husain Haddawy
Sir Thomas Malory (ca. 1405--1471)	1610	(18)
Morte Darthur (Middle English)	1611	(17)
[The Conspiracy against Lancelot and Guinevere]	1611	(5)
[War Breaks Out between Arthur and Lancelot]	1616	(3)
[The Death of Arthur]	1619	(6)
[The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere]	1625	(3)
Everyman (Middle English, 1495?)	1628	(25)
E. Talbot Donaldson
Masterpieces of the Renaissance
Map: Western Europe, Ca. 1560
Introduction	1653	(11)
Timeline	1661	(3)
Francis Petrarch (1304--1374)	1664	(14)
Letter to Dionisio da Borgo San Sepolcro [The Ascent of Mount Ventoux] (Italian)	1668	(5)
James H. Robinson
Henry W. Rolfe
Sonnets (Italian)	1673	(5)
1 (``You who hear in scattered rhymes'')	1673	(1)
3 (``It was the day'')	1674	(1)
34 (``Apollo, if the sweet desire'')	1674	(1)
Robert M. Durling
61 (``Blest be the day'')	1675	(1)
Joseph Auslander
62 (``Father in heaven'')	1675	(1)
Bernard Bergonzi
78 (``When Simon received the high idea'')	1675	(1)
Robert M. Durling
90 (``She used to let her golden hair fly free'')	1676	(1)
Morris Bishop
126 (``Clear, fresh, sweet waters'')	1676	(1)
189 (``My ship laden with forgetfulness'')	1677	(1)
Robert M. Durling
333 (``Go, grieving rimes of mine'')	1678	(1)
Morris Bishop
Desiderius Erasmus (1466?--1536)	1678	(27)
The Praise of Folly (Italian)	1682	(23)
Clarence Miller
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469--1527)	1705	(17)
Letter to Francesco Vettori [``That Food Which Alone Is Mine''] (Italian)	1708	(1)
The Prince (Italian)	1709	(13)
New Princedoms Gained with Other Men's Forces and through Fortune	1709	(3)
[Princely Virtues]	1712	(6)
[``Fortune Is a Woman'']	1718	(2)
[The Roman Dream]	1720	(2)
Allan H. Gilbert
Ludovico Ariosto (1474--1533)	1722	(87)
Orlando Furioso (Italian)	1726	(83)
Canto 1	1726	(9)
From Canto 6; Canto 7 [Ruggiero Visits the Isle of Alcina and Logistilla]	1735	(14)
From Cantos 8 and 9 [Angelica Travels Alone and Orlando Has a Dream]	1749	(10)
From Cantos 10 and 11 [Ruggiero Learns from Logistilla and Takes a Grand Tour]	1759	(9)
From Cantos 12 and 22 [Orlando Finds an Enchanted Castle and Ruggiero and Bradamant Unite]	1768	(4)
From Cantos 23 and 24 [Orlando's Great Madness]	1772	(5)
From Canto 25 [Fiordispina's Love for Bradamant]	1777	(6)
Canto 29; from Canto 30 [Isabel Outwits Rodomont and Angelica Encounters Orlando]	1783	(9)
From Cantos 34 and 35 [Astolfo's Voyage to the Moon]	1792	(7)
From Canto 39 [Orlando Regains His Wits]	1799	(3)
From Canto 41 [Ruggiero Is Baptized and Hears a Prophecy]	1802	(2)
From Canto 46 [Rodomont Interrupts the Wedding of Ruggiero and Bradamant]	1804	(5)
Guido Waldman
Baldesar Castiglione (1478--1529)	1809	(45)
The Book of the Courtier (Italian)	1812	(42)
[From The Dedication]	1812	(2)
From Book 1	1814	(36)
From Book 4	1850	(4)
Charles S. Singleton
Marguerite De Navarre (1492--1549)	1854	(27)
The Heptameron (French)	1857	(24)
From Prologue	1857	(4)
From Day One	1861	(1)
Story Three	1861	(4)
Story Four	1865	(5)
Story Five	1870	(3)
Story Six	1873	(1)
Story Seven	1874	(2)
Story Eight	1876	(5)
P. A. Chilton
Francois Rabelais (1495?--1553)	1881	(40)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (French)	1885	(36)
From Book I	1885	(1)
[Education of a Giant Humanist]	1885	(12)
[The Abbey of Theleme]	1897	(9)
From Book II	1906	(1)
[Pantagruel: Birth and Education]	1906	(2)
[Father's Letter from Home]	1908	(3)
[The World in Pantagruel's Mouth]	1911	(10)
Burton Raffel
Michel De Montaigne (1533--1592)	1921	(39)
Essays (French)	1925	(35)
To the Reader	1925	(1)
Of the Power of the Imagination	1925	(8)
Of Cannibals	1933	(9)
Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions	1942	(5)
Of Coaches	1947	(13)
Donald Frame
Miguel De Cervantes (1547--1616)	1960	(112)
Don Quixote (Spanish)	1964	(108)
From Part I	1964	(1)
Prologue	1964	(5)
[``I Know Who I Am, and Who I May Be, If I Choose'']	1969	(20)
[Fighting the Windmills and a Choleric Biscayan]	1989	(14)
[Fighting the Sheep]	2003	(4)
[``To Right Wrongs and Come to the Aid of the Wretched'']	2007	(8)
[``Set Free at Once That Lovely Lady'']	2015	(5)
From Part II	2020	(1)
Prologue	2020	(3)
[``Put into a Book'']	2023	(6)
[A Victorious Duel]	2029	(25)
[``For I Well Know the Meaning of Valor'']	2054	(7)
[Last Duel]	2061	(3)
[Homecoming and Death]	2064	(8)
Samuel Putnam
Lope De Vega (1562--1635)	2072	(38)
Fuente Ovejuna (Spanish)	2076	(34)
Angel Flores
Muriel Kittel
William Shakespeare (1564--1616)	2110	(82)
Othello	2115	(77)
John Milton (1608--1674)	2192	(65)
Paradise Lost	2197	(60)
From Book 1 [``This Great Argument'']	2197	(1)
From Book 4 [Satan's Entry into Paradise; Adam and Eve in Their Bower]	2198	(12)
From Book 8 [Adam Describes His Own Creation and That of Eve; Having Repeated His Warning, the Angel Departs]	2210	(10)
Book 9 [Temptation and Fall]	2220	(26)
From Book 10 [Acceptance, Reconciliation, Hope]	2246	(9)
From Book 12 [``The World Was All Before Them'']	2255	(2)
A Note on Translation	2257	(6)
Permissions Acknowledgments	2263	(4)
Index	2267